From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9148 invoked by alias); 3 Sep 2004 23:52:22 -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 9139 invoked from network); 3 Sep 2004 23:52:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ob2.cmich.edu) (141.209.20.21) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 3 Sep 2004 23:52:22 -0000 Received: from egate1.central.cmich.local ([141.209.15.85]) by ob2.cmich.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i83Nkegg028717; Fri, 3 Sep 2004 19:46:40 -0400 Received: from leon.phy.cmich.edu ([141.209.165.20]) by egate1.central.cmich.local with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Fri, 3 Sep 2004 19:49:14 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by leon.phy.cmich.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1126970015; Fri, 3 Sep 2004 19:52:16 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 02:06:00 -0000 From: Eric McDonald To: Elijah Meeks Cc: Jim Kingdon , Subject: Re: Changing the Standard Game In-Reply-To: <20040903061032.12825.qmail@web13121.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Sep 2004 23:49:14.0433 (UTC) FILETIME=[9E308B10:01C49210] X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-Spam-Score: -0.9 () X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg01099.txt.bz2 On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Elijah Meeks wrote: > and maybe I'm in the minority here, in sort of a > French Chef ideal of game design. As long as I don't have to pay $15 for a two-bite-and-its-gone appetizer. > little game. Much quicker than (Shameless Plug > Warning) fine games like Bellum or AWLS. I'm not sure that Bellum belongs in the "fine games" category. More like "unfinished development" / "early experiment".... I should probably get around to actually giving it official "unfinished" status one of these days. > improvement. For most of the people who pop on here > and post once or twice, this game IS XConq, I agree. > 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'. This sounds like it could be a reasonable solution. > 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. Moving right along on the PDP-11 port for Xconq.... > Looks Old to Looks Crappy. I'm just hoping a > friendly, brilliant, lurking web designer is reading > this... Build a better Standard game and they will come? Eric