Lord Sinister

The screams thing...highly unlikely. The high temperature thing...definitely possible.

It's not just the second time, it's the same person!

Razor235 your original topic is here: http://www.accursedfarms.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2284

I'll close this thread. If you have any questions feel free to PM me.

Date looks good to me, hopefully this will be fun.

There's not enough damn time. I've got a lot to do and not enough time to do it. I NEED MORE TIME.

RRRRRRRRRRUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

FUCKING POWER WENT OUT JUST BEFORE I SAVED MY 5 PAGE REPORT!!!!!!!!! NOW I HAVE NO INTERNETZ!!!!! GODDAMN YOU SNOWTOBER!!!

 

(Note: This happened last weekend. I never got that report done.

Save frequently!

576!

574.

I'm waiting for Oblivion GOTY to go on sale again. It's only been recently I've decided to give it a go, and looking back to the summer sales and earlier I've missed a LOT of opportunities

 

Is there a possibility that it might go on sale when Skyrim comes out? Does anyone remember if Fallout 3 went on sale when New Vegas came out, for instance?

If Oblivion doesn't go on sale near to/on Skyrim's release, it will almost certainly be on sale at some discounted price for the Christmas period, so I shouldn't worry.

I'll change the anti-spam questions. The bots are getting more intelligent, apparently. That or someone is entering the answers manually.

They're adapting to our technology.

Person A: Hey, I'm creating a program that will only let truly intelligent posts be made. To make Spam-Botting impossible, you see.

Person B: What if spam bots can have intelligent conversations?

Person A: Exactly.

 

(I heard this joke a while back, I don't remember what it was exactly so it may not be 100% correct)

I believe it is originally from XKCD: http://xkcd.com/810/

Hay who is spamming that's my job

Machines, programmed to destroy humanity, but first they're selling dubious products to the unwary.

That video has convinced me to get that game... After Skyrim...

From what I can tell, there is no 'after Skyrim'.

well, i rounded up. btw is this thing resolved or....

I think ProHypster was just pointing out that bots have been around of late. Talking about it, rather than drawing attention to unremoved bot posts.

Heh, I only counted eight posts. Still, I am thankful that there wasn't more.

No amount of disk space is EVER enough. I have in total around 1.5TB of disc storage, split across a few hard drives and some partitions, and I'm running out of space.

On a more-on-topic note, I'm currently trying to teach myself some more programming magic.

Well I got rid of two bots and their posts, if there was a third today I haven't been able to find it.

I think it was all the work of just two spam bots. I think I got all the spam posts.

With all due respect, I didn't update it with the new text because it's too cotton-pickin long: with all honesty, the Accepted Players post is mostly quick reference for myself when it comes to combat, and thus the Descriptions and so on are not detail I need.

Well you did use spoiler tags for it so I was under the impression that length was irrelevant. It implies that the extended information was not accepted.

Fair enough though if only for quick reference, however there are a few other things like statistics, cargo bays and so on that might be relevant later on. I could have added a lot more but didn't want to make it any longer. >

The past couple of nights there has been thunder and rain.

Thinking about so much.

It's working today! Thanks! Where is everybody?

 

Pro Hypster thanks for showing up on the IRC , but I'm doing something all the time so I don't really know when anyone talks to me there... especially that there is just no one there most of the time ;d

 

Unless I check in the right moment I may not respond on time

You're lucky, it's not working right now.

Blue, not knowing what could happen in the future (and what you'll allow us to elaborate on based on the scenarios we come across), I felt it best to be as thorough as possible as I thought of things.

Also, in your accepted character/vessels post the stuff for me is completely out-dated I'm afraid, this is the updated one from page 2, not sure how you got the old one :

Name: Jaan Tagon (Captain of the Shadow Spear)

Gender: Male
Species: Human
Age: 47
Height: 5 feet 9 inches
Physical Attributes: He has hazel eyes and neatly kept dark brown hair with streaks of grey. He has thin eyebrows and lips. He also has a neatly kept goatee beard. His thin and gaunt appearance serve to hide both his strength and experience through many years of military service to some empire somewhere that he has long since abandoned all ties to (after stealing their prototype stealth medium frigate, the Shadow Spear). He is open minded, and combined with his experience this enables him to react fast to new and unexpected situations. He is fairly agile but a previous war injury (I'm no experienced doctor so I'll keep this vague unless anyone has any good ideas for this or unless I have to specify something) prevents him from sustained physical effort such as long runs. As a consequence in close combat he will always be trying to end the fight as fast as possible by subduing his opponent through various forms of martial arts, although he could hardly called proficient at them, he can hold his own.
 
With combat he would prefer stealth over brute force, preferring ambushes, traps and general deception rather than open combat. Hit and run tactics would be amongst his most used strategy against opponents. He can use a multitude of weapons owing to his past military experience, bar perhaps bladed weapons such as swords and so on. He wouldn't be good with those (except for perhaps stabbing an opponent in the back whilst they are unsuspecting).
 
