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Kody is offline Kody
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If life's standing still and your soul's confused
Jun 2003
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wuy3 is offline wuy3
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Aug 2003
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haha thats really nice edit of snoopy

Kody is offline Kody
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If life's standing still and your soul's confused
Jun 2003
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Thanks wuy3, glad you like it.

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Drugs... Method?

Can you add additional comments and corrections in the CMNs forums. I did a rough snapshot of the game after reading all the private forums and looking at the most recent turn. However, you guys will probably have a clearer view on some things.

Method is offline Method
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/me goes to France
Feb 2001
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Yeah...Sure I will

Anyhoo, Kody be yarrr and woo.

GeoModder is offline GeoModder
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The most erratic Overlord!
Jan 2004
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Working in a beauty salon for dogs now, Kody? How queer.

FlameFlash is offline FlameFlash
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Dec 2001
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Good to see you're still doing a great job editing those Peanuts, Kody.

On another note, where would I find this MP editor of yours to swap cities between human factions? (I thought I remembered talk of it around here last ACDG...)

binTravkin is offline binTravkin
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Lord of Progress of the Council of Lords of Gaia
Jan 2004
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where would I find this MP editor of yours to swap cities between human factions?


Yeah, Im interested too!

Kody is offline Kody
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If life's standing still and your soul's confused
Jun 2003
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Umm if you're wanting it for the ACDG, I can give Drogue a copy and he can handle the necessary changes.

However, if you want it for one of your PBEMs you need to ask one of the CMNs that setup games. While I would have liked to share the editor with everyone, I previously decided it was more sensible to just give it to just the senior CMNs. Since they also have a far greater vested interest in the game than I do, I think it’s better if they decide how it’s distributed if distributed at all.

Around the time I was developing the editor, Enigma published a thread on how to remove reload messages. So ever since I worried that some bright spark would take the necessary steps to reverse engineer the program and write a forum thread telling everyone the details, and possibly use what he learnt on actual save files.

As a result I added some security, passwords for all the players need to be known to edit the save file, but wouldn't stop some bright spark fairly determined to use the editor to break the game.

binTravkin is offline binTravkin
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Lord of Progress of the Council of Lords of Gaia
Jan 2004
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Around the time I was developing the editor, Enigma published a thread on how to remove reload messages. So ever since I worried that some bright spark would take the necessary steps to reverse engineer the program and write a forum thread telling everyone the details, and possibly use what he learnt on actual save files.

As a result I added some security, passwords for all the players need to be known to edit the save file, but wouldn't stop some bright spark fairly determined to use the editor to break the game.


Uhh, thanks for a warning Kody, we should keep our eyes open!

binTravkin is offline binTravkin
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Lord of Progress of the Council of Lords of Gaia
Jan 2004
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And, Kody, if you're still hovering somewhere here, could you give some tips how to spot if someone has tried and retro-engineered your program?

It could be helpful to detect such cheaters as EN.

Kody is offline Kody
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If life's standing still and your soul's confused
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Atm I doubt anyone has had the chance to do so. It didn't get distributed very far, and the people do that have it I highly doubt would try anything. As far as I know only 2 CMNs have it and that's it. Furthermore, you need to be somewhat tech savy to misuse it. So I'm fairly sure it's not being used for bad purposes.

I don't have any clue on how to detect cheating based on save file editing. I guess it's the same as detecting other cheating, if something seems amiss something may be afoul.

Hercules is offline Hercules
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in Tir Na Og
Sep 2002
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If changes or swapping bases was needed in the ACDG, I am sure Buster would still oblige to implement the exchange.

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Dec 2001
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I was thinking about another PBEM game I was in.

IMHO you're being overly paranoid but given I couldn't run it anyway probably and its yours to distribute as you see fit after all *shrugs*.

If Googlie has a copy, I'm good.

GeoModder is offline GeoModder
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Jan 2004
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Darsnan is offline Darsnan
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New Syracuse, Beta Prime
Dec 2001
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As far as I know only 2 CMNs have it and that's it.


buster asked me for a copy, and I gave it to him, as he does a lot of CMN'ing. Otherwise, anyone who has asked me for a copy why I have deferred them to either Googlie or Kody. FYI.


