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Offtopic / Re: News Story - UFOs in real life

« on: June 11, 2008, 10:06:02 pm »

Wow, I didn't expect my personal unexplained account, to have so much feedback and speculation. From one who needs no convincing, that there are more things in this universe than we can even fathom or explain...

I seriously doubt, our world leaders are aliens or are being controlled by any such...

That doesn't mean, that this small section of the galaxy, in an almost infinite amount of galaxies, in an immense universe is not, or has not in the past been observed or studied. In fact, I would state that for us not to be, would probably be far less likely. Most of us ( including myself ) just don't like the idea, that somewhere...some species may be further along in development than we are. Indeed, this is totally against many of the worlds major religions...my own included...as we are supposedly "unique and singular" from that perspective.

If you look at this strictly from that standpoint...if and its an extremely HUGE "if", the world leaders had any idea, any type of "off world life" was / is indeed true ( especially anything more advanced than ourselves). To let the public know such, would destroy and throw into chaos almost every world religious viewpoint...something that I would suspect they would be in great fear of letting happen.

I do think it arrogant indeed, for us as as a race of "thinking" beings, that a large majority of us, think that we are the "end all be all" of any sentient lifeforms. The universe is just to VAST to continue to actually believe such, as even if the universe was created indeed by a "God", if such a god is really omnipotent...to waste it's time on just "us" is kind of inane, perhaps even ludicrous...but that's just an opinion of course.

The only thing that keeps visitation of us, as being even somewhat fanciful is that same "vastness" of space, that makes other life out there somewhere a distinct possibility. Of course, I seriously doubt we have discovered "all" of the laws of physics that this universe has for us to discover...perhaps some type of FTL travel does exist...we just don't know where, or how to find it yet. It wasn't all that long ago...we were still riding around on horses...in the grand scheme of things...who knows what we'll discover 200-300 years down the road...provided we are all still here

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Discussion / Re: regarding gatling/minigun

« on: June 11, 2008, 03:14:50 pm »

Trash, sounds like you've made the model already...situation is, from everything we have all read, Winter isn't remotely acceptable to the idea of such a weapon. So...that is that...as they say. Not really much sense in even debating the point, unless for some reason your able to convince him otherwise...not very likely given what I've read.

I have zero development skills as I've stated before, and as such I have no need to talk with the Dev's. However, since your becoming involved in this area...you should IRC with everyone working on this project...would seem you could throw around ideas more effectively like that.

BTW, I've only played the first XCOM and it's been YEARS since that was done...I had totally forgotten there were mini-guns in that game. But this project, as has been stated is NOT a remake of any of those games, just done in the spirit of them. My only hope, is that unlike so many open source and indie projects, that this one does indeed see the finish line...it has too much potential to be really great to fall short of that.

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Tactics / Re: Research Priorities

« on: June 08, 2008, 10:27:07 pm »

Thanks BT , for the clarification and clearing of that up... I couldn't believe that they were useless as was stated.

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Tactics / Re: Research Priorities

« on: June 08, 2008, 06:03:12 pm »

Personally, I research Lasers and then armor... I won't bother with researching armor anymore since it's useless (who knew?)

The current armors in the game are useless? Just where did you read this info?  I mean if that is true...then what is the point?

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Discussion / Re: regarding gatling/minigun

« on: June 08, 2008, 05:38:09 pm »

I'm not really too sure a mini-gun has that much of a role in such a game as this. That is just my opinion of course, but I'd rather see more alien technologies to effectively research and make into effective human weaponry.

That said, never say never, in regards to what the future may actually hold. At one point in history, the locomotive was told to the public that it would travel at more than 20-30 MPH. Many "intellectuals" held the belief that such was completely impossible...as at such a speed, all of the air would be sucked out of the train and everyone aboard would die. Of course we laugh at such today, but they really believed it. Also, at one point the US patent office, or someone involved with it I believe said, "Everything that can be invented already has been invented, and there is no further need for any more patents".

Good thing no one listened to that idiotic statement ROFL, but the point is who actually knows what future tech will allow for weapons in the future...it is pure speculation.

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Artwork / Re: Need a modeler?

