From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8508 invoked by alias); 3 Sep 2004 06:10:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 8460 invoked from network); 3 Sep 2004 06:10:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO web13121.mail.yahoo.com) (216.136.174.83) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 3 Sep 2004 06:10:33 -0000 Message-ID: <20040903061032.12825.qmail@web13121.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [68.164.245.93] by web13121.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 23:10:32 PDT Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 17:18:00 -0000 From: Elijah Meeks Subject: Changing the Standard Game To: Jim Kingdon Cc: mcdonald@phy.cmich.edu, xconq7@sources.redhat.com In-Reply-To: <200409030511.i835BJx28096@panix5.panix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg01096.txt.bz2 I think the 4 unit per hex limit is a major change, but I think it'd make for a better game. I believe, and maybe I'm in the minority here, in sort of a French Chef ideal of game design. That is, looking good is an important aspect of gameplay. I'm no FPS-junkie but I've never played the standard game because it looked like something I'd never have loaded on my Commodore 64. But (Shameless Plug Warning) after updating the graphics I found it was a fun little game. Much quicker than (Shameless Plug Warning) fine games like Bellum or AWLS. A four-unit per hex limit, while altering a major gameplay aspect from the old style, would improve the visual quality of the game immeasurably, regardless of whether we believe it would be a pure gameplay improvement. For most of the people who pop on here and post once or twice, this game IS XConq, and I think it would be a better first impression with Trident graphics and 4/hex limits. There's already one 'Classic' XConq, from ver. 5, so maybe the current Standard game could become 'Classic pre7.5' on the game list, and the Trident/4hex would be the new 'Standard Game'. After all, the players we can expect to look for such a 'Classic pre7.5' game on the games list are precisely the players who would want to play it, while the ones we'd expect to only try out the 'Standard' game are newbies, hence people less concerned about its resemblance to the old XConq Standard game and for whom it's more important that we show what XConq 7.5 can do. If they get into it, then they're welcome to start a retro movement and only play the pre7.5 or even ver5 or only in curses or on LED lights or punchcard or whatever. > Diffs to the website are welcome (you can get > everything from htdocs > in CVS). This is easier to fix than a forum, > because it doesn't > require installing any new software or anything. > If I changed the website (I reference my one site: castironlife.sf.net) it would be a sidegrade from Looks Old to Looks Crappy. I'm just hoping a friendly, brilliant, lurking web designer is reading this... _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now. http://promotions.yahoo.com/goldrush