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Re: LGGWG: More theme ideas

alex.reut...@gmail.com (Alex's Yellow Bellies) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:43:23 UT

Agreed, but part of this is because the original units were tweaked
for years, and the new ones have only been around a few months (of
played game time). How many iterations did it take to decide on the
right range and damage for Snipeys? To decide on Puffer HP/damage/
movement? Whether Maxes did 1 or 1-2 damage? And so on. Any new

the meat grinder / scoring

alex.reut...@gmail.com (Alex's Yellow Bellies) — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:28:14 UT

I wonder if it would be sensible to implement handicapping? So when
someone goes against players of higher rank, they get more points to
place units with. Giving a noob 4 extra firebots against the meat
grinder evens things out a bit. You'd probably need to rework the
scoring, and it would take some playtesting to determine how many

Re: LGGWG: More theme ideas

merryl...@gmail.com (G Lu) — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:28:24 UT

Coop maps are a great idea! I certainly remember preferring to play
Warcraft 3 on the same team with friends rather than against! You could
also then introduce a lot of elements that wouldn't work for balance reasons
in a free-for-all. Things like units with overpowered attacks, multi-square
or multi-part bosses that require coordinated movement or simultaneous

Re: LGGWG: More theme ideas

wo...@zebra.net (Wolff Dobson) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:53:58 UT

Thanks for your discussion! I should have known asking a bunch of
veterans that they'd like the original art the best. :-)
The art really does need a facelift. The Guys themselves are OK, but
there are numerous opportunities for animation that would brighten the
whole thing up (like, say, blink cycles or proper explosions and

Re: LGGWG: More theme ideas

d...@snood.pair.com (David McCullough Dobson) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:06:46 UT

I'm with George - I really like the current theme, too, although I guess
some of it could use a face lift (the map elements more than the units).
I'd love it if you could specify more than one color for your team
uniforms - main and trim or something. I really don't need it to be 3D or
even fake isometric 3D.

Re: LGGWG: More theme ideas

alex.reut...@gmail.com (Alex's Yellow Bellies) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:05:45 UT

Mostly ditto. "Skinning" to me means user-contributed unit sets
(i.e., user-specified name, damage, armor, range, etc. for each unit)
with user-contributed art.

Alex

Re: LGGWG: More theme ideas

merryl...@gmail.com (G Lu) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:18:43 UT

Hey everyone!
I guess I'll throw my random opinion in on this topic... Perhaps I'm taking
a cue from what I've learned at EA, but I would say how you portray the
characters should really depend on who your target audience will be. For me
personally, I think the current characters and theme are fine. The sort of

LGGWG: More theme ideas

wo...@zebra.net (Wolff Dobson) — Fri, 30 May 2008 22:18:30 UT

* Fantasy
Execs are kings, firebots are dragons, maxes are wizards, puffers
are puffers, snipeys are archers, miners are dwarves
* "Away Team"
Execs are starship captains, everyone else is a redshirt of various
specialties (except puffers, who are just puffers): engineering, heavy
weapons, security, etc. Execs can be human, Gorn, Vulcan (not really

Reskinning the game

wo...@zebra.net (Wolff Dobson) — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:09:11 UT

Hi guys. Long time no chat.
I'm working on LGGWG now, and one of the projects is to get an artist
to redo the art. Don't get me wrong, I love each of those gifs like
they were my own children, but the 8-bit look is so yesterday. The
art is completely separable from the gameplay, so swapping it out is a

Re: Been away for a while

alex.reut...@gmail.com (Alex's Yellow Bellies) — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:51:58 UT

You have dogs with x-ray vision breaking the game balance and you're
worried about sounding flaky?

Garhgh! (as my Exec expires from sonic death rays, never having seen
his oppressor)

Re: Been away for a while

wo...@zebra.net (Wolff Dobson) — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:58:28 UT

There is a long and complicated answer to that question, but the shorter
version is:
* We tested some new units right before Christmas and they need work. The
dogs that see through walls ended up being pretty unbalanced.
* Games don't appear to be starting correctly, but I haven't had a moment to
look at it. That moment is likely to come soon.

Been away for a while

r...@hawkeye.karoo.co.uk (Chunkers) — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:37:34 UT

I've been away for a while and came back to see what has been
happening recently ?

Is anyone still playing ?

Running Sultan again

d...@snood.com (Dave D.) — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:14:33 UT

Hi, LGGWGers -
I'm running my play-by-web game, Sultan, again. It's here:
[link]
Sultan is a play-by-web game where you take the part of a moderately
corrupt courtier competing to succeed the nearly-deceased ruler of an
imaginary nation. Each day, you'll make decisions about how to manage

Re: Giant, hulking laptop advice

gouse...@gmail.com (Adam Gousetis) — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:09:16 UT

I second all of Dave's statements. pctorque is where I got my Sager as well.
The forums seemed to have the most intelligent posts in terms of technical
service, and I got updated roms in the mail when i asked for them. My
battery has also gone from 2 hours to about 15 minutes, but I have had my
laptop for about 3 years now.

Re: Giant, hulking laptop advice

d...@snood.pair.com (David McCullough Dobson) — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 15:47:26 UT

I got a ton of use out of both of my Sagers, and they performed quite
well.
On the minus side, both of them generated a ton of heat (I bear a scar
that, when fresh, was clearly an imprint of the PS2 port in the back of
one of them, after I fell asleep with the thing on and resting on my arm,
branding myself like cattle). With any of the desktop replacements, the