06-02-2004 03:11									#32
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quote: Jamski is a notorious spammer

Whether or not that's true, I have never posted a single smilie as my "+1"
* Jamski raises one eyebrow like Sean Connery *

-Jam

	06-02-2004 10:27									#34
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I hope Brian is not coming out with yet another RT"S".

	06-02-2004 19:59									#35
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would you please stop spamming my lovely thread?

I'm really curious to see what Brian will do now. Somehow I think that he would want to diversify his products, have some different games before he returned to RoN.

Maybe he's going to create The Lumberjack Tale, the ultimate RPG!

	06-02-2004 20:07									#36
	Got spare money?

What do you want us to do, post actual information?

	06-02-2004 21:48									#37
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coming to think of it... do you know something that we don't?

	06-02-2004 21:56									#38
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Sure, here's some information about the game (Taken from the official site www.BriansGames.com):

Genre: TBFPS (Turn Based First Person Shooter)
Release Date: Next week
Story:
You're one man against the whole planet, in this science fiction game set on Alpha Centauri...

	06-02-2004 23:50									#39
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quote: Originally posted by Osweld

	07-02-2004 00:09									#40
	Re: Lumberjack Tycoon, Brian? Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations: Deluxe Edition

quote: Originally posted by Alex So, will we see Brian Reynolds' Lumberjack Tycoon in the future?

I'd say it's doubtful.

	07-02-2004 09:51									#41
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quote: Originally posted by ADG Sure, here's some information about the game (Taken from the official site www.BriansGames.com): Genre: TBFPS (Turn Based First Person Shooter) Release Date: Next week Story: You're one man against the whole planet, in this science fiction game set on Alpha Centauri...

I even clicked on the link.

	07-02-2004 16:32									#42
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Woohoo, got one to click it

	07-02-2004 16:37									#43
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Fortunately some of us are not quite so gullible.

	07-02-2004 18:50									#44
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With the amount of tripe released as games these days, it really isn't that outlandish.

	07-02-2004 19:25									#45
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Hehe true. I am still waiting for a TBFPS.

	07-02-2004 19:33									#46
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I'm sure there is/was one.

-Jam

	08-02-2004 08:14									#47
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That's a game that might actually do well where I'm from.

You know Caveman Games? Make a Lumberjack Games.

	08-02-2004 20:31									#48
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I just read a interview Brian Reynolds. The last question is about the next game:

quote: N – Finally, what are the plans at Big Huge Games after the expansion pack is released? BR – Some members of our team are already at work on our next cool real time strategy game!

I guess that means Lumberjack Tycoon is out of the qestion

	08-02-2004 21:33									#49
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Brian, I like RON as much as the next guy, but please, come back to the light. We need the next great TBS, and you're the only one who can do it.

	08-02-2004 22:04									#50
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quote: Originally posted by Guynemer Brian, I like RON as much as the next guy, but please, come back to the light. We need the next great TBS, and you're the only one who can do it.

Totally agree.

Please don't go to the RTSes. The drones need you. They look up to you.

	09-02-2004 10:01									#51
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Too bad, BR lost it.

	09-02-2004 13:31									#52
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Well I hate the decision too, but alas from his perspective it is perfectly rational.

	09-02-2004 14:07									#53
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Are those damned real time games easier to write, or do they sell better?

Well at least the AI code doesn't have to be good, I think.

	09-02-2004 19:37									#54
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why do people here think RON is the first RTS Brian had a big role in? Does everyone forget Sid Meier's Gettysburg ??

	09-02-2004 23:42									#55
	Suffering from ads?

I didn't forget SMG -- I just thought it was a step in the wrong direction.

	10-02-2004 00:23									#56
	Put an end to popups!

SM's Gettysburg? I think I recall a game with that name a long time ago, but wasn't it turn based, or do I recall wrong?

quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger Are those damned real time games easier to write, or do they sell better?

They sell better... most people don't like to think when playing games... they only play games to get the fastest reaction time

	10-02-2004 01:36									#57
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quote: Originally posted by ADG SM's Gettysburg? I think I recall a game with that name a long time ago, but wasn't it turn based, or do I recall wrong?

No it was real time. as was its successor SM's Antietam (also published by Firaxis, but the engine modifications were subbed out to a boutique wargame shop, which then licensed the engine and applied it to the Napoleonic period) People forget its RT, cause its not a "typical RTS" you dont build units, instead they appear on the battlefield based on when they did historically. Basically its an accurate historical wargame - and it shows how good RT is for modeling that, at the the tactical (in this case grand tactical) level.

Its pauasable, so you have to time to think (and thinking is quite important - since the time scale is compressed, i find pausing (within limits) reasonable.

	10-02-2004 01:52									#58
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the boutique firm is Breakaway games, also a microprose spinoff, and the games they made after Antietam were "waterloo: napoleons last battle" and "Austerlitz".

So thats 4 historical wargames with that engine. Plus all the Paradox games. Plus every city builder. Plus the games made with the total war engine. Doesnt seem to me that a game has to be TB to be a "thinking mans" serious game. You just make your own turn, by pausing.

	10-02-2004 14:59									#59
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What's the point of running realtime on a wargame?

	10-02-2004 15:11									#60
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It works ok as a subgenre IMO.