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Re: Recently Found
Posted by Orpheus on Wed Dec 19th at 11:00pm 2007
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Posted by Orpheus on Wed Dec 19th at 11:00pm 2007
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9 years in the making, for that pitiful trailer.
I did notice that he wants to take a crap again though. Some things never change. " SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by Yak_Fighter on Thu Dec 20th at 1:10am 2007
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Posted by Yak_Fighter on Thu Dec 20th at 1:10am 2007
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Civ II will be missed, but Civ 4 is good enough.. For now.
Civ 4 was very disappointing. It's better than Civ 3, but that's nothing to be proud of. It has fewer features than AC, the 'streamlining' removed important aspects of the game, combat is incredibly annoying and unfun, and it runs like a dog. All I want is a Civ game with the cool features of AC, and twice I've been denied :/
Orph if you want a longer game you should set it to marathon, as that adds something crazy like 8x as many turns to the game. It actually gives you time to build an army with current tech and use them before they are completely outdated. And if you like the barbarians you should set them to raging or whatever its called... they become a nightmare (a fun one!)
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by Orpheus on Thu Dec 20th at 1:29am 2007
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Posted by Orpheus on Thu Dec 20th at 1:29am 2007
Thanx Joe. I read someplace yesterday (for the first time too) about the marathon thing.
I may try it next time.
My son bought me the expansion, or more precisely, one of them and I plan on playing it some soon. Well, soon as in after Xmas.
I also slightly missed the options that came with the espionage portion that were missing. You couldn't do all that much with a spy anymore. " SRC="images/smiles/sad.gif">
IMO, they removed the tedium, and TBH, thats what made Civ II so grand. Now, if they would just spruce up Civ II to look like Civ 4, I'd play that again in a minute.
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by reaper47 on Thu Dec 20th at 2:15am 2007
Posted by reaper47 on Thu Dec 20th at 2:15am 2007
God, Alpha Centauri was good. Still my favorite Civ-style game. Even though it doesn't have the fun ties to real-world events.
Re: Recently Found
Posted by Orpheus on Thu Dec 20th at 2:18am 2007
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Posted by Orpheus on Thu Dec 20th at 2:18am 2007
I bought AC when it came out new for 50 bucks. I never opened the box. Its still packed away someplace, unopened as far as I know.
It was one of those "I must have" games. I simply had no time to play it.
My hope is that they will have some expansion that will put the tedious things back in, assuming enough people complained and they thought it prudent.
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by mazemaster on Sat Dec 22nd at 8:08am 2007
Posted by mazemaster on Sat Dec 22nd at 8:08am 2007
Don't really know where to post this, as it doesn't warrant a full topic, so im going to temporarily hijack this thread to pimp an animation I made demonstrating some things about mazes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIBwiGrUgzc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIBwiGrUgzc
Re: Recently Found
Posted by Orpheus on Sat Dec 22nd at 2:30pm 2007
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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Dec 22nd at 2:30pm 2007
Do you have any future plans you could share with us Nick? I mean, is this for a project or just passing time?
Perhaps an explanation of the process would suffice.
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by OtZman on Sat Dec 22nd at 9:55pm 2007
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Posted by OtZman on Sat Dec 22nd at 9:55pm 2007
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A maze transformed into a circle and then back again. Visually shows why the "follow the wall on your right" rule often works.
Good to know if you ever happen to get locked into one. " SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by mazemaster on Sun Dec 23rd at 5:38am 2007
No exact future plans, I kinda want to do a transformation for a maze where you can't solve it by following the right wall, and maybe a couple videos showing non-standard maze solving strategies working their magic.
Posted by mazemaster on Sun Dec 23rd at 5:38am 2007
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Do you have any future plans you could share with us Nick? I mean, is this for a project or just passing time?
Perhaps an explanation of the process would suffice.
Perhaps an explanation of the process would suffice.
No exact future plans, I kinda want to do a transformation for a maze where you can't solve it by following the right wall, and maybe a couple videos showing non-standard maze solving strategies working their magic.
Re: Recently Found
Posted by OtZman on Sun Dec 23rd at 12:37pm 2007
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Posted by OtZman on Sun Dec 23rd at 12:37pm 2007
Now that I think about it, are there any mazes that can't be solved by following the right wall? Wouldn't following the left wall work just as well?
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by Orpheus on Sun Dec 23rd at 2:52pm 2007
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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Dec 23rd at 2:52pm 2007
Mayhap its not so much the right wall but the right=correct wall. " SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">
A literal play on wording. Since following the correct wall, even though it may be on the left or center, would indeed be the path to the finish.
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by Cash Car Star on Sun Dec 23rd at 6:10pm 2007
Obviously a three-dimensional maze, but also some mazes where the start/end is in the interior that have a loop around the designated end point.
And isn't dead-end filling obvious to anyone with enough intelligence to find their way to the video?
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Posted by Cash Car Star on Sun Dec 23rd at 6:10pm 2007
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Now that I think about it, are there any mazes that can't be solved by following the right wall? Wouldn't following the left wall work just as well?
And isn't dead-end filling obvious to anyone with enough intelligence to find their way to the video?
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by mazemaster on Sun Dec 23rd at 6:25pm 2007
Perhaps, but it is important because it can find all solutions of a maze, it is provably as fast as possible (asymptotically), and it takes only one piece of memory (the location of the current dead end) beyond storying the maze itself, regardless of how big the maze is.
Some cs majors were lamenting over a graph theory problem that is exactly the same as solving a maze with these constraints. They couldn't find the solution after trying for hours when I talked to them, so I don't think it is obvious.
Posted by mazemaster on Sun Dec 23rd at 6:25pm 2007
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And isn't dead-end filling obvious to anyone with enough intelligence to find their way to the video?
Perhaps, but it is important because it can find all solutions of a maze, it is provably as fast as possible (asymptotically), and it takes only one piece of memory (the location of the current dead end) beyond storying the maze itself, regardless of how big the maze is.
Some cs majors were lamenting over a graph theory problem that is exactly the same as solving a maze with these constraints. They couldn't find the solution after trying for hours when I talked to them, so I don't think it is obvious.
Re: Recently Found
Posted by Orpheus on Sun Dec 23rd at 6:58pm 2007
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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Dec 23rd at 6:58pm 2007
Recently found (yesterday) 12 Shannara audio books by Terry Brooks AND 72 versions of my favorite Christmas carol "Carol of the Bells"
I am happy now.
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by reaper47 on Sun Dec 23rd at 8:55pm 2007
Posted by reaper47 on Sun Dec 23rd at 8:55pm 2007
Truly the Maze Master. It all makes sense now.
Re: Recently Found
Posted by Orpheus on Sun Dec 23rd at 9:00pm 2007
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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Dec 23rd at 9:00pm 2007
Kool avy there Reaper.. I'd have laughed twice as hard if it had been the big man Santa himself though. 
Seeing those little buggers eating that snowman had me in stitches.
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