My parting gift to you

Keyreper · 2014-10-16T02:46:54.000Z

Well the obvious troll is obvious but it’s still fun to reply to sometimes.

Daidalon · 2014-10-16T03:09:30.000Z

People always say don’t feed the trolls

But thats boring. Who doesn’t want a pet troll?

Bonevomit · 2014-10-16T08:28:10.000Z

Actually “the troll” is not so obvious considering he thanked whoever it was that helped him.

A few other things.
The guy probably wasted his evening after work failing to set up the game
Never played this kind of game, is getting bugs trying to configure it
Cant find the information he’s looking for, running into broken links and shit(I know this feeling)
Somehow ends up trying to fucking compile the game to fix his problem
Asks for help on the forum, gets babied and scolded by teenagers on the internet

I’m just saying, if it was me? I would probably be pissed too.

stk2008 · 2014-10-16T08:50:15.000Z

all so this is why this comunity is at the top of my list.

The OP comes in here and does not really ask very nicely.
in other forums he would have been met with heres the door etc.

But no the CDDA community still went out off there way to reply and help the guy whice is really nice

Headset-less · 2014-10-16T09:31:30.000Z

[quote=“stk2008, post:32, topic:7586”]all so this is why this comunity is at the top of my list.

The OP comes in here and does not really ask very nicely.
in other forums he would have been met with heres the door etc.

But no the CDDA community still went out off there way to reply and help the guy whice is really nice :)[/quote]

Well if you do keep that cycle going on, what’s the point? Also most of the time when people are being obnoxious on some stuff, they just had a rough day and is taking it out on the next guy they encounter.

jcd · 2014-10-16T10:23:46.000Z

[quote=“Bonevomit, post:31, topic:7586”]Asks for help on the forum, gets babied and scolded by teenagers on the internet
I’m just saying, if it was me? I would probably be pissed too.[/quote]

would you insult the community and devs like that?
i mean, you don’t understand what’s going on, fine, you ask in forums, fine.
Then when someone responds to you in less than an hour, would you declare that the game is clearly designed by idiots??
Come on please, you are not playing a commercial game, RTFM at least, not just skim it and then insult the game designers for not providing the info you wanted…

Either troll, or deserved to get babied and scolded IMO.

Valpo · 2014-10-16T14:14:36.000Z

HunterAlpha1:

[quote=“Valpo, post:19, topic:7586”][quote=“jcd, post:18, topic:7586”]Most of us certainly have to work. But we still love playing something more complex and more interesting than CoD in our spare time.

What is this cod even and how does it relate to the issue?[/quote]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Duty[/quote]

so how does this call of duty relate to this xD.

I recall having played the first in the series. Its not realy my thing but i still don t see anything comparable between cata and call of duty (though i do not know the newer installments.) '#hmmm they both start with a c…

Then again it doesn t matter much.

TheFlame52 · 2014-10-16T14:26:27.000Z

Sorry, Valpo, I feel like you’re getting left out. We’re comparing it to Call of Duty because it has a very shallow learning curve.

Valpo · 2014-10-16T14:29:19.000Z

TheFlame52:

Sorry, Valpo, I feel like you’re getting left out. We’re comparing it to Call of Duty because it has a very shallow learning curve.

Oh … xD so you where beeing mean to the new guy okay okay

Well i guess your right about the learning stuff . Thats not a bad thing though per se. I still don t like call of duty .

12doze12 · 2014-10-16T17:22:13.000Z

A guy that comes storming to the forums demanding and insulting people isnt made for a game like cataclysm especially being free and the work of a community. I wouldnt waste a single secound explaining anything to him.

Go play dwarf fortress if you think cataclysm has weird and hard mechanics to understand.

Sean_Mirrsen · 2014-10-16T19:13:26.000Z

Dwarf Fortress would be being too kind. I’d send him to play Aurora.

