Recent content by Phil

Regarding the mindless killing of NPCs - that one is tricky, but it can be handled: simply don't make your HP increase with every levelup. I cannot remember where I read it, (I think it was one of the papers from 'the order' - anyone can confirm ?) where they choose this approach, and it...

Rats have excellent smell, have very limited weight and are fairly trainable - they're being used as mine detectors. An old teacher of mine used to train them for exactly that purpose. So, for FMF, have a rat running in front of you and it'll *squeek* everytime there's a trap.

I did not mean to offend you - nor your team. And I really hope to be proven wrong in 3 or 4 years. But I've been working as a programmer for quite some time, I've had some experience with RPG's and multiplayer aspects, and I'm more than a bit afraid you are underestimating the whole thing. Even...

And another one. Sorry guys, but here's a quick calculation: pick any 'bigger than 3 levels featuring more than 3 stats'-game. Think 'real RPG' and add 50-100 extra stats and vars for your character. Think quests. Think level design, documents, bug hunting. There's a frickin' reason why a...

Just for clarification: I don't plan on building a mod, nor using advertising, or just doing anything even remotely commercial, but I do fear a C&D once (and if) projects become bigger (beyond the usual mod/fan-fic scope). And because the law is so f*cked up, Zenimax' lawyers are obliged to...

Define 'profit'. If I were to make a mod, and have 'banners' in the mod, would that be ok ? How about if I were to have banners on the page where you can download the mod ? Or what if I were to sell t-shirts featuring something related to the mod ? What if I were to use the money made from the...

Check. I hardly understand how this is possible - don't those guys use replication networks when they have an announcement like this ? Ugh.

This is by far the most promising post apocalyptic project around. Can't wait for the day I can play fallout1/2 in 1600*1200 resolution with alpha blending and dynamic lights ;) *respect*

*whistles* How about you apply at Bethesda - then there's at least ONE part of the game were we'll be sure about the required quality. Awesome job !

Ok, thanks a lot guys. I'll adapt the shares, and see how well the app scales. Would be great if I could truly make 20.000.000 rats, but that might just be a bit 'over the top'. About the MMORPG stuff: it's probably not what you expect: we're talking a Fallout pnp server here, asynchronously...

This isn't a direct question regarding the amount of npc's in the fallout games. I'm currently wondering what the amount of people would be in the fallout world, in realistic terms - 50's, existance of vaults, limited alarming systems, public awareness, .. - about 100 years after a war. I'm...

*turns up the brightness of his monitor* Hmm. Wake me up as soon as the headline reads 'done', 'finished', 'ready to download'. Too much vaporware ..

There will be. That's one thing I have learned from hanging around in their boards (I'm only doing the world map, so I have little to do with anything else for fmf), they *keep* going. They're already working on it for more than 3 years, and they'll probably keep doing that if that's what it...

Anyone care to put up a torrent or a mirror ? Stupid registration required .. :?

I agree - ever since dac moved over there, there were nothing but troubles & slowdowns. That and their 'unlimited bandwidth, but not too much or we'll lock ya down', makes me not consider their services when looking for reliable hosting. But I do am a bit curious about the amount of bandwidth...