Re: Occupant Capture

Re: Occupant Capture

[Feneric Brown]

> I'd say start an esperanto-xconq mailing list if we thought the whole
> thing would be anything other than a passing fad...

I would agree that it wouldn't succeed right now.  Who knows though in 
the future if Xconq gets localized into Esperanto...

Re: Occupant Capture

[Jim Kingdon]

> Yeah, I was feeling left out of the esperanza.  It's a
> little French, a little Pin-Yin Mandarin, some then a
> hodge-podge of latinesque and cyrrilicish sounding
> words.  I have no idea what 'merci sven burro' means.

Well done.  You had me going until Eric actually took up the
challenge.

I'd say start an esperanto-xconq mailing list if we thought the whole
thing would be anything other than a passing fad...

Re: Occupant Capture

[Elijah Meeks]

> Sounds like it could be a bug. The transport isn't
> changing type when it 
> is captured, is it?
> 

No change-type.  You can test it on the new battles.g
by attempting an attack from starship to starship.  By
rule, it'll only work if a) the target starship is
smaller and b) it has ko'd or destroyed shields, and
then only 20% of the time.  But when it does work, you
end up with a totally system-less ship.

> Maybe I am not fully awake yet, but what is the
> above language? Or is it 
> a Frankenstein of more than one language? At first

Yeah, I was feeling left out of the esperanza.  It's a
little French, a little Pin-Yin Mandarin, some then a
hodge-podge of latinesque and cyrrilicish sounding
words.  I have no idea what 'merci sven burro' means.


		
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Re: Occupant Capture

[Eric McDonald]

Elijah Meeks wrote:
> Is there a particular setting necessary to allow
> occupant capture when the transport is captured?  I've
> set scuttle chance to 0% and the capture-chance for
> the occupants at 100%, but the only thing that happens
> is the transport is captured and its occupants all
> vanish.

Sounds like it could be a bug. The transport isn't changing type when it 
is captured, is it?

> Der settipakio alo necessitatio occupadio capturio gen
> transporto capturiado?  Wo inputio del scuttlema ager
> zed, del capturio possibilitadio total, keshi zhe solo
> d'eventio ka tranporto capturada, occupanta den kaput.

Maybe I am not fully awake yet, but what is the above language? Or is it 
a Frankenstein of more than one language? At first glance, one might 
think it is Italian, or possibly Portuguese, but it seems a bit off for 
either one of those. Also, I did some testing of text pieces using 
Altavista's babelfish (yes, I cheated) and they were confusing the heck 
out of the translator, and I tried several different languages to 
English, in each case. I even did a quick look at some Interlingua text, 
but it does not seem to be, prima facie, that either. Maybe it is from 
some other dead or dying contrived international language: Ido, Volpuk, 
etc....

Also, your valedictory remark "merci sven burro" was interesting. 
"burro"-> "donkey" -> "ass" (?)
"merci" is a French "thanks" (?)
What's the game; is this a big spoof, or am I overlooking something?

Eric

Occupant Capture

[Elijah Meeks]

Is there a particular setting necessary to allow
occupant capture when the transport is captured?  I've
set scuttle chance to 0% and the capture-chance for
the occupants at 100%, but the only thing that happens
is the transport is captured and its occupants all
vanish.

Thanks,

Elijah


Ahem,

Der settipakio alo necessitatio occupadio capturio gen
transporto capturiado?  Wo inputio del scuttlema ager
zed, del capturio possibilitadio total, keshi zhe solo
d'eventio ka tranporto capturada, occupanta den kaput.

Merci sven burro,

Elijadio


		
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