<!--QuoteBegin-deaincaelo+Feb 7 2004, 07:50 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (deaincaelo @ Feb 7 2004, 07:50 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> i was actually wondering something... why is it so hard for an AI to hack into a mech compared to a human? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> <b>Might it be because the "human" we're talking about is nearing inhuman levels when it comes to hacking <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
my character had a +20 (I think at least) I wanted to be good at computers but well rounded, so I put a lot into engineering, perhaps engineering won't be so great as an AI, maybe I should reqork my stats for this character... what do you think xect?
<span style='color:gray'>"We're not getting through that, the moment they see trouble they're going to call in reinforcements from the main system, and my old friend 344 might just show up, not that she even knows I exist, but I know of her. At least I hope she doesn't know about me." "Stay here, I'll go and work an end connection request on the port to the main system. That should cue the protocol system to do its job and place the port on receive only for a minute or two. That way reinforcements could still enter, but they won't because they won't know there's a problem" </span> you guys know tcp/ip rules right? Or do I have to explain why the protocol does this?<span style='color:gray'> "After that I'll hide somewhere and some of the security will run off to try to figure out why the port is behaving that way, and that's your chance." "Sneak in or blast in, your choice, but I'm not sticking around" [proceeds with plan]</span>
edit: added proceeds with plan, so the plan would proceed
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'> *hear's Khaim's idea* "Well...Heavy Armor can hump it through those damn things, but just barely I'd reckon. Hope you don't mind the paint job getting scratched." *walks over to Dark's body* *unfixes his web gear for the ammo pouches and slings if over my current* *stocks up on more AR ammo with the new pouches* *crouches under the vent and cups hands in front as a boosting point* "Now are we going or what? Khaim will fix the vent and then I'll start boosting you guys up. Then, I guess I should weld it back shut, right?" *exhales deeply* "Man, we better have some sort of insane luck with us. No CC, and we're running with the Oni." </span></span> <b>We should really keep moving, since when we slow down, we probably slowdown the storyline in the other RPG too. That's not a nice thing to do <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->.
EDIT: Changed the phrasing of two actions to be clearer</b>
<span style='color:purple'>[Welds the vent open beside Terran] "There ya go, vent's open, I'll go last, might need a hand to pull me up, heh." *looks around for anything to use as a stand for getting into the vent*</span>
<span style='color:orange'><b>"Just hurry up. Hey, once I've gotten control of the mech, can you sever the connection to the main system? Also, what's your name?" *waits for him to finish his part of the plan*</span></b>
<b>Well Gwahir. This game isn't likely to continue for much longer anyway, we're getting close to the end of the story, so it won't really matter much. I'm still figuring out what to do afterwards, because it seems to me the NS universe is running out of roleplaying opportunities, too straight and railroading for my liking.</b>
<i>Welding open the vent, you enter and begin moving upwards. You quickly realize, though, that the heavy armors won't be able to crawl up those vents, so you'll have to let this go if you want to use the vents.</i>
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->it seems to me the NS universe is running out of roleplaying opportunities, too straight and railroading for my liking.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
well, you could always do PvP now that there are khraa. or you can make new opportunities. i think the hardest part of being a DM is remaining creative, and you've used more of your creative juces then the rest of us combined. do you want to keep on DMing... or maybe your going to retire to the old DM's home <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<b>I don't like PvP. While it does produce plenty of battle, it gives little in the way of roleplaying. And remaining creative is a good thing, but running the game in a setting that is, by definition, based upon battle, and only battle (after all, the NS universe wasn't really designed for roleplaying <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo--> ), can make it hard to be creative sometimes. So, while I'll certainly continue to run games, I'm considering switching to another setting than the frontiersman one, one that allows me to keep the game changing and progressing.</b>
Lol, sweet, we went from everyone outside the vent to everyone inside and crawling, gogo Xect Character jacking <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->! <span style='color:purple'>*ditches his Heavy Armor in a side vent, hanging onto my welder and Shotgun* "Well, onwards and upwards..." *Continues down the vent*</span>
perfectly allowable I'd say, I mean, come on. This group will sit outside a welded vent and discuss whether or not to go in, not exactly very marine like.
hey, after ditching our HA are we back to Light armor, or just wearing clothes and such? and do we still have helmets etc? just have to ask, lol, wonder how the bionic legs look, probaly really weird <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->.
