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Comment Texas native (Score 1) 228

by liquidcable on Monday December 11, 2023 @08:33AM (#64072735) Attached to: Is There a Mass Exodus of Former Silicon Valley Tech Companies From Austin, Texas?

I'm an hardware engineer and I was born, raised, and went to school in Texas. I live in the Austin area. I'd move tomorrow if my wife would let me. Austin has never really had a good tech startup scene, its crazy hot in the summer and the summer lasts 5 months, the politics is very alienating, housing cost is high, and just like all states taxes are needed but Texas tries to hide the taxes so it looks low on the surface but once you start adding it up and it's not much better than most other places.

Comment Portland weather (Score 1) 58

by liquidcable on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @08:11AM (#61115362) Attached to: Linus Torvalds Went Six Days Without Electricity, Swears Smaller 5.12 Kernel Is Co-Incidental

I live near Austin Texas and it got pretty bad here, but I lucked out. I thought the Portland area didn't get hit hard. I'm pretty sure he doesn't like in Portland proper but near Lake Oswego.

Comment OpenERP (Score 2) 163

by liquidcable on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @06:55PM (#44954261) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Open Source CRM/ERP System For a Small Business?

OpenERP

Jumpgate Evolution Dev Talks Class Balance 86

Posted by Soulskill on Friday July 31, 2009 @06:39AM from the check-out-my-+1-laser dept.

Hermann Peterscheck recently made a post on the Jumpgate Evolution developer blog about NetDevil's strategy for balancing the various classes of ships in the game. They seem to be taking a different approach from most MMOs in letting the PvP side of the gameplay set the baseline, rather than allowing PvE concerns to override that. From the section titled Combating Combat: "Early on our lead systems designer, Jay Ambrosini, came to the correct conclusion that all of the preliminary balancing was best done in a PvP context. The reasoning is that in PvE, the player needs to feel powerful, but in PvP the fight needs to feel balanced. Once ship classes are balanced in PvP, its not as hard to make the player feel powerful in PvE, but the opposite is not true. We spent many weeks playing just the first class of ship, the light fighter, in teams of 5 or 6 in order to evaluate what it was that made those ships fun to fly and fight. After daily battles, you begin to see what makes those ships work. We also started with the mid level ships as opposed to the low or high level ships. This is primarily because you can find the center point and then work upwards and downwards from there. ... It's very tempting to just throw a bunch of classes of ships together in order to say things like "our game has 15 classes of ships!" but this, we believe, is the wrong direction. People want meaningful and strong choices and not lots of meaningless, empty choices. Currently we plan to have 4-6 classes, but they will each have nearly endless possible configurations within those groups."

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