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I don't suppose any of you have gotten a chance to try it with an Oculus Rift. I read a few short reports from people using it with mouse/kb setups, but I suspect a Rift with the flight stick, throttle, and pedals should be pretty damn amazing.

QUOTE (Stain_Rat @ Aug 12 2014, 07:38 AM) Why so many broken avatars and signatures? Have some pride in yourselves . Electronic Gaming Monthly could be covering us any day now and we need to be ready when the print issue hits the news stands! Seriously. Why even bother making a fun sig if you're ju...

Pfft, I already market Allegiance, and I hadn't even played in years. For example, I wrote this recently , which was actually one of the reasons I decided to come back and play again (along with having appropriate amounts of free time available to play). So what if it didn't get any votes and probab...

Hooray! I appear to be able to view posts again.

From a game design perspective, a bug which adds more than it detracts becomes a feature. For reference, see skiing from the original Tribes - a bug which vastly added to the enjoyment and tactical options for the game, and when they attempted to remove it, the patch was revoked within 24 hours from...

Whereas the initial idea -- making this only about Cadets -- may not be good, having a means of preventing command for an arbitrary reg-ex-capable list (or at least a name-match and tag-match) might be a neat alternative to the ban-hammer. Someone consistently causing problems when they get the comm...

QUOTE (blackrob @ Apr 26 2008, 06:04 PM) QUOTE (broodwitch)Is the Scan range calculated from the edge of the station or the center? If it's going to digress, I hope someone will answer that Q before it does.[/quote] Unless there was a code change regarding this, I recall it being "sta...

I remember the discussion that led to the comparison there. I think it was actually something like, "Being a comander is like playing StarCraft except the AI is idiotic and your units hate you." Because the Miners were even more stupid then than they are now. /tongue.gif" style="vertical-a...

The Escapist (which is a fantastic magazine about the game industry) is running an interesting post-mortem issue on games that died, some of them years ago, in various ways. One of the features is on Allegiance . BV and TE both apparently got interviewed and are too shy to let you know... they didn&...

QUOTE (MrChaos @ Mar 23 2008, 05:46 PM) Even if you were ten times more massive and going 300mps the con velocity change would be about 3. You'd be splattered across the face of it with all your stuff strewn across the sector wondering why it didnt move, and if there was just maybe a slive...