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'> *looks on as people start ditching their HA in the vents* "Ugh...I'd bet it's the shoulder pads. Well, no point in going up there in only LA. Too many Oni. Maybe we should take the elevator like someone suggested earlier." </span></span>
Er... what does that mean xect o.O? (Very confused ATM) <span style='color:purple'>"Hmm, maybe Terran, but the deck might depressurize soon, and I really don't like the idea of getting caught in it when that happens, that elevator is a long damn way off... Whatever we do, we should choose soon..." </span>
<b>Xect is saying that we tried to go into the vent, and we fit. However, we hit a cliff, and you can't climb in vents. We need JPs to go up, and even LA don't have JPs. Ditching the armor won't help.</b> <span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'> "Well, I say we run for the damn lift. Take it up a few levels. It's pretty close, not that long a way, I think. If we just run for it in our HA, we'll be fine. Besides, even if the deck depressurizes, the HA has a built in atmospheric enviroment. How else do we survive those nasty Lerk spores? It'll hold out, for sure." *runs over to the edge of the group and then gestures over to the elevator* "Come on! Let's go! You don't want to test my theory, do you? The last time the manual said something, we assembled our pistols the wrong way!" *starts to run for the lift* </span></span> <b>Ah, and old reference to the second AG RPG. Memories.</b>
hell yeah! gogo backwards pistols! <span style='color:purple'>"Allright, you have a point... Lets just bloody go somewhere before we all bloody die." *Re-Suits up in his HA and runs like hell after terran* {Yelling} "If you get us killed I'm going to kill you... again." *Throws welder back at the others* "Last guy out welds the vent!"</span>
<b>I'm at a LAN-party right now. Netconnection is not exactly reliable, so I might have problems posting over the next few days. Don't panic if I don't get to post <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo--></b>
<i>Gwahir - You manage to recieve a "positive" response to your attempt to close the connection to the outside system, but you're not sure if it's really working as it should. Seems to be though.
Marines - You find a lift that is able to carry you upwards. Checking the wiring and systems, you find it seems to be working perfectly.</i>
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'> "Alright, let's pile in. HMGs and the only LMG first, shotguns last. That way, if the doors open and somethingh is camping right outside the lift, it gets a couple facefuls of buck." *steps into the lift* "If we hurry fast enough, we might be able to rendevous with our buddies. I think they went to the upper level also. Either that, or we're going to have to ninja our way close enough to the hives or somehow depressurize the deck with those nasty aliens." </span></span> <b>Woo, action! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<b>Guna assume the lift is here now, lol, scince terran is apparently on it... <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> And... 1337 POSTS! *does the L33T donce.* Ok, enough of that now, onto the post. </b> <span style='color:purple'>*Waits for the others to get onto the lift before getting on as well with my shotgun* "Ok then terran, what floor, we're on 13 right now, hold on, I'll just radio the others." {Over Voicecomm} <["Hey, do you guys happen to know what floor the Kharaa are on specifically? Untill we find out we're guna go ahead and go up one floor to make sure we don't get depressurized down here."]> *Looks at the others quickly* "You guys ready? Just say the word and we go up one floor." </span> <b> Lol, we're leaving the Gwahir/Merc mech back there, oh well, it won't be affected by depressurization thankfully, lol, asides from them this is feeling like a very 2 person RPG with me and terran, heh, gogo post spam between 2 people!</b>
<span style='color:gray'>[Code plays back, anything specific you're playing at?]</span>
<i>With all of you inside the lift, the doors close without actually being told to.