« on: June 08, 2008, 12:57:19 am »

If anyone here has ever played Riddick Escape from Butchers Bay...there are 2 enclosed powered armors that are just awesome. Not sure if either of these or anything similar to them would even fit here but...

And yes TM, fully enclosed powered armor is what I was referencing...like you just wrote about Anyhow was just curious...be very nice when / if such is implemented at some point. Sounds like there are some issues though, since BT just said so...back to forum lurking. 

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Tactics / Re: How to Avoid Night Missions

« on: June 07, 2008, 09:19:02 pm »

Indeed, having a light source at the end of a firearm...just makes you a target. Consider an enemy hiding behind cover somewhere...watching for some intruder into his area. Here comes this light bouncing around all over the area...not exactly covert by any means...and a good invitation to getting shot is all it really is.

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Artwork / Re: Need a modeler?

« on: June 07, 2008, 09:11:49 pm »

Oh sorry BT, I've only played 2.2.1 and never saw any...so I was unaware of that...sorry for the ignorance on my part.

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Artwork / Re: Need a modeler?

« on: June 07, 2008, 08:58:45 pm »

Trashman, I'm pretty much staying out of this...since I have not one iota of skill in helping to get this game more polished. So my 2 cents are hardly relevant, but I have one question.

Is the armor your sketching here, for the next armor up...the "powered armor", that as of yet is not in the game, or just a remake of the existing in-game armor that someone said ( Winter? ) needs remodeling?

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Discussion / Re: number of starting soldiers

« on: June 07, 2008, 08:44:09 pm »

Have to agree with you Trashman, I get completely attached to my team...too lose the good ones is "unacceptable" in any scenario. I'd replay an engagement from start to finish 10 times, if it meant not losing the team members I deem "core". I don't / won't to lose them...they are just too hard to replace...and they become like old friends after awhile.

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Offtopic / Re: What other games do you enjoy?

« on: June 05, 2008, 04:01:07 pm »

No BT,  I haven't played Bioshock as of yet. I read all the reviews saying it wasn't quite all the hype that surrounded it. And while it sounded good...I usually won't pay the initial price for a game unless it's really outstanding in all aspects. Once I read that it wasn't quite the game SS2 was, I said...why pay $50.00 for a lesser experience. I'll pick it up at some point when it finally drops down to around the $19.99 or less price

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Offtopic / Re: What other games do you enjoy?

« on: June 04, 2008, 01:36:46 am »

I've been gaming since the 80's...some of my favorites in no particular order

Star control 2, XCOM UFO Defence, X3 Reunion, BG 1 & 2, StarWars KOTOR, Crysis, Oblivion ( despite it's flaws ), Silent Hunter 3 & 4, Chronicles of Riddick, Fear, Call of Duty series, Medal of Honor Series, No One Lives Forever 2, Alien versus Predator, Gothic 3 ( but only with the latest community patch, too buggy otherwise ), and many others, but probably my all time favorite...System Shock 2. I wish a complete remake of this game, was to be done with todays tech...now that would be awesome indeed !!

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Offtopic / Re: News Story - UFOs in real life

« on: June 03, 2008, 04:21:09 pm »

I never knew that about Tesla...in fact I know / knew almost nothing about the man at all.

I thought I would research a little about him...amazing...sounds like the man was an absolute genius. While looking around several Tesla sites...this other site was somehow linked...why I'm not really sure. It seems to have some pretty interesting things, that some of us might like to, given time... read over a few of the things listed there. In fact, I just emailed the site with the account / story that I listed here ( minus my personal info, as I have no want of being public ), saying feel free to post it up in their DB.

Here is the link, for anyone even remotely interested.

http://ufologie.net/indexe.htm

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Offtopic / Re: News Story - UFOs in real life

« on: June 02, 2008, 03:07:33 am »

At the risk of being thought a "Kook", or stupid...I'll relate a personal story of mine for anyone interested to ponder over. Before I relate what happened that night...first some small background on myself.

I'm 46, married, 4 children and I am a martial arts enthusiast, having trained in various styles of arts for around 15+ years. I consider myself...a "realist" and not given to fancy, or in "blowing" things out of proportion...I'm about as "conservative" as they come in my thoughts about almost everything discussed.

