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Reply to Phase Space, and how not to use it in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

See... you should be able to leave a planet without using phasespace... such as if someone's using a phase space inhibitor to prevent you from 'warping' out... but it should only work to a certain range... and after that you should be able to engage your drive. Also enemy fleets should be able to phase right on top of you at any time. I know I know... it's easier just to take it out entirely, but it would be nice if there were battles that happened in areas with no gravity well.

Reply to Will the AI eventually be z-axis aware in a meaningful way? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I don't see why that capability couldn't be easily added to the control AI. Obviously the player SHOULD tell the AI how to make open and stage the attack. Managing it afterwards is all it has to do. So for example you might tell your fleet to go above a planet and then attack it from above... or below... then after that the AI should simply move the force in from that direction... just as it would if you attacked from the side or head on... whathaveyou... Be careful not to restrict

Reply to Why the future doesnt need us in Everything Else Sins Forums

again... the forum code is bad... Stardock should should really just buy some quality forum software or get the freeware phpbb... No offense to stardock... great company. But I imagine you have better things to do then fix the forum so why not just get forum code that already works?

Reply to Will the AI eventually be z-axis aware in a meaningful way? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

As to structures needing to be be placed in full 3d space, I agree. I think I made that clear above. As to the AI needing to be able to make use of 3d space... It would be "nice" if it did. However, I'll be playing this game online and I'd rather have the option to play against other people then worry about the AI. Lets get one thing straight here. ALL AIs in RTS games suck. They all suck. They're all horrible. They're all predictable. They're all very very v

Reply to Why the future doesnt need us in Everything Else Sins Forums

meh... never played the first one.... don't own any handheld consoles either. What system did it originally come out for? my brother has a PSP though... would you recommend it for his PSP?

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that guy's in a game? I thought they just made him up...

Reply to Will the AI eventually be z-axis aware in a meaningful way? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Well that makes sense, but why would you do that in the first place, why not just go left or right? Think of fleet formations. They put their strong ships in the front and their weak ships in the back. Ok. Now you go left or right and you can put one of those weaker ships closer into range then any of the big scary ships. So then the enemy moves ships to the right and left to deal wi

Reply to Will the AI eventually be z-axis aware in a meaningful way? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

We really should have a poll or something... 3d movement is required... that the units all level out to an arbitrary plane is enough of a compromise. For the game to hold it's innovative edge you can't limit the 3d movement. The AI also should use the z axis. Make it very simple... just having it randomly vector up or down a bit so that it comes upon a target from the bottom or the top every so often. It doesn't need to do it intelligently.

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How is it oxymoronic? I like the way I look his job isn't to attract men into paid sexual ecounters... his job is to strike fear and terror into the hearts of trillions (I'm assuming the galactic empire has trillions of opeople in it.)... I mean... the dude commissioned and then fired th

Reply to the Homer Simpson cannon in Everything Else Sins Forums

so is that how the homer gun works? you hang a fat man over a planet and say "surrender or we'll make him even bigger!"

Reply to Why the future doesnt need us in Everything Else Sins Forums

this isnt a crack, to the contrary monkeys NEED to know their surroundings, so they understand basics "theres a tree here" "you can fall while swinging" kids on the other hand do not have those types of curiousities, the classic question "where do babies come from" has nothing to do with knowing your surroundings, its a tangent process that is subjective in value. that question sustains the concept that humans have developed concious from very early on, where

Reply to the Homer Simpson cannon in Everything Else Sins Forums

if you don't want to hear about the homer cannon then you're in the wrong thread. *waits to hear about the homer cannon*

Reply to the Homer Simpson cannon in Everything Else Sins Forums

please... explain the "homer" cannon.

Reply to Taking all bets now! The big match up! in Everything Else Sins Forums

We do have a whore union. here is the website WWW Link I meant union in the sense of group wage negotiation, working conditions, etc. That appears to just be a social network. =============================================================== Oh and Scourge, thanks for the offer, but I must inform you that I already live here :O that's good...

Reply to Why the future doesnt need us in Everything Else Sins Forums

This is the most confusing thread ever, you guys have like 10 arguements going on at once and it seems that at one point in time the forum had a glitch and decided that for fun it would rearange all the posts. I mean I read the same thing over twice.... I know... I'm trying to bring it back on topic a bit by bringing it back to AI's. Which is the only reason we started talking about consciousness. My point was that intelligence and consci

Reply to Why the future doesnt need us in Everything Else Sins Forums

Would you please pull that poll out of your butt? did not the smily face tell you that it was a joke? Liten up will ya, before you give yourself a holier than thou, self righious stroke! There's no need to be rude. I was just curious. Furthermore, what poll? And expecting me to get sarcasm or... whatever the nature of that joke is without some explicit cue isn't really reasonable through a text box. I could pick up on that in pe

Reply to Why the future doesnt need us in Everything Else Sins Forums

Monkeys are curious as well true, but not on the subjective level kids are. monkeys need to know their surroundings, kids want to. What does that even mean? monkeys play... they explore out of simple curiosity as well. I think I'm going to hammer on this point... I want to see where the cracks in your argument lead. again karma, since you didnt hear me the F

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I save the worship for Clinton! What did clinton do worthy of worship? Don't get me wrong, I thought he was an ok president... but worship? The man was a great speaker... very charismatic... but he was more show and display then he was actual accomplishment. His presi

Reply to Why the future doesnt need us in Everything Else Sins Forums

little children are largely pressured into learning with a mix of punishment and reward. so you have never seen curious little children? In the future please try to think up the more obvious rebuttals and use them to filter your replies. Monkeys are curious as well. That is an obvious rebuttal you should have worked into your statement somehow... I shouldn't have to remind you of that. <br

Reply to Why the future doesnt need us in Everything Else Sins Forums

Please cite your evidence that Carter personally brought peace between those two countries. Because I thought Israel wiping out Egypt’s attack force and demonstrating he could completely ruin Egypt is what made peace. :lol: He was the one who brokered the treaty, brought them to the table and got the job done. Yeah? Well... then Truman 'somehow' through his diplomatic skill alone got the Japanese to sign an unconditional surrender to the United

Reply to Taking all bets now! The big match up! in Everything Else Sins Forums

hopping up and down on a guy's genitals ...ow... ... Presumably with her vagina... though you never know...

Reply to Why the future doesnt need us in Everything Else Sins Forums

autonomous is different from concious. Yes it is... in fact, on second thought I would agree that a conscious intelligence woudl probably be counter productive in many of these tasks. You would however want a HIGH degree of intelligence and autonomy. You'll want a large skill set... such as self repair, knowledge of several sciences and a list of protocol to follow in the event of detecting various things. Though true consciousness would probabl

Reply to Why the future doesnt need us in Everything Else Sins Forums

Define consciousness and cite a source for your definition. Two seconds with google should do it. Please use at least a "somewhat" credible source. If you cite a personal page hosted on Anglefire or a myspace page I won't credit it. Then I'll cite sources for chimps and other intelligent mammals to show that they are conscious. Hell... they can even learn sign language. They're just very stupid compared to humans. But our ultimate reason for not extending rights is that they're not huma

Reply to Battlefield 2142 screenshots in Games Sins Forums

didnt read any of ur posts karma, wanna sum em up in one sentence? If I thought I could say it in fewer words I wouldn't have bothered to write as much as I did. Furthermore, I'm not going to appologize for writing more then you want to read and am not sympathetic to people that expect everyone to tailor their posts to a specific individual's interests. I can provide a paypal account and if you deposit 500 USD in the account I'll change my posts on this foru

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