Ceanjia: "Well, are you ready then? This is the point where I lean back and enjoy the show, except I lack the algorithm for leaning."
The lift starts moving upwards.
"Only annoying point is that this is going to be a bit too fast for my liking, I mean, it's not even fun. How about we boost the game a bit. I give you a command center, 50 resources and 5 minutes of protection from the ship security system. After that, it's an open game of hunter/hunted."
The lift stops a few floors above, doors still closed.
<b>Darkness, I'm not getting it. How are you "continuing" when you haven't been doing it before, and why are you trying to access the main grid AFTER you two attempted to shut down access to it. You'll have to be just a little bit more specific with what you are doing.</b>
<span style='color:purple'>"Wait-wait-wait, what choice to we have here... If we don't agree, you kill us, if we do, we have an infintesimally small chance of living, whats the point?" *Throws arms up in the air* "Fine by me then Caen, as long as it doesn't involve any painful torture or crap when we die... Then again, if it does, I'll just shoot myself."</span>
I think he gave up on the mech since the doors are sealed off in the real world, but who knows. Maybe he means the core of the mech.
<span style='color:gray'>*As soon as the port finishes its shutdown cycle I reopen the port and stealth through to search for the users Merc talked about*</span>
Sorry Dark, if you still want control, you better do it quickly.
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<b>Might it be because the "human" we're talking about is nearing inhuman levels when it comes to hacking <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Khaim has a +40 on computers</b>
<span style='color:gray'>"We're not getting through that, the moment they see trouble they're going to call in reinforcements from the main system, and my old friend 344 might just show up, not that she even knows I exist, but I know of her. At least I hope she doesn't know about me."
"Stay here, I'll go and work an end connection request on the port to the main system. That should cue the protocol system to do its job and place the port on receive only for a minute or two. That way reinforcements could still enter, but they won't because they won't know there's a problem"
</span> you guys know tcp/ip rules right? Or do I have to explain why the protocol does this?<span style='color:gray'>
"After that I'll hide somewhere and some of the security will run off to try to figure out why the port is behaving that way, and that's your chance."
"Sneak in or blast in, your choice, but I'm not sticking around"
[proceeds with plan]</span>
edit: added proceeds with plan, so the plan would proceed
*hear's Khaim's idea*
"Well...Heavy Armor can hump it through those damn things, but just barely I'd reckon. Hope you don't mind the paint job getting scratched."
*walks over to Dark's body*
*unfixes his web gear for the ammo pouches and slings if over my current*
*stocks up on more AR ammo with the new pouches*
*crouches under the vent and cups hands in front as a boosting point*
"Now are we going or what? Khaim will fix the vent and then I'll start boosting you guys up. Then, I guess I should weld it back shut, right?"
*exhales deeply*
"Man, we better have some sort of insane luck with us. No CC, and we're running with the Oni."
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<b>We should really keep moving, since when we slow down, we probably slowdown the storyline in the other RPG too. That's not a nice thing to do <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->.
EDIT: Changed the phrasing of two actions to be clearer</b>
"There ya go, vent's open, I'll go last, might need a hand to pull me up, heh."
*looks around for anything to use as a stand for getting into the vent*</span>
*waits for him to finish his part of the plan*</span></b>
<i>Welding open the vent, you enter and begin moving upwards. You quickly realize, though, that the heavy armors won't be able to crawl up those vents, so you'll have to let this go if you want to use the vents.</i>
well, you could always do PvP now that there are khraa. or you can make new opportunities. i think the hardest part of being a DM is remaining creative, and you've used more of your creative juces then the rest of us combined. do you want to keep on DMing... or maybe your going to retire to the old DM's home <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<span style='color:purple'>*ditches his Heavy Armor in a side vent, hanging onto my welder and Shotgun*
"Well, onwards and upwards..."