He generally always has a somewhat determined and wily expression on his face.
 
Personality: Despite his love of somewhat underhanded strategies to deploy on opponents, he is a man of principles and will honour agreements and so on (although despite his willingness to honour agreements honestly, he doesn't take betrayal well, and is generally unforgiving of those who break their deals with him (read will never deal with them again), or may well pretend to deal with them only to double cross them out of spite (although often planned at a point where it will provide some gain to him)). He has also always opposed the mass slaughter of innocents (one of his reasons for abandoning his service to the previously mentioned empire). After a tragedy best left vaguely described perpetrated by the Empire, he resolved to abandon them in favour of of exploring the richness of the Galaxy, with no real aim except perhaps slow and enjoyable personal gain.
 
Over a period of months he put together a plan with many men and women he'd come to know over his years of service who were loyal to him. The plan was to steal a prototype vessel that was to the citizens of the Empire who knew, a mere rumour. The Shadow Spear, the first vessel of its kind, a medium frigate with prototype cloaking technology capable of rendering a vessel undetectable to all their known methods of scientific detection.
 
The plan (which is only mentioned rather than explained to keep things short) went off without a hitch thanks to the captain's connections and the skills of his chosen loyal companions. It has been several years since then (and they since collected the families of those who wanted to bring them) and the crew are now well accustomed to their ship and fairly self-sufficient within it.
 

 

Ship Name: ISV Shadow Spear

Build: Medium Frigate
Draft Length: 202m
Speed: Medium (could be pushed up to high in a straight line at the cost of manoeuvrability, ie turning would be along very large arcs)
Agility: Average
Armor: High
Power Provision: Very High
Crew: 142+Captain+ship's NON-SENTIENT computer
Description: Built by a nameless Empire several years ago the Shadow Spear was a prototype in using stealth technology. Designed to carry scientists on test runs rather than for actual combat, it carries lightly-armed shuttles with sophisticated research and scanning equipment rather than proper strike-craft. The vessel is primarilly designed for hit-and-run strikes. It can push its engines to a speed greater than usual (at the expense of mobility) in order to improve the efficiency of its stealth strikes against other equivalently sized or larger vessels (it's not designed for extended combat against other vessels). Decloaking, firing its heavy cannon, and then hoping enough damage was caused to allow the ship to turn (or re-engage stealth mode) without significant damage. It's not designed to counter smaller vessels although it does have a point defense network that may allow it to hold its own, but due to the ship's limited mobility the effectiveness of this point defense network against serious numbers of opposing fighters is doubtful.
 
The Shadow Spear has a sizeable amount of cargo space. Four cargo sectors, A, B, C and D, each one with rooms and bays of various sizes, scaling up further down the alphabet. ie A has a lot more rooms and bays than B, C, or D, but they are smaller and more specialized, with rooms devoted to things such as shelving and small containers rather than the space for enormous cargo containers. D on the other hand has the fewest bays, but they're larger and quite capable of containing large industrial equipment if it needed to. D's main cargo bay has a direct line to the shuttle bay through some large service doors, and could be used as an auxiliary shuttle bay if the main one's outer door were damaged rendering it impossible to maintain a liveable atmosphere in there, but it would take time to set that up. In general the close proximity means that heavy equipment or large objects transported on to the ship via shuttle craft could be stored in Cargo sector D's main cargo bay.
 
The ship is also capable of entering the atmosphere of planets and of landing on the surface of planets. Usually this would be done to make repairs that cannot be made in space (as to visit the surface of a planet the ship's shuttles can usually be used).
 
Service: The Shadow Spear saw very little service under the empire beyond a few test runs. However following the captain's acquisition the Shadow Spear has spent the last four years roaming the Galaxy, contending with pirates, various authorities, and the natural hazards of space itself. Conflicts are generally few and far between, with the aim being to secure treasures without engaging any hostile forces. The Shadow Spear's first combat came when it engaged an imperial patrol ship (heavy corvette class) mere minutes after it was stolen. A lucky shot from the heavy cannon did a surprising amount of damage to the patrol ship's main reactor and following several chain-reaction explosions, the patrol ship exploded.
 
Initially the captain mainly focussed on assaulting and stealing from supply ships of the Empire, acquiring wealth, trinkets, various artifacts and so on. Depending on whether or not the stolen goods could be made use of by the Shadow Spear and her crew, they were sold on to the black market. Inevitably though, the Empire soon began to crack down on the Shadow Spear's games of cat and mouse with the authorities. Supply ships began travelling in convoys, with heavy escorts. The Shadow Spear eventually decided to branch out in to the rest of the Galaxy. The frequent stealing of supplies provided things such as food for the crew of the Shadow Spear, but in case their main source of food and supplies (stealing from imperial transports) eventually ran dry, the captain had the foresight to have the entireity of cargo sector B devoted to the purpose of providing and storing food for the crew of the Shadow Spear. Crops are both grown and farmed on board the ship and provided that food is rationed, the system works well. The importance of cargo sector B to the rest of the ship is invaluable.
 
