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Garrack
Caldari
No Quarter.
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Posted - 2007.03.01 21:19:00 -
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I really want a text based engine for it.
I've played the game for like 3 years. My sound is off, I'm frequently in a window mode, I can play the game almost exclusively by the overview or map, 9 times out of 10 I'd rather the game respond quickly to my controls than show my pretty explosions, etc.
CCP! Give me a terminal based client!
Where's my VT100 anyway?
That would rock. :)
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Garrack
Caldari
No Quarter.
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Posted - 2007.03.01 21:43:00 -
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 Originally by: Nir
Yeah, because it isn't macro heaven already. There is even a macro miner named Macrosheaven. I'm not kidding, look him up in game. 
I was thinking the same thing. 
I'm not even suggesting this be the ONLY interface... just a nice stripped down one when I don't feel like all the overhead. Most of the things you might do in game you really don't need the visuals for at all.
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Garrack
Caldari
No Quarter.
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Posted - 2007.03.02 15:22:00 -
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GRUE! LOLz
See now, what I'm starting to see here is several TRANSLATIONS of my cool idea.
1. "Adventure" Style (Zork for those slightly younger)
In this style you'd have the actual text command interface. If we're being more advanced we could allow semi-colons. For those of you a bit older, XYZZY would return you to Jita.
2. ASCII/ANSII animated text style
In this style we would have small pictures of ships made from ASCII characters. I can't think of a game that did this, though the original old Star Trek and Empire games were fairly similar except that they used a single char to represent another entity.
3. The Basics Style
This was the one I was originally intending. I need the DATA from the game... the overview, chat channels, some kind of text based map that entirely shows things based upon numbers... "systems X jumps from you are [list]".
4. Wireframe
See now these people sorta get the spirit, but not entirely. My point is that the graphics are useless candy and windowdressings! Just get rid of them entirely.
Too funny.
I still want to run it on a VT100. :)
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