*Continues down the vent*</span>
*looks on as people start ditching their HA in the vents*
"Ugh...I'd bet it's the shoulder pads. Well, no point in going up there in only LA. Too many Oni. Maybe we should take the elevator like someone suggested earlier."
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<span style='color:purple'>"Hmm, maybe Terran, but the deck might depressurize soon, and I really don't like the idea of getting caught in it when that happens, that elevator is a long damn way off... Whatever we do, we should choose soon..."
</span>
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'>
"Well, I say we run for the damn lift. Take it up a few levels. It's pretty close, not that long a way, I think. If we just run for it in our HA, we'll be fine. Besides, even if the deck depressurizes, the HA has a built in atmospheric enviroment. How else do we survive those nasty Lerk spores? It'll hold out, for sure."
*runs over to the edge of the group and then gestures over to the elevator*
"Come on! Let's go! You don't want to test my theory, do you? The last time the manual said something, we assembled our pistols the wrong way!"
*starts to run for the lift*
</span></span>
<b>Ah, and old reference to the second AG RPG. Memories.</b>
<span style='color:purple'>"Allright, you have a point... Lets just bloody go somewhere before we all bloody die."
*Re-Suits up in his HA and runs like hell after terran*
{Yelling} "If you get us killed I'm going to kill you... again."
*Throws welder back at the others*
"Last guy out welds the vent!"</span>
LIVE THREAD LIVE!!
*hooks it up to a generator*
<i>Gwahir - You manage to recieve a "positive" response to your attempt to close the connection to the outside system, but you're not sure if it's really working as it should. Seems to be though.
Marines - You find a lift that is able to carry you upwards. Checking the wiring and systems, you find it seems to be working perfectly.</i>
"OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG"
*passes out*
*Wakes up*
"I'm ok now..."</b>
"Alright, let's pile in. HMGs and the only LMG first, shotguns last. That way, if the doors open and somethingh is camping right outside the lift, it gets a couple facefuls of buck."
*steps into the lift*
"If we hurry fast enough, we might be able to rendevous with our buddies. I think they went to the upper level also. Either that, or we're going to have to ninja our way close enough to the hives or somehow depressurize the deck with those nasty aliens."
</span></span>
<b>Woo, action! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Also, Khaim is approaching 1337! Good job!</b>
And... 1337 POSTS!
*does the L33T donce.*
Ok, enough of that now, onto the post.
</b>
<span style='color:purple'>*Waits for the others to get onto the lift before getting on as well with my shotgun*
"Ok then terran, what floor, we're on 13 right now, hold on, I'll just radio the others."
{Over Voicecomm} <["Hey, do you guys happen to know what floor the Kharaa are on specifically? Untill we find out we're guna go ahead and go up one floor to make sure we don't get depressurized down here."]>
*Looks at the others quickly*
"You guys ready? Just say the word and we go up one floor."
</span>
<b>
Lol, we're leaving the Gwahir/Merc mech back there, oh well, it won't be affected by depressurization thankfully, lol, asides from them this is feeling like a very 2 person RPG with me and terran, heh, gogo post spam between 2 people!</b>
<i>With all of you inside the lift, the doors close without actually being told to.
Ceanjia: "Well, are you ready then? This is the point where I lean back and enjoy the show, except I lack the algorithm for leaning."
The lift starts moving upwards.
"Only annoying point is that this is going to be a bit too fast for my liking, I mean, it's not even fun. How about we boost the game a bit. I give you a command center, 50 resources and 5 minutes of protection from the ship security system. After that, it's an open game of hunter/hunted."
The lift stops a few floors above, doors still closed.
"So, we have a deal?"</i>
*Throws arms up in the air*
"Fine by me then Caen, as long as it doesn't involve any painful torture or crap when we die... Then again, if it does, I'll just shoot myself."</span>
<span style='color:gray'>*As soon as the port finishes its shutdown cycle I reopen the port and stealth through to search for the users Merc talked about*</span>
Sorry Dark, if you still want control, you better do it quickly.