PBW ethics, opinions please.

DavidG · #1 January 16th, 2003, 04:49 AM

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Originally posted by couslee:
There are already 3 fields. The reason it would not work, is the difference in cost in each tech in that field.

Well clearly the current 3 fields are not sufficient for this purpose. Also clearly it could be done. OK granted maybe not simple or even desireable by the majority. (I did say it would be more of an SE5 thing than an SE4

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Edit: And assuming a logical grouping of the techs it might actually be interesting to have a game where you had to get all level 0 techs in a field before moving to level 1.

[ January 16, 2003, 02:51: Message edited by: DavidG ]

Ruatha · #2 January 16th, 2003, 05:01 PM

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Well... you have to download the ship sets used by other players in the game, or you'll get randomly changing sets.

Didn't think about that, doh

Wardad · #3 January 16th, 2003, 06:23 PM

I played against a nearly invisible ship set.
I quickly replaced it with another one. I just had to rename the replacement set.

Rollo · #4 January 16th, 2003, 08:33 PM

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Originally posted by Wardad:
I played against a nearly invisible ship set.
I quickly replaced it with another one. I just had to rename the replacement set.

Yep, exactly. The way things are displayed in the game depends on what you have installed on your machine. Some shipsets have really awful colors and some are hard to tell apart. In these cases I have often changed the color of the race_main.bmp to make it easier for me to view.
The invisible or hard to see ships are easily replaced with generic ones.
Rollo

Rollo · #5 January 16th, 2003, 08:46 PM

Hmm, back to topic (somewhat).

Apart for ethics how about some etiquette? Have you had bad experience with that? Well, I have.

In one game after attacking a player and mopping up his planets. I got a series of insults for several months. (while the first one or two might have still be in character, he went truly lost it and went overboard with the Last one(s))
In another game a player gives his ships offensive names which are particularly aimed at me.
I don't really care for that. Needless to say that these players go on a black list and I won't play with them anymore.

Rollo

Wardad · #6 January 16th, 2003, 09:56 PM

So far no one has objected to ships named Awfrigit and OFU.

tesco samoa · #7 January 16th, 2003, 10:20 PM

How about players reading these forums and telling other players in game that a player is not to be trusted due to his/her Posts in Shrapnel Forums