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Oct 15, 2016 12:03 am
Oct 15, 2016 12:03 am
Subject: Re: from max to maxr, an emotional monologue
Congratulations, and Welcome.
Interplay MAX crashed because the AI is stupid and creates far too many units that slowly start to overlap (seriously, engineer on top of scout, I've seen it. And constructor building factory inside mountain or alien base somehow) and none of the pieces can move. I've spent days analyzing some games. It requires you to cheat, and [MAXSUPER] a scout and assault gun or something to clean them out, then go back to playing as if nothing happened
MAXR-0.2.9 is a godsend, seriously, I agree. I like it because there's no rush to do anything. Make tea, have dinner, whatever. It just waits patiently. I can't do shooters anymore, I'm too slow and my ticker can't take it. And MAXR is doubly awesome because I can hack about in the code and try out mods and tweaks. I love to program C in my spare time, and my C++ is pretty weak, so MAXR is excellent practice. I'd say it's 50/50 - half of my fun is hacking the source. It's a big enough project, I should get years of fun out of it.
Congratulations, and Welcome.
Interplay MAX crashed because the AI is stupid and creates far too many units that slowly start to overlap (seriously, engineer on top of scout, I've seen it. And constructor building factory inside mountain or alien base somehow) and none of the pieces can move. I've spent days analyzing some games. It requires you to cheat, and [MAXSUPER] a scout and assault gun or something to clean them out, then go back to playing as if nothing happened
MAXR-0.2.9 is a godsend, seriously, I agree. I like it because there's no rush to do anything. Make tea, have dinner, whatever. It just waits patiently. I can't do shooters anymore, I'm too slow and my ticker can't take it. And MAXR is doubly awesome because I can hack about in the code and try out mods and tweaks. I love to program C in my spare time, and my C++ is pretty weak, so MAXR is excellent practice. I'd say it's 50/50 - half of my fun is hacking the source. It's a big enough project, I should get years of fun out of it.
Miven Dooligan
Peace and cheer