This story is not to try and make anyone here believe in anything at all...just something for you to think upon...draw your own conclusions.

I used to hunt and fish quite a bit in the 1980's, but haven't done much of that since being married and raising children...not much time.

My best friend at the time and myself, left for our regular hunting area and campsite early on a Friday afternoon just after we got off work. Our intent was to get up to our area, setup our camp, and then try and scout out a likely area in which to place our deer stands for the next mornings hunt. This was to be our first hunt of the new season...so we were ready to get going.

On the way, we decided to stop and get something to eat...which unfortunately ( slow service ) put us up to our area about 90 minutes later than we had originally planned. We hastily threw up camp, and then went to an area we both new fairly well from previous hunts...hoping to find some fresh signs of deer, and put up our tree stands.

It was almost dark, by the time we left camp, but we had some pretty powerful flashlights, and we were confident of knowing the area, so we were not too flustered. Before I go any further...we were not, or had not had anything to drink in the way of adult beverages...nor were either of us into drugs of any sort whatsoever.

Corby and myself got up to where we wanted to be, and got out of our truck to hastily do what we needed to get done. We had walked roughly about maybe a quarter of a mile from the truck ( by now it was almost true dark ), and the path we were on and the terrain was as follows...I can still see it in my minds eye today...this night was that vivid to me.

We were walking south, with Corby on my left hand side...to his left was a ditch that went down about 15-20 feet deep...and was perhaps about 40 yards wide...before coming back up and leveling out into a field of short pine trees on the other side.

I was using my flashlight on the right hand side of the road, looking for tracks...when Corby just smacked me in the shoulder and said, " Holy *%$^* Steve, LOOK" as he pulled on my sleeve. I looked past him to the left where he was looking and over the pine trees on the other side was this...glowing ORANGE BALL ( I have no other way to describe it ) about 20-25 feet around...or so I am guessing its hard to actually say. This thing made NO NOISE...not a whisper...and as we watched it hover there it suddenly went to the right...so fast I could barely keep track of it...then it did what for all intents is impossible...it did a right angle...not a curve...a complete right angle...like completely horizontal and then straight up...at what had to be an insane amount of speed until it was lost from sight...in about 2 seconds. There was no air disturbance of any kind, nor a sonic boom, but this thing moved faster than anything I've ever seen...and from a dead stop.

Now...this is the creepy part...we were already a bit unnerved but we considered the thing gone, and we still had to hunt the next day. So...we started to search for deer sign again...even though we were feeling more than a bit weird...heck that's an understatement. You know that feeling, that you get when you just "know" someone is watching you...well I got that feeling all of a sudden...the hair was literally standing up on my neck...so I glanced behind me. That thing was back, and it was just "observing" us...hovering there above the tree line again.

Well...we didn't wait around any longer...I can't remember what we said, as we ran like scared out of our minds children for our truck, but I'm sure that it would require LOTS of censoring.

Was it an alien spacecraft? A true UFO? I'm not saying that...I have no idea at all what it was...just that it scared the daylights out of 2 grown and fairly rational men. I do know, that it was not a helicopter, nor any type of aircraft that I can even contemplate. It was not a weather balloon, nor was it some stupid air reflections off of something, this thing did behavior...that defies anything I personally know of that we use for flight. The G's alone would smash a pilot flat dead, doing the right angle at the speed that it did, unless it were something unmanned. Even at that, this "ball / sphere" had no observable flight control surfaces I could see...NONE. I freely admit, that I did not have a great deal of time to study ( too busy running the second time ) whatever this thing was, but to my eye...NONE and it generated no noise ( nothing )...how is that even possible? Draw your own conclusions...make your own hypothesis...I am neither a Physics person, nor a mathematician...but to this day I still think of that night and that very strange thing we saw.

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Discussion / Re: Radar range

« on: May 01, 2008, 03:47:58 am »

Yeah in 2.2 it does show up in a tip, that building more radar sites increases its range. Nice to know that it does not do this, as I too was wondering why with more sites the range stayed the same. I think I've read "somewhere", that there is some tech to be researched at some point to allow the building of "advanced radar sites". If that's true, and my memory is not misguiding me, I assume that it must be one of the multitude of things in the TODO list.