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seeing how the new breed of empire player has
progressed to and embraced windows, isn't it
ime for all you native unix/vax/linux/etc guys
to be able to compete with them with by having
the latest, modernest, and powerfulest tools
and clients available???
ie: where is the winace for linux port (so that you
all can stay competitive?)?

AO
 
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"AnonymousObservant" <NONE@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:KgmJc.6563$G9.2016@nwrddc02.gnilink.net...
> seeing how the new breed of empire player has
> progressed to and embraced windows, isn't it
> ime for all you native unix/vax/linux/etc guys
> to be able to compete with them with by having
> the latest, modernest, and powerfulest tools
> and clients available???
> ie: where is the winace for linux port (so that you
> all can stay competitive?)?
>
> AO
>
You can be competitive with the basic client, learning curve is a bit higher
though.
On the brighter side, there are no less than two Perl clients being
developed, at least one of which is a GUI. Also, the Python interface should
be, I believe, Unix compatible (Never used it myself though).

Hope that helps,
Mark
 
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Whatever happened to xemp?
That actually predates windows itself I think.
I don't remember who built it or where it is
right now, but if y'all don't know what I'm talking about,
I'll see if I can track it down. I think it was the berkely dudes.

Since I've gone over to the Dark side (ie, winblows),
I don't really care much anymore but am willing to help
out any and all players.

The new breed of empire player is a different subject.
I remember the good old days when we actually used to
fight each other. Nowadays it seems like cats just explore,
roll fodder and engage in "Mexican standoffs"

*sigh*

Half the world in sheepfarm has already conceded and we
haven't even reached jet tech yet.

When's the last time someone actually got nuked?

I'm going to resurrect Fodderland.

{GM}


On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 07:38:47 -0400, "Mark Stokje"
<mst_dont_spam_me@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>"AnonymousObservant" <NONE@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:KgmJc.6563$G9.2016@nwrddc02.gnilink.net...
>> seeing how the new breed of empire player has
>> progressed to and embraced windows, isn't it
>> ime for all you native unix/vax/linux/etc guys
>> to be able to compete with them with by having
>> the latest, modernest, and powerfulest tools
>> and clients available???
>> ie: where is the winace for linux port (so that you
>> all can stay competitive?)?
>>
>> AO
>>
>You can be competitive with the basic client, learning curve is a bit higher
>though.
>On the brighter side, there are no less than two Perl clients being
>developed, at least one of which is a GUI. Also, the Python interface should
>be, I believe, Unix compatible (Never used it myself though).
>
>Hope that helps,
>Mark
>
>
 
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In article <2gpdf0pqk7f75ssn5360bkji84ofulbdg1@4ax.com>,
gthreat <gthreat@optonline.net> wrote:
>
>When's the last time someone actually got nuked?
>

Retro Empire, which just recently finished.

-Geoff
aka Mithrilien
 
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"Geoff Cashman" <theobviousgcashman@theobviousindiana.edu> wrote in message
news:cd6qin$ari$1@hood.uits.indiana.edu...
> In article <2gpdf0pqk7f75ssn5360bkji84ofulbdg1@4ax.com>,
> gthreat <gthreat@optonline.net> wrote:
> >
> >When's the last time someone actually got nuked?
> >
>
> Retro Empire, which just recently finished.
>
> -Geoff
> aka Mithrilien

Here is the nuke summary for the last 14 days prior to the win declaration
(nukes started falling two weeks earlier):

