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FORTRAN in General
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 written Wednesday, March 14 2007 13:36 Profile #5
Memory leakage, it depends on the OS as far as I can tell. On Win XP, I had a program that took 90% of the available memory. I accidentally fed it some totally invalid input and it crashed. I had to restart to make things normal again.

I've never had analogous problems in my LINUX box regarding this, leading me to believe the problem is handled a bit better in this OS. I haven't tried a lot with OS X, but I'd guess it would be similar.

Basically, memory gets set aside for some purpose and if some other process does not tell it to put it back for general use, it is effectively "lost".

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FORTRAN in General
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 written Wednesday, March 14 2007 08:53 Profile #3
Although it really doesn't matter much, you could replace GOTO 10 with RETURN. They will do the same thing in this case and you avoid the use of gotos. Also, you can place the format specifiers in the WRITE statements themselves too.

Minor style with Fortran (yes, it is lowercase for versions f90 and higher), is to have commands as UPPERCASE and variables and user defined functions as lowercase.

WHERE is also an intrinsic in f90, so you should probably use a different variable. Also, you may want to have dynamic array bounds using the ALLOCATE statement. Just don't forget to DEALLOCATE or you will incur memory leakage.

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About Ed... in General
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Member # 6
 written Friday, March 2 2007 17:32 Profile #44
Ed is gone. I feel this topic has served its purpose.

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Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00
Quessa-Uss in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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 written Sunday, February 25 2007 17:14 Profile #1
No.

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Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00
February Blades of Avernum Chat in Blades of Avernum
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Member # 6
 written Thursday, February 22 2007 14:35 Profile #24
*bump*

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Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00
Oldbiehood -- Analysis in General
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Member # 6
 written Friday, February 16 2007 11:28 Profile #9
I guess I'm one of those that are so old, I'm in a class by myself. :P

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Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00
February Blades of Avernum Chat in Blades of Avernum
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 written Tuesday, February 13 2007 14:41 Profile #0
Saturday, February 24, 2007
3 pm EST

AIM Chatroom: blades

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Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00
Sandros Mine Golem in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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 written Saturday, February 10 2007 22:40 Profile #1
What level are you at? These fights are very difficult and not really doable until very late in the game.

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A perfect forest: technical problem in Blades of Avernum
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 written Friday, February 9 2007 12:16 Profile #2
Yeah, those are pretty annoying and I haven't been able, to this day, track down why it occurs other than to say it's an instability in the BoA engine itself. Either way, charge up the teleporter in the mine to get back.

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Dead end at Quessa-Uss in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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 written Friday, February 9 2007 12:14 Profile #1
If you go close to the northeast door, you should get a message that allows you to proceed.

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Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00
Did you guess the plot at the beginning? (Spoilers) in Avernum 4
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Member # 6
 written Sunday, February 4 2007 17:42 Profile #2
By the time you finish Motrax's Lair, you should have a pretty good idea.

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Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00
Avernum 5 Early, Early Notes in Avernum 4
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 written Thursday, February 1 2007 12:08 Profile #120
Again, we have a case of realism versus gameplay. Permanent death is generally avoided to favor the latter.

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Physics Solution in General
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 written Sunday, January 28 2007 19:13 Profile #18
You need to learn the fundamentals with all the oversimplifications before you can tackle real world problems. Making problems more complicated, is generally not useful as there is really no new basic concepts to teach in doing so.

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Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00
Early 2007 is when exactly? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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 written Sunday, January 28 2007 07:14 Profile #10
Then the percentage has increased. My 50% statistic was over five years old, so I'm hardly surprised to see a greater percentage toward PCs these days looking at the greater market share it has.

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Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00
Early 2007 is when exactly? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Member # 6
 written Saturday, January 27 2007 22:01 Profile #8
Jeff himself says that about 50% of his sales are for PC gamers. As more and more users switch to Vista (which is a topic for another thread...) it would be very disadvantageous to not make the games runnable on that OS.

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Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00
Early 2007 is when exactly? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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 written Saturday, January 27 2007 17:25 Profile #4
There is no specific release date because no release date is known. It pretty much comes down to whenever the Windows version is ready. Because Jeff has a bit of experience, he knows how long (on average) a Windows port will take. However, he cannot tell an exact time because he cannot anticipate all issues that will need to be resolved during the port.

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Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00
Custom titles in General
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Member # 6
 written Thursday, January 25 2007 13:35 Profile #3
The admins give custom titles to those they feel deserve it. Generally, the admin picks it as well.

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Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00
I'm feeling sadistic in Blades of Avernum
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 written Thursday, January 25 2007 13:34 Profile #1
I think it is horribly unnecessary and unworkable. Seriously, if saving and reloading improves a player's enjoyment, why not. It's their benefit/loss.

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Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00
A New Series in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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 written Wednesday, January 24 2007 13:57 Profile #22
mars -- Please make your posts comprehensible. Also, please stop spamming. Thanks.

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Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00
A New Series in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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 written Tuesday, January 23 2007 19:12 Profile #14
A comedy game can be really hit or miss. You can tell one group of people a joke and they will find it hillarious. You then tell another group only to be encountered with blank stares. The point with humor is that it's fickle and difficult to do such that your audience will find it funny. Look at Rats Aplenty from the previous contest, had a very wide score distribution for this reason.

Primarily I would like to see a shift in the storyline in GF 4. The current Rebel/Shaper conflict has reached a logical climax with the unbound. More impressive superweapons will just be old news. A new direction, I feel is needed to keep things fresh.

That being said, I think a new game altogether might be in order. Perhaps Jeff could take a shot at more of a sci-fi game rather than more a fantasy one. I doubt this would happen, but it would be interesting to see nonetheless.

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Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00
while() in Blades of Avernum Editor
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 written Tuesday, January 23 2007 12:12 Profile #8
quote:
I did take it literally, but instead of saying "it is met," I said "it is false."
I'll rephrase: "while (i > 10)" says "Do this while the value of i is greater than ten".

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Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00
while() in Blades of Avernum Editor
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Member # 6
 written Tuesday, January 23 2007 08:25 Profile #5
The "while loop" should be interpreted literally. It basically says: "Do this while this condition is met".

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Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00
while() in Blades of Avernum Editor
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Member # 6
 written Tuesday, January 23 2007 04:26 Profile #1
At least for the top part of the code, y starts at 29, which is not less than 15, so the loop begins as false and is never entered. I suggest making it "while (y > 15)".

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Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00
The Chosen Ending - Geneforge 5 in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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 written Sunday, January 21 2007 17:49 Profile #7
Coming up with more creations should not be too difficult compared to writing an in-depth storyline. Using the Shaper ending would easily force the plot to go in a different direction. You might find it "boring" but I feel it opens up a lot more avenues than the others.

On the Shaper ending, my one disappointment is that I'd prefer if Ghaldring lives, because he has more character to be developed there after so much lead up in GF3. The endings can pick and choose from various fates and not be one particular ending but a mix.

Going with the Rebel ending pretty much ensures more of the same in GF3 and GF4. This time the creations are bigger and tougher, but then where do we go from here? What climactic thing can possibly be done here to keep the storyline exciting and new? We already have the Unbound, another indestructable creation really doesn't seem all that satisfying. I'm sure we can come up with other superweapons too, but ultimately it's just more of the same.

As I've said, the Geneforge rebellion has pretty much reached a logical cumulation with the Unbound. You can't really build on top of that, but you can build sideways.

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