GENERAL: CTP2 Source Code Cafe

[child of Thor]

Originally posted by Peter Triggs
Yeah, after the initial compilation excitement, things are getting a bit quiet around here. What's everybody up to, if anything?

I've been plowing through the AI files, trying to get a better idea of what's going on in there (especially, diplomacy). Progress is a bit slow but it's coming along.

Well, I've been looking on ebay for a compiler [EDIT OUT LINK] but i'm not sure about this..... if its the right one etc?
I've also been looking over the old manual and doing some rough notes on the good and bad points - although i'm aware i'll have to wait for nearer complete versions of the code/game that will ship form here before i can get down any real details for use in the new game manual.

EDIT: thought i'd take out the link

[kaan]

Originally posted by child of Thor


Well, I've been looking on ebay for a compiler ebay item but i'm not sure about this..... if its the right one etc?
I've also been looking over the old manual and doing some rough notes on the good and bad points - although i'm aware i'll have to wait for nearer complete versions of the code/game that will ship form here before i can get down any real details for use in the new game manual.

Delivered on a cdr and with no lincence included this sounds like piracy to me and if that is the case you would be just as well off downloading it from kazaa or something similar.
Other than that, yes its the right program and just what you would need to compile the source.

kaan

[Keygen]

The original set was 6 CDs but C++ and Visual Basic are on the first one. Help files however are in the last two CDs so not sure if that is what you want. In the other hand 8 pounds is a very tempting price

[child of Thor]

Thanks! well i was thinking as much - so i'll leave it alone, not my bag all that pirate stuff
I got a friend who will sell me his Visual Studio 6.0 standard edition for around £50 with all the bits that came with it, as he doesn't use it anymore

[J Bytheway]

I have slowed down of late due to having to catch up with all the work that I pushed back in order to get the thing working in the first place. My current project is to reimplement any SLIC functions that anyone wants, which should at the same time teach me a lot about the general structure of the code and databases.

[kaan]

that sounds like a reasonable price for the set, have fun

[Keygen]

If it is written in a cd-r then it is defenetely a pirate copy. Unless the guy don't know the difference between cd-r and pressed CD. And now that I'm thinking it 8 pounds would be the right prise for a pirate copy

[Panag]

Originally posted by Keygen
The original set was 6 CDs but C++ and Visual Basic are on the first one. Help files however are in the last two CDs so not sure if that is what you want. In the other hand 8 pounds is a very tempting price

hi ,

huh , at that price , would you be willing to provide a link as to where they sell that , ......


panag wonders about being an AI , hmmm , nah , just put together with both human and non human parts

have a nice day

[child of Thor]

It was on ebay.co.uk panang and its a copy of the first cd of the official package - so you miss out on lots of stuff, oh and its piracy so not for me - thus i took the link out, but your welcome to go look for yourself

[Panag]

Originally posted by child of Thor
It was on ebay.co.uk panang and its a copy of the first cd of the official package - so you miss out on lots of stuff, oh and its piracy so not for me - thus i took the link out, but your welcome to go look for yourself

hi ,

piracy , no thanks

have a nice day

[Gilgamensch]

panag,

what do you call piracy?

Copying a louse product, which isn't worth 5 cents?

The reason why I am saying so, I am nowadays fairly 'pissed off' with the companies. The stuff they produce (at least for me) is so lousy, that I sometimes think, they don't deserve better.

Before you think I use pirated copies: All the games I have a proper games. Sometimes I must admit, I might have used a backup-copy to playtest and decide shall I spend the money or not. If I dodn't like it, I removed it (including the copy).

I, for a while, used demos to test, BUT most of the time the demos are fantastic, but the program is to be flushed down. This for me, is far worst, than playtesting a pirated real game for deciding to buy. If you can't trust the publisher, you have to take other ways. And this (at least for certain publishers) seems to get the standard. If you are foolish enough to buy the game right away, you are just being missused as a playtester on a non-working product, waiting for new patches to come out (which might take ages????????????)

Nowadays I even do it far more different, I just wait till I can buy the game for 5-10€ in a discount shop or similar.

Two advantages:
1.) You have the original
2.) If it is still a fail, at least not expensive

[child of Thor]

panag - good man(AI program )

And yes Gilg - the fact that alot of stuff is naf these days, coupled with the fact that playable demos are now the exception to the rule, all cant help but encourage the growth of piracy. Still it makes sense to me to pay for the things i like and want to see more of.

Well - i guess a relative quiet time is a good thing over here, it means people are spending what time they can on looking at the code
This is a bar/cafe right? - make mine an earl grey tea with a dash of milk barkeep, its too early for beer!

[The Big Mc]

it is cheep to buy a film then a game these da it is cheep to buy a film then a game these days

which fuels the piracy i know i have “real” copies of ctp ctp2 so i am happy

ps i will have a galloon of beer

[Panag]

Originally posted by Gilgamensch
panag,

what do you call piracy?

Copying a louse product, which isn't worth 5 cents?

The reason why I am saying so, I am nowadays fairly 'pissed off' with the companies. The stuff they produce (at least for me) is so lousy, that I sometimes think, they don't deserve better.

Before you think I use pirated copies: All the games I have a proper games. Sometimes I must admit, I might have used a backup-copy to playtest and decide shall I spend the money or not. If I dodn't like it, I removed it (including the copy).

I, for a while, used demos to test, BUT most of the time the demos are fantastic, but the program is to be flushed down. This for me, is far worst, than playtesting a pirated real game for deciding to buy. If you can't trust the publisher, you have to take other ways. And this (at least for certain publishers) seems to get the standard. If you are foolish enough to buy the game right away, you are just being missused as a playtester on a non-working product, waiting for new patches to come out (which might take ages????????????)

Nowadays I even do it far more different, I just wait till I can buy the game for 5-10€ in a discount shop or similar.

Two advantages:
1.) You have the original
2.) If it is still a fail, at least not expensive

hi ,

eve, if the product aint great , its still no justification for piracy , ...... (!)

have a nice day

[Gilgamensch]

Hi Panag,

In other areas, if the product isn't great somebody else makes a clone and is allowed to sell it legally (i.e. clothes, shoes, etc........), but in computing: The publisher is allowed to rip the customer off

Doesn't sound logical............

And I didn't want to make a justifcation for it, just an explanation.

I think in certain areas, if prices like this would be charged for a product which is rubbish, they would be sued for harrasment...........