Tue Jun 29 23:38 Uruk nuclear device devastates Uesugi sector three times
Tue Jun 29 23:37 seventy-one times Uruk nuclear device devastates Pern
sector
Tue Jun 29 16:05 Pern nuclear device devastates Uesugi sector seven times
Tue Jun 29 16:05 Pern explodes a nuclear device damaging Uruk territory
sixty-four times
Tue Jun 29 15:12 Kamoria nuclear device devastates Indeterminist sector
five
times
Tue Jun 29 15:12 Kamoria explodes a nuclear device damaging Uesugi
territory
two times
Tue Jun 29 15:12 Kamoria nuclear device devastates Indeterminist sector
seven
times
Tue Jun 29 15:12 Kamoria nuclear device devastates TZIA sector fifty-one
times
Tue Jun 29 15:12 Kamoria explodes a nuclear device damaging Kamoria
territory
Mon Jun 28 20:15 nineteen times Draenor explodes a nuclear device damaging
Pern territory
Fri Jun 25 14:14 Pern explodes a nuclear device damaging Uesugi territory
eight times
Fri Jun 25 14:14 Pern nuclear device devastates Uruk sector seventy-nine
times
Thu Jun 24 15:29 Draenor explodes a nuclear device damaging Pern territory
fifty-two times
Thu Jun 24 15:29 Draenor nuclear device devastates Kamoria sector nine
times
Thu Jun 24 14:41 Draenor nuclear device devastates BlackBox sector
Thu Jun 24 14:41 Draenor explodes a nuclear device damaging Uesugi
territory
two times
Thu Jun 24 14:41 fifty-four times Draenor nuclear device devastates Pern
sector
Thu Jun 24 14:32 Pern explodes a nuclear device damaging Uruk territory
four
times
Thu Jun 24 14:21 Pern explodes a nuclear device damaging Uruk territory
ninety-five times
Thu Jun 24 14:04 Uruk nuclear device devastates BlackBox sector two times
Thu Jun 24 14:01 Uruk nuclear device devastates Uesugi sector five times
Thu Jun 24 14:01 Uruk explodes a nuclear device damaging Pern territory
several times
Wed Jun 23 19:35 Draenor nuclear device devastates Pern sector thirty-three
times
Wed Jun 23 19:21 Draenor explodes a nuclear device damaging Pern territory
nineteen times
Wed Jun 23 15:54 two times Kamoria nuclear device devastates Uesugi sector
Wed Jun 23 15:54 Kamoria nuclear device devastates TZIA sector forty-nine
times
Wed Jun 23 14:32 BlackBox explodes a nuclear device damaging Draenor
territory
thirty-eight times
Thu Jun 17 19:44 Draenor nuclear device devastates DiudeLand sector
fifty-nine
times
Thu Jun 17 19:22 fifty-four times Draenor explodes a nuclear device
damaging
DiudeLand territory
Thu Jun 17 10:13 Draenor nuclear device devastates Manetherin sector
fifty-seven times
Thu Jun 17 10:06 Draenor nuclear device devastates Uesugi sector
Thu Jun 17 10:06 Draenor explodes a nuclear device damaging Draenor
territory
twenty-six times
Thu Jun 17 09:25 Manetherin explodes a nuclear device damaging Draenor
territory forty-nine times
Wed Jun 16 15:17 Savoia nuclear device devastates Uesugi sector two times
Wed Jun 16 15:17 fifty-two times Savoia nuclear device devastates TZIA
sector
Wed Jun 16 14:34 BlackBox explodes a nuclear device damaging Uesugi
territory
Wed Jun 16 14:33 BlackBox nuclear device devastates Draenor sector
eighty-six
times
Wed Jun 16 14:26 BlackBox nuclear device devastates Uesugi sector
Wed Jun 16 14:26 BlackBox nuclear device devastates TZIA sector fifty-six
times
Wed Jun 16 14:25 ninety-five times Draenor explodes a nuclear device
damaging
BlackBox territory
Wed Jun 16 14:09 seventy-nine times KingJohan explodes a nuclear device
damaging Draenor territory
Wed Jun 16 14:08 KingJohan nuclear device devastates Draenor sector several
times
Wed Jun 16 14:01 three times KingJohan explodes a nuclear device damaging
Azwhepay territory
Wed Jun 16 14:01 ninety times KingJohan nuclear device devastates Draenor
sector
Wed Jun 16 13:52 thirty-two times TZIA explodes a nuclear device damaging
Savoia territory
Tue Jun 15 15:27 thirty-seven times TZIA nuclear device devastates BlackBox
sector
Tue Jun 15 15:27 TZIA nuclear device devastates Pern sector thirty-one
times
Tue Jun 15 15:01 TZIA nuclear device devastates Savoia sector thirty-six
times
Mon Jun 14 16:45 Pern nuclear device devastates TZIA sector eleven times
Mon Jun 14 16:45 fifty-five times BlackBox explodes a nuclear device
damaging
TZIA territory
 
