Crossfire-Extended

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	Crossfire-Extended posted by Anonymous @ 131.215.220.132 on Mar 27 2008 9:54 AM
Any review of the Crossfire Extended maps cannot escape a discussion of the author, mikeeusa. While it would certainly cause me to think ill of a person, misogyny in itself should not prevent one from making good maps. However, in mikee's case, it seems that he is often more interested in preaching his absurd and puerile hatreds than actually improving the game. He wastes no opportunity in this: it seems that every country he creates in his maps has a government chiefly occupied with the very vocal decrying and enslaving of women, despite having more pressing issues, like monsters everywhere; then again, it does seem that, while exploring the maps, one finds more insults than monsters. He even finds a way to bring his apparently erotic fascination with 14 year old "slave wives" into the game. In a way, mikee could be compared to an adolescent zealot who simply won't stop talking about his beliefs, even when one only enquires as to what time it is. That sort of behaviour quickly becomes annoying. Of course, there's also the Westboro Church comparison, which is quite apt - replace homosexuality with women (and homosexuality! and Europeans, whom he apparently hopes to slaughter in a war some day!), and one has a rather accurate depiction of mikee. At times, it almost seems as though he's a joke gone too far. Ignoring these issues, however, I've still found the maps to be of a very poor quality. Certainly, there are quite a few of them, and they expand the game considerably. However, there are many significant problems: Many of the maps are walled gardens, kept mostly separate from the (woefully incomplete) main maps, sometimes to an absurd extent, thus keeping players away from each other on servers that are already rather empty. While many of the technical ideas are rather novel, the implementations often ignore many parts of the game; for example, running streams affect levitating players more than walking players. The author appears to have significant biases in regards to the game itself, making the maps intentionally unbalanced, apparently. It is essentially impossible for spellcasters to get through many of the maps, due to excessive blocking of spells for no legitimate reason. Unintentional balance and playtesting issues are also a major problem. The maps are, in general, very unstable, in ways that can require DM intervention. I stopped exploring mikeeusa's maps after schmorp had to help me continually due to an insidious timer bug that kept trapping me in a prison, and I lost a rather significant number of valuables due to saving problems with the citydeclouds maps. Other bugs can be very lucrative for players, with one, in particular, allowing players to gain essentially infinite wealth with no risk, very quickly. The maps are simply poorly made. There are grammar and spelling mistakes everywhere; plots and descriptions tend to be rather incoherent; and so on.
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Re: Crossfire-Extended posted by Anonymous @ 69.113.27.13 on Mar 28 2008 3:15 AM   Have you tried the buildable buildings (where you can build buildings on the main map). What do you think of it? (It's a python system).   [Reply]   Re: Crossfire-Extended posted by Anonymous @ 69.113.27.13 on Mar 28 2008 3:28 AM   So your main complaint is that the author is anti-women's rights. "Maps suck" Not as badly as many of the main maps. "No magic" Magic players just charmkill everything. "The maps are, in general, very unstable, in ways that can require DM intervention. I stopped exploring mikeeusa's maps after schmorp had to help me continually due to an insidious timer bug that kept trapping me in a prison, " More info please, maybe this can be fixed. "and I lost a rather significant number of valuables due to saving problems with the citydeclouds maps." file a bug report with schmorp, they use a diffrent map loading system then normal crossfire. He probably doesn't care though. Crossfire-extended uses the normal crossfire server as its base. "Other bugs can be very lucrative for players, with one, in particular, allowing players to gain essentially infinite wealth with no risk, very quickly." mountbank1 bug fixed in cvs.   [Reply]

	Version 1.0.0.0.0C? posted by Anonymous @ 80.144.1.48 on Mar 11 2007 11:08 AM
Heck, did I miss the 1.0.0.0.0C-RC1-beta7? *SCNR*
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Re: Version 1.0.0.0.0C? posted by Anonymous @ 63.116.65.252 on Mar 12 2007 4:30 AM   LOL! 21 more releases before we get a version 1.0.0.0.1, unless they go into the double digit alphanumerics. I wonder if they'll make version 2.0 before year 3000?   [Reply]

