Friday with Means - March 20th, 2009

[Reids]

first!

[Praetos]

its firday!
more screenies, loads of screenies and more screenies.

Don't think it's gonna happen, pretty sure he said this weeks FWM is just a Q&A.

[vadagget]

Hunting for bread crumbs relating to the engine, found these recent tidbits on Enno's blog:

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TODO List

* Finally write that report for my last client.
* Set up CruiseControl.
* Systematically test all the Ogre samples on Intel GMA.
* Look for Lua SDL bindings.
* Read up on what happened at GDC.
* Try some tricks with metatables and automatic object synchronization.
* Play a lot of space games for research.
* Buy new glasses, because the tape around the old ones are uber-nerdy.
* Watch the Watchmen.
* Make the best gnocchi I can.
* Bake a cake.

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[harkness]

90% of the questions are pontification about very narrow, idiosyncratic concerns. Means would be far better off with "Big Picture" posting then delving into specifics to illustrate his points, than pander to these kinds of questions. Things like prof balance review, neutrals role/update/redefinition, new directions or such. Not "can we get this particular feature that i rly rly want added plz??"

I certainly like the big picture posts best, but it's also nice to have a place where we can ask questions and have them answered. I know I'm extremely frustrated by the forums because it seems like you never get the attention of the game director (whether Means or Sil) unless you resort to near insults. It seems that the more constructive the post, the less likely it is to be answered.

However, when Means is willing to devote 1 out of 4 or 5 FWM posts to answering specific questions, I love that. I also wanted to provide a place where people could post and vote on questions in a way that was a bit more flexible than forums flaming! =)

I do actually think that most of the questions which were asked and answered in the last two question days had at least a few questions that everyone in the game would be interested in.

btw, April's is up at http://moderator.appspot.com/#15/e=16202&t=34126

[Snoopdooog]

bamp

[quintinius]

are the combat mechanics from AoC gonna be used in the new AO?