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Hobbit
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posted January 13, 2013 04:00 PM |
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Salamandre
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posted January 13, 2013 04:03 PM |
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There are a few towns already made, Grove, Axolotl (water?), Forge, Covenant. It is only a matter of coding once the graphics are there.
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Hobbit
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posted January 13, 2013 04:07 PM |
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Edited by Hobbit at 16:09, 13 Jan 2013.
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Quote: Axolotl (water?), Forge
I don't think these are ready yet. And Axolotl is the author, not a new town.
Also these towns need something more than graphics (even if they have very good graphics). It's about having original towns with new abilities, not the copies of existing ones (like it's in most parts with Grove, Modern Forge and Covenant, especially with the first one). That's the power of Cove and it probably won't change for a long time...
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Salamandre
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posted January 13, 2013 04:12 PM |
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I know Axolotl is the author, didn't recall town name. I have no idea how VCMI will implement new towns, but with source code it should not be very hard. If they can make new town, abilities will follow.
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Hobbit
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posted January 13, 2013 04:24 PM |
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If you didn't recall author's name, you should call it "Axolotl's town". Also - abilities aren't that easy to input since AFAIR it took almost two years between adding Cove into the game and giving it new abilities (which contained at first several bugs). Even for reverse engineering it's a very long period, and if VCMI wants to have multiple towns in game, it would take even longer to make it somehow playable.
And don't forget that VCMI isn't fully playable at the moment, and that's where HotA - even with its flaws - wins.
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Salamandre
Admirable
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posted January 13, 2013 04:28 PM |
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I don't like creating hypocrite competition between Era, VCMI and HoTA. Each of them has its strengths and flaws (probably the only flaw of VCMI will be new language to learn, but it depends on modders dedication and patience)
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Hobbit
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posted January 13, 2013 04:29 PM |
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Edited by Hobbit at 16:30, 13 Jan 2013.
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Well, you started it. And I only wanted to tell you that it isn't that easy as it looks. Optimism is good, but realism - even better.
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Salamandre
Admirable
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Wog refugee
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posted January 13, 2013 04:31 PM |
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Believe me, after 3 years in WoG I know how hard is coding, just trying to remain positive.
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Warmonger
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posted January 13, 2013 04:54 PM |
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Quote: I have no idea how VCMI will implement new towns
Then you're quite out of date. Standard features were made easily
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don_komandorr
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posted January 13, 2013 05:04 PM |
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Hota team requests to close this entire thread. There's no use in it but only usual "Q-When? A-Soon" and walltext trolling before the English version will be released.
So We're planning to open new topic specifically for english version as soon as it will be released. Until then there's no need in this.
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Salamandre
Admirable
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Wog refugee
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posted January 13, 2013 05:13 PM |
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Corribus
Hero of Order
The Abyss Staring Back at You
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posted January 14, 2013 05:40 AM |
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I will continue to delete off topic posts in this thread. Please stay on topic. Also, as I noted in the feedback thread, once the team opens a new thread on the English version, I will close this one.
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DarkElfAxis
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posted January 14, 2013 05:55 AM |
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Quote: DarkElfAxis, think you've read too much Ayn Rand.
I don't read books by non europeans. Same reason why I don't waste my time learning a foreign alphabet or a language spoken outside of europe just to play a game.
It's called intelligence
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Hobbit
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posted January 14, 2013 10:12 AM |
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Normally I would ignore your post, but since you're talking about intelligence, I couldn't resist.
For me it's definitely not intelligence, but the opposite. I can name lack of progress anything but intelligence. It's just sticking with things that are simple and explaining that everything else is worthless while the real reason is that you're just too lazy to learn something. And not learning is the thing that actually makes you more stupid, not more intelligent, while you have no clue what's going on.
You say that learning the whole language just to play one game is somehow stupid, but well - that's what I actually did. Polish and Russian aren't that similar to understand each other if you know only one of them. And so when I've learned at least a little of Russian, I wanted to make it somehow useful. And there are the effects. Stupid you say? Maybe. But at least I achieved something while you achieved nothing. Except annoying some.
Also learning a whole language for one game is what many people here do. That's because of e.g. ERM. The whole language of scripts made just for one game. And people still learn it! For one game! And that's not the only thing - there are many amateur artists, programmers and reverse engineers who wastes their time just to make some mods that not so many would play. Without them there would be no HotA, no ERA, no VCMI, no WoG, no hundreds of mods, no modding. Without learning your offer of making a new English add-on wouldn't be there.
If you still think that it's stupid - I don't think it's a community for you.
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SquigPie
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posted January 14, 2013 12:46 PM |
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Quote:
Quote: DarkElfAxis, think you've read too much Ayn Rand.
I don't read books by non europeans.
But Rand was Eastern European...
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don_komandorr
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posted January 14, 2013 02:10 PM |
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well said, Hobbit
At the same time writing manner of DarkElfAxis heavily resembles the writing style of former Hota team member Baklajan. He was accused (and I'm still accusing him) in leaking pre-alpha of Cove town on 2ch (or 4chan or whatever imageboard). I don't state that DEA is in fact Bak, but... The butler is a murderer!
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Corribus
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posted January 14, 2013 03:54 PM |
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@DarkElf
I make a post asking you to stay on topic, and 15 minutes later you make another garbage spam post. Can you not read? Do I have to be more direct? Ok, I will. One more off topic post and you get a small vacation from posting. Are we clear now?
I'm trying to avoid closing the thread but you people are making it mighty difficult. This thread is about a mod, not about the merits of learning a new language. There are plenty of active off-topic forums here at HC. If you aren't discussing specific questions and issues related to the Horn of they Abyss, then do not post here. Furthermore, the HotA team members have made it clear that no English translation is currently available and they don't want to speculate yet when it will become available, but I'm sure they will make a clear update about progress when they see fit to do so. Until that time comes, there's no point beating a dead horse.
This is the last warning.
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krs
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posted January 14, 2013 04:46 PM |
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Quote: @DarkElf
I make a post asking you to stay on topic, and 15 minutes later you make another garbage spam post. Can you not read? Do I have to be more direct? Ok, I will. One more off topic post and you get a small vacation from posting. Are we clear now?
I'm trying to avoid closing the thread but you people are making it mighty difficult. This thread is about a mod, not about the merits of learning a new language. There are plenty of active off-topic forums here at HC. If you aren't discussing specific questions and issues related to the Horn of they Abyss, then do not post here. Furthermore, the HotA team members have made it clear that no English translation is currently available and they don't want to speculate yet when it will become available, but I'm sure they will make a clear update about progress when they see fit to do so. Until that time comes, there's no point beating a dead horse.
This is the last warning.
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krs
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posted January 14, 2013 04:51 PM |
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Quote: I'm sure they will make a clear update about progress when they see fit to do so.
Do not be so sure about that .
Small suggestion: Add with red+bold font on front page that they just do not want to speculate, do not know when an English version will be released and that the progress is very very slow on that, or whatever.
Otherwise guys like me that do not know who is rightfully announcing a date and who is a cleverly disguised as a troll will keep taking them on those dates.
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Hobbit
Supreme Hero
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posted January 14, 2013 05:17 PM |
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Uhh... You can edit your posts, and even delete them, you know...
About English release - everything is stated clearly in the first post of this thread. Read it, please.
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