--- Log opened Thu Mar 11 00:00:00 2010 20100311 00:02:59-!- allefant [~elias@allegro/developer/allefant] has quit [Quit: Leaving] 20100311 00:24:47< law_> hmm 20100311 00:30:17-!- shadowm_laptop [~ignacio@wesnoth/developer/shadowmaster] has quit [] 20100311 00:34:51-!- Aethaeryn [~Michael@wesnoth/umc-dev/developer/aethaeryn] has joined #wesnoth 20100311 00:40:29-!- Cann0n [~jack@unaffiliated/cann0n] has joined #wesnoth 20100311 00:40:56< Cann0n> i like wesnoth 20100311 00:41:06< Aethaeryn> What a coincidence. 20100311 00:41:12< Aethaeryn> i like wesnoth 20100311 00:41:35< Cann0n> i cheat sometimes on single player 20100311 00:42:25< Cann0n> i just boost exp so my main gets to lvl 3 faster 20100311 00:42:33-!- Cann0n [~jack@unaffiliated/cann0n] has left #wesnoth [] 20100311 00:43:34-!- MadMerlin [~neil@206-248-167-197.dsl.teksavvy.com] has joined #wesnoth 20100311 00:44:47< shadowmaster> I do that too! 20100311 00:45:51< shadowmaster> I also set my favorite units' HP to 1000 (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VideoGameCaringPotential) if they go below 20$ 20100311 00:45:55< shadowmaster> er, 25% 20100311 00:47:52< Gambit> I debug yetis 20100311 00:48:04< Gambit> in multiplayer! dun dun dun 20100311 00:48:25-!- Zarel [~Zarel@c-75-72-160-179.hsd1.mn.comcast.net] has joined #wesnoth 20100311 00:49:49-!- TaylorSwift [~Taylor@222-155-68-193.jetstream.xtra.co.nz] has joined #wesnoth 20100311 00:50:03< shadowmaster> shame on you. 20100311 00:51:02< TaylorSwift> ? 20100311 00:51:33< shadowmaster> TaylorSwift: ah, that was for Gambit :P 20100311 00:51:44< TaylorSwift> Oh, that's alright then :p 20100311 00:51:52< TaylorSwift> Was expecting some sort of Kanye West meme 20100311 00:52:37< Gambit> Imma let you finish 20100311 00:52:40< Gambit> :# 20100311 00:54:34 * TaylorSwift facepalms 20100311 00:54:48< TaylorSwift> I might go eat lunch before anything else happens :p 20100311 00:56:14< Aethaeryn> Gambit: Yetis are an acceptable part of Hodor 20100311 00:58:42< Gambit> Alright show of hands. Who thinks that "not balanced against mainline" directly translates to "Trash. Don't download any UMC."? Because I got this really wtf PM accusing me of being a UMC Era hater. 20100311 00:59:21< Gambit> I love UMC. And 99.999999% of it isn't balanced against mainline, *and it doesn't have to be* 20100311 01:00:44< Aethaeryn> Thunderstone is not balanced against mainline and never will be. 20100311 01:00:55< Aethaeryn> So I obviously disagree. 20100311 01:01:45< shadowmaster> Gambit: I raise my hand 20100311 01:02:00< shadowmaster> but I just want to ask what the chocolate you just said, I didn't understnd 20100311 01:02:41< Gambit> I said that Kalfia was the only UMC faction that was balanced against mainline 20100311 01:02:57< Gambit> And someone took this to mean that I was saying "All UMC (except Kalfia) is trash" 20100311 01:03:09< Gambit> And even after I explained myself and even apologized for not being clearer 20100311 01:03:14< Gambit> They're still mad at me :s 20100311 01:03:54< noy> Gambit: want me to go and say that publically so you get less hate mail? 20100311 01:04:02< Gambit> No :P 20100311 01:04:34< shadowmaster> I HATE WESNOTH 20100311 01:04:50< Aethaeryn> Gambit: I would rather have more high-quality UMC that's *not* designed to be with mainline rather than more high-quality UMC balanced with mainline. 20100311 01:05:39< Aethaeryn> I would prefer a really ultra-high-quality era or other fancy UMC that's incompatible with Default but is mainline-able, thus doubling the fun of Wesnoth, than just something else compatible with Default. It'd be easier too since the more factions you have, the more exponentially the work is 20100311 01:05:53< Aethaeryn> or something along the lines. 20100311 01:06:01< noy> sure.... era of myths was one attempt at that 20100311 01:06:21< Aethaeryn> Might not be exponentially, but it increases greatly the more factions you get because you have to work out each individual matchup 20100311 01:06:44< Aethaeryn> EoM fails in two ways: it actually has *more* factions than mainline, making it harder to balance than mainline... except they only have one person balancing instead of a team... 20100311 01:06:44< noy> well when jw first started I told him to take four factions 20100311 01:06:53< noy> he didn't follow that advice 20100311 01:07:05< Aethaeryn> So more factions than mainline = more balancing work, and more art work. Both cause it to fail. 20100311 01:07:13-!