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Ron - Thanks for the advice!
Saw a picture the other day of the Osprey w/ the oar lock set up. Looked like a great idea; definitely one to consider adapting for my discovery.
Thinking long and hard about making up some pontoons over the winter too.
Beans did have some nice overstocked kayaks at their Freeport outlet the a few weeks back though...Hmmm, canoe "upgrades" or a kayak...
|Todd- I've been around the water most of my life and can tell you that nothing beats a pair of oars on any boat -type for getting around under any type of conitions. I've been toying withthe idea of mounting a set of oarlocks on the Coleman canoe I have, but haven't gotten around to it yet. Then I see Old Town canoe company has come out with a canoe- the osprey 15.5 that is set up to row. The only item I'd add is a set of sponsons to increase the stability of the canoe in a cross sea. I have rowed in some very rough weather and never had a problem and in fact I used to troll along the shore of Mount Hope Bay with a rowboat and do quite well on stripers. To me there are too many nuts on the water to be sitting as low as you do in a kayak- I'd rather be higher up so they might see me better not hat it makes alot of difference some times. Now I generally use the canoe just to get to places that are inaccessible by land so I can fish from the shore, but if the circumstances dictate I wil fish from the canoe. Just my $.02 Ron
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|Gordon - Thanks. great food for thought. No plans to retire the canoe as I absolutely love it; just been contemplating an addition to the jr. armada. My wife, however, isn't quite on board with that idea though... ;D
For calm lakes and ponds and slow moving streams a canoe has its advantages. Standing up to cast isn't unreasonable with some canoes in favorable conditions. Certainly there is opportunity to move around. Carrying gear is not an issue, just throw it in. Maybe you could even consider sharing your canoe with a bluefish, something unpleasant even to think about with a kayak. I haven't fished from my kayak yet, but I don't think it is well suited. The kayak has so little drag that fighting a fish will at least require developing some technique.
On the other hand any kayak will lower your center of gravity, be less affected by wind, and probably behave better in waves. A canoe on a windy lake with whitecaps can be a handful even if you are a good paddler. When I had my Pungo in these conditions it was easy to control and felt comfortable (my wife was able to handle the conditions too, but was less comfortable).
My canoes have been reasonably stable general purpose boats. When pushed too far they would suddenly flip. The Pungo wouldn't flip, it just took water into the cockpit until it became unstable. It took some effort to make this happen.
The Pungo behaves well in fast moving tidal creeks and is far superior to a canoe in terms of paddling ease in this environment. The double bladed paddle probably helps less experienced paddlers keep the boat under control, but I guess you could paddle a canoe with one too.
If you can flip a canoe up on to your shoulders it really isn't a chore to carry it (single handed) a couple hundred yards if the wind isn't a problem and you aren't sharing the inside of the canoe with hundreds of biting insects. Despite the lower weight of the kayaks, they don't seem easier to carry. Two people can easily carry two kayaks however by grabbing the handles on the ends.
I can roll a kayak, but rolling a Pungo even with a skirt would be just a stunt. They are designed to allow you to get out (read fall out) easily under any condition. In contrast, a whitewater kayak "locks you in" with thigh braces and footbraces. If you don't roll, you have to get yourself out of the kayak. I did take my whitewater kayak out into moderate post storm waves years ago. In this boat I was comfortable having the whole boat underwater occasionally under whitewater conditions. Powerful ocean waves are another thing. The combination of undertow, rip currents, and waves that could pound you into the bottom are best avoided, IMHO. It is possible to empty a swamped Pungo and get in it in chest deep (calm) water, but I didn't experiment in deeper water. Don't expect to be able to do so without a little practice.
The Pungo's tradeoffs are great for getting from point A to B or just cruising around in bays and salt creeks in my opinion. My wife is delighted with hers too and, although she has paddled a canoe with me, she had no kayak experience. But, don't sell the canoe, it has its place.
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|Thanks guys. Put the canoe to serious use this weekend & for where I've been using it it has been outstanding. Handles chop fairly well (all bayside, nothing too hairy), got me into some very, very, very skinny water, allows me to stand & cast, and covers some decent water fairly quickly when fish were breaking all around.
