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Discussion / Re: Several users needed for a small test (no special skill needed)

« on: February 02, 2014, 11:52:02 am »

It took me several minutes, as searching Duke girlfriend in the search bar didn't return any result (Duke is also java-related, found the answer manualy). And a few more minute because the captcha is barely readable for a regular Human It think it must have chilled out more than one regular user.

The best anti-captcha I have tested (not so much) is to have a few random questions like the girlfriend question but easier to answer, like What the A of UFO AI stands for, what is the third word of this sentence, what is the name of the alien fighting organization, on which planet the game starts, which star gives us light during the day. Once a while a Human registers all the answers and some spam bot starts showing again, time to change the questions.

But I tested it on small forums. This one seems much more referenced and it may require to change the questions more frequently than once or twice a year.

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Discussion / Casual player and contributor

« on: February 02, 2014, 11:35:49 am »

Hello

I'll try not to write the novel of my life, but I played UFO AI a few years ago to feel like the wonderful but not free XCom UFO Defense to play and tweak. It was interesting at that time (2.2 if I remember) and now discovering 2.4 I must say the game is going the right way

I'm deeply convinced by the Free Software movement and have a passion for video games (like game design) and am myself a developper. Though I don't have much time to code, as I contributed to some other projects, mainly making a "noob-friendly" skirmish mod for Warzone 2100, fretting songs for Performous and tweaking some arcade game like Solarwolf and Crittical Mass to run them on a cabinet. And playing a bit to know what I'm doing.

I know I must check 2.5 and even 2.6 to get the feeling of what's going on now, but I'd like to contribute as I can. I also know that talking is fine, but doing something is much more valuable So I may start from lurking in the wiki and manual to become familiar with the project and the team and see how it goes.

One last thing, I have a long-term project for a free software gaming room (aka arcade room) in France. Make local players meet each other, organize LAN parties, promote free sofwares and the magic of playing/modding/contributing and such things. It's still in early stage but there are now several mature and original games to give it a try and UFO AI is one of them.