	Crossfire-Extended posted by Anonymous @ 63.116.65.4 on Mar 9 2007 3:19 AM
do people like this?
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Re: Crossfire-Extended posted by Anonymous @ 69.113.27.92 on Mar 9 2007 8:58 PM   I do, but I'm me.   [Reply]

	Crossfire-Extended posted by elmex @ 85.180.69.71 on Jan 24 2007 2:12 PM
Hey mikee! Great idea to publish your work! Most of the maps I've seen from you so far looked like a lot of work. It would be a shame if it was lost. Good luck with your project!
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	screw this. posted by Anonymous @ 66.70.10.53 on Jan 24 2007 1:44 PM
I hate mikeeusa. And what is with that version number? mikeeusa is a mysoginist sexist shithead. If he were in europe he would be in jail but he's in the backwards USA (hence mikeeUSA, he loves to smear the 1st ammendment in everyone's face). No one should download his work or the work of anyone associated with him. His works should be deleted from all harddrives and the internet so that his years of playing with his computer in his mom's basment are nothing. Go to hell mikeeusa, go to hell with your god. Oh and cat2 sucks. It has no players.
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Re: screw this. posted by Anonymous @ 75.1.209.158 on Jan 24 2007 3:57 PM   Normally I would dismiss this as trolling. However, the two IP addresses (of at least the ISPs) originate from about the same location (within 40 miles).   [Reply]   Re: screw this. posted by Anonymous @ 83.30.197.10 on Feb 8 2007 11:00 AM   Yeah, sure. How have you localized these ips? anyway, cf has a potential: only a good client(CFplus is going right way) is needed and it can be really popular.   [Reply]   Re: screw this. posted by Anonymous @ 63.116.69.204 on Feb 9 2007 6:35 AM   Why the heck does the originating troll want work to be destroyed? I don't get the thinking behind that. "I don't like someone's personality; therefore destroy all their work." The CFPlus client, I agree, does give crossfire a nice game feel, it needs to be more obvious to download though. Most people don't know where to get it and it's not in the distros yet.   [Reply]   Re: screw this. posted by Anonymous @ 84.48.116.225 on Feb 11 2007 7:42 AM   ... Now, now. just think of the fact that, despite his pointless and reactionary saber-rattling, he is, by virtue of being involved in a free-software project involved in creating a heavy impetus towards libertarian socialism. Also, keep in mind that with that set of opinions, he probably won't be mating, except by means of sperm bank donations.   [Reply]   Re: screw this. posted by Anonymous @ 81.169.183.122 on Feb 12 2007 6:21 PM   Yet he uses his work against one of the main and most important causes of libertarian socialism by opposing women having rights. Unfortunatly there exists countries that will give him the type of wife he wants. I, as well as you, wish these people that control women would be wiped off the face of the planet, but they do have their outlets and supporters. He will procreate, he will join the groups who are against the west and be with his ilk. Hopefully the armies that march against his brethren will dispatch him from this world by way of a bullet from a female soliders weapon.   [Reply]   Re: screw this. posted by Anonymous @ 74.37.79.227 on Feb 13 2007 1:18 PM   Hey, I like your style! Nice to spot a fellow anarchist 'round here.   [Reply]   Re: screw this. posted by Anonymous @ 63.116.67.217 on Feb 16 2007 8:16 AM   Disgusting.   [Reply]   Re: screw this. posted by Anonymous @ 74.37.79.227 on Feb 16 2007 11:39 AM   Yeah. I agree, there need to be more anarchists here.   [Reply]

	MEGA! posted by Anonymous @ 195.177.250.222 on Jan 24 2007 1:32 PM
OMG! The BEST MEDIA ADDITION TO CROSSFIRE EVER! OMG FUCK YEAH! I love opensource.
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