- grzywacz [~grzywacz@wesnoth/developer/grzywacz] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 20100311 01:07:30< Aethaeryn> noy: I agree 100%. 20100311 01:07:44< Aethaeryn> Anything trying to be mainline-level of balance would have to be < 6 in factions. 20100311 01:07:50< Aethaeryn> By necessity. 20100311 01:08:22< Aethaeryn> Even if you were a balance-expert and could balance 10 perfectly, the factions might get unoriginal/not-interesting, or you might not be able to get art for all of it. 20100311 01:08:27< Aethaeryn> The more factions, the more risk you take. 20100311 01:09:02-!- SwiftrTaylor [~Taylor@222-155-68-193.jetstream.xtra.co.nz] has joined #wesnoth 20100311 01:10:42-!- TaylorSwift [~Taylor@222-155-68-193.jetstream.xtra.co.nz] has quit [Ping timeout: 248 seconds] 20100311 01:20:13-!- sevis is now known as sevis|sleep 20100311 01:21:19< Gambit> I just took the lazy route: throw a giant toolbox at the players filled with so many things that they can figure out balance on their own. :P 20100311 01:22:05< Aethaeryn> Whenever I finally do finish my era, I'm taking the fun approach. 20100311 01:22:17< Aethaeryn> Playing it over and over and over and over and over and over, making one or two slight tweaks every now and then. 20100311 01:22:38< Aethaeryn> that's how I make some of my favorite maps I made, so it's not too different for unit stats 20100311 01:23:04< Aethaeryn> The original Fortress Assault looked like crap and played poorly too, but that was basically all I did for 3 months, and now it's probably my most complete map. 20100311 01:24:10< Aethaeryn> It might take a year to take Thunderstone from 0.1 (first true release) to 1.0 (first "complete" release), based solely on lots and lots of playtests. 20100311 01:27:07< Gambit> I really liked the one with the gold mines. 20100311 01:27:23< Gambit> And the one where you could switch the terrain in certain spots. 20100311 01:27:42< Aethaeryn> Oh, the one loosely based on fortress assault but where half of it is cave? 20100311 01:27:45< Aethaeryn> the bottom half? 20100311 01:28:09< Gambit> No the top half was cave. There were two normal players on the bottom 20100311 01:28:14< Gambit> Maybe that was "fortress assault" 20100311 01:28:21 * Gambit isn't good with names 20100311 01:28:25< Aethaeryn> Fortress Assault is 3v1 20100311 01:28:29< Aethaeryn> does have a gold mine though 20100311 01:29:00< Aethaeryn> but my new map, I'd like to finish it but there's never enough people on the 1.7 server... maybe when enough switch to 1.8 I can test it out. 20100311 01:29:10< Gambit> In fact I'm so bad with them that I just made the connection between you ant "Aethaeryn's map pack" a few minutes ago :s 20100311 01:29:18< Gambit> 1.8 will be soon 20100311 01:29:26< Gambit> Does it have 1.6 only features? 20100311 01:29:32< Gambit> *1.7 only 20100311 01:29:38< Gambit> Or you just don't feel like back porting? 20100311 01:29:47< Aethaeryn> It uses a few 1.7 only features. 20100311 01:29:59< Aethaeryn> Maybe one terrain, a few syntax in WML, and the Dwarvish Scout unit. 20100311 01:30:26< Aethaeryn> Backporting would be possible, but it'd kill some of my creativity/design, and it'd be annoying. 20100311 01:30:38< Aethaeryn> I probably would've done it if I had known that 1.8 would have more than 7 betas 20100311 01:31:06< Gambit> Hopefully many more to come. There's quite a few bugs left. 20100311 01:31:20< Aethaeryn> Yeah, the lobby was a mess last time I used it, around beta 3 or so 20100311 01:31:24< Gambit> *probably 20100311 01:31:27< Aethaeryn> And I briefly checked in on it and it was still a mess. 20100311 01:31:38< Aethaeryn> Perhaps they should've just added a dependency for the lobby to make it go along faster 20100311 01:31:46< Aethaeryn> like make it a front-end for an IRC-based network 20100311 01:32:00< Aethaeryn> all the new lobby chat features seem like they're duplicating IRC anyway 20100311 01:32:57 * Gambit desperately wants ~SCALE() to work in 1.8.0 20100311 01:34:06< Gambit> The new lobby is awesome 20100311 01:35:54< Gambit> I had this awesome idea for a space exploration addon where it randomly generates everything 20100311 01:36:18< Gambit> and the planets can be different sizes (which needs ~SCALE for space view) and the size of the image is the size of the map whe nyou beam down to the planet 20100311 01:36:45< Gambit> anywhere from 10,10 to 72,72 20100311 01:38:41< Gambit> omg someone make this guy change his avatar 20100311 01:38:42< Gambit> http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=120799 20100311 01:41:06-!