Though I wouldn’t mind having the game be a touch more accessible, myself. At least in the setup department. Try as I might though, I can’t make window resizing work without causing a segfault at some point. If that were done, I could make the game load fonts from the fonts folder and allow the player to select the fonts he’d like to use, while the size of the window can be manually adjusted. So, kinda like Dwarf Fortress.

Rivet · 2014-10-16T20:04:52.000Z

I was quite prepared to post helpful information, but then I read back a bit and found stuff like:

Er....help?

Yeah clearly this game isnt for me. Designed by idiots. Goodbye.

Upon seeing that I decided that he’s on his own.

Jimbo_Gee:

Just for future reference for the rest of you. Some of us actually have to go and work during the day. We dont all have the luxury of sitting in our parents basement and playing video games all day.

That one was particularly egregious; an uniformed blanket insult to the whole development team. I can’t speak for everyone involved, but I own my own house and it doesn’t even have a basement, I work all day and often most of the night, I take care of my aging parents on a daily basis, and I still manage to turn out some crappy code around the Witching Hour every night.

For free. Because working on DDA is my hobby, not my job.

So basically what I mean to say is that I don’t do tech support for people who open their conversation by insulting me and everyone else who’s working on the project.

stk2008 · 2014-10-16T21:11:42.000Z

“and I still manage to turn out some crappy code”

Are you crazy? your work is far from crap.

You have contributed some amazeing work like many many others here.

Datanazush · 2014-10-16T21:17:28.000Z

Rivet:

it doesn’t even have a basement

I don’t think any houses around here have basements. Man, Australia!Cata would SUCK, so little good loot.
Nah but for real, you carry the team.

Also, I’m reckoning we should let this particular shitpost die.

bubbadoo14 · 2014-10-16T21:19:21.000Z

TheFlame52:

Sorry, Valpo, I feel like you’re getting left out. We’re comparing it to Call of Duty because it has a very shallow learning curve.

and also the community that plays the current games of this series are either little kids who can’t handle their anger, teens who can’t handle their anger, or adults who can’t handle their anger. They also have this thought that CoD is the best game ever and anything else is crap, I guess like any other stereotypical rabid fan.

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Also about the resizing problem, the only problem I have is that it bugs out if the game is too wide or too tall, try messing with the settings. So if it is stretched out one way try reducing the dimension it is stretched out in or increasing the other dimension.

Also i never touch the fullscreen option because it never works.

I think it is because it might be out of the display resolution making it look weird? I dunno I guess for resizing I would look for your Aspect Ratio and size the game accordingly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_resolution should help.

fish_have_fingers_no · 2014-10-17T10:53:50.000Z

Actually I live on the second floor of my mom’s Experimental Z-level house.

TheFlame52 · 2014-10-17T13:00:28.000Z

Actually I live on the second floor of my mom’s Experimental Z-level house, because I am a high school student who is legally not allowed to move out yet.

bahihs · 2014-10-17T13:48:11.000Z

Perhaps it would be better to have a drop down/pre-determined selection for the window-size, which takes into account aspect ratio?

Sean_Mirrsen · 2014-10-17T14:20:12.000Z

Well, technically it wouldn’t be hard at all. Just a window filled with standard resolution options, and instead of (unintuitively) selecting a terminal size, you can pick a resolution. Picking a resolution would set the terminal size automatically (although the resolution would still be the determining factor), and picking a terminal size would automatically set the resolution.

vultures · 2014-10-22T21:02:40.000Z

I’m writing a fairly short guide, I’ll post the link after I’m done.

It’s not all that hard, it’s just summing up some months/years of info from this community board and embueing it with own experience in playing CataDDA. After explaining game options, WorldGen concept and character building there’s got to be some info on actual gameplay. I’m close to wrapping up the whole piece, altough I’m treading lightly so just about anyone could understand it.
The one and only doubt I had was about .json files and discussing various issues regarding items that could be modded. I’ve decided to cover the subject under-par, because there is a difference between novice players looking to enjoy their game and those more enthusiastic ones, as I perceive them as current and future members of this community.