Mysterious Stranger

Yea they could. The master server went down a couple of hours few days ago and then back up. Every so few times a year.

Its buggy, the in game overlay, ever since they updated it. I have issues gettinf it to show up or load properly in several games.

Nope. If you tried running an online game, ie Empire at War which has SP mode...it wont launch.

No way to do that now I'm afraid. I must have clicked on every possible button but there isn't such a thing. The only thing I found is limiting update/download schedule but that should be across all games, not disable-able altogether.

Well I feared as much. What's going to become of mods in future?

They could have just let us do what we want after it's proven paid for ...

Ever since the recent Steam update I notice that I can't stop updates for my games anymore.

The issue is that I was playing KOTOR 1 offline since my home net has been down, applied two old mods I'd downloaded from Filefront quite a while back. When I got a wireless hotspot set up, Steam decided to update itself and ever since then my game has been crashing.

I went into the game properties, under updates...there are only three choices! Auto update, keep this game up to date always, and top priority to update this game above other games.

ARGH. Is there a cure for this, which I think not? :<

Sci-fi with action. You won't believe how terribly boring Star Trek is. What a pure waste of technology and blasters that are appropriately used in Star Wars.

Not fond of novels, comics and TV series. Even some of the movies with certain characters suck ass.

Restart the server every day. If you're running a mod then less than that. I had this old mod that caused it right away after 4 hours of uptime.

I don't know but I like default Siege. Can't make any sense of MB2 and it's just too hard for my ancient brain to figure out how things work.

Lol, I had to check my makermod folder. I don't see the rules!

Only one option allowed in the poll? D:

CTF & Siege for me. But only when there's teamwork involved. I miss strafing...good old days.

See if changing the wifi channel might help. Like if it were on default set it to 9 etc.

Maybe either a outdoor graveyard part next to the buildings of the map or a forgotten tomb under the building or something like that?

Yikes, the neon Kyles. Completely forgot about that. I think I wanted to force everyone to use forcemodel. >.<

I'm very fond of detailed and beautiful maps. Not just scenery but how well colours, textures/theme blends and sometimes contrasts.

How about part of a Sith cemetery? That might make it more interesting. Maybe some booby traps, tread on a wrong sign or something and you get -50% health.

And I hope I'm not one of those you mention despite the love of neon bottles!

Can't do anything about it.

I vote for Porkins. That big fat orange model from MB2.

Triggered by stepping on an ent boon or ysalimari. Unfortunately that means it's map-specific.

Well. It is possible with scripts but I don't know how to get that to work. I've come across something before that sized you up when you interacted with it. Perhaps someone else with better scripting knowledge could help.

Golly

I love the first pic though...gonna see if I can replicate it someday >.<

Damn, if only the pics display in full size. It's all thumbnails even if I click on them.

It sounds alien, but it vanished after I ran L4D2 full screen. I'm hoping it won't happen again, cause that's definitely graphic card ...

I think there's a similar topic long long ago but anyway -

I've paid someone for a mod (won't tell you which game tho, but its legal stuff was the same) 5 years ago. He had been developing it for a while for his own fun but ran into severe financial issues. I didn't want the mod but since he was my friend, I ended up paying a tiny sum, which to him was a lot, for the source codes. We made an agreement to keep it (the sale) between ourselves and that it was mine. I didn't plan to release the mod. I did use the mod later for others, but didn't charge them.

As of present we've had more made (and $ exchanged) maybe more in the future. Money isn't always a pushing factor. Somedays I'm richer and I offer him $50 for a small job and he says no 'cause he's lazy or my request is for the moon. A month later he needs the money or has free time and we're good to go again. But of course I'm willing to wait.

I don't think paid mods should be released on JKH unless the guy who paid for it is willing to let it go free for others to enjoy. Save the site and let the guy deal with trouble elsewhere if it arises. If someone genuinely wants the mod but doesn't want to fork out $, he'll have to learn how to make a similar one himself. This applies in the real world.

The reducing quality of mods is debatable. Granted I may not have knowledge of what looks are the minimal standard out there, but I am very particular about how I want things to work in my mod. That's why all of these must be laid bare in the contract, that changes can be made (it'd probably cost more though) over time if needed. And there are a few people out there who have the passion to do it beautifully and want or can use extra $. Of course I wouldn't get any random Tom, Dick or Harry to make my stuff. I'd check up on interested people and see what their background is like.

Promotes laziness no doubt, but sometimes one single try is enough to fuel personal interest. I'm now messing with one of the mod's source codes because of a tiny bit of success at changing things. It's exciting! What better than to create more things from there and save money by learning how to do it yourself? Still there are people who like to throw money around. Good for them if they have that kind of money.

That being said, I've seen people who mod with extreme passion and give away their alpha releases. And when hard times fell, sell the final one for a bigass sum.

It's murkier than what goes inside a sewer pipe.

Got this nasty fine line on my screen yesterday.

It won't go away. Would it be my screen or graphics card? Screen is about 4 years old, graphics card about 3.5 years.

Perhaps you could look into what g_jedivmerc imposes on the weapons-only team and see what you could do from there.

Yes i can and have done it before. But id like you to learn how to do it yourself. Its quite fun.