Not a very unique idea at that but one none the same, while is was walking home from work this evening.
It was for a game, a bit like BF2, and a lot not like it. yeah it would have tanks, apc's and other awesome toys, also have small infantry only maps up to massive planes, bombers and other cool stuff for massive raids on places, but it would be done right.
Maybe call it World War: North Vs South or something like that, where is was the Northern hemisphere vs the Southern hemisphere.
so north would be made up of.
North America
Canada
Russia
China
Japan
Europe ( all euro countries)
South east asia
and North Africa.
South would be
Southern Africa
Australia
New Zealand and south America.
Don't know all the countries in the SH, but they are the ones i do remember.
anyway, each main area would have 50-100 maps so North America would have 50 maps, and so would canada, Australia and New Zealand would probably have 25 each. and Southern Africa would have 50 and would Northern Africa. Europe would have around 5-10 per country as there are so many, russia would have 50, china 50ish you get the idea.
This would be a whole massive scale thing,. probably not achievable when you think about the big picture but that is fine, as they are only maps and can be added over a long time period.
What i was thinking was either make a new game engine or use an existing one. Existing is cheaper by far. then work on maybe 5 maps at first during the beta. once all the massive bugs are ironed out, and it is stable, release to public, beta stage or what ever.
so since its beta not everything has to be there. maybe get infantry working awesomely so 5 infantry maps from 5 different countries. once that is sorted, add some medium sized maps, with light amour, jeeps, and other cool toys, maybe small helicopters. vehicles would be beta 3ish, with another 5 maps for amour.
possibly adding for beta 4 or 5, heavy amour and planes, and possibly ships. could have released the game after beta 3. and added the awesome toys in patches.
Since to goal is large scale could have the community making maps so the devs dont have to.making them official and all. adding them to some sort of storyline.
Having different theaters of war would be cool. African Theater would include both north and south.
Although after reading all of that. bah North Vs South, nah just make it some random enemy, say genetically modified clones starwars style. saves on making too many individual characters. of course this would be online only, maybe have an advancement type thing like World war 2 online.
but World War 3 online, possibly. Persistent maps maybe, with a ticker at a spawn point which counts how many lives were lost in the current campaign, one on each side.
i do not have a clue how to do all this. but thats what i am, an idea's person,i come up with all these ideas that would be awesome to create but do not have to means to do so myself. and not just for computing either, real world stuff. like creating a paintball field in the likeness of your favourite game map, E.G. De_dust from Counter Strike. or something awesome from Desert Combat.
Would be awesome. but i dont have the time nor the money to be able to do anything like that. unless someone hires me as a random consultant guy, which will probably never happen. as my passion is fixing borked pc's
ah well another random post done with. more later.
Friday, September 28, 2007
Lazy Customers
Now i work in a Supermarket. and there is nothing more annoying than the customer, I know they are they life blood of any store. but they are just so bloody annoying. I have found that most of the old people, are as arrogant as ever, it is as if they expect instant respect from anyone younger than them. So i usually just ignore them and wait until they are gone and continue working.
But this is not about that this is about the lazy customer, Now I know that we all do it at some point or another, so here is the situation:
You are doing you weekly grocery shopping, and you grab something that you need, then further round the store there is a display with the same product but a different brand on special that week. so instead of returning the item to whence it came you just chuck it on the nearby shelf and grab the product that you do want, only because it is cheaper.
Now the only reason this annoys me so. is because then me being the employee of said store, have to return the item to where it lives so someone else can buy it. It gets worse though. Some people goto buy say some fresh item from the Deli, and later find that they don't want the item, so they just dump it anywhere. most of the time i find these fresh items in the freezer with the packets of veges. This is not cool as if it has frozen it then becomes a loss, because we then have to throw it away.
And the worst part is that a lot of people will do it in front of the employees, but what ever, its not their job to care about any losses the store has because of their lazy attitudes.
Then there are the people who are so lazy that they don't even try to locate the stock that they want to purchase, they instantly ask someone where it is located, which is fine most of the time, as that particular product might be out of stock at that point and this at least lets us put some more on the shelf for other customers, allowing more sales and more money to come flow.
Or customers that do not look for a price and then when they get to the checkout have to ask what something costs. although it is all part of the awesome customer service that we give, and another thing is tourists that don't check the bylaws before visiting somewhere, We are not allowed to sell booze of any kind at any supermarket, main reason is so that the booze stores keep the customers, and so on which is great. apart from having to give directions for the same store over and over again to people who are not in the know about these things.
bah rant over i think. next post is about something completely mental
But this is not about that this is about the lazy customer, Now I know that we all do it at some point or another, so here is the situation:
You are doing you weekly grocery shopping, and you grab something that you need, then further round the store there is a display with the same product but a different brand on special that week. so instead of returning the item to whence it came you just chuck it on the nearby shelf and grab the product that you do want, only because it is cheaper.