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Googlie is offline Googlie
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I've given it out to no-one, and used it just once in an attempt to solve an eliminated player problem in a PBEM(which was better solved by restarting - it was a fairly young game)

(But I wish I'd had it available early in the ACDG2 game - I might have been able to get Miriam's 20 colony pods better utilized than merely clogging up the roads)

Lemmy is offline Lemmy
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Bubblewrap
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Get your history straight. The gumfteltrickber scourge was a quirk of nature, a strange growth behind the urinals that reached sentience, not a breeded experiment, even though Doctor TKG Method tried his best to claim responsibility for them later on (originally he attempted to destroy them with his team of scientists, in fact). I think Lemmy tried to pin the incident on himself too during his pathetic attempt to get imprisoned.


That attempt was not pathetic, it was genius and i would've gotten away with it too if it weren't for that meddling Finn and his TKG!

DeathByTheSword is offline DeathByTheSword
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soon to be a major religion
Nov 2001
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OMG LEMMY...that has been a while

Micha is offline Micha

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Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany
Oct 2002
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...says the right one

What happened to this place? There used to be so much more consumption of strange fluids than this occassional sipping...

A round of XenoBrew for all on me!

And just to get some discussion going: Who do you think my new avatar to be?

binTravkin is offline binTravkin
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Lord of Progress of the Council of Lords of Gaia
Jan 2004
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And just to get some discussion going: Who do you think my new avatar to be?


Isn't it obvious?

Micha is offline Micha

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Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany
Oct 2002
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Yep, but then, itīs another two posts for the Rec Commons

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Alaska
Feb 2004
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*Takes a drink of some vodka* In a different note, schools around the US are getting ready to shut down!

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In a different note, schools around the US are getting ready to shut down!


Better make them shut up.

Micha is offline Micha

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Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany
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Not only there. In my city alone 5 out of 7 highschools didnīt match the minimum numbers in pupils, so almost all of them will get shut, too...

Good thing Iīm already done with that, and by the time they move on to closing down universities, Iīll either have my diploma or a well-paid job as a waiter at the local Chinese...

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the thievery continues
Nov 2002
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I think that's probably not what Ouro meant by "shut down". Most just close for the summer. For most of our schools, it's not the declining enrollment that's the problem, but the declining quality.

Micha, is university enrollment dropping too? Is there greater, lesser, or the same percentage of the population attending as in the past?

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the birth rate just keeps dropping => less children => some schools have to stop

Micha is offline Micha

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Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany
Oct 2002
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I think that's probably not what Ouro meant by "shut down". Most just close for the summer. For most of our schools, it's not the declining enrollment that's the problem, but the declining quality.

Micha, is university enrollment dropping too? Is there greater, lesser, or the same percentage of the population attending as in the past?


Hm, our summer holidays only begin in August...

As for dropping numbers: No, the opposite is true! There are more students than ever, since ten years their numbers have tripled. The problem is, that in Germany university education is free, so the state has to pay for it. With that many students, the unis become too expensive for the public coffers, so they started "thinning out" the staff. Now we have approximately 350 students per professor, and most profs donīt even have assistants...

It is getting even worse as students rallied to protest a planned university fee of $700 per semester, so it wasnīt introduced. That forced the unis to drop several courses as they couldnīt afford the staff needed to teach them. So the officials step in and say "either teach the whole thing or close".

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Well... kindof double meaning. The fact that my school has... seven more days of class. And the fact that parents don't like the teacher hired, since my dad, the former teacher, retired. So the school might be under the legal limit for funding... I am very glad at this point that I'm a senior, and getting out now!

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Oct 2004
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Sounds like the legal **** is getting deep and will get deeper before it is cleaned.

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Who needs cleaning? We had twelve kids this year - ten is the needed. Besides the three kids unenrolled, me graduating, another student is going to visit a friend south. And six days!

 
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