Check the attached web site, http://www.krugercanoes.com/,
I read a series by a gentleman who uses a Kruger canoe to explore the New England Coast. The maker of these canoes has actually set several world records, he's even paddled one UP the Rio Grande.
If money were no object, I'd order one today. Otherwise, for the ocean, I favor a touring kayak over a sport kayak mainly for the ability to point into the wind, track & get to where you're going a lot faster.
Good point Tod -
This is really at the core of my questions. I have a canoe, a rowing dory, and a W/W raft. The canoe is awesome for ponds and lakes, the dory a bit more versatile with a trolling motor and oars also very good in a moderate river current, and the bronco a real big river vehicle. When I lived out west it was my escape pod into the gorge where there were no people and lots of steelhead.
Out here, what I am finding I don't have is the ability to defy the current and go in the direction I need to go. I watch people in yaks glide against the current until they are out of sight, something I could never do with the tools I have now. Of course a 16 foot aluminum vee with a nice motor would solve all that, but at one tenth to one twentieth the cost the kayak strikes me as the way I can defy the tides at least until my kids are done with college.
That, in a nutshell, is my attraction to yaks - the ability to travel against the tide.
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Canoe vs Kayak? Pros & cons
As a follow up to Juro's Yak census, what are thoughts on a kayak vs canoe? Familiar w/ the general contrasts re stability, portability, speed... Interested in people's thoughts, experiences, opinions.
Gained some great insight from JimW the other evening; would be interested in others' experiences. Have a canoe now & use it quite frequently, but an off-season yak purchase may be in the offing...
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Ron Cook: Dixon, Pitt in line with DukeJanuary 27, 2014 12:12 AM
Jamie Dixon respects Mike Krzyzewski, to say the least. He admires his amazing work as college basketball's winningest coach. But he won't be intimidated by Krzyzewski on the other bench tonight when Pitt plays Duke at throbbing Petersen Events Center. He won't even know Krzyzewski is in the building.
"I'll be paying more attention to his players," Dixon said.
It's a strategy that has worked well for Dixon over the years. He has more than held his own against the game's Hall of Fame coaches. He is 10-5 against Syracuse's Jim Boeheim. He was 8-7 against Connecticut's Jim Calhoun. He is 5-7 against Louisville's Rick Pitino, although he beat him three consecutive seasons in the Big East Conference tournament.
Dixon is 1-0 against Krzyzewski. Pitt beat Duke, 65-64, in overtime in December 2007 at Madison Square Garden in New York. Levance Fields won the game with a step-back 3-point shot in the final seconds. DeJuan Blair had 20 rebounds.
"I said back then that it was a great indicator of where our program was," Dixon said. "We want our school to be the same type of school as Duke. Not just in basketball, but academically."
More wins means more national exposure for a school. More exposure means more and better applicants.
"I think basketball definitely helps the academic side," Dixon said. "For the past 10 years, we've been right there with Duke in terms of wins."
Pitt has won 280 games since Dixon took over in 2003. Duke has won 310 in that same time.
Dixon tied North Carolina State's Everett Case Saturday for fourth place for most wins in his first 11 seasons when Pitt beat Maryland, 83-79. With 11 conference games, the ACC tournament and the NCAA tournament remaining, Dixon has a chance to also pass Gonzaga's Mark Few (291) and Ohio State's Thad Matta (292) to move into second place behind North Carolina's Roy Williams (305) on the 11-season list.
"I like to think our coach is pretty legendary, too," Pitt point guard James Robinson said.
Certainly, Dixon is on his way.
The guess here is Krzyzewski respects and admires Dixon's work, as well.
"I don't think of it as me," Dixon said. "I think of it as having good players ...
"I look at it as me being thankful for the opportunity. My family loves it here. That means the most to me. I work for and with great people. I have great assistants. I'm thankful for the people around me."
