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Title: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: KT 💣 KλBoƠM on August 14, 2013, 03:34:35 pm
NS stuff here. Come on people get talking ;)
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: Professor Panopticon on August 18, 2013, 09:35:13 am
It seems like years since I've been able to play this game on any of my computers.
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: Sandman[SA] on August 18, 2013, 06:07:12 pm
I know.  Why is that?
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: Professor Panopticon on August 19, 2013, 09:57:14 am
Any amount of money I save up is spent on other things. I just can't contribute enough time and energy into upgrading my computer. And now that the school year has started, I will have even less. On the plus side, we are doing Steampunk sherlock holmes as our fall play, so I get to dabble in prop making for that genre.
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: Sandman[SA] on August 19, 2013, 09:01:48 pm
Well that is understandable.  R/L stuff always seems to take top priority.
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: Buckshot on August 20, 2013, 09:02:46 am
Well that is understandable.  R/L stuff always seems to take top priority.

It does? When?
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: Professor Panopticon on August 20, 2013, 03:54:00 pm
Ha, I'd hesitate to call what I do for a living R/L, but it is fun. I'll post pictures eventually. Someone on here might appreciate it.
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: Sandman[SA] on August 20, 2013, 09:13:23 pm
Well that is understandable.  R/L stuff always seems to take top priority.

It does? When?

It should come clear to you someday young man.  ;)
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: Buckshot on September 05, 2013, 11:47:27 am
Well that is understandable.  R/L stuff always seems to take top priority.

It does? When?

It should come clear to you someday young man.  ;)

My old ass is 47.. I think I can say with most certainty it will never be clear to me.. ;D
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: Sandman[SA] on September 05, 2013, 04:54:56 pm
My old ass is 47.. I think I can say with most certainty it will never be clear to me.. ;D

At least your still young at heart.  8)
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: KT 💣 KλBoƠM on September 06, 2013, 03:06:09 am
Wow Sandman, you are no longer the oldest. Wait .. is that really BadAttitude? lol
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: Sandman[SA] on September 06, 2013, 05:50:52 pm
Wow Sandman, you are no longer the oldest.


I haven't been for a long time now.  ;)

Wait .. is that really BadAttitude? lol

Nope.  He is over 50.  :-[
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: Buckshot on September 08, 2013, 07:42:37 pm
Oh wow!!! A site where I'm not the old fart of the bunch...I'm liking this place more and more  :tup:
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: Sandman[SA] on September 10, 2013, 01:47:35 am
Oh wow!!! A site where I'm not the old fart of the bunch...I'm liking this place more and more  :tup:

Yeah, I'm feeling that as well.  ;)  On that same subject, another retired member (WingNut) who originally wrote our main site, was 50 when he retired.  And that was over 10 years ago.
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: Buckshot on September 10, 2013, 08:56:11 am
I had started playing NS on your servers about 6 years ago. Don't know why I waited this long to join your forums. Seems I missed quite a bit.
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: Sandman[SA] on September 10, 2013, 09:13:10 pm
[SA] has been around since 2000 with TFC as the mod of choice back then.  And when NS released there version 1.0, most of us took a shine to it as an entertaining change of pace.  It just stuck with us ever since.  And quite honestly, NS 1.04 was there crowning jewel.  It really only needed some bug fixes and minor tweaks but the balance of gameplay was as best it could get IMHO.  If both teams fielded good players, stalemates could rage for hours.
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: Buckshot on September 13, 2013, 09:12:27 am
TFC was the first online game I played back in 1999. From there I went to DoD until SWG came out and I played that till it's end. It was during my DoD days that I found out about NS and it is a nice change of pace. I find myself playing it more now a days since I haven't found a new MMO I like.
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: KT 💣 KλBoƠM on September 13, 2013, 06:00:31 pm
I believe Wingnut left before I even joined and that was in my early 30's in 2004 ...
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: Sandman[SA] on September 14, 2013, 01:29:48 am
I believe Wingnut left before I even joined and that was in my early 30's in 2004 ...

As I said, over 10 years ago.  He was with us for about a year or so after Torgue disband.
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: Professor Panopticon on September 17, 2013, 03:39:13 pm
I'll say. That other forum was full to the brim with content. Now we have forum mk2.
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: Sandman[SA] on September 17, 2013, 11:27:20 pm
I'll say. That other forum was full to the brim with content. Now we have forum mk2.

