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drxa...@iprolink.co.nz (Karl Leaning) wrote:

>In article <4bquqp$2...@trance.isys.net>, Rajan.H...@Hamburg.NetSurf.DE
>(Rajan Hollmann) wrote:

>> w (Bill) wrote:
>> 
>> Guys, keep in mind that games like C&C aren't pulled out of the head
>> overnight.
>> When C&C started, no one knew about Kali and SVGA wasn't a big deal
>> either and if you where to react to every new development while you
>> coded a game, you would never get done because it is an enormous work
>> to redo all the coding.
>>  

>Ahh, so they started coding C&C back in the 1400's then? Come on SVGA
>support has been a big thing for about a year now. From what I can see
>they spent more time creating "fill_up_a_CD" movies than actually coding
>the game. The AI sucks, the movement code requires major work, and if they
>had actually played the game they would have found problems such as two
>harvestors stalemated on a bridge with 4 billion units behind them waiting
>to cross the bridge (this causes the game to run in snail mode on a
>P5-100). I really wish that they had dropped the engine from DUNE2 and
>started again.

So why the heck did you bother to go out and buy it? 
And you have to keep in mind that SVGA would have slowed down the game
(not everyone is sitting on a P5-100 or higher).
The AI may suck, but as long as you can't come up with a better one,
you have no right bitching about it. Nobody put a gun to your head and
forced you to buy it.
I talked to the chief programmer, and he said they played the game for
half a year a couple of hours every day.
And if you can show me one perfect game without a single flaw, I will
be forever grateful.

You have the right to your own opinion, but as long as you can't do a
better job, don't sound as if you could.

Ciao,

Rajan (being in a bad mood today)

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Rajan Hollmann
rajan.h...@hamburg.netsurf.de
Quickborn, Germany
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