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Pwnd! Haha, its always to funy too see poeple who correct somone elses gramar or spelling but make a mistake themselfs!
[/ QUOTE ]For the love of god, please tell me all of those were intentional!
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Yes they were. 
Good to see if everyone is paying attention. :P
"every defender needs to fight. I don't care if you have to use BRAWL!"
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It's... too... funny... to... people... someone else's... grammar... themselves!
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Possibly move the whole game off of opengl and on to direct x so we dont have as many compatibility issues.
[/ QUOTE ]And a million (okay, 25) Mac users cried out in pain.
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How does blizzard do it? They obviously don't code their modern games with an OpenGL graphics model yet have Mac Compatability.
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It's... too... funny... to... people... someone else's... grammar... themselves!
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At least it wasn't grammer and we didn't use iregardless to.
(yes, (to) was also a misspell on porpoise)
Lmao 
Though... speaking on the new (possible) new graphics engine... I would love to see what CO is doing in CoH. Zipline travel! 
I mean... common, who wouldn't like that? I still want to jump on the cars or the blimp and take a ride!! 
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To many elipses! This ones my pet peave. I see the occasional post, usually in all lower case, where the seem to have been taught that all sentences end with no one period but three.
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[/ QUOTE ]Blizzard's engines can use either OpenGL or Direct3D on Windows, and use OpenGL on all other platforms. Direct3D is a Microsoft controlled technology, and it only appears on Microsoft-controlled environments (Windows, XBox360... not counting Wine/Transgaming's reverse engineering).
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In that case, I can see why porting COH to D3D only would piss ppl off since its only a windows thing.
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[/ QUOTE ]Blizzard's engines can use either OpenGL or Direct3D on Windows, and use OpenGL on all other platforms. Direct3D is a Microsoft controlled technology, and it only appears on Microsoft-controlled environments (Windows, XBox360... not counting Wine/Transgaming's reverse engineering).
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In that case, I can see why porting COH to D3D only would piss ppl off since its only a windows thing.
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The best 'very long term investment, screw the budget!' plan would be to do the same thing as the companies that just make engines (like Epic, the maker of the Unreal Engine), is to abstract out the backends, so that you can support both Direct3D as well as OpenGL... but not only that! You could also support using multiple versions of Direct3D (say, Direct3D 9 on XP, 10 on Vista and newer) as well as multiple versions of OpenGL (OpenGL 2.1, as well OpenGL 3.0).
This'd future proof you, as well as making the engine more portable to different platforms.
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There's a suspiciously large number of evil versions of Statesman.
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3?
I know of Tyrant and Reichsman, who's the 3rd?
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Statesman.
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Saw that one coming a full Shadow Shard away....
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Could've swore that you were referring to Recluse.
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And why would dated graphic force a CoX2?
Eve Online updated there graphic significantly at one point (raising there min. requirements). They eventually depreciated the classic version and basically required everyone to go to the new engine. Same game, not EVE 2.0.
Changing your entire graphic engine in no way what so ever requires a 2.0 version of your game.
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This is what I have been saying.
Keep in mind that graphics aren't communicated between the servers and the clients (except when processing game updates), only commands. So for example, the server never says, "draw these pixels there," it says, "Mr. Foomonkey moved to that spot and attacked the Fifth Column," and it's up to the client to show that action to you.
There is nothing, other than developing it, to stop them from distributing a client with upgraded graphics and capabilities to everyone who pays for an expansion, and leaving the old client in place for those who don't. The only thing that would be needed is incremental updates to the old client to render new commands, and really, they wouldn't have to do that with non-game affecting commands.
For example, if they wanted power customization to be part of the new client, they could simply update the "Mr. Foomonkey shoots flares at the Kraken" to "Mr. Foomonkey shoots blue flares at the Kraken." The old client could continue to render it exactly the same as it always has, ignoring the extra qualifier. The new client could pick up on it and render the flames in blue instead of the normal red. (But this is only an example; power customization is being rolled out to the existing client!) Also, the new areas accessed by the new client wouldn't have to be retrofitted into the old client, because only the people with the expansion would be able to access them. The new client would send a command like, "Load Praetorian Tyrant Park," but the old client would send a command like, "Display 'You cannot enter' message."
They haven't officially announced a graphical update to the game yet, but from some of the things that have been said about staying competitive with the new games coming out, I am inferring it. Please note that as such, I could be totally off the mark, and don't send me angry letters if I'm wrong. If I'm right, though, you owe me a dollar.
We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.
(If you love this game as much as I do, please read that post.)
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