Funny, Krzyzewski said the same thing Saturday after Duke crushed Florida State for his 900th win at Duke in 34 seasons. He became just the second coach with 900 wins at one school, joining Boeheim (939). The first 73 of Krzyzewski's record 973 wins came at Army.
"I thank Duke for keeping me," Krzyzewski said. "I've been blessed with being at one of the greatest schools in the world. Great schools don't necessarily always have great people in command. This school has ... We have a good thing going here."
The first thing Dixon mentioned when asked about Krzyzewski was his incomparable success at one school. "I also look at what he's done for USA basketball." Krzyzewski led the United States to gold medals at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics and at the 2010 world championship. He will again coach the U.S. team at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Then, there are Krzyzewski's national championships at Duke.
Four of 'em.
Krzyzewski also took Duke to seven other Final Fours and has an 82-25 record in NCAA tournament games, the most wins by any coach.
You might have heard Dixon hasn't been nearly so successful in the NCAAs. He has taken Pitt to nine tournaments but hasn't made it to a Final Four. His NCAA tournament record is 11-9.
Pitt nearly made it to the Final Four in 2009, losing a fabulous game to Villanova, 78-76, in the Round of Eight. Pitt, under Dixon, has been upset a number of times in the NCAAs by lower seeds. It lost to No. 13 Bradley as a No. 5 seed in 2006. Most painfully, it lost to No. 8 Butler as a No. 1 in 2011. Dixon has never beaten a higher seed in the tournament.
You think you're critical of Dixon for coming up small in the postseason?
Know this: Dixon is pretty hard on himself, as well.
"I don't remember the wins. I only remember the losses," he said. "I can understand the disappointment. No one is more disappointed than we are when we lose.
"We haven't won a national championship, and we've got to get one. It's not about getting to the Final Four. It's about winning a national championship. That's something different. No one remembers who goes to the Final Four. Winning the national championship is the separator."
Maybe this will be the year.
Dixon believes that.
"We think we're as good as anybody."
"Coach Dixon wants it as bad as we do," Robinson said. "He's a winner. He does a really good job of developing his players and relating to his players. He's relentless in what he does. He never lets us take the easy road. He always wants us to get better on the court and in life."
Pitt takes an 18-2 record into a game tonight against Duke and is 6-1 in the ACC, tied for second place with Virginia behind Syracuse (6-0). Duke is right there at 5-2. The game tonight just might be the most-anticipated regular-season game in Pitt history.
Saturday, Maryland coach Mark Turgeon said Pitt is one of the better teams he has coached against in 26 years in the business. "I think they're a top-five team in the country."
Don't be surprised if Krzyzewski says the same thing after Pitt wins tonight.
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'Edible Dallas and Fort Worth: The Cookbook' will soon hit the shelves
A review copy of a new cookbook just landed in my inbox, and it's definitely something to get excited about. Edible Dallas and Fort Worth: The Cookbook is a collection of recipes compiled by Edible Communities, the outfit behind the magazine Edible Dallas and Fort Worth. It's filled with recipes by and stories about some of the people who make North Texas such a wonderful place for food lovers: farmers, chefs, talented home cooks, a chocolatier, a cheesemaker, a pie-maker and more.
Just flipping through, I marked at least a dozen pages of recipes I'm excited to try: pickled green beans and carrots with blistered tomatoes from Smoke chef Tim Byres, for instance. There's a zucchini soup with parmesan and lemon zest from chef Molly McCook at Ellerbe Fine Foods in Fort Worth that looks like a must-try.
Congratulations to our own Kim Pierce, who has several recipes, including one for okra in browned butter that looks wonderful. (And yippee!–I happen to have a pound of okra in my fridge.) Kim's sig-o, Italian wine blogger extraordinaire Alfonso Cevola, contributed his Cevola family eggplant parmigiana, a dish whose deliciousness I can attest to. (And I love his tagline: hoja santa grower for the Mozzarella Company, Dallas). Yes, Paula Lambert's represented, with her recipe for roasted beets, feta and frisée salad. Now that its cool enough to venture outside and light the grill, Kent Rathbun's grilled Gulf shrimp and vegetable salad (from Rathbun's Blue Plate Kitchen) looks appealing. In a month or two, I'll be onto Jon Bonnell's red chile braised short ribs from Bonnell's Fine Texas Cuisine in Fort Worth.
