Posts by Polaris

  • The Downfall of the Netherlands

    Quote from RD

    Its not western, its ancient african.

    You mean like ancient egyptians? They were fairly advanced back when your ancestors were probably still running half naked through the woods and sacrificing virgins (wich their descendents of course accused the jews of doing) :roll:

    But seriously your over reacting. I used to think along similar lines (my school has around a 70% muslim population) but I got over it. There is no real permanent threat from Islam. The west won't "surrender" to to it.

  • emp_mvalley

    Awesome stuff, I will definitely check out this map when I start playing Empires again.

    This map is much more fitting of Empires than the early stuff we saw in the initial release. Do you have any plans for more? It would be cool to see a snowy wasteland map.

  • The Downfall of the Netherlands

    Actually dhimmis would more acurately be described as second class citizens. In the early days of Islam dhimmis were the only ones who had to pay taxes. This I think is how Islam spread so fast in those days, they didn't have to resort to violent forced conversion or just convincing people how awesome Islam is (missionaries). They just had to wait for all the people who weren't very faithful to their own religions to convert in order to avoid taxes. A simple and practical approach really.

    Regardless, I think you are over reacting

  • FPS/RTS

    Dark: Oh wtf your right, I read your post wrong bwahaha

    KFS: Good point, another classic and its from 98, so it was before any of the afore mentioned games, including tribes and TF2!

  • FPS/RTS

    Quote from Dark

    Don't forget Savage and BF2, they used the same premise as NS yet they made money I hate hearing about games coping NS becuase NS gameplay is one of the best so the more games that do it, the better.

    The whole point of this thread has completely gone over your head.

    Thrik: I guess I agree with you now. I believe tribes was also the first FPS to feature vehicles? I remember seeing a two page ad of it in an old issue of PC Gamer from 99. It looked really impressive though unfortunality I didn't get to play it myself for several years.

  • FPS/RTS

    There is alot of critisicm aimed ND and other mods because people think they are ripping off the premise of NS.

    But I found something interesting on the TF2 wiki entry:

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    In addition to including and improving upon many of the classes present in Team Fortress Classic, TF2 promised to introduce several new classes. The most promising of these classes was the "Commander" class, which put the player in control of a team of players with the task of coordinating them to victory. This class would add strategic elements to the game, borrowing ideas from the genre of strategy games. In an interview, Robin Walker, the game's lead designer, said the game was more appropriately labelled a first-person strategy as opposed to a first-person shooter. Another feature was the much touted in-game voice communication that would allow players to talk to one another to coordinate strategies. Such a feature is no longer unique and is standard in most current multiplayer first-person shooters.Many of TF2's features and themes, including squad-based command structures, commander views, and the fusion of RTS and FPS itself, have since appeared in other games such as Natural Selection...

    Any thoughts on this?

  • Whats ur opinion about teh iran shit ?

    Quote from BUzer

    They interfere in other countries murdering peoples, establishes puppet governments, undermines an infrastructure, plunders natural resources, finances extremists, erases culture..

    Yeah, they did stop you russians from doing all those things.

    Iran claims it only wants nuclear tech for civilian energy, but though the Americans have offered this (through Russia) Iran has declined.