- BenUrban [~benurban@unaffiliated/benurban] has joined #wesnoth 20100311 01:41:25< Gambit> People are ruining the internet :'( 20100311 01:41:53< Aethaeryn> Yes, the internet would be much better without people 20100311 01:42:19< Gambit> :p 20100311 01:43:19< Aethaeryn> Don't blame me for that comment, blame my logic class :P 20100311 01:43:27< Aethaeryn> Wordplay is so much easier now :P 20100311 01:50:33< Gambit> It'd be funny if shikadibot reacted to the word "keen". 20100311 02:03:29-!- DDR [~chatzilla@66.183.125.196] has joined #wesnoth 20100311 02:06:19-!- Deformative [~joe@bursley-183118.reshall.umich.edu] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 20100311 02:18:09-!- noy [~Noy@wesnoth/developer/noy] has quit [Quit: noy] 20100311 02:22:19< Gambit> I wonder if enough of us spammed his inbox, Yahtzee would review Battle For Wesnoth. 20100311 02:28:12-!- shadowm_laptop [~ignacio@wesnoth/developer/shadowmaster] has joined #wesnoth 20100311 02:32:35< shadowmaster> Gambit: it'd be funny, but somehow I think you never even played those games 20100311 02:32:51< Gambit> I played the GBC one :$ 20100311 02:35:18< shadowmaster> you missed the real games then 20100311 02:35:40 * Gambit saw that coming 20100311 02:41:13-!- Gambit is now known as Gambit|sick 20100311 02:42:19< Mythological> what about Yahtzee? 20100311 02:43:03< Gambit|sick> Well it'd be cool to have a Zero Punctuation review of Wesnoth 20100311 02:43:28< Gambit|sick> He'd totally trash it because he hates strategy games, but it'd be out there. 20100311 02:44:54< Aethaeryn> ... 20100311 02:44:59< Aethaeryn> I pretty much only like strategy games. 20100311 02:45:11< Aethaeryn> The other games have way too short a life. 20100311 02:45:25< Aethaeryn> If you have a good strategy game, you could play it for years and years without too much repetition 20100311 02:48:55-!- noy [~Noy@wesnoth/developer/noy] has joined #wesnoth 20100311 03:04:07-!- shadowm_laptop is now known as SpinachMaster 20100311 03:07:54-!- noy [~Noy@wesnoth/developer/noy] has quit [Quit: noy] 20100311 03:20:55-!- John_R [~john@67-61-192-90.cpe.cableone.net] has joined #wesnoth 20100311 03:23:38< shadowmaster> Gambit|sick: increasing font size in middle of your posts won't prove a point 20100311 03:24:16< Gambit|sick> fixed 20100311 03:38:40< Aethaeryn> I agree but perhaps RANDOM CAPSLOCK INSTEAD will prove the point? ;) 20100311 03:39:00< shadowmaster> nah, bold works 20100311 03:39:15< shadowmaster> or plain faux-formatting *like* _this_ 20100311 03:39:22< Aethaeryn> Yeah, but bold is just emphasis. CAPSLOCK IS SHOUTING. ;) 20100311 03:40:40< Gambit|sick> caps lock is cruise control for cool people 20100311 03:42:17< Aethaeryn> Exactly. When people see capslock they think "WHO IS THAT COOL PERSON?" ...and they think that sentence in caps. 20100311 03:42:54< shadowmaster> for some definitions of "people" 20100311 03:44:08< Gambit|sick> Those who've memorized any portion of "The Rules of the Internet" 20100311 03:44:17-!- Nissarin [~nissarin@91.202.192.6] has quit [Quit: Leaving] 20100311 03:44:32< Gambit|sick> *and* consider that an accomplishment 20100311 03:44:34-!- SpinachMaster [~ignacio@wesnoth/developer/shadowmaster] has quit [Quit: good night] 20100311 03:45:01< Gambit|sick> Oh and 4chan members 20100311 03:45:22< Aethaeryn> There are written rules of the Internet? 