Pre-Christmas Chat with Aaron

Colonel · #1 December 6th, 2004, 10:44 PM

AHHH thats Finals week but that day is a half day

David E. Gervais · #2 December 6th, 2004, 10:55 PM

I have suggested to Aaron 4 to 6pm (california time) I'm still waiting for his reply on the time. He might have to make arrangements to get home earlier and chat from home, or let his wife know he intends to be a bit later than usual on that day. Aaron will have the final word on when, I did my part by setting up the chat, and giving him my suggestions.

I'll be there regardless of the time and hope to see many of you there too.

Cheers!

Captain Kwok · #3 December 6th, 2004, 11:20 PM

I assumed that Aaron did work at home - or does he maintain an office of sorts somewhere?

Kevin Arisa · #4 December 8th, 2004, 02:23 PM

Kool-Aid is okay if you mix it with lemonade. Especially raspberry lemonade. Mmm. Oh the sweet and sour goodness.

Fyron · #5 December 8th, 2004, 05:17 PM

Quote:

Kevin Arisa said:
Kool-Aid is okay...

Blasphemy! Kool-Aid is always crap.

Will · #6 December 8th, 2004, 10:01 PM

Hmmm... I should just be getting home then. I'll be on dialup, but that's good enough for IRC. I should be able to manage. I think. I hope...

Unless DEG curses us with screenshots. Curse because it will take me several minutes to download unless they are highly compressed. And I don't wanna wait

Kamog · #7 December 9th, 2004, 12:37 AM

Hmm, I *might* be able to catch the Last little bit of the chat. I'm in the Pacific time zone, but I usually don't get home from work until almost 6:00 or so. Just before Christmas is a busy time of year at work...

Well, I guess if I miss the chat, I'll just read the log.

David E. Gervais · #8 December 9th, 2004, 09:31 AM

Like I said in another thread,.. let's make Dec 22nd and the #spaceempires chat room the day and place for this years SE xmas party. I encourage everyone to try and drop by there at any time. If you can manage to be there when Aaron shows up, all the better, if not we can still have fun.

As for releasing screenshots or any other artwork, I can and do make lots of 'fluff' but the decision of if and when to publish any is always up to Aaron. I'll try to do some special stuff for the occasion, at the very least, some new wallpaper, but I suspect that any screenshots will be held back until the official announcement of the beta in January.

I just had a thought, maybe I'll put together a bunch of the artwork that is on my editing room floor. You know stuff that has not 'yet' been approved or made to fit in SE5.

Just to keep my rep as a master teaser (according to Fyron) I'll tell you this.. I made what I think is a Fantastic Concept for a 'Ringworld' but it didn't fit in with aaron's view/idea of what a ringworld should be. I think he like many have been brainwashed by the traditional view of a 2d surface that well, rings around the sun. But personally I don't like the idea of a planet that is always in sunlight. I like to sleep in the dark, look at the stars, and with that type of ringworld, they would be lost to the brightness of the sky. The poor people that would be forced to live/work in a world without stars. Just so you know, I never saw what many know as this type of ringworld, so when I came up with my concept, I went a more mechanical route. After all, these things are supposed to be built right? Anyway, I'll see if Aaron will let me publish that render.

Cheers!

Timstone · #9 December 9th, 2004, 10:29 AM

David:
I've seen a very cool concept of a ringworld too. It involved more than one ring.
One ring to live on and several others to provide space for machines, weapons and to block out the sun once in a while.
I like it very much and I wanted to make a 3D model from it, but I don't have the time to do that.

Baron Munchausen · #10 December 9th, 2004, 06:27 PM

Quote:

David E. Gervais said:
Like I said in another thread,.. let's make Dec 22nd and the #spaceempires chat room the day and place for this years SE xmas party. I encourage everyone to try and drop by there at any time. If you can manage to be there when Aaron shows up, all the better, if not we can still have fun.

As for releasing screenshots or any other artwork, I can and do make lots of 'fluff' but the decision of if and when to publish any is always up to Aaron. I'll try to do some special stuff for the occasion, at the very least, some new wallpaper, but I suspect that any screenshots will be held back until the official announcement of the beta in January.

I just had a thought, maybe I'll put together a bunch of the artwork that is on my editing room floor. You know stuff that has not 'yet' been approved or made to fit in SE5.

Just to keep my rep as a master teaser (according to Fyron) I'll tell you this.. I made what I think is a Fantastic Concept for a 'Ringworld' but it didn't fit in with aaron's view/idea of what a ringworld should be. I think he like many have been brainwashed by the traditional view of a 2d surface that well, rings around the sun. But personally I don't like the idea of a planet that is always in sunlight. I like to sleep in the dark, look at the stars, and with that type of ringworld, they would be lost to the brightness of the sky. The poor people that would be forced to live/work in a world without stars. Just so you know, I never saw what many know as this type of ringworld, so when I came up with my concept, I went a more mechanical route. After all, these things are supposed to be built right? Anyway, I'll see if Aaron will let me publish that render.

Cheers!

Can we see some space monsters soon? I'd really like some idea of what they will be like.

And if your ringworld hasn't been approved for SE 5 then what stops you from releasing it?

Has he got you under contract for ALL of your work?