Now the only reason this annoys me so. is because then me being the employee of said store, have to return the item to where it lives so someone else can buy it. It gets worse though. Some people goto buy say some fresh item from the Deli, and later find that they don't want the item, so they just dump it anywhere. most of the time i find these fresh items in the freezer with the packets of veges. This is not cool as if it has frozen it then becomes a loss, because we then have to throw it away.
And the worst part is that a lot of people will do it in front of the employees, but what ever, its not their job to care about any losses the store has because of their lazy attitudes.
Then there are the people who are so lazy that they don't even try to locate the stock that they want to purchase, they instantly ask someone where it is located, which is fine most of the time, as that particular product might be out of stock at that point and this at least lets us put some more on the shelf for other customers, allowing more sales and more money to come flow.
Or customers that do not look for a price and then when they get to the checkout have to ask what something costs. although it is all part of the awesome customer service that we give, and another thing is tourists that don't check the bylaws before visiting somewhere, We are not allowed to sell booze of any kind at any supermarket, main reason is so that the booze stores keep the customers, and so on which is great. apart from having to give directions for the same store over and over again to people who are not in the know about these things.
bah rant over i think. next post is about something completely mental
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Installing Pidgin.im on Ubuntu
Installing Pidign.im was to say the least a pain in the ass. but here i am to tell you how to do it in 5 minuets or less. depending on you competency. which is obviously great as you are already using ubuntu :)
Well here we are goto here http://download.ubuntu.pl/_Feisty_Fawn/pidgin/ and browse to the latest version. which at the time of writing is 2.1.1, and download both files in there.
now im assuming you dont know what you are doing so this is very step by step.
1. remove Gaim and Gaim-data packages from you system by going to System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager, enter your password when prompted. after it has loaded its database. Click on the "Installed" packages to show only those installed. click on the list in the right pane. and type "gaim" this should seek to where gaim is listed in the list. right click gaim and select "Remove completely" this will come up and tell you that it also wants to remove "nautalis-sendto" and "Ubuntu-desktop", if you do not know what these are that is fine.
Now that you have told it to completely remove Gaim you will also want to right click "gaim-data" and completely remove this. as it does not require anything else it should not select anything else for removal.
Once these are selected click apply and it should bring up a summary. then click Accept or what ever it is. cant remember at this point. when thats done. you should have downloaded the 2 files from the above link by now.
double click on pidgin_2.1.1-1_1386.deb or which ever version you have. after its installed do the same to pidgin-plugin-pack_2.1.1-1_1386.deb and there ya have it. it will probably even show up in the Applications menu with out you having to do anything.
If not right click the menu and manually add it yourself.
May have more useless information like this added everytime i accomplish something that does'nt work the way that it should.
Well here we are goto here http://download.ubuntu.pl/_Feisty_Fawn/pidgin/ and browse to the latest version. which at the time of writing is 2.1.1, and download both files in there.
now im assuming you dont know what you are doing so this is very step by step.
1. remove Gaim and Gaim-data packages from you system by going to System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager, enter your password when prompted. after it has loaded its database. Click on the "Installed" packages to show only those installed. click on the list in the right pane. and type "gaim" this should seek to where gaim is listed in the list. right click gaim and select "Remove completely" this will come up and tell you that it also wants to remove "nautalis-sendto" and "Ubuntu-desktop", if you do not know what these are that is fine.
Now that you have told it to completely remove Gaim you will also want to right click "gaim-data" and completely remove this. as it does not require anything else it should not select anything else for removal.
Once these are selected click apply and it should bring up a summary. then click Accept or what ever it is. cant remember at this point. when thats done. you should have downloaded the 2 files from the above link by now.
double click on pidgin_2.1.1-1_1386.deb or which ever version you have. after its installed do the same to pidgin-plugin-pack_2.1.1-1_1386.deb and there ya have it. it will probably even show up in the Applications menu with out you having to do anything.
If not right click the menu and manually add it yourself.
May have more useless information like this added everytime i accomplish something that does'nt work the way that it should.
Monday, September 24, 2007
Another update. Hmm 3 in 1 day. i must be bored. which i am and that is fine.
Going to have a discussion about game types, and which you prefeer. I do not really have a preference. As to say it depends on the gameplay rather than the genre. I do like FPS game. they are sometimes fast and futile. like F.E.A.R, loved the multiplayer in that. but then i hated the multiplayer in Quake 3. which was similar. but had a rather different feel.
It is the same with some strategy games. I absolutely love Supreme Commander and its father so to speak. Total Ahnihilation. but gave up on the Command and Conquer series after renegade. Rise of nations was rather well done i thought.