Anyway, as the Shadow Spear moved out in to the rest of the Galaxy where other forces dwelt, they came in to contact with pirates. Most of the pirates encountered have attacked in rag-tag groups of fighters and bombers, mainly with the intent of ambushing individual ships and plundering them. The Shadow Spear's cloaking device and point defense network generally served to fend off attacks by these. However the Shadow Spear once encountered a very old light capital ship under pirate control (it carried various strike craft within). A tense battle on the outskirts of an asteroid field eventually resulted in victory for the Shadow Spear, thanks to its heavy cannon and the light capital ship's age and condition (it had evidently gone without proper maintenance for many years). It was able to effectively deal damage to the ship it was designed to destroy (although weakening it enough to raid it for supplies was the intention of the captain after the battle appeared to turn their way, however the condition of the enemy vessel meant that the strain of the battle and the attacks by the Shadow Spear eventually ruptured its main reactor and destroyed it), and the asteroids provided reasonably effective cover to re-cloak and prepare to attack from new angles. However despite emerging victorious having destroyed this pirate cruiser, the Shadow Spear did suffer some damage, not just from the strike craft, but also from the asteroid field. Repairs were thus made on a nearby fringe world that was only inhabited by some long-abandoned colonists. The crew of the Shadow Spear chose to make their repairs far from these settlements to avoid both attention and risk.
 
The final 'kill' that the Shadow Spear has gained so far was a light frigate of the Empire they had long since abandoned. It was discovered that the Empire had a way of tracking the Shadow Spear, including whilst it was cloaked (this was eventually discovered to be a very subtle tracking device that has since been disabled and removed, and the rest of the ship was scoured for any more of these hidden devices). Four years after the Shadow Spear had been stolen, the Empire had had a light frigate specially built with the sole intention of tracking down the Shadow Spear and either destroying it or disabling it. On discovering that their cloaking device was useless, and being out-gunned by the light frigate, the captain of the Shadow Spear ordered it in to a nearby hazardous nebula. The light frigate in pursuit of them followed. In the nebula both ships suffered damage, and their sensors and other systems were hindered a fair bit. Eventually an energy discharge from the nebula crippled the engines of the light frigate. The Shadow Spear came about and destroyed it with their heavy cannon. On leaving the nebula, the Shadow Spear was victorious, but not without cost. Seven crew members were killed and the hull was scarred from multiple energy discharges and venting atmosphere in more than a few places. The ship was forced to set down on a nearby planet and make repairs that lasted a month.
 
Since that experience, the Shadow Spear has moved back in to more colonised regions of space. The captain has been looking for work from others rather than simple raiding of cargo ships and the salvaging of various debris from long destroyed or abandoned vessels, and so on from space. This could possibly be in the form of bounty hunting or escort duty for privateers or minor corporations or organisations. In particular he and his crew are on the look out for what they term 'the big one', something that would set them all well off for the future, so they could abandon piracy and perhaps even colonise some small forgotten corner of the Galaxy for themselves and their families...
 
Vessel Records: 3 Confirmed Kills (not including fighters/bombers), 70+ victories (raids on cargo vessels that resulted in the salvaging of supplies, artifacts, monies, successful evasion of superior foes like masses of pirates, authorities, etc), 2 Damages, 0 Hull Rebuild.
 
Hardpoints:

W1. Heavy Cannon
U1. Docking bay (containing four 'shuttles')
U2. Stealth System Node


 

Non-Hardpoint Weapon(s): Point defense network

After hearing about how Origin spies on your system... I'm gonna go with MW3 since it doesn't actually go into my task manager.

It doesn't actually do that, it just scans for games like Steam does when you hit "Add Non-Steam Game". Origin just does it when you first start up the program. I'm not taking any side here because it's like comparing apples and oranges, I just want to get the facts straight

Alyxx is probably referring to some controversy over Origin's EULA, which EA subsequently updated: http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2011/11/02/ea-denies-origin-spies-on-battlefield-3-pc/1

Please stay on topic people! As he says in his post, he'll be starting work on Freeman's Mind again now his throat is better, and it's implied that he has lots of stuff in mind for the future (like possibly more Civil Protection for example), so worry not!

I'm getting it now as well. There's not a lot I can do about it until the IRC host fixes it. I'll leave it 24 hours, if it's not sorted by then I'll switch hosts again.

I take it that the IRC cannot be hosted here?

Blue, I have added a fair bit to the ship's service description and so on. Is what I have added acceptable (ie things on cargo bays, the ability to land, etc)? If what I have is acceptable, and you see no issues with it (including spelling/grammatical mistakes ), you can probably consider it final.

I also want to point out I added a few more to the crew numbers and added that most (if not all) brought their families with them to abandon the Empire, and it's pretty lonely out in space. Is this acceptable also or is it strictly no family and/or too many crew members aboard a medium frigate?