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    Planescape: Torment successor announced. Set in Numenera universe.

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    ie. He's hedging his bets because even the guy making W2 thinks it is gonna suck? That doesn't even make sense. You are assuming he's assuming that W2 is gonna be so horrible people won't buy another game from him so he's trying tot take their money now instead of W2 is released and he can brag how awesome it is and THAT is why people should invest in this new game.

     

    L0LZ

     

    He's not assuming anything, it's just a good long term strategy. W2 can turn out to be bad, even if there's 5% of this happening. So with all possible outcomes, this move has the greatest +EV.

    Planescape: Torment successor announced. Set in Numenera universe.

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    How many people are willing to feed more money to Fargo when we have no idea what they've been able to make with the few million dollars we just gave him.

     

    Being a bit familiar with this process in a somewhat related area (not gamedev, but close), the best time to raise funds is now.

    If they wait for W2 to be released, then it can go either way. It can be a genius game and everyone will donate; or it can be a mediocre or a misunderstood title and nobody will donate for a long time (until the public "forgives" ineXile); or it can be somewhere in between.

    Right now, almost everyone is still excited, Fargo has a huge credit of trust because he received a big funding and hasn't spoiled it yet, so the perfect time is now. After that, they've made two games, at least one is bound to be good, so they can keep working with Kickstarter. At least this is exactly how it works in my area of expertise.

    Amateur Programming Study

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    All those stds... Type using namespace std; after the include, then you can just use cout without specifying which class it belongs to, so without std::

     

    Instead of using cin to avoid the console to close, use system("pause");

     

    Write cases in one line, less lines. Only use do-while when absolutely required, most of the time use a simple while.

     

    I know a very good C++ tutorial in French, you'll be able to learn the basics of c++ in 2 hours, then classes in about a day, then polymorphisms etc, then there's even a tutorial for Qt and some 2d graphics library. Know nothing of the sort in English unfortunately. Interested?

     

    upd

    Maybe paste your code on pastebin.com in the future? at least for indentation purposes.

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    Quick question on SSD

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    There is indeed a great variation in performances, so some research is needed when buying one, but most ssd's if not all are handicapped to some extent (apparently only in matters of writes, not reads) when having less than 50% of free space. I've got OCZ Agility 3 and I've literally noticed it when I only had 3gb of free space. Save game's became 3-5 times slower. So slow in fact, I think any hdd would've been faster. When I have 20gbs free or more, I don't notice anything.

    Quick question on SSD

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    I'm looking into purchasing a 120 GB SSD, probably from amazon or some other retailer, but had a couple questions. If I install this as a second drive on my computer now, will that mess anything up or inhibit the drive or what's used on it from being quite faster than my main drive? Such as with loading games or anything?

     

    Also, as far as picking one out. There appears to be differences between Sata i, II, and III. How would I find out which one my computer is able to handle? When I check through comp stats, I checked on the serial number of my current hard drive and its this

     

    http://www.newegg.co...N82E16822145215

     

    So I can assume I'd be fine with getting a Sata III correct?

     

    How easy is it, or is it even possible to move my steam folder to this drive? Or would I need to uninstall Steam and games, and then reinstall them on this drive?

     

    Thanks for any answers.

     

    Your questions have been answered, but remember this. SSD drives have been conceived in a way that they are extremely fast, but only when they have at least 50% of free space. From that point, the less free space they have, the less faster they get, to the point where at about 10% of free space they're even slower than hard drives.

    Let's Play: Baldur's Gate Trilogy - Ch26 (Mae'Var)

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    Posted · Edited by Bester

    I'm going to try playing with a friend of mine over the internet. Does he need to have the same mods as me?

     

    If yes, then I suppose sending him my BG2 folder would do the trick? Or does he also need to fix something in the Windows registry for the game to recognize that he's got the same version as me? Or he can just launch the exe file and not minding anything?

    Black Isle Returns?

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    I'm not sure that Fallout Online was intended to be a game and not just leverage against Bethesda. From what I remember, Interplay invested 2 million dollars into the production of FO. Doesn't look like a real budget for an MMO, but it does look like a budget that one would invest in hopes of claiming "lost profits" when settling with Bethesda. Didn't work out as they thought it would, apparently.

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