Forum Overview :: Gamerasutra :: TA, WC3, Freedom Ship, more! in today's "Issue Tacklin'" Guest appearance by INC

[quote name="Ray of Light"]<font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: TA advocates I know always crowed about how you could have 300, 500, 800 units on the go <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: AS MANY AS YOU WANT <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: while ignoring the problems of controlling 500 units <font color=orange>Mr. K</font>: I think I'm actually enjoying the micromanagement aspect of WC3, amazingly enough <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: but wc3 doesn't have 500 units <font color=orange>Mr. K</font>: you have like 30 <font color=orange>Mr. K</font>: the game makes you get the most out of them, you are almost never just watching them beat on each other <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: how do you keep abreast of 2 separate battles <font color=orange>Mr. K</font>: well it's hard [quote]<a href=http://www.freedomship.com><img src=http://tinypic.com/ic0fba.jpg border=2></a>[/quote] <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/07/05/MN33508.DTL&type=printable">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/07/05/MN33508.DTL&type=printable</a> <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: this FreedomShip project is trotted out every couple of years <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: each time, revealing the same absence of detailed planning as it showed two years ago <font color=pink>INC</font>: not loading :( <font color=pink>INC</font>: ah here we go <font color=pink>INC</font>: haha every time I press Refresh on that page, two different pictures come on, and the others all go blank <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: the site worked 2 years ago :( <font color=pink>INC</font>: it's like some sort of game of Concentration <font color=orange>Mr. K</font>: this was originally a sort of libertarian dream boat, right? <font color=orange>Mr. K</font>: living without laws on the high seas? <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: he insists it won't be lawless though. That's a "misperception" <font color=orange>Mr. K</font>: "Capitalism is a law. No, really." <font color=pink>INC</font>: Robots would attend to your every need, robots armed with machine guns to ward off pirates. <font color=pink>INC</font>: These robots would be programmed never to attack residents or guests. <font color=pink>INC</font>: NOTHING CAN GO WRONG [quote name="FreedomShip Newswire"]One subject I can cover is our publicity. We continue to get more and more articles run in magazines and newspapers around the world. Next week, we will be in the German magazine called "Madame". Check them out at <a href=http://www.madame.de>www.madame.de</a>. I cannot read German, but it looks like they not only publish a magazine, but they sell a lot of really neat, very high quality stuff for ladies.[/quote] <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: yeah! <font color=pink>INC</font>: "Another site, <a href="http://www.caltrops.com">www.caltrops.com,</a> has had quite a lively discussion about our project, and us! You might also read the story about the megaphone - very entertaining." <font color=orange>Mr. K</font>: haha, if this thing was built it'd be about 5 months until the first civil war broke out <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: yeah, or until a rumor took hold that Jesus was swimming underneath the hull <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: and would reward those with the faith to drill through it and set him free <font color=pink>INC</font>: Proposed safety of the vessel is enhanced by the use of 600 individual air/water tight hull sections. <font color=pink>INC</font>: 600 tombs [quote]The ship's design would accept up to 40,000 full time residents, 30,000 daily visitors, 10,000 nightly hotel guests, and 20,000 full time crew. This population of 100,000 people provides a wealth of talent and diversity for the private businesses aboard the ship and to those they visit daily on their adventures ashore. The ship would provide as many as 40,000 tourists to ports around the world. These cities and countries would eagerly anticipate this influx, as well as the major market the ship represents for local farmers, fishermen, and merchants.[/quote] <font color=pink>INC</font>: 40,000 people streaming into Tijuana <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: "FREEDOM SHIP CAME TOOK ALL OUR WOMEN :(" <font color=pink>INC</font>: "Hey, I just disembarked from the Freedom Ship! Anyone need a carpenter? No? They promised me my talents would be used during my adventures ashore..." <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: "we feel this project has a strong appeal to people who went to summer camp once and wished it would never end" <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: "then, never considered the impracticality of their wish and now, have the means to make it come true' <font color=orange>Mr. K</font>: Aha, young gay boys then <font color=orange>Mr. K</font>: "Can I still get a handjob behind the mess hall?" <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: "how many bunks are in your largest unit?" <font color=orange>Mr. K</font>: "Where in this massive, floating ode to trash culture is the splendor of the wilderness?" <font color=orange>Mr. K</font>: "Is it on the golf course?" <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: The summer camps I went to were always unisex. I'm pretty sure that was where I first kissed a girl. And, in retrospect, I see the counsellors were getting laid all the time <font color=orange>Mr. K</font>: I was in scouts and to my then horror discovered that there were definitely some pretty queer scouts, so I guess my mileage varied. <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: ah, Scouts. They just can't catch a break <font color=orange>Mr. K</font>: this one guy was a constant public masturbator <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: that's sure to have caused him some jams later in life <font color=orange>Mr. K</font>: Everything was weird about him <font color=orange>Mr. K</font>: I remember he used to scratch his balls with a fork on several occasions <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: I would remember that too <font color=orange>Mr. K</font>: usually while the rest of us were eating <font color=orange>Mr. K</font>: He was always trying to pick fights then would break down crying <font color=orange>Mr. K</font>: or attack us and be easily defeated <font color=orange>Mr. K</font>: then would tell us that he had been eating beans and cheese all night and was going to be farting nonstop <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: [<i>silence, rapt attention --ed.</i>] <font color=orange>Mr. K</font>: another kid, one of the leader's kids, was always trying to get into other people's bags and dry hump them <font color=orange>Mr. K</font>: I would never tell a republican these stories as it would really enforce their concept of "no gays in scouting" when really this wasn't a matter of gay/straight as much as freak/superfreak <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: I will say that summer-camp "who can piss farthest?" contests started me down a road of PC-muscle building that has paid dividends in adulthood [quote]<img src=http://tinypic.com/ic0fhx.jpg>[/quote] <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: this is something I never saw before in RTS, units big enough to step on smaller units <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: maybe the harvester vs infantry in C&C <font color=orange>Mr. K</font>: and in dune 2 <font color=orange>Mr. K</font>: the problem I have is that the big unit doesn't look so much large as the smaller units look tiny <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: it says the little guys are as big as tanks! <font color=orange>Mr. K</font>: yeah, but the big thing has these funny hinge legs that look like they could support about 6 pounds [quote name="The GameSpy Press Release Network"]Supreme Commander will be pure simulation. Here's what that means: when a tank rolls over a hill in Supreme Commander and fires its cannon at a moving target, it's not an instant hit. The trajectory of the shell is computed as it whirls through the air. Hitting a moving target from a moving platform is hard -- the AI might not be able to compensate, especially if the target suddenly switches direction or vaults in the air. For this reason, tanks may not be the best choice against fast targets (as opposed to a vehicle that fires lasers or guns.) They also work better when stationary. This isn't because the designers are futzing with numbers behind the scenes: It simply how tanks work.[/quote] <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: that could turn out any number of ways <font color=orange>Mr. K</font>: yeah, it's impossible to know from that quote if this is a good or bad thing <font color=orange>Mr. K</font>: generally when something like that is mentioned as a selling point, I think "bad" <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: I don't see why you'd fight with anything except cruise missiles, ICBMs, and spotters <font color=orange>Mr. K</font>: i liked the zoomed out shots of the nukes going off to emphasize the fruitlessness of your battle [quote]<img src=http://tinypic.com/ic1efp.jpg>[/quote][/quote]