I know.  It sucks that I can't import that database here.
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: KT 💣 KλBoƠM on September 28, 2013, 05:29:46 am
How come you can't? You don't know how? Trouble with cp? Maybe one day you will be able to.
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: Sandman[SA] on September 28, 2013, 08:05:51 pm
How come you can't?

My servers PHP and MySQL versions are to far behind.

You don't know how?


That may have something to do with it.  :-[

Trouble with cp?


I don't have a control panel.  Only phpmyadmin.

Maybe one day you will be able to.

Yeah, maybe.  The fact of the matter is, I don't understand how to administrate MySQL.
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: BadAttitude on September 29, 2013, 01:08:17 pm
Ok, you mock my oldness KT and Sandman. I'll have you know that I'm 49! I will be 50 in February, but until then, don't put me in the 50 crowd, just yet. But, I gladly wear the title of either Old Fart or Wise Sage.
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: Sandman[SA] on September 29, 2013, 03:09:26 pm
My apologies my friend.  I misread your age of 46, for what I thought it said 49, when you joined us around 3 years ago.  :-[  So you want to be called "Old Fart"?  You got it.  ;D

By the way.  My birthday is coming up next week.  I will be turning 46.  I should start playing as "Old Timer" again.  :D
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: KT 💣 KλBoƠM on October 01, 2013, 12:01:35 pm
Wow Sandman .. we are ALL getting up in age. I will be 40 in just a month and a few days... Where has the time gone for all of us??
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: Sandman[SA] on October 02, 2013, 10:20:31 pm
It's gone out the window and lost forever in a blinding blur of video games.  lol

I know this is off subject but what's up with the new clan tag?
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: KT 💣 KλBoƠM on October 03, 2013, 02:23:57 pm
It's gone out the window and lost forever in a blinding blur of video games.  lol

I know this is off subject but what's up with the new clan tag?

Well the short story is in one of the new games Pete from MN is playing that some of the other clan members got into .. Pete made the clan name "League of Incompetent Heros" and Kodiac loved it so much he decided to spend money to change our clan name in many games as well as the site redirection itself and a new domain name.
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: Sandman[SA] on October 03, 2013, 10:53:39 pm
One thing comes to mind for a situation like this.  "If it feels good, just do it."
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: KT 💣 KλBoƠM on October 05, 2013, 03:08:46 pm
lol am I the only one who doesn't just do what ever feels good but thinks about it first? lol .. I can't afford most of the games I would love to try so I am grateful for the wonderful people who have gotten me games along the way. :) I still love FEAR 1 and Portal 1 and 2 ;) but will always have a soft spot for NS 1 :)
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: Sandman[SA] on October 05, 2013, 08:39:41 pm
I am sure you have had your spontaneous moments where you did do something you wanted to because the timing was just right, so little to no thinking was involved.  Everyone has.
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: KT 💣 KλBoƠM on November 04, 2013, 06:02:20 pm
CoffeineDream might play NS1 if you are in the server by 8pm. The reason so early is because that is 2am his time and he has to get to bed eventually ;) lol
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: Sandman[SA] on November 04, 2013, 09:10:34 pm
No problem.  We came.  We saw and we got some.   :lmao:
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: CoffeineDream on November 05, 2013, 05:03:18 am
I'm mad that aliens can catch up to my cybernetics 15  >:(
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: KT 💣 KλBoƠM on November 05, 2013, 03:11:21 pm
Lol sounds like it was a lot of fun! Maybe next time I will join. I just got too busy designing graphics for an association in my city I have been asked to make some for.
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: Sandman[SA] on November 05, 2013, 09:07:34 pm
I'm mad that aliens can catch up to my cybernetics 15  >:(

See, that is what happens when you let whichbots level up.  They can become a serious thorn in the side.  ;D
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: CoffeineDream on November 06, 2013, 07:32:14 am
Making bots run out of ammo is damn fun.

One of them even taunted after killing his teammate, "I like it to be so good!"  :P

(http://i.imgur.com/ZdulW5Z.jpg)
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: KT 💣 KλBoƠM on January 01, 2014, 05:31:56 pm
Making bots run out of ammo is damn fun.

One of them even taunted after killing his teammate, "I like it to be so good!"  :P

(http://i.imgur.com/ZdulW5Z.jpg)

Really? lol that would have been fun to see :)
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: Sandman[SA] on January 03, 2014, 12:46:02 am
You should come play sometime.  The servers still have traffic from time to time.  It's been fairly busy through the holidays.  Some nights, finding a near full server.
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: KT 💣 KλBoƠM on January 07, 2014, 08:55:37 am
You should come play sometime.  The servers still have traffic from time to time.  It's been fairly busy through the holidays.  Some nights, finding a near full server.

