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Lisianthus wrote:Im gona report bugs that dont even exsists

That'll give me a hard time

@Sunny: Why only mentally? ^^

well, if you find a driver for my "nvidia riva 128zx" for win2k that supports Direct3D, i'd probably able to play wc3... but it more likely that hell freezes over - i haven't found one...

Uh, you really don't get shit for Riva 128 - There's no win2000, but you could try installing the NT driver. Some guy said that might maybe hopefully work ^^

If not...

Sunny_D wrote:
...And probably i will decide to spend some money on a newer computer this or the next week - but thats not valid yet...

May the luck be with you ^^

unfortunately, i have tried the nt-driver already... i even tried the TNT driver, but with no luck... i will end up again being only able to view 256 colors... lol

thanks anyway

s3rius wrote:Firefox's actually the best in my eyes - I only switch to IE6 if there's any site I can't access correctly with FF ^^

A little sit rep:
I am going to release a beta version of DotD this weekend.
I just want to finish the sniper and something about the difficulty system. (Medic and Operative are not re-made yet, they are almost the same as in the other versions. All other characters are upgraded now^^)

PS: at gamesite200.com we jumped from place 26 to place 6 in the category "warcraft sites" within the last month Let's do at least the 5th place!!

i do the same myself with Opera... some sites just refuse to work properly on anything else than IE....

I'm looking forward to this week-end then ^_^

I'll host it within the next hour.
I'm just doing some protection and will run a last few test to ensure that it works.

I could really need a few ideas for Operative and Medic skills ^^
If anyone can think of a few, I'd appreciate it

Medic:

Mass Heal
Heals everyone within range with hp + hp/level

Medical Nanobots
Small bots that either heal friends or attacks hostiles.

ah! ill come up with some more later on as well!!

btw, what kind of injuries can people suffer from?

btw2: s3rius, if you make a second beta version, well, would be nice if you would consider to put the forum url to your DotD5.3 forum section somewhere in a corner... for concentrated bug reporting and... some promotion for STARS! ^_^
+gg

Sunny_D wrote:
btw, what kind of injuries can people suffer from?

At the moment: only infection and death

Sunny_D wrote:
btw2: s3rius, if you make a second beta version, well, would be nice if you would consider to put the forum url to your DotD5.3 forum section somewhere in a corner... for concentrated bug reporting and... some promotion for STARS! ^_^
+gg

Yea, I'll do. Wanted to do that anyways, but I, as usual, forgot it ò.Ó

excellente! ^^

at the moment = there will be some more? that would increase the medics skill possibilities then...

Well, maybe I'll add more - now in the near future though -
btw, the new navbar looks nice^^

thx... ^^ one done, two to go!

and... i think you should at least add fracture... it requires much more teamplay to cover someone that i fractures. and thats what i really like in such maps!

True, we know it from NotD
Well, since DotD is much more camping a fracture won't be such a big deal, except for scout or if you go army (what most lazy bastards never do) ^^
Guess I gonna add it anyway, just for the fun of broken arms and legs :p

hah, true, true... haven't really considered that...

s3rius wrote:True, we know it from NotD
Well, since DotD is much more camping a fracture won't be such a big deal, except for scout or if you go army (what most lazy bastards never do) ^^
Guess I gonna add it anyway, just for the fun of broken arms and legs :p

We did some army yesterday. IMHO its more fun than camping.
Maybe you should add a small mode that disables engi but gives more xp or items.

Lisianthus wrote:
We did some army yesterday. IMHO its more fun than camping.
Maybe you should add a small mode that disables engi but gives more xp or items.

That's the reason I called the Survival mode "Old Style Survival" ^^. I was thinking about making a mode where engi (or at least it's cades) are disables and every marine gets some slight stats buff (+ms, +atk or something). Esclusive items would be a nice idea, too, though.

One little question - what would you prefer about the new save-code system:
1: The old save code will be completely disabled and only new codes will be accepted.
2: The old save code will work, but only give you a small percentage of the xp you had (like ~10%?).
3: The old save code will work, but instead of giving you xp, it will give you small bonuses (e.g. displays you as a dotd veteran if your code was lvl100+).
4: Something else?

A little curiosity: Even though the chance of getting a bone fracture is only 0.5% per hit you still get them quite often.. ^.^ Either bad luck or bad code o.0 xD

@parad0x: yea, once every 200 hits, that's what the simple math says, but in my last game we got like a frac every ~20 hits.

#2 I'd say. So there will be a new savesystem in which the old codes doesn't work?

And about the fractures, you should get one every 200 hits.

I vote for 1#

@parad0x: yea, once every 200 hits, that's what the simple math says, but in my last game we got like a frac every ~20 hits.

just to mention it, there will be no "new message" symbol in the forum and neither will appear edited post appear in the "recent messages list". Better to make an additional post - i dont consider that as spam at all.

btw, i'd vote for #1 as well. just for the reason that you would have to have two working codes...

for the Frac-issue: well, i dont know your entire code, but be sure that hits from dummies etc dont count as hits as well!

I vote for #1.
and those people that will kill you if you change it, and us will get a code generated by you.

it must be balanced for both sides, the real DotD veterans that will possibly be disappointed of loosing all their exp, and the exp-"cheaters" from the earlier version...

Sunny_D wrote: i dont consider that as spam at all.

yippey!^^

Sunny_D wrote:
btw, i'd vote for #1 as well. just for the reason that you would have to have two working codes...

No, what I mean was, that you can load your old code once and the information will be stored in the new save code (whether it's bonus xp or some other kind of info). So you'd still have only one code.

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for the Frac-issue: well, i dont know your entire code, but be sure that hits from dummies etc dont count as hits as well!

Aye, dummies do count as hits, but only in the very rare case that this dummy is owned by 1) a zombie player and 2) is not the dummy i use for inflicting injuries. I think I don't even have any other dummies working for the zombie players. I'll think about a way to exclude all dummies, just to make sure.

Sunny_D wrote:it must be balanced for both sides, the real DotD
veterans that will possibly be disappointed of loosing all their exp,
and the exp-"cheaters" from the earlier version...

Yea, the old balance issue...

No, what I mean was, that you can load your old
code once and the information will be stored in the new save code
(whether it's bonus xp or some other kind of info). So you'd still have
only one code.

you would need two JASS-systems (and thats actually what i meant with 'codes' in my previous post) - one that reads the old code from 5.2 that gives 10% of the exp and the new 5.3 code that gives normal exp, wont you? of course, just one visible code that you are given after saving, but thats not what i meant...

Aye, dummies do count as hits,
but only in the very rare case that this dummy is owned by 1) a zombie
player and 2) is not the dummy i use for inflicting injuries. I think I
don't even have any other dummies working for the zombie players. I'll
think about a way to exclude all dummies, just to make sure.

simplies IMO would be to add conditions that check "not equal to Unit-Type = Dummy"...