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December 8th, 2004, 02:23 PM
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Re: Pre-Christmas Chat with Aaron
Kool-Aid is okay if you mix it with lemonade. Especially raspberry lemonade. Mmm. Oh the sweet and sour goodness. 
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December 8th, 2004, 05:17 PM
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Re: Pre-Christmas Chat with Aaron
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Kool-Aid is okay...
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Blasphemy! Kool-Aid is always crap. 
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December 8th, 2004, 10:01 PM
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Re: Pre-Christmas Chat with Aaron
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 
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December 9th, 2004, 12:37 AM
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Re: Pre-Christmas Chat with Aaron
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.
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December 9th, 2004, 09:31 AM
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Re: Pre-Christmas Chat with Aaron
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.
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December 9th, 2004, 10:29 AM
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Re: Pre-Christmas Chat with Aaron
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. 
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December 9th, 2004, 04:22 PM
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Re: Pre-Christmas Chat with Aaron
Hmm... let me guess... no, it can't be just a flat ring along the ecliptic like Saturn's rings so the world is in perpetual twilight, that's not innovative enough, even if people live on both sides... How about a torus composed of subrings that rotate about their centers, producing day and night by rotating into and out of the light side of the main ring?
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December 9th, 2004, 06:27 PM
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Re: Pre-Christmas Chat with Aaron
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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.
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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?
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December 9th, 2004, 06:40 PM
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Re: Pre-Christmas Chat with Aaron
I did some 'Artist's concept' renders of some monsters of my own design, I'll see if I can release those. Also, fyi, throughout the dev of se5 I often send Aaron ideas and artistic samples of what I think might be good. Until they get 100% rejected there still rests a posibility that they will make it into the game. so unless I get 100% confirmation of certain artwork not making the grade or not fitting into the game, it remains Copyright Malfador Machinations.
Also, if I were to release some of MY ideas as se5 artwork, people might feel missled if the good stuff never gets into the game. This way, once the game is released, I'll be able to make much of my unpublished work available to modders.
Cheers! 
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December 12th, 2004, 12:00 AM
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Re: Pre-Christmas Chat with Aaron
And how, if someone would refresh my memory, does one get to the #spaceempires chat?
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