Ya I had checked a few days ago:

http://www.game-monitor.com/search.php?search=TheSandbox

I see Ninja Snake is in right now with someone else :)
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: Sandman[SA] on May 28, 2022, 04:27:08 pm
So recently Carnaxus (aka Spawn of Chaos) noticed the rcbots were getting hung up in marine spawn on ns_mindshaft.  I didn't make this waypoint.  It was submitted to rcbot database and I downloaded it as is.  I remember play testing it back then and the bots were able to get around, but not efficiently.  So I finally looked it over last night to find what a complete disaster it was.  Waypoint pathways going into nothingness.  Pathways clipping corners so hard that they can't navigate cleanly or even at all.  And poor use of waypoint tags in general.  It's a miracle they managed to get anywhere at all.  If I had to guess, this looked like a poorly done port over from whichbot.  So I spent a few hours last night re-doing nearly 90% of the whole thing.  I was pleased to see the rcbots building up marine start and even raiding a couple of hives after my repairs.
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: KT 💣 KλBoƠM on September 12, 2022, 03:27:48 pm
So recently Carnaxus (aka Spawn of Chaos) noticed the rcbots were getting hung up in marine spawn on ns_mindshaft.  I didn't make this waypoint.  It was submitted to rcbot database ....  So I spent a few hours last night re-doing nearly 90% of the whole thing.  I was pleased to see the rcbots building up marine start and even raiding a couple of hives after my repairs.

Time to play the ol' NS again!

 :JP'er: :comm: :fade: :skulk: :sboom: :gorgy:

(https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-0d462f41dd92b901cfaf77d5ae3b7df7.webp)
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: Sandman[SA] on September 14, 2022, 10:01:39 pm
You sure?  That map is frustrating to play now.  During the last play test.  There was 6 humans vs 7 marine bots.  3 of the human players are NS league pros.  It was a grueling standoff at marine start that lasted over an hour on its own.  Never mind the other hour or so it took to capture and stabilize the other hives.
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: KT 💣 KλBoƠM on October 19, 2022, 12:50:45 am
You sure?  That map is frustrating to play now.  During the last play test.  There was 6 humans vs 7 marine bots.  3 of the human players are NS league pros.  It was a grueling standoff at marine start that lasted over an hour on its own.  Never mind the other hour or so it took to capture and stabilize the other hives.

On your NS1 server? Nice!
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: Sandman[SA] on October 21, 2022, 09:48:54 pm
On your NS1 server? Nice!

On the alien's server, yup.
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: KT 💣 KλBoƠM on November 25, 2022, 05:02:28 pm
On your NS1 server? Nice!

On the alien's server, yup.

Any hope for them?  ;)
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: Sandman[SA] on November 25, 2022, 10:23:39 pm
Any hope for them?  ;)

I'm afraid that I don't understand.  Any hope for who?
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: KT 💣 KλBoƠM on December 01, 2022, 06:19:32 pm
Any hope for them?  ;)

I'm afraid that I don't understand.  Any hope for who?

The players playing against the bots if the pros were at a stand-off. Do people still play on the servers if it is that hard?

You sure?  That map is frustrating to play now.  During the last play test.  There was 6 humans vs 7 marine bots.  3 of the human players are NS league pros.  It was a grueling standoff at marine start that lasted over an hour on its own.  Never mind the other hour or so it took to capture and stabilize the other hives.
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: Sandman[SA] on December 05, 2022, 10:43:51 pm
Well on that map, Marine spawn is pretty easy to defend.  And I had place 3 portals to help the bots build MS first.  So they will spawn in waves.  lol.  But yes.  NS players of all ranks love the challenge.
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: KT 💣 KλBoƠM on December 10, 2022, 07:30:02 am
Well on that map, Marine spawn is pretty easy to defend.  And I had place 3 portals to help the bots build MS first.  So they will spawn in waves.  lol.  But yes.  NS players of all ranks love the challenge.

Surprised even still all these years later. Your server must be one of the very few remaining so you must get a LOT of people. I should install HLSW again sometime to take a look at how active it gets lol. :)
Title: Re: Natural-Selection 1
Post by: Sandman[SA] on December 10, 2022, 09:12:51 pm
It's not like it was in the old days.  There are only just a few servers left now.  But there still are a few die hards out there with fond memories of the original game.