st_dux
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A carrier battle group is way beyond the scope of the game. It wouldn't work at all. As for naval support, e.g. naval gunfire, that can be simulated easily enough.
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MultiDiscussion : TES5: Skyrim, BattleField 3, COD, R6 etc.
st_dux replied to Second's topic in OFFTOPIC - Games & Gaming
All the important improvements made in the Bad Company series, like sound design and destructible environments, will certainly be brought over for Battlefield 3. What part of the Bad Company series are you worried will be missing? -
Yes but he's using .sqs anyway so he may as well use the proper commands for it. I'm not certain that exitWith even works with .sqs, but I know that exit does.
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It sounds like the script that keeps track of the timer is running on multiple clients. Try replacing the first line of your .sqs script with: ? !isServer : exit
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Out of curiosity, how come you (presumably) don't have a problem with this in ArmA? MMGs are basically one-hit kills there.
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Murdoch throws News of the World under a bus to protect the mangement.
st_dux replied to walker's topic in OFFTOPIC
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Oh yeah, our debt crisis is totally over now. More debt is just what we needed to start getting out of debt.
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Most tax systems (including the U.S. tax system) don't actually work that way, though. They're "progressive," which means that people with more money actually pay a higher percentage than people with less money. The top 1% of earners in the United States pay the vast majority of the taxes.
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Do you really think a Democratic congress would be any different? All any of those politicians want to do is spend other people's money.
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No, it isn't. Obama's statement that we must raise the debt ceiling or face inevitable default in one week's time is a false dichotomy designed to stir panic and put pressure on congress to do what he wants. We have more than enough money to pay the interest on the debt, which is all that is needed to avoid default. If Obama actually cared about the United States' credit rating, he'd acknowledge this fact, and he'd publicly assure us all that staying current on its debt is the country's number one financial priority. But alas, he is a politician. Down the line when we can't get any more money out of China and we're forced to inflate our way out of debt, then you'll see some history.
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No, Pelham is right. You can't hide this information from people anyway; to think that you can actually prevent maniacs from conducting bombings by attempting to suppress information on how to build them is daft at best (particularly now in the age of the internet). All you get with censorship is a hindrance to the free flow of ideas that would lead to a better understanding for all. Censorship is borne out of fear, not rationality, and it never has any benefits to society at large.
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Those are some incredibly short sentences.
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Which of his concerns would you consider valid? As far as I can tell, he was basically upset because there are people in his country who aren't native (i.e., Muslims) or who don't view things the same way as he (i.e., people who don't hate Muslims). There is nothing about this position that seems reasonable to me.
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The terms "left" and "right" are relative. Obama might be "left wing" in America, but from vilas' perspective -- someone who has lived in a country that at one time was actually socialist -- Obama is still basically a pro-capitalism Western leader. These days there really isn't much difference between Republicans and Democrats. Both parties maintain a standard neoclassical outlook on economics and tend to be in favor of increasing the size of government, freely intervening in foreign military affairs, and basically supporting the status quo otherwise. There really isn't much of anything meaningful that separates them at all, which is why DMarckwick's accurate point about the divisiveness of American politics (100% Republican vs. 100% Democrat with no in-between) is particularly ironic. The kinds of "divisive issues" that Republicans and Democrats argue over are usually things that really don't matter anyway, like abortion rights, which is something that was decided by the Supreme Court decades ago and isn't changing. Other than that, they basically just tell their supporters whatever it is they want to hear, and then when the get elected, they simply keep doing what the government has been doing. Obama, for example, said he would take us out of Iraq and Afghanistan, close our extrajudicial prison in Guantanamo Bay, and officially acknowledge the Armenian genocide. He has done none of those things, and in an even more ironic twist, he actually got us into a new conflict that nobody wanted in Libya. There are very few American politicians who actually want to make any significant changes to anything. Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich and Rand Paul (a Republican representative, a Democratic representative and a Republican senator, respectively) are pretty much the only three active American politicians I can think of who actually have a fresh outlook on things.
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Where are you getting this number? The budget deficit under Bush never got anywhere near that high. Actually, the budget deficit has never been anywhere near that high, and I doubt that it would even be possible (although Obama is trying as hard as he can). The national debt was around $10.5 trillion ($14+ trillion now), but the debt has been steadily increasing for decades. It certainly wasn't $0 when Bush came into office and then suddenly shot up to $10.5 trillion. Here is some hard data on the federal deficit while Bush was in office versus the federal deficit since Obama has taken over: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=u.s.+deficit+2000+-+2008+vs.+u.s.+deficit+2008+-+2010 As you can see, Obama has more than doubled the highest budget deficit under Bush. Cheney was a snake, no question about it, and the Bush administration certainly conducted its fair share of shady business with special interests. However, backroom deals are hardly new in the world of politics, and Democrats are just as prone to this kind of corruption as are Republicans. Remember, it was the Obama administration and a Democratic congress that decided to bail out all of those "Welfare Queens of Wall Street" when the housing bubble burst.
