Messages posted by: emetakleze

A comment was made on the server the other night "this is going to get pretty boring after i have everything (all skills, etc..), i guess I'll start over again." This was made by a low level optimist, but it made me think. What more is there after you do "get" everything? (though i dispair that I'll ever even get loaded 2!!

)
Perhapse, at such a high level, a player could mold their char. into an elite pc.
Lets say, for example, I could start earning points to make my character into a medic. A medic could buy higher % chances to get healing weapons, or maybe lucky weapons that produce only health and armor? Perhaps special artifacts could come into play, which only that type of char. could use, similar to a magic maker but it would spawn health kegs or mega shield? A skill to buy might be "zone of health", similar to regen but other players in a certian area or zone around the medic would begin to regen, and when they leave the zone the regen stops.
There could be other pc types of coarse, some could include warrior, supplier, sniper (this one has quite evil possibilities

), leech (a rat like little fellow who steals your stuff maybe, but leaves other bonus' behide for you), etc... This may even produce a more "team" like effort for such large games as 2003 maps with 32 waves and the like.
Better minds then mine would have to figure out the actual characters, and how to implement new bonus', skills, and such, never mind how to make it all work in game.
T'was just a rambling thought that ended up on screen, but what do you think? Is it possable, and would it be worth it to you high level players that have it all and need something new to strive for?

hahahahahahaha

another nice free virus scan is here http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
all though the scan engine is not on your computer (it exists only in cyber-space) it picks up a lot of stuff norton doesn't (and vice versa, so use norton too, not all scanners pick up all virus' as far is i've found) it will ask you if you want to install such and such from trend micro... just say yes then do a full system scan. depending on your internet hookup, it may take sometime (i have cable and a 40 gig hd, it takes me about 30 mins to do a scan).

trueth to tell, i take a lot of screen shots of the backround views, a lot of them are quite pretty (there is one that is a mountain scenic view that i have as my desktop backround right now). it is a pretty cool idea to have a post for them, or even a contest. (i already posted one tonight in the dc forum with all those warlords on bridge of fate, take a look)

Screenshot of about 40 warlords on bridge of fate 2003 tonight:

http://home.nycap.rr.com/emetaklezeq3/DOWNLOADS/Shot00037.bmp

well, depending on what your money issue is, there are some great deals at tigerdirect.com and newegg.com. (Im a tiger fan my self) you can get a decent mobo/cpu combo for $150-$250, but you have to get ram, cards, etc... but you might be able to salvage stuff from your other machine to off set the cost. as to a video card, i have a geforce fx5700le 256mb mem, agp- cost is now about $120 or so and it runs all of my stuff fine, even d3 and hl2. (have soyo dragon p4x400dap mobo, 512 ram, 2.0 ghz p4, soundblaster 5.1 sound)
in any case, there are deals out there, and there are many things you could do to your current machine to up it alittle with very little duckage, i suggest finding a friend or relitive that knows a little about the box and get their opinion and advice. Also, google some tech forums, there are alot of good ones out there, and most are very tolerent of "newbi's" and will help you out a lot..

These are the skins i will be using (if not these then it will be ravage or brutalis anyway, oh and sometimes i use the panda, but i believe that is already posted for download somewhere and i didn't want to make a duplicate link)

Please see bottom post.

TheDruidXpawX wrote:

emetakleze wrote:

I have done some overclocking on my son's computer for him (1 ghz celeron, 768 pc 100 ram, fx 5200 nvidia, blah, blah) I upped the freq. on the host clock in increments like was stated earlier, managed to get it running at 1.8 ghz or there abouts. after that memory exceptions started to happen and random reboots, etc. Oh, and if you do overclock, make sure you have plenty of cooling ability!!! Both on your cpu and your ram, heat is your main killer. (I have a double sized copper heatsink on his cpu, and 4 extra fans in his case [2 in and 2 out] moving about 150 cfm over the ram slots and venting out the top) Have fun with it, but be carful and keep an eye on it, strange things might begin to happen, if they do turn it down a little before you fry your stuff!

Not to mention that his computer sounds like a jet airplane

I really sounds cool actually!!! it spools up like a dc-9

I swear, when he's really fraggin out, the thing hovers..!!

I have done some overclocking on my son's computer for him (1 ghz celeron, 768 pc 100 ram, fx 5200 nvidia, blah, blah) I upped the freq. on the host clock in increments like was stated earlier, managed to get it running at 1.8 ghz or there abouts. after that memory exceptions started to happen and random reboots, etc. Oh, and if you do overclock, make sure you have plenty of cooling ability!!! Both on your cpu and your ram, heat is your main killer. (I have a double sized copper heatsink on his cpu, and 4 extra fans in his case [2 in and 2 out] moving about 150 cfm over the ram slots and venting out the top) Have fun with it, but be carful and keep an eye on it, strange things might begin to happen, if they do turn it down a little before you fry your stuff!

if you sacked the shrubberies, make sure you keep the roots in water so they wont die.

hey spike, i remember that!! it had a lot to do with the hit box of the model though if i remember right, people were using the sarge model because he was the closest to the actual hitbox size. Isn't there a setting in one of the .ini's in the ut2004/system folder for that? I'll try to find it.

How about a haze around the pet, kinda like the fire around a player when they hit a level? Maybe not all the time either, just when u shoot it the fire ring springs up around it basically saying "i'm a good guy!!"?

sry cloud, i tried the url thing on top of the reply form a couple of different ways, but for some reason it wouldn't link. And yeh, there are a lot of skins now, i stopped downloading them for now untill it calms down a bit and the regulars keep their favs.

Change of skin. I actually messed around with this for about 2 hrs, and it turned out i liked it. this is the one i'll prob use from now on...

Go to http://home.nycap.rr.com/emetaklezeq3 (caution, my site is just a fooling around in progress, im not very good at that sort of thing, and i'm just figuering out frontpage...

ops: ) click on My Skins then downloads/emetaklezeskin.zip.

I had a similar problem when i first came on the server. Someone told me to make sure if i had a 3d sound card (i have audigy) to make sure AC-3 decode was off, i think it had to do with the 3d effects. but in any case, i turned that off, made sure 20+ db boost was on and its been working fine since. Hope that helps cpt!!