Xian's Poll

The only permanent connection here is between my cock and Jon Brower Minnoch's sweet, juicy ass!

!!!The Truth!!!

Distributed Persistant-World Online Doom with COOP/RPG elements.

Now for the reasons why:

1) Persistant online games are the future of popular (read big money) gaming. See examples such as Ultima Online and Everquest.

2) Carmack likes new better tech. With more and more net users using persistant online boardband connections to the net, the practicality of distributed networking for a consumer piece of software has increased drastically. What are the negatives of Everquest and Ultima Online? Monthly fees, too much control of the parent company (Sony is a good example), and the main servers going down means no gaming until they are up again. With distributed networking, Carmack and crew realize that there is no need for an expensive central server, so monthly service fees which are used to pay for the expensive central servers would not exist. If the gamers run the game, Id Software couldn't destroy someone's gaming character, so distributed networking (if done right), removes the possibility of power abuse. Distributed networks, if designed correctly, can be a far more reliable foundation for online games. With Everquest type of system, if the server goes down, EVERYONE is fucked! With a distributed network, if one computer goes down, the person playing on the computer that went down is fucked and maybe a few other people, but not the entire world of people.... the distributed network would compensate for the sudden loss of a node through the use of redundency of data and network connections.

Last, but not least, with a distributed network for a game, you could setup the persistant online game inside your own intranet (Everquest lan parties!!!), and if Id Software ever goes bankrupt or disappears from some reason, we can still play the game. In the case of Everquest, if the parent company goes under... Everyquest is dead.

In response to Xian and the rest of the fanboys misguided people here: http://www.shugashack.com/funk.y?person=anon@syr.edu

And thanks to the people who supported me (or those not necessarily supporting me, but against xian's abuse of powers).

Who am I more interested in seeing at the shack - anon@syr.edu boy or xian from id? Hmmm, now there's a tough one.... /sarcasm

CS is now accepted by Steve, and is more shack friendly now a days. Does this mean Gooseman could get nuke privileges too? Then he could take care of the fanboys when something bad is said about his mod. Seems fair...

I'm sure we would never see any nukes if the ad views also disappeared when a person got nuked.

MMOFPS w/ RPG components?

Those very top nukes are mine btw. Just letting you guys know it's not xian :-)

Love,
Jack

Boy, sure hope I didn't vote wrong on the poll ;)

I wonder if CliffyB has nuke privledges?

How many times do we have to say we wont pay monthly fees...

www.wearenotpayingforshit.com

Umm maybe Duke needs to read http://www.shugashack.com/msgboard/guidelines.x

Oh great! now id is stealing ideas from Verant!

Eh? 3% of shackers have a PERMANENT <= 56K connection? Why even bother.

Steve,

I noticed you said the shack messageboard will be migrated to the shack server. When? And if so, will you grace us with a post every now and then? You avoid it like the plague now; is that because it's off site or what?

d-mAn

this poll is not very clear. i think you would get much more accurate results if you gave us these options:

56k modem or less
Cable modem
128k DSL
384k DSL
Higher speed DSL
T1
T3

There is no way a majority of people have a >1 Mbit permanent connection.

duh, that's the most overcomplicated question I have ever seen.

Couldn't he just have asked:
"1. Do you have dialup or a permanent connection to the internet on your graming system?
2. What speed does it have?"

Look to your right!

now should read:

Look to your upper-right!

Xian is just USING the shack for his poll
he's like one of those friends that just comes over to play Nintendo

(oh wait, i did that)

;D

"Rent DOOM 3 Today"

Xian's Pole?

I agree with that editorial...

This can influence your connection?

*** Disclaimer: Opinions are my own and in no way reflect those of id Software

This disclaimer does not cover misuse, accident, lightning, flood, tornado,
tsunami, volcanic eruption, earthquake, hurricanes and other Acts of God,
neglect, incorrect line voltage, improper or unauthorized use, broken antenna
or marred cabinet, missing or altered serial numbers, removal of tag,
electromagnetic radiation from nuclear blasts, sonic boom vibrations, customer
adjustments that are not covered in this list, and incidents owing to an
airplane crash, ship sinking or taking on water, motorvehicle crashing,
dropping the item, falling rocks, thieving lawyers, crazy ex-girlfriends,
leaky roof, broken glass, Y2K bug, mud slides, forest fire, or projectile
(which can include, but not be limited to, arrows, bullets, shot, BB's,
paintball, shrapnel, lasers, napalm, torpedoes, or emissions of X-rays, Alpha,
Beta and Gamma rays, knives, stones, etc.).

hehe...

<Immature Mind>
"Look to the right and you will see Xian's poll"
</Immature Mind>

In theroy I have a permanent connection.

In reality I can't see be being connected more than 48 hours straight.

Xian: Are you doing this poll because of that broadband editorial at 3d Action Planet?

http://www.3dap.com/features/editorials/broadband/

I have to admit that I have already voted via Stomped (it linked to a Shugashack messageboard ore something). So, aren't they getting doubble votes?

"It'd DOOM news!"

It's what?

/awaits sacktag...

Wait, is that poll about download speeds or upload speeds? Because I download at about 1mbps, but only upload at about 100kbps.

I'm STILL FUCKING WAITING FOR EITHER DSL OR BROADBAND CABLE IN MY AREA!

Fuckers.

*sniff*

feel sorry for me...