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While it's true that Bush spent a previously-unprecedented amount of government money on wars, entitlement programs and more, Obama has done absolutely nothing to rectify the situation, and in fact, has spent far more than Bush did. The budget deficit under Bush was something like $400 billion. Under Obama, we are already well over $1 trillion. This is truly a record in reckless government spending. The Republicans and Democrats are both just as bad at governing. The United States will eventually default on its debt (whether that comes in the form of legitimate defaulting or simply printing more money to pay off the debt remains to be seen), but the Republicans won't necessarily be in charge when it happens.
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Murdoch throws News of the World under a bus to protect the mangement.
st_dux replied to walker's topic in OFFTOPIC
Obama is doing the exact same thing as Bush x10. Both were/are big government presidents who heedlessly drove up the national debt. Both entered us into unpopular armed conflicts. Both maintained/maintain extrajudicial holding camps for suspected terrorists outside of country borders (despite the fact that one of Obama's campaign promises was to get rid of places like Guantanamo). They're basically the same president; Obama is just a more extreme version of what Bush was. When Bush created an unprecedented national debt of hundreds of billions of dollars, Obama answered back with an exponentially greater national debt in the trillions. And now, as soon as China wakes up and realizes that they don't actually need our consumers to employ their workers, you will see America go the way of Greece and Ireland. And while some thanks for that goes to Bush, it is impossible to deny that Obama and his administration has played an even larger role. -
Is that what you actually envision when you consider nuclear energy, steak that magically cooks itself and hamburgers that glow in the dark? No wonder you can't stop fear mongering.
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@PvPscene: I don't see how that description makes Ron Adams' testimony rubbish. @walker: You took that from his own website. Of course it shines a favorable light on him. @thread: Nuclear energy is a valuable resource that shouldn't be ignored out of inane paranoia. Yes, there have been accidents, but there are accidents in every field. The number of people who have died due to nuclear accidents pales in comparison to the number of people who have died in coal mining. We need to move forward, not backward.
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Gundersen is a man who uses a pair of 39-year-old university degrees to claim the title of “nuclear engineer†so that he can get paid $300 per hour to seek to destroy valuable assets like Vermont Yankee. That plant produces about 4.8 billion kilowatt-hours of emission free electricity every year. Gundersen’s claim to expertise includes a number of questionable statements about the real world experience he gained after earning those entry level tickets. Gundersen has a legitimate claim to have earned a pair of respectable degrees, but the claim that he developed and maintained any reliable knowledge about topics like plant maintenance, operations, radiation health effects, and economics should be viewed with a bit more skepticism. Full article: http://atomicinsights.com/2011/02/arnie-gundersen-has-inflated-his-resume-yet-frequently-claims-that-entergy-cannot-be-trusted.html
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How do I make soldiers with Custom weapon loadouts start with already loaded mags?
st_dux replied to David Schofield's topic in ARMA 2 & OA : MISSIONS - Editing & Scripting
Heh, that isn't code. DM is simply saying that you need to add the magazines before adding the weapon. So put the "this addMagazine..." part before the "this addWeapon..." part. edit: Ninja'd -
how does eventhandlers beheave, technically?
st_dux replied to demonized's topic in ARMA 2 & OA : MISSIONS - Editing & Scripting
I honestly don't think it makes any noticeable difference performance-wise. Event Handlers are just more convenient. -
Get rid of 'tab and shoot' and get bipods in!!!
st_dux replied to neilbrady's topic in ARMA 3 - GENERAL
Bi-pod support is just a small part of a larger problem, and that is weapon support in general. A system for weapon resting similar to what has been implemented in ACE (or better yet, Red Orchestra) is nothing short of absolutely necessary for an infantry simulator to be rightly considered highly realistic. I consider the tab-and-shoot thing to be less of a concern, as ArmA is first-and-foremost an infantry simulator. Mods should be sufficient for this sort of thing. -
If you don't need anyone else but the player to take out the T-72, you could just put "this setCaptive true" in its init field. That will make it so that no AI shoots at it.
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Magic Bullet Script
st_dux replied to camo1018's topic in ARMA 2 & OA : MISSIONS - Editing & Scripting
The effect of air resistance on bullets is really quite massive, particularly right after the shot is fired. Assuming that the velocity will stay constant throughout the shot will produce wildly inaccurate firing solutions. A simple coefficient won't be of much help, either, because air resistance is a function of velocity (faster bullet = more resistance), and velocity is constantly changing as a result of air resistance. Drop compensation isn't as simple as it would first appear, either. Whenever you compensate for drop, you must then again compensate for the fact that the initial upward component of the bullet's velocity vector has changed (you are aiming slightly higher to compensate for drop), which changes its drop profile. If the shot isn't taken from too far away, you can get away with a simple gravity calculation, but this method will not be accurate at sniper ranges. I've looked into this problem extensively in the past. To get accurate results, you will need calculus, which I don't feel like going into here. Honestly, just letting an AI unit with high skill shoot will probably lead to more interesting, albeit less predictable, results.