Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Just a reminder since this was buried several pages deep into the original AppleNova UHC thread:
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Will you be joining the party on July 11th? The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Also, we should outline a few rules here now that we've been through the exercise once.
The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
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Ice Arrow Sniper
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After one is out, should they rejoin in the General TS channel for the post-game party? Looking forward to it!
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Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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That's MY plan-- go directly back to the main chat room.
Suggested additions: Do Not Visit OTHER Team Chats Once You Are Dead - they're busy, no kibbutzing please. Gentleman's Agreement Starts - no PvP (player versus player) during first day/night. Let people have a fighting chance at the very beginning. Don't Assume Role of Team Captain - unless you've been elected. Do Not Logoff To Use Restroom - figure out a place to hide, take your chances. Final Duel Channel - in some years of UHC the final two combatants will talk via Skype when they're having a final duel. That might be fun via TeamSpeak. Might be fun to let dead players audit the audio of the remaining teams at the finale; not sure how that would work though. For what it's worth, I've noticed that some of the lag in previous years of UHC is related to people being near the walls, forcing chunks outside bounds to load, slowing play for all. |
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Otherwise, they all look like fine additions. Though, I'm not quote sure how we'd get a "final duel" channel working, especially if it's a hurried fight. No time to pause to go switch rooms when you're blinded with bloodlust. The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
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Formerly Roboman, still
awesome Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Portland, OR
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But nobody's going to be fighting at the very beginning unless they happen to spawn right near each other, and then they'd both be ill-equipped for battle, so they'd still be on a level playing field…
and i guess i've known it all along / the truth is, you have to be soft to be strong |
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Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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My bad, I was watching Season 8, where they had day/night cycles.
In UHC they have the server set to issue an announcment to let everyone know when to begin a new episode (usually a 20 minute marker, a 40 minute marker, 60, 80, etc), I suppose THAT's what I mean by day/night cycle. Quote:
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The reason they do it for UHC is so that there's at least a little bit of interesting video for each player's channel. We're not there yet (if ever) with regard to everybody having a video capture of their adventure, but it still seems the cool thing to do. ... |
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Lord of the Rant.
Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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I plan to be there. I'm looking forward to it too!
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Wait what
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: El Dorado County, California
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Only a week and a half left to prepare!
My Minecraft machine got a pretty sweet upgrade today – a Core i7 980X CPU rescued from a 'junk' bin at work. It was in a tray along with a bunch of AMD chips; my guess is the servers/workstations housing them were being thrown out, and someone pulled these knowing that us lab monkeys would pick through the bin for useful stuff and find them a new home. It would have gone into one of our lab machines...but we don't have anything with an LGA1366 motherboard that doesn't already have a higher-end CPU. Works perfectly, and on top of adding a couple of extra cores, it's clocked a good bit faster to boot. Whether that and the extra 6GB of RAM will help fix my CheatyVision™ next week...well, I guess we'll have to wait and see. |
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Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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I wiped off my screen some.
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¡Damned!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Purgatory
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Looks like I'll be in as well.
I need to test out the headphone/talk thingy beforehand, but maybe I'll catch one of y'all this coming weekend and someone could confirm that it works. So it goes. |
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Ice Arrow Sniper
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FWIW, UHC 17 started. They're going single this season.
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Thanks for the reminder, Spec!
I've been buried under work lately, but I fully intend to make time for BattleNova next Friday! I plan to record the event again, and I hope more people try recording and sharing on YouTube too. As before, I'll need a final headcount absolutely no later than 7:30 PM EDT on Friday, July 11th. If you're planning to join the game, please let us know in this thread by then! I will be randomly generating and posting the teams by 8:00 in preparation of starting the game at 9:00. So far, the roster includes:
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Ice Arrow Sniper
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I will be streaming on Twitch.
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Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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GAH!!! I *so* want to capture video too... stupid laptop.
Will I be able to stream on Twitch on a Macbook Pro? I need to get some sponsors to buy me a gaming machine. At least I'm ordering my gaming mouse soon, ensuring that I die within the first 5 minutes, killed by a chicken. ... |
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¡Damned!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Purgatory
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Just so you all know… Friday night around 9-10ish is my time to start imbibing… so. yeah.
You may hear swear words. FYI. [edit]: apparently I need recording devices. I'll need to test those as well. *Why* someone wants to see me hunt and kill WS immediately? Dunno. So it goes. Last edited by 709 : 2014-07-02 at 23:58. |
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Wait what
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: El Dorado County, California
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¡Damned!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Purgatory
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I did watch a couple/few of the UHC videos, but, I dunno, I guess watching isn't my thing. It's aggravating. They make bad decisions and I just can't do it any more.
Watching the AN stuff I have no problem with because I know you people and it's filled with LOLs. So it goes. |
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Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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Grey I've become a big fan of some of the guys - BdoubleO cracks me up when I listen to him. Ethos is actually a terrific player.
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Which way is up?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Boyzeee
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I would like to play too, please.
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Formerly Roboman, still
awesome Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Portland, OR
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HahahahahahaNO. I don't want you all to find out that I'm secretly terrible at Minecraft
also my voice sounds super girly on skype But I will be a super excited spectator!!! I'll be sad if you, Drew, and Rowdy aren't on the same team though and i guess i've known it all along / the truth is, you have to be soft to be strong |
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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In that case, I propose a new rule: Twitch and YouTube videos must be set up with super special double private access so ONLY BattleNova participants can view them.
Sorry Robo. Gotta pay to play. Wait that analogy isn't quite right. Gotta play to... play? Play to watch? I'm no good with words. The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
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¡Damned!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Purgatory
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I've just been going through a couple hundred PMs saying that WS is a scaredy-cat little twerp and that I should slay him immediately, but imma let him live for a bit. Not long, just a bit.
So it goes. |
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¡Damned!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Purgatory
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Gentleman's honor. We work together until the last, and if you are still standing we do 20 paces. No armor, no weapons, no shit. Mano y mano. We flail at each other like highschool scratch-whores. OK?
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