RPG's the love em or hate em genre. Hated by purist FPS players and Loved by the old school table top D&D players. although some despuit the origins of some. like Never Winter Nights. Iove the 1st one. have not yet played the 2nd one, Mainly as i am poor and my PC wont be able to handle it anways. I did rather think the Microsofts Dungeon Seige was done quite well. although being able to do every skill with each toon was a tad on the overkill side. but worked. then there are those whom insist on using a perspective view. where you can only zoom but never rotate the camera. those games are completely useless and suck in my opinion.
then there is the extension of RPG to MMORPG or now commonly known as MMO for short. These are many varied and some are the same. but that is fine as It is the exploration and storyline that i am interested in. if i had the hardware and the money i would probably play Vanguard:SOH which i think is a very very well done game. yes maybe sigil tried to do to much in a time period that was not suited for them. but they still made a very very excelent game. WoW, well everyone has thier opinions about it. i rather enjoy it when there is a decent community there to talk to and have fun with. each to their own really.
Racing sims are awesome. no doubt about that. Online ones are even better. Race agaist other people. no harder challenge than that. Doing it at lans make everything fair. online makes lag an issue.
Flight sims are fun if you know how. really hard to learn. and i cant be arsed. as all the previous genres keep me busy anyway.
Decent 3D RPG's, im talking Just Cause. Oblivion, and Gothic III.
Awesome games if you can run them. not so great if you cant. but when i can i shall be trying out Oblivion and Gothic III. as i have already played Just Cause and completed it. Its great and all but not really a game you can replay.
If you want to play WoW for free, the head on over to http://craft.servegame.com for a awesome community. It is an NZ server. so we try to get as many locals on as possible. And more adverts like this make all the difference.
Ah well that is all at the moment. will add updates later
Going to have a discussion about game types, and which you prefeer. I do not really have a preference. As to say it depends on the gameplay rather than the genre. I do like FPS game. they are sometimes fast and futile. like F.E.A.R, loved the multiplayer in that. but then i hated the multiplayer in Quake 3. which was similar. but had a rather different feel.
It is the same with some strategy games. I absolutely love Supreme Commander and its father so to speak. Total Ahnihilation. but gave up on the Command and Conquer series after renegade. Rise of nations was rather well done i thought.
RPG's the love em or hate em genre. Hated by purist FPS players and Loved by the old school table top D&D players. although some despuit the origins of some. like Never Winter Nights. Iove the 1st one. have not yet played the 2nd one, Mainly as i am poor and my PC wont be able to handle it anways. I did rather think the Microsofts Dungeon Seige was done quite well. although being able to do every skill with each toon was a tad on the overkill side. but worked. then there are those whom insist on using a perspective view. where you can only zoom but never rotate the camera. those games are completely useless and suck in my opinion.
then there is the extension of RPG to MMORPG or now commonly known as MMO for short. These are many varied and some are the same. but that is fine as It is the exploration and storyline that i am interested in. if i had the hardware and the money i would probably play Vanguard:SOH which i think is a very very well done game. yes maybe sigil tried to do to much in a time period that was not suited for them. but they still made a very very excelent game. WoW, well everyone has thier opinions about it. i rather enjoy it when there is a decent community there to talk to and have fun with. each to their own really.
Racing sims are awesome. no doubt about that. Online ones are even better. Race agaist other people. no harder challenge than that. Doing it at lans make everything fair. online makes lag an issue.
Flight sims are fun if you know how. really hard to learn. and i cant be arsed. as all the previous genres keep me busy anyway.
Decent 3D RPG's, im talking Just Cause. Oblivion, and Gothic III.
Awesome games if you can run them. not so great if you cant. but when i can i shall be trying out Oblivion and Gothic III. as i have already played Just Cause and completed it. Its great and all but not really a game you can replay.
If you want to play WoW for free, the head on over to http://craft.servegame.com for a awesome community. It is an NZ server. so we try to get as many locals on as possible. And more adverts like this make all the difference.
Ah well that is all at the moment. will add updates later
Testing Blog Publishers
just testing BloGTK 1.1 previous post was made by Blog Entry Poster. another program that allows me to not bother going on the site to post. im sure a lot of you do the same.
anyway just a test,
well it works but so far neither of the programs are able to let me put in a title. have to do that on the website itself :( ah well.
anyway just a test,
well it works but so far neither of the programs are able to let me put in a title. have to do that on the website itself :( ah well.
My Long absence
Have been away for a long while, mainly because have been reinstalling Linux a lot, am now up and running, stable and everything is great. Am now using Ubuntu, Instead of Fedora. as it seems to suit my needs better. Although no closer to running a website with Apache, Mysql, php or any of the other things i probably need.
Anyway. updates will now happen once or twice a week. not that there is much to say. anyway here are some updates.
My younger brother has a baby boy, name Kaleb, hes about 4 months old or so now. which is cool. now Tara has a cousin to play with. Tara is the daughter of my older brother and she is about 8 months old and doing quite well. she has started climbing up on everything at the moment. which is annoying but all the same she is learning. and sometimes not as she keeps falling from the same places.
Anyhow. I'm working finally. it is only 25 hours a week at the moment but I'm hoping that it will become 40 hours. As i really need the money to pay for things. like my own bike and the debts that i currently have.
That is all for now. maybe ill have some pics as well for the next update.
and search www.youtube.com for beryl. awesome looking desktop. is what i am using on ubuntu.
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