For dessert? I can't wait to try the Texas grapefruit pie from Kate Nelson of Piecurious. And from Dude, Sweet Chocolate's Katherine Clapner, Turkish coffee truffles. Doesn't that sound great? Normally I'd be I too intimidated to make them, but no candy themometer's involved — they sound pretty easy.
The book's pub date isn't till Oct. 2, but you can pre-order now.
Edible Dallas and Fort Worth: The Cookbook, edited by Terri Taylor; Sterling Epicure, $19.95
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Comedian Lewis Black to perform, Oct. 17
Posted October 5, 2004; 12:12 a.m.
Comedian Lewis Black of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" will perform at 8:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 17, at Jadwin Gymnasium.
Black is a commentator on the news satire show and winner of the American Comedy Award for best male stand-up comedian. The concert is sponsored by the Undergraduate Student Government .
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By Brandon Speck/NEMS Daily Journal
The Houston Hilltoppers have quietly gone about their business. Now they're looking to get loud.
Houston, the Journal's ninth-ranked team, is 22-5 on the season and in the North's elite eight. The eight converge on Corinth today for the remainder of the MHSAA Class 4A North Mississippi tournament.
Houston coach Bruce Franks hopes he gets the "consistent" one of his two teams.
"You don't know which team you get," he said. "They can play when they play together."
Houston beat Noxubee County by 16 in the regular season, then lost by 14 to the Tigers in the division tournament.
The North championship game is set for Saturday night with only the top two teams advancing to the state tournament.
Houston has arguably the toughest draw for the quarterfinals, facing perceived favorite Amanda Elzy at 8:30 p.m. Corinth, the Journal's No. 1 team, is also a top 4A contender.
Chris Jones may be the most recognizable of the Toppers, a 6-foot-6 presence inside, but 6-2 big man Caleb Morgan runs the floor, Franks says point guard Chris Thornton does a lot of things that won't make the paper and guards Anquan Russell and Sharone Wright are shooters.
"We've got Elzy. I understand they are the team to beat," Franks said. "We just have to be consistent in the things we do. We can't have any mental lapses, get loose balls and make the hustle plays."
We meet again
No. 4 Booneville and No. 2 Mooreville split two regular season meetings and now play an elimination game at 4 p.m. today in Class 3A at Mooreville.
"We always want to beat Booneville," Mooreville big man Austin Timms said. "We get them here on our home floor. We just want to give them a game."
The tournament also features No. 7 Aberdeen and contender Velma Jackson at 7 p.m.
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Donkey's revenge is when a girl has been donkey punched and decides to get revenge. While receiving anal sex from the male, she has a friend sneak into the room and just as the male is reaching climax, her friend punches the male in the back of the head, interrupting his orgasm and hopefully making him think twice before he tries a donkey punch again.
Angry about the fact that Peter had donkey punched her the previous week, the next time they had anal sex, Charlotte had her friend Bella come into the room and smash Peter in the back of the head just as he reached orgasm. After being on the receiving end of the Donkey's Revenge, Peter decided against Donkey Punching his girlfriend in the future.
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What's the infamous Hello Kitty Lady all about?
BAD Pts Need: R5-C7 lf leg (x2), , R4-P44 right leg BAD Pts Offered For Trade: PM me - I have lots of parts now including BG-J38!. New Kyle Katarn is also available.
Ah, "Hello Kitty Lady," where to begin?
