My wife wants to give me COTA for Cristmas.....

[MarkShot]

One line of code! I knew a guy who sent 10M dollars in the wrong direction on a communications link to a clearing bank from a brokerage house due to an incorrect sign in his program's generated message. Fortunately, he was able to correct his mistake before market close.

And before you ask, no it wasn't Eddy. Eddy has probably done worse though like through embedded code put someone's pace maker into an infinite loop.

[Mr.Frag]

do you think it has any impact on sales whether it gets out the door in December or not?

The impact is not from a gift standpoint, it's more from the standpoint that holidays are the only time one has to really learn new games properly. It just so happens that I, not having used a single holiday for the entire year am now forced to take the rest of the year off and can find nothing worthy to fill my time. [:D]

So Dave ... preorders ? beta server? <chuckle> I have all this time just going to waste. [:D]

Come Jan, I go right back into the grind and really will not be playing games until next year end. [:(]

[Arjuna]

Mr Frag,

Where are you located? I hold the view that heaven, hell and purgatory are all on this lovely world we inhabit, but could be a little more precise? The reason I'm asking, is that it would be good to get some more networking testing done and this often boild down to convenience for our testers. Many are in Europe, some in North America and a few in Australia. If you would be interested email me at dave[at]panthergames[dot]com. You will need to sign an NDA. Also can you provide a little bio/resume on yourself including contact details and any experience you may have with wargaming/beta testing/scenario design/military.

[Oleg Mastruko]

Frag gets to play the game as tester AGAIN - LOL oh the irony... [:D][:D]

The only thing that amazes me is that Frag apparently does not start to twitch uncontrollably and mumble incoherently at the very mention of the words like "beta", "NDA", or "Australia" [:D]

O.

[grab]

Like Frag I started my Christmas leave yesterday. aint it great, no more real world work now until Jan 3rd 2006.

[Mr.Frag]

I hold the view that heaven, hell and purgatory are all on this lovely world we inhabit, but could be a little more precise?

I'm in Toronto, Canada.

The only thing that amazes me is that Frag apparently does not start to twitch uncontrollably and mumble incoherently at the very mention of the words like "beta", "NDA", or "Australia"

When you work for Big Blue, you quickly learn that NDA means nothing special ... it's the norm for everything you do ... it's only when you get into the restricted NDA types which don't even allow you to admit that you are under a NDA that the fun starts. [X(][:-][X(]

All software whether released or not is beta Oleg, you should know better by now. [:D]

Now Australia ... that sounds like fun ... considering Toronto is about to get buried by a major snowstorm in a couple of hours ...

[Arjuna]

Mr Frag,

Send us an email with the details I mentioned.

[Banquet]

Mr.Frag, don't you have a certain 1.8 patch to be working on? [:D]

Seriously tho, much respect for all your work on WitP. I'm sure CotA will benefit from your experience.

Just as long as you don't post, a year from now, asking if we'd buy the sequel if it had no AI! [;)]

[Mr.Frag]

Send us an email with the details I mentioned.

Already sent it Dave ... Erik sent a follow on too [;)]

[Arjuna]

Nothing received this end from either you or Erik. I am receiving emails though. Can you check the email address and resend please.

[Mr.Frag]

Yea, finally got a bounce back ... pathergames is not quite panthergames [:(]

I'll tell Erik to correct as well.

Ray