I did a quick search and I did find some free servers but very few allow posting. I bet they are busy also. I think a paid usenet server should be included with your monthly bill.

Thanks for the replies. It looks like my "new" rate is about average. Man that rate is pretty high Krom, I feel sorry for you. I called the ISP and they won't budge on the price. Well, being the cheapskate that I am, I am probably going back to dial-up. I know of better ways to spend $120 ...

I just received a notice that my DSL service is going up $10 a month making it $44.99. I have the lowest speed 1.5Mbs and this seems too much to me. I might be going back to dial-up. I live in an area where there is only 1 DSL provider and they get to charge what they want. I was wondering what ever...

I just got DSL in January. I was on dial up from 12/95 until then. I didn't change to DSL for the speed, I was tired of the disconnects.

Anyone notice that www.descent-3.com is up for renewal?

The point I was trying to make is people shouldn't use the force of government to get what they want. There are always going to be people with heath problems, some people are allergic to wood. What is the answer to all their problems, I don't know. Surely government isn't. Can you imagine the police...

Capm wrote:

1)Poor Acting (I'm sorry, but darth vaders "nooooooo" at the end wasn't convincing, among other things)

I felt the same way at first. However after thinking about it what should he have said?

I think it should be up to the business owner...*shrug* Exactly. Thinking otherwise is why the United States is in such a mess. What ever happened to respecting the rights of others? The politicians feed off of this selfishness to take away our freedoms. There are more non-smokers then smokers so t...

Just for the record I am as pro-gun as you can get. I am a Libertarian ( http://www.lp.org ). I have been the treasurer of the York County LP ( http://www.yorklp.org ) in Pennsylvania for over 3 years. It looks like some people are getting the wrong impression about me from my moderator edited post ...

Until society adresses the root cause of this type of violence to the fullest extent possible, it will continue. Banning, guns, knives, toothpicks, or long fingernails will do no good. If someone is motivated to kill, a killing will take place. I would say the root cause is government. They control...

In case anyone wants the rest of the story, it looks like Zamos settled the case out of court with Microsoft. Before the settlement, Zamos expressed apprehension about accepting Chudakoff's offer. After all, it would force him to sign a nondisclosure agreement, which would prohibit him from discussi...

BUBBALOU wrote:in Ver 1.4 they neuterd the Vauss making it useless. unless you are on a LAN, and still then ver 1.3 was better

Can someone elaborate on this? Does anyone know exactly what they did? I don't seem to have a readme for the 1.4 patch.

Top Gun wrote:Ping isn't the only component, though; you could have excellent ping but severe netloss

I do remember seeing the network loss jump up every now and then.

Is it always the case that the one with the better ping will have an advantage? Say one at 60 and the other at 95?

Vauss seems to be the one most affected by high ping times. I notice sometimes with a ping of around 200 the door won't open in Stadium when shooting it with Vauss. Also I was playing someone in Coliseum and I couldn't hit him to save by butt with a 170 ping time. Now granted I am not the best aim t...

Thanks for putting it up. I had a fun game.

What you are looking for is called a DVD Recorder. It seems like all the DVD Recorders have issues (at least they did when I bought mine about two years ago) so be careful what you buy. Make sure the store has a good return policy. I had a Cyberhome melt down on me and tried 2 other brands and they ...

I like that level but it doesn't appear in the d3.descent.cx tracker any more. There are so few levels I can play on Linux as it is. Any chance someone could host it again?

I use Linux also. Why because...well....it's better. It reminds me of something else I support. Libertarians. I keep hearing the same old mindset from people. I know it would be better if I used/supported Linux/Libertarians but I don't because it is not popular.:roll: Whatever happend to that pionee...

When I tried to visit Moons Descendarium this is what I got:

descent-3.com

This domain name expired on 11/05/2004 and is pending renewal or deletion.

I hope someone is going to renew it

I don't think anyone is going to base a game of today around a 2 or 3 year old system, really what would be the point? Maybe they should. A lot of users don't buy new systems every 2 to 3 years. And I'm just curious , but what makes you think you'd sell the game to a wider audience if you made the ...

Actually zbriggs you've already seen it. I only ran it for 10 days. Doom 3 hardware requirements: 3D Hardware Accelerator Card Required - 64MB Hardware Accelerated video card (failed - I only have a 32mb card) Pentium®IV 1.5 GHz or Athlon® XP 1500+ processoror higher (failed - I only have a 1ghz P...

:o Nice t-shirt JBOMB. How much? :wink: I didn't mean to make this poll confusing. I just wanted to get an opinion on if it is better to sell a game to a wider audience (low system requirements) or to the high end users. Game play was assumed to be equal. I read the posts saying that games can run o...

Trackball wrote:Releasing an official screenshot to the public would significantly boost enthusiasm for the game. I am very curious to see what the engine looks like.

Maybe they are still "polishing" the eye candy. I kind of like the suspense.

Ok guys, this has gone on long enough. Please plug PlanetDescent back in

Kd527 said:
One of the latest things on PD is that Interplay is now also dead!

If this is true can you guess what High Octane's new game is going to be called?

Hummm. This poll isn't going the way I had hoped. Maybe High Octane will have a nice t-shirt

I wanted to run this poll to get the general consensus for High Octane on their new game. Here is my opinion on the matter. I did not buy Descent 3 until a few years after it was released because the system requirements were too high. I think a lot of people fell into this category and this may be a...

Food for thought. What do you think about dynamic key locations? I can't decide if that would be good or bad. On one hand the robots are placed in the level to make it challenging to reach the keys (oh no, I have to go in there to get it :shock:) but on the other I think it would be fun to be in ran...

I remember someone talking about armor plating. Just think how funny it would be to hear the clang noise in D2 followed by a rattle when your armor plating falls off piece by piece when someone is hitting you. Then the other person picks up the plating and adds it to their ship. Oh yeah, I vote for ...