Well, off the top of my head I can remember her threatening to have my car towed because I parked it in front of her strip-mall store even though I was going to the 7-11 in the strip mall and the spots in front of her store are not exclusively hers... I recall her telling me to get out of her store because I had the audacity to move a couple figures aside on the peg in order to see what was behind them (and no, I didn't drop anything or have dirty funky hands - I was actually being extremely careful)... then there was the time I tried to take an empty "Star Wars Figures" box (you know - the ones Hasbro ships the figures in) off the top of the garbage can in front of her store and she told me to put it back, it's not mine, but I can have it for $5 (this was outside her store, mind you, among a pile of smashed & dirty cardboard boxes that were going to be picked up by the garbage man)... then there were the times she harassed my friends, also for parking in front of her (closed at the time) store... and last but not least, she arrived a few minutes late to a WalMart once, just behind my friend who was buying sets of UGH coin figures for fellow collectors and when she cried over "needing those figures for her store," he actually gave her a set to buy. But that wasn't enough and she followed him to the register, screaming that he was trash and filth and that he was buying all of HER figures (in front of my friend's two young children, might I add.)
Wow. That's quite a bit for off the top of my head!
I don't even bother going to Kitty Store adjacent TRU anymore. Don't believe I EVER found anything good. A quick siteseeing trip next door was more than enough to know what was going on there.
Gree, trooper and Panning Droid up on HTS now
Wow! I pictured the "Hello Kitty Lady" as a broken-English speaking, elder Asian woman saying, "Fife dollah! Fife dollah!" and "You touch my Sta Waz, I hate you long time! Yes. I hate you long time!"
"No porking! My store! No porking here! You go 'way! You got fife dollah? Then no porking!"
Did I peg that one right?
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Just came from Van Nuys TRU looking for anything worthwhile with their but 2 get 1 free sale. Nothing new.
The Kitty World store wasn't even open, and it is a mess of shelving inside. Somethings going on, cause it was bad a few weeks ago, and worse today. I don't see it lasting much longer.
Last time I was there there was a card tournament starting. The man running it was clueless and made 3 kids leave the store if they didn't want to play. $5 bucks or leave.
On a good note a new Circle K opened up where 7-11 was and it is a lot nicer.


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10 meter radios are two way radios that operate on the 10 meter frequency band. Out of the box, they will not communicate with a CB radio, but it is popular to modify them to operate on CB frequencies. Doing this allows you to have, essentially, a very high powered 10 meter CB radio. This practice is illegal and CB World does not modify or work on 10 meter radios. We do sell the radios stock, though. What you do with your radio once you get it is on you!
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Until Raven releases the editors and the sdk, we can't really do much as far as editing goes....but we can make some cool skins and sabers while we're waiting.
Are any of you interested in learning how to do so? If you are, I wrote out a step by step guide that I can post and help you through.
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A young cyclist was hit by a car in central Auckland about 8.15am today.
The man, who looked to be in his late teens or early 20s, was cycling down Vincent St towards the city when a car turning right into a building collided with him, a policeman at the scene said.
The man was flat on his back for about 20 minutes before an ambulance arrived and took him to hospital.
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Digital dividend and TV white spaces
In traditional analogue TV broadcasting, adjacent channels cannot be used at the same time, because the signal from one channel will "spill" over the two adjacent channels and cause interference. This is similar to the median used in freeways to separate the two directions of traffic in order to prevent collisions. A "white space" must be left between two contiguous analogue TV channels to prevent interference. Digital TV broadcasting is much more efficient in spectrum use, and several digital TV channels can be accommodated in the same frequency band formerly used by a single analogue channel without "spillover" in adjacent channels. In places where analogue TV is replaced by digital TV a "digital dividend" is being harvested. The concept of white spaces can be applied to three different ranges of frequency: a) Spectrum that has been assigned to TV broadcasting but it is not currently being used. This applies particularly to developing countries, in which there has been no economic incentive for broadcasters to use every available TV channel. b) Spectrum that historically had to be left unused in between two adjacent analogue TV channels to prevent interference. c) The spectrum that has been reclaimed ("refarmed") in the transition to digital terrestrial TV. This currently applies to developed countries, but will soon apply to developing countries as well. The last 20 years has seen tremendous growth in demand for spectrum for mobile communication services, in which data services are consuming much more bandwidth than voice and the growing use of video is presenting an additional challenge. Not surprisingly, telecom operators everywhere are vying for a portion of these "white spaces". Broadcasters, on the other hand, are very reluctant to cede any spectrum to direct competitors.
