Patching Philosophies

[ericbabe]

That's what I clicked!  Another article I read recommends that if you see this you should (1) disconnect from the internet, (2) shut down all your internet connections with the task manager, (3) reboot for good measure.

After I clicked on the red X it opened a little Window that said it was installing the program it was "advertising" -- I freaked out and opened the task manager and started shutting down every process, then after about 15 seconds of this I realized it would just be faster to shut off the power to my machine.  Apparently in that short time enough of it got into my machine.  My big mistake was not disconnecting from the internet before I rebooted -- when I got back on and ran "Ad Aware" and some other virus checkers there were four new big pieces of spyware on my machine (I usually do a sweep every day, so these were all new).  From things I've read, one of the nasty things this piece of spyware does is to download and install other bits of spyware!

[ChuckK]

Yogi wrote: As may be obvious by my signature, I go back to Avalon Hill Gettysburg (before hexes even). Spent quite a few years after that collecting each AH game as it came out. Sad part was I didn't really have anyone to play them with, but could always play solitaire and/or just look over the game and map.

Yup, though for me it was signing up with SPI and waiting for each magazine with it's featured game to arrive in the mail box every other month.

My family thought I was nuts siting in the basement pushing little cardboard squares and around and rolling dice all by myself. [8D]

[Yogi the Great]

ORIGINAL: ChuckK

Yup, though for me it was signing up with SPI and waiting for each magazine with it's featured game to arrive in the mail box every other month.

My family thought I was nuts siting in the basement pushing little cardboard squares and around and rolling dice all by myself. [8D]

Sounds familiar. I got the SPI magazine/games for about a year and also the AH General Magazine for quite a few years.

My family thought I was nuts too. All these years later I'm still pushing (electronically) those counters around all by myself. I think they were probably right. [&:]

[Drex]

I was doing the same thing myself. I think the last game I got was the Siege fo Constantinople.

[Kriegsspieler]

ORIGINAL: Yogi the Great

ORIGINAL: ChuckK

Yup, though for me it was signing up with SPI and waiting for each magazine with it's featured game to arrive in the mail box every other month.

My family thought I was nuts siting in the basement pushing little cardboard squares and around and rolling dice all by myself. [8D]

Sounds familiar. I got the SPI magazine/games for about a year and also the AH General Magazine for quite a few years.

My family thought I was nuts too. All these years later I'm still pushing (electronically) those counters around all by myself. I think they were probably right. [&:]

Man, I can relate. I began by playing Tactics II when I was a kid and it's been all downhill from there. [8|]
And as to patching -- I've been a beta tester for various of Paradox's games, and so I can speak a little from both inside and outside. What I want to know about a game in the current computer age is two things: 1) is the basic concept behind it a good one, does it provide an interesting situation, and so forth? 2) Is it backed by people who are committed to making it work well and improving on it? I don't really care that a game isn't perfect on release. All I care about while I am learning how to play the game is that the people producing it are responsive to their audience and are committed to making it better.

On both counts, I'm happy with FOF. I'm as impatient as hell waiting for the next patch, but such is the way of these things . . . . [:'(]

[ChuckK]

2) Is it backed by people who are committed to making it work well and improving on it? I don't really care that a game isn't perfect on release. All I care about while I am learning how to play the game is that the people producing it are responsive to their audience and are committed to making it better.  

 
Bullseye, Kriegsspiler!