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Just as I expected, Philippe BRUNO <philipp...@skynet.be> came up
with this:

>WHY is there so many people in a project ?

You know, Chris Sawyer did programmg (all of it AFAICaR) and Simon
Foster did the graphics, all of it. Most of the "production-team" for
these games are QA people and such.

>> multiplayer over a network
>
>
>A  "Network"...???
>
>Two computers tied together with a lousy rs-232 or // connection is
>a.... "network"...????

AFAIK, a "network" is two or more things tied together ion some
fashion. In computer-terminology it happens to be two or more
computers connected to each other so they can intercommunicate.

>> was a very rare feature and that in TT it's just put in as a nice
>> addon, but wasn't given much thought.
>
>Better would have been not to do it , then...!!!
>
>Instead of doing things wrong, it's better not to do it, and wait for
>them to be 100 % perfect before launching them...
>
>
>BY THE WAY, it's so long time from TTo realease that it left enough
>time-room for improvement(s)...!!!

Have you tried TTO and then TTD just after? Do you know how much
better the game got? You know how many bugs were fixed? You know how
many cheat-exploits were stopped?
And do you know that Chris Sawyer is working on "a ne game"? (No-one
know much about it!)

>> Also, they're your kids, I assume you could get them to play fair if
>> you ask them (but not by shouting like in your post ;-)
>
>Yes, of course.
>
>But pls read my post from start till the end.
>
>Problem is NOT to ask them to "play fairly". Problem is that I HAVE TO
>ask them.
>
>THE GAME, by itself , is totally badly done. Period.

You know, I just read a "Rants'n'raves" on PlanetQuake.com about some
drivers from ASUS which makes you able too see through walls in games
like Quake 3. Go read that. See whose side you're on. And then think
about your arguments on this topic again.
It's not the game that's badly dony it's (sorry for my choice of
words) you and/or you children who are bad done. You ab-use the game,
it's your fault it's bad! And if you play TT againts the AI, do you
"cheat" then? Usually I play without the AI because it's so poor. But
that's (mostly) a limitation of computer-power, not programmer-power!
(You can read Chris Sawyers explanation for the bad AI on
<http://i-want-a-website.com/>, don't remember exact URL.)

>> By the way, I'm missing constructive criticism in your post.
>
>You haven't read it, then...

I'm missing that too. And I *did* read it all through!

>> How would it be better ?
>> I mean, how would you implement such a cheating block ?
>
>I gave the idea in the post.
>
>There are at least 7 to 10 people that are making patches for TTo or
>TTd.

Name just three. I only know of one (TTDPatch), and it's got nothing
of what you want!.

>They take my idea(s) and make the patch.

Sure? If you want to know how hard it is to modify someone else's
sofyware, just ask Josef Drexler!

>Still need some more "constructive criticism"...???

Remove the words "some more".

>> Very nice, everybody can go around shouting "that game sucks",
>
>I think there are not too many that complaint about that...
>
>Satisifed with mediocre software... : ????

Satisfied with one of the best games ever! You keep repeating
yourself! I think I'll start doing the same. If you think it's a bad
game, don't play it! Go play with your teddy!

>> "what a waste of money", but if you don't even have an idea how you
>> could change that, shut up.
>
>Shut uip yourself : the idea (one of them at least) was in the post.
>
>Lear to read before you answer...
>
>(Timestamps between my post and yours just prove you don't even took
>time to read ALL my post...)

15 minutes to read and answer? Do you think we're *that* slow? I'm not
the fastest reader in the world, many can do much better than me! And,
you can of course also press "Reply" as soon as you see a post, and
then read it as you write your reply!

>It is NEVER too late to say "hey, something goes wrong".

True, but sometimes it's just so late nobody listens.

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