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Mark Stokje <mst_dont_spam_me@yahoo.com> wrote:
> "AnonymousObservant" <NONE@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:KgmJc.6563$G9.2016@nwrddc02.gnilink.net...
>> seeing how the new breed of empire player has
>> progressed to and embraced windows, isn't it
>> ime for all you native unix/vax/linux/etc guys
>> to be able to compete with them with by having
>> the latest, modernest, and powerfulest tools
>> and clients available???
> You can be competitive with the basic client, learning curve is a bit higher
> though.
> On the brighter side, there are no less than two Perl clients being
> developed, at least one of which is a GUI. Also, the Python interface should
> be, I believe, Unix compatible (Never used it myself though).

ptkei works as expected under any os i tried it on. right now
i share my EmpDB between ptkei running on windows, linux and
freebsd without any problems. too bad having such a fine client
doesn't make me a better player 🙂

have fun! Grobbeltje.
--
The Force. It surrounds us. It enfolds us. It gets us dates on
Saturday Nights. -- Obi Wan Kenobi, Famous Jedi Knight and Party Animal.
 
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grobbeltje <grobbel@hotmail.com> wrote:
> ptkei works as expected under any os i tried it on. right now

Hmmm, I read:
ptkei has thrown exceptions under any os I tried it on.

Yesterday it corrupted my database once again after a ship I was
firing on sunk.

--

Daniel Tryba
 
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Daniel Tryba <news_rec.games.empire@canopus.nl> wrote:
> grobbeltje <grobbel@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> ptkei works as expected under any os i tried it on. right now
> Hmmm, I read:
> ptkei has thrown exceptions under any os I tried it on.
is that due to ptkei or python?
apart from display related exceptions, i've not had problems yet.

> Yesterday it corrupted my database once again after a ship I was
> firing on sunk.
maybe it was suprised you only fired at one ship? ;-)

ps: congratulations with your new rl headquarters.

grobbeltje.
--
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
 
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> grobbeltje.
> --
> A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
> A: Top-posting.
> Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

I like the .sig

Mark
 
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Well I hate the .sig. Piss off :)

-Geoff
aka Mithrilien

In article <2lpsrjFfhuj6U1@uni-berlin.de>,
Mark Stokje <mst_dont_spam_me@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> grobbeltje.
>> --
>> A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
>> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>> A: Top-posting.
>> Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
>
>I like the .sig
>
>Mark
>
>


PS: Just kidding :)
 
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grobbeltje <grobbel@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> ptkei works as expected under any os i tried it on. right now
>> Hmmm, I read:
>> ptkei has thrown exceptions under any os I tried it on.
> is that due to ptkei or python?
> apart from display related exceptions, i've not had problems yet.

ptkei has the tendency to freeze on my Debian/unstable machines (worked
fine on Debian/stable). On the other machines I tried ptkei (FreeBSD
4.x and 5.2.1 (iow toad/turtle/snail)) has corrupted my db several
times.

> ps: congratulations with your new rl headquarters.

ASAP (when I get ADSL up and running and when there is any sign of
summer weather) there will be a BLEP (Bbq for Lame Empire Players). So
hereby any empire player in the neighbourhood of (or willing to travel
to) Eindhoven (NL) will be welcome.

--

Daniel Tryba
 
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On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 23:08:13 +0000 (UTC), Daniel Tryba
<news_rec.games.empire@canopus.nl> wrote:

>ASAP (when I get ADSL up and running and when there is any sign of
>summer weather) there will be a BLEP (Bbq for Lame Empire Players). So
>hereby any empire player in the neighbourhood of (or willing to travel
>to) Eindhoven (NL) will be welcome.

yea, say word. when was the last Summit?
I used to think ee had 2 heads until i actually met him.
and pp is such a nice quiet boy when he's not shelling
our enemies to pieces.
 
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> Tue Jun 29 16:05 Pern nuclear device devastates Uesugi sector seven times

Pern... same Pern of 13 years ago? Well well... Okay, to
answer the original question:

XEMP was written mainly by Henk-Jan Visscher, then studying
informatics at the Free University in Amsterdam. I watched
him try his first versions - just taking data from the server
and displaying the map and census info... It became a good
graphical interface and client (finding best paths to do
the transport stuff etc) around 1991. Later on the guy
stopped the development and others took over. I left the
university / Unix / X-Windows environment by then and never
saw it back...

Henk-Jan played the game too, can't remember his usual
country name. He was a kind of extremely helpful programmer
and hacker, usually smoking a sigarette while typing 10
characters a second (of which 3 backspaces 🙂. Don't know
what became of him.

Henk Poell (Vulgaria)
 
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