20100311 03:45:30< Aethaeryn> I just pick things up from growing up on IRC. 20100311 03:45:49 * Gambit|sick honestly wanted to see 4chan vs wesnoth moderation team. But sadly it never panned out. 20100311 03:46:19< Gambit|sick> 47 of them 20100311 03:46:30< Gambit|sick> Written on this horrid horrid website 20100311 03:46:44< Gambit|sick> with pop ups, viruses, and a community just as bad a 4chan 20100311 03:46:58< Gambit|sick> I'll have to use a paste bin because I just don't feel okay sending the link out 20100311 03:47:47< shadowmaster> Gambit|sick: you want me to spend countless days and sleepless nights fighting Anonymous?! 20100311 03:47:59< shadowmaster> that'd be terrible. 20100311 03:48:39< shadowmaster> I'd have to name several "Shadowmaster Minions" with global moderator powers to help 20100311 03:49:08 * Gambit|sick raises hand hopefully 20100311 03:49:11< shadowmaster> and then it'd be me against my minions. Not nice. 20100311 03:50:06< Gambit|sick> Today's xkcd was awful. 20100311 03:50:18< Gambit|sick> They're getting worse as time goes on. 20100311 03:50:31< shadowmaster> I liked it actually 20100311 03:51:01< shadowmaster> and this one became my eternal favorite some weeks ago: http://xkcd.com/673/ 20100311 03:51:01-!- Blueblaze [~nick@adsl-99-158-46-203.dsl.hstntx.sbcglobal.net] has joined #wesnoth 20100311 03:51:13< shadowmaster> (for some values of "eternal") 20100311 03:51:18-!- bp0 [~opera@unaffiliated/bp0] has joined #wesnoth 20100311 03:52:56< Aethaeryn> shadowmaster: I'd be bored enough to temporarily volunteer mechanically help you stomp obvious bad guys with malicious intents... it's the subjective moderation I fail at. :P 20100311 03:53:14< Gambit|sick> The downward trend started around 680 imo 20100311 03:53:21< shadowmaster> I'd choose from my secret squad, don't worry 20100311 03:55:07< Gambit|sick> "A secret syndicate of the best Wesnoth players around, so secret, in fact, I won't tell you who they are" 20100311 03:56:52< Gambit|sick> Hey shadowmaster. How does the forums &hilit agument work? Do you split everything at a space and then check each and every word, or is there some sort of built in function in php to avoid that mountain of work? 20100311 03:57:37< shadowmaster> I'm not feeling like checking how phpBB uses that atm 20100311 04:00:25< Gambit|sick> Also did you notice SSSage's avatar? 20100311 04:00:40 * Gambit|sick nags shadowmaster 20100311 04:00:49< Aethaeryn> Do you like php? 20100311 04:01:02< Gambit|sick> Can't stand the language, but I'm trying to learn it. 20100311 04:01:25-!- bp0 [~opera@unaffiliated/bp0] has left #wesnoth [] 20100311 04:01:37< Gambit|sick> Since it's more the standard than the super awesomeness that is Coldfusion /product placement 20100311 04:02:14< shadowmaster> Gambit|sick: what avatar? 20100311 04:02:14< Aethaeryn> Well, php/Perl/Python appear to be the three Ps of web-based scripting languages :P 20100311 04:03:05< Aethaeryn> Gambit|sick: "License: Proprietary" according to Wikipedia. That might be why it has failed to gain popularity. 20100311 04:03:21< Gambit|sick> It has open source server software... 20100311 04:04:04< Aethaeryn> Adobe might also be a problem. 20100311 04:04:32< Aethaeryn> I, for one, associate Adobe with the CPU-heating, fan-intensive crapware that everyone uses. 20100311 04:04:35< Aethaeryn> You might have heard of it. 20100311 04:04:38< Aethaeryn> It's called "Flash" 20100311 04:05:00< Gambit|sick> Yeah that thing <_< 20100311 04:05:19< Aethaeryn> And I have flashblock installed for a reason. If I want YouTube, I'll gladly click on the video once to load it rather than have a random website function loaded in one of 20 background tabs suddenly get my CPU running and my fan buzzing from silent to overly loud 20100311 04:05:29< Aethaeryn> Only compiling and running Windows Vista can run my fan like Flash does. 20100311 04:05:43< Aethaeryn> If Adobe keeps it up, they'll have a name almost as tainted as Microsoft. 20100311 04:05:48< DDR> I was taught flash (last year) on a pentium 3 with 256k ram, win98. Guess what? You can't run flash on a pentium 3 with 256k ram, win98. 20100311 04:05:55< Aethaeryn> Though yes, Adobe seems to monopolize quality image editing. 20100311 04:06:00< Gambit|sick> HTML 5.0 will take care of it. Or if more people caught on to the power of AJAX push. 20100311 04:07:30< Aethaeryn> Once HTML 5 is very popular, I might have to install the expected Firefox add-on called "HTML 5 Block" 20100311 04:07:38< Aethaeryn> Since the