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Artwork / Re: Symbols for the geoscape
« on: October 19, 2009, 07:28:03 pm »
Soooo... any progress on this?
I'm kind of byse these days, but still stopping by at times...

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Offtopic / Re: Why English is So Hard (Lafters)
« on: October 19, 2009, 07:24:22 pm »
Believe me, having genders does not make a language more beautiful... to learn at least. In French there is a system to it (mostly), but even there I was having trouble.

Now in German there is NO system at all (apart from a few things taken from latin, like nouns formed from verbs), and THREE articles. A floor is male, ceiling is female and windows are neutral. Other grammar rules also have so many exceptions it's not funny anymore.
I pity da foos ;) who have to learn this. Good thing I grew up with it, hehe.

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Offtopic / Re: Updates on Me
« on: October 05, 2009, 12:16:30 am »
To calm you, I don't think Singapore has much to fear from those. It's shielded from the ocean by Indonesia, and Borneo on the other side.... to an extent that you hardly get any waves on the coast.

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Offtopic / Re: Why English is So Hard (Lafters)
« on: October 05, 2009, 12:11:18 am »
There is literature for that, though. It's called "Cursing in ...". :)

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Offtopic / Re: Updates on Me
« on: September 23, 2009, 03:53:32 pm »
Make sure you ask them in advance at which point of the race the accidents are planned this year. ;)

P.S.: We just roof-blasted the guys who came to evaluate whether we are worth 5 more years of funding. Wohoo! :)


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Artwork / Re: Symbols for the geoscape
« on: September 16, 2009, 10:06:51 pm »
I agree, the Kerrblade silhouette (not mine, btw) has too much detail for a small symbol.

Maybe we should use an alien fist/claw after all, creating a similar yet distinct look for alien terror.
P.S.: Something like this (quick sketch) - or just the hands without the blood background.

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Artwork / Re: Symbols for the geoscape
« on: September 14, 2009, 02:29:42 am »
If you have a specific idea just put the symbols in, they are all there.
Besides, that last part just sounded like an order. Two, in fact. And that's probably the worst way of making me do anything.

@Winter
Ok, but I have little experience in modelling. If anybody could do the pins, I will make proper textures.

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Artwork / Re: Concept - Frogman
« on: September 13, 2009, 03:52:04 pm »
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Thoughts?

It looks... cute? And goofy, standing upright on sprawled legs.
Not very fearsome.

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Artwork / Re: Symbols for the geoscape
« on: September 13, 2009, 03:27:17 pm »
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"wheres the hand from?" does not look like you made it yourself

I didn't. It's a modified public domain pic.

For globe pic see above.

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Discussion / Re: Production time or cost normalization
« on: September 13, 2009, 03:22:59 pm »
Actually, I prefer the idea of collecting stuff to sell from the aliens' cold dead hands instead of "producing cash".

This will create motivation to do those crash recovery missions, even if the countries are already happy.

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Discussion / Re: Production time or cost normalization
« on: September 09, 2009, 12:20:47 am »
The way I see it, the point lies in the fact that this way of forcing the "no profit" concept contradicts realism, whether you support it gameplay-wise or not. And that it has to be sold to the players.
You can't go around auctioning off entire UFOs on one hand, then on the other claim that it would be too dangerous to sell a plasma rifle.

I think that, in the end, the combined costs for production (also counting upkeep and salaries) must simply equal or surpass the profit of selling, as was suggested.

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Offtopic / Re: Updates on Me
« on: September 09, 2009, 12:01:14 am »
Hey man.

Glad to hear that you are managing it. Don't worry about a job - if you are good at something because you like it, you will always find ways to make a living out of it, grad or not. And if you like to do further studies... why not? I've seen less intelligent people get a PhD, hehe.

And if all else fails, you can still come to Germany and open a restaurant serving some of the stuff we ate. ;)
Seriously, we don't get that here. It's all Fried Duck and Nasi Goreng. Though that's good, too. :)

P.S.: If you need help with public speaking, check out the Toastmasters. There must be at least one club in Singapore.

Wish you luck!

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Artwork / Re: Symbols for the geoscape
« on: September 08, 2009, 11:33:02 pm »
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Terror mission with human enemies

How's this?


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Offtopic / Re: Why English is So Hard (Lafters)
« on: September 04, 2009, 12:38:45 am »
Higgins:
Look at her, a prisoner of the gutter,
Condemned by every syllable she utters.
By right she should be taken out and hung,
For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue.

Eliza:
Aaoooww!

Higgins:
Aaoooww!
Heavens, what a noise!
This is what the British population,
Calls an elementary education.

Pickering:
Come, sir, I think you picked a poor example.

Higgins:
Did I?
Hear them down in Soho square,
Dropping "h's" everywhere.
Speaking English anyway they like.
You sir, did you go to school?

Man:
Wadaya tike me for, a fool?

Higgins:
No one taught him 'take' instead of 'tike'!

Hear a Yorkshireman, or worse,
Hear a Cornishman converse,
I'd rather hear a choir singing flat.
Chickens cackling in a barn!
Just like this one here.

Eliza:
Garn!

Higgins:
I ask you, sir, what sort of word is that?

It's "Aaoooww" and "Garn" that keep her in her place.
Not her wretched clothes and dirty face.

Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
This verbal class distinction, by now,
Should be antique.
If you spoke as she does, sir,
Instead of the way you do,
Why, you might be selling flowers, too!

Pickering:
I beg your pardon!

Higgins: An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him.
The moment he talks he makes some other Englishman despise him.
One common language I'm afraid we'll never get,
Oh, why can't the English learn to

...set a good example to people whose
English is painful to your ears?
The Scots and the Irish leave you close to tears.
There even are places where English completely disappears.

In America, they haven't used it for years.

Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
Norwegians learn Norwegian,
the Greeks are taught their Greek.
In France every Frenchman knows his language from "A" to "Zed"

The French never care what they do, actually, as long as they pronounce it properly...

Arabians learn Arabian with the speed of summer lightning,
The Hebrews learn it backwards,
which is absolutely frightening.
But use proper English and you're regarded as a freak.

Why can't the English,
Why can't the English,
Learn To Speak?

  ;)

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Feature Requests / Re: Cure virus missions + injection-gun
« on: September 04, 2009, 12:07:54 am »
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This would be god training for the soldiers. Civillian casualties will however make the union like you less.

I think you'd rather run into trouble with the soldiers' union if you make your elite forces run around vaccinating people.
And from the nurses' union as well. ;)

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