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Posted 03 November 2008 - 07:02 PM
No geographic discrimination in this (some of the best eurogames are written by americans like Alan Moon or Tom Lehman), but this kind of boardgames have been reinvented in Germany (let's say that the starting poing could be Settlers of Catan) and define a new kind of standard :
- no random or limited random (light use of dices if needed)
- usually less than 2h of play (mostly 1h)
- the them is not the most important part, mechanism are the heart of the game.
Well, if you want more informations on boardgames, you can have a look on http://www.boardgamegeek.com in english or http://www.trictrac.net for french people.
This project is about using some mechanisms inspired by boardgames I like and practice into a new videogame. It will not be a straight port from an existing game. It will not be a straight transcription of a boardgame that I could create.
OK, let's start to explain the concept. This game is for 1 to 4 players. So, all informations must be visible, you cannot imagine to reproduce hidden card from player's hand if his opponent can look at the screen. Also, it must allow players to act simultaneously, and not to let one player at a time to play.
The theme is based on space exploration. Each player start from its own plante and will develop his empire by exploration, colonisation. In order to progress and get new technologies, he will need to do some research. In order to build these new technologies, he will ned to get materials...
The main screen of the game is a dashboard where every player can see some of his characteristics :
He can also choose one of the 7 possible actions. Every player choose in secret his action. Then, the turn can start.
The possible actions are :
Explore = explore intersideral map, in order to discover new planets, asteroids...
Terraform = colonise a newly discovered planet...
Product = for each of the 4 material, the stock will be incremented by the prod capacity...
Research = spend experience points into different capacities, in order to discover new technologies...
Build = build a new techology, once discovered...
Market = trade material...
Prospect = get 1 free material...
Once every player has chosen his action, a recapitulative dashboard is displayed :
Now, a few words on action selection. Except for prospection, when a player chose an action, every other player will be able to perform this action. But the player(s) who chosed it wil get a special bonus. This is done to avoid player to wait to long for another player. And also, thi include a part of double-guessing in game (I think he will choose this so I can choose this other, but if no one...). With prospect action, you only get 1 free goods, randomly chosen (depending on your prospection skill).
In next posts, I will explain each possible actions and specific bonus.
Here is the alpha demo version.
It allows only one player, and IA are not operant.
Build and Market actions are not active.
Terraform action is not active because Colonisation status is Off (it will be enable via Build action)
Space.zip 341.17KB 822 downloads
On title screen, you can adjust it to your TV set by pressing C button and moving D-pad.
You can change the background by pressing B button and moving D-pad left and right (5 different background are available)
Press A to start game.
The player selection menu is displayed but not operative. Press C button to go to main game menu.
Then select an action with Jagpad. The red square near player avatar indicates that everyone has made his choice. Press A.
You can have a look on different action screens. I will get back to each of them later in this topic.
Posted 04 November 2008 - 04:32 PM
Private joke : you'll need to change Kurk's hair now...
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Jaguar, Lynx, ST, Falcon... Good stuff !
Posted 04 November 2008 - 05:37 PM
Before the explanation of the explore action, just a few words on mechanism behind the action selection.
The Jaguar has a (nearly) unique feature which is the jagpad and the numeric pad. I wanted to use this specific plus, and a simultaneous selection is really adapted to numeric pad.
There are lots of boardgames with role or action selection, a brief history :
- Citadels (B. Faidutti) : there is 8 different roles, one is discarded secretly, then each player chose a role secretly. So you have a clue on what previous players may have chosen but you cannot be sure because of the discarded card. Then role are called in their order and player reveal itself, do the standrd turn action (take money or card then build) and his specific action, depending on his role. Note that role selection is based on Meuterer/verrater (MA. Casasole-Merkle)
- Puerto Rico (A. Seyfarth) : the role are visible, at his turn, a player choose between all available role, and all player perform the role. The active player get a bonus depending on the role. Then next player choose between remaining roles. When all player chosed one role, remaining role get one money as bonus, and all role are available. First player change, and a new turn begins. Note that there is one role (prospection) where only active player perform the action (get 1 money). Everithing is show in the game (except victory point gained at expeditions)
- San Juan (A. Seyfarth) is the card game based on Puerto Rico. Same mechanism for role selection, but the game use hidden card in hand.
- Race for the galaxy (T. Lehmann) was intended to be the Puerto Rico cardgame adaptation. But, as San Juan has been done before, the author changed his game into a spece theme, and adapt the role selection. Each player chooses between different roles simultaneously. Then all players reveal their choics. All player will perform all selected roles. A bonus is awarded to player's selected role.
So basically, the mechanism that fit best would be Puerto Rico/San Juan or Race for the galaxy. I choosed Race for the Galaxy, because it add a small part of double guessing, and because everyone choose his role at the same time, so we lose less time.
But the roles are different from R4TG, just because the game is not card oriented (in R4TG or San Juan, the money are your cards in hand, so you build a card in hand with other card that you discard). The prospector role come from Puerto Rico and is a wait & see role, when you do not want to give advantage to other player, but you get small reward.
Action 1/ Exploration
This action does not exist in this form boardgames that inspired me. There are similar action in San Juan & R4TG but this is just draw new cards.
Here, player will have the ability to explore map :
You notice on each player dashboard the notion of Range. When a player does not select Explore action, he is limited to explore to this range.
If he chosed Explore, he can explore all the map (like Dakoi and Kurk players in this screenshot). Basically, in final version, bonus will probably be less important (add +2 to range)
Of course, Range will be increased when buiding new technologies.
There are 4 starting planet on each corner, other plantes are hidden, when a player discover one, it will be visible for eveyone, but belongs to nobody.
There is also empty spaces and asteroids. When a player discover asteroids, his computer (the help bubble) will remember it. Asteroids give materials, more the first time, only 1 material other times. Other player can notice when you find asteroids, but unless they explore this case, there computer will not be aware of it.
Basically, you win 1 experience point when exploring an Unknown case (whatever it contains), 1 experience point when discovering a new planet, materials when exploring asteroids.
Posted 05 November 2008 - 06:18 PM
Basically, this is the same display than Exploration. Once again, this action is possible due to the use of a computer/console, because it would be a pain to do in real (too much time lost into actions).
The notion of range applies for everyone. A player can terraform any planet already discovered if it is into his range and if he already got a technology that allow him to terraform/colonise.
There is delay of terraforming in turns, during this delay, the planet will be intransition phase. The bonus given to player is to decrease this delay.
Once the terraforming is completed, depending on terraforming technologies built, the planet will be able to produce materials. So next time a production action will be performed, the planet will produce.
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Posted 19 November 2008 - 10:59 AM
This is not a RPG, but a boardgame inspired game. The kind of games you can make a whole game in something like 1 hour
Of course, if you are not familiar with this kind of game, the first approach may be a bit strange.
But I guess that I should not use all my spare time playing Mass Efeect on my 360 and rather use some of it to continue work on this little game.
Action 3/ Production
A very easy to understand action, the stock of each player will be incremented by the corresponding production.
Players who chosed production as action will get free materials as rewards...
This is basically the prodction action as defined in Puerto Rico or San Juan.
An interesting point in Puerto Rico is that reserves of goods are limited, so if you cannot get enough goods from reserve to perform production action, then you 'lose' a part of this action. This will not occur here...
Posted 21 November 2008 - 11:52 AM
This is where you will spend your experience points hardly awarded for exploration
There are 5 different technologies in which you may want to spend XP points :
In each of these technologies, there are different characteristics (Range, Efficiency..).
The main goal of reserch is to spend enough XP points in order to unlock new build options.
Depending on technology you will choose, you will have different build options and different way to play/win.
Will you choose to explore wide space or optimise your productions ?
The bonus for choosing Research option is 1 free XP point.
Posted 05 September 2009 - 09:50 PM
Action 5/ Build
No screenshot yet
Building is the heart of the game. It will allow you to get larger exploration area, terraforming capacity and improve it, increase production process.
In order to build,you will need to have the minimum XP points spent in research areas, and it will cost some materials.
Here is the work in progress list of build options, with name, experience required, cost needed and desciption of bonus.
Sparrow decenium
Range=2 Efficiency=0 Length=0
Hg=5 Pl=0 Xe=0 Au=0
Add 1 range
Sparrow centenium
Range=5 Efficiency=5 Length=0
Hg=10 Pl=0 Xe=0 Au=0
Add 2 range
Sparrow millenium
Range=2 Efficiency=3 Length=3
Hg=10 Pl=0 Xe=0 Au=0
Allow terraforming
Terraforming delay - 1
Falcon decenium
Range=3 Efficiency=1 Length=0
Hg=3 Pl=2 Xe=0 Au=0
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Falcon centenium
Range=5 Efficiency=5 Length=0
Hg=6 Pl=2 Xe=1 Au=1
Add 2 range
Falcon millenium
Range=2 Efficiency=3 Length=3
Hg=5 Pl=3 Xe=0 Au=0
Allow terraforming
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Eagle decenium
Range=4 Efficiency=3 Length=0
Hg=4 Pl=3 Xe=2 Au=2
Add 2 range
Eagle centenium
Range=6 Efficiency=5 Length=0
Hg=3 Pl=3 Xe=3 Au=3
Add 4 range
Eagle millenium
Range=3 Efficiency=3 Length=5
Hg=4 Pl=3 Xe=2 Au=2
Allow terraforming
Terraforming delay - 2
Phoenix decenium
Range=5 Efficiency=5 Length=0
Hg=2 Pl=2 Xe=2 Au=2
Allow to take 1 ressource to
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Phoenix centenium
Range=5 Efficiency=7 Length=7
Hg=2 Pl=2 Xe=2 Au=2
Unterraform a planet during
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Phoenix millenium
Range=9 Efficiency=9 Length=9
Hg=10 Pl=10 Xe=10 Au=10
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Goose centenium
Range=3 Efficiency=5 Length=0
Hg=5 Pl=2 Xe=0 Au=0
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Goose millenium
Range=3 Efficiency=5 Length=0
Hg=2 Pl=2 Xe=2 Au=2
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Duck decenium
Range=3 Efficiency=3 Length=0
Hg=0 Pl=5 Xe=2 Au=2
Give 1 exp bonus
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Duck centenium
Range=2 Efficiency=3 Length=3
Hg=3 Pl=3 Xe=1 Au=1
Give 2 exp bonus
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Duck millenium
Range=2 Efficiency=5 Length=5
Hg=3 Pl=3 Xe=1 Au=1
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Cow generator
Hg=3 Pl=0 Xe=0 Au=0
Add 1 Hg
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Blondie generator
Hg=3 Pl=2 Xe=0 Au=0
Add 1 Pl
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R2X1 automate
Hg=0 Pl=1 Xe=0 Au=0
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Squirrel generator
Hg=3 Pl=3 Xe=2 Au=2
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Jack potential
Hg=5 Pl=5 Xe=5 Au=5
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Hg=0 Pl=0 Xe=2 Au=2
Give 2 exp bonus
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Gold generator
Hg=3 Pl=3 Xe=3 Au=3
Add 1 Au
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Megajack potential
Hg=10 Pl=10 Xe=10 Au=10
Double production
R2X3 automate
Hg=0 Pl=0 Xe=3 Au=3
Give 3 exp bonus
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Hippie Pourrah
Hg=20 Pl=20 Xe=20 Au=20
Double production
Hydrogen Market
Hg=5 Pl=0 Xe=0 Au=0
Exchange rate
Hydrogen 3:1
Platinium Market
Hg=3 Pl=2 Xe=0 Au=0
Exchange rate
Platinium 3:1
Xerium Market
Hg=3 Pl=0 Xe=2 Au=2
Exchange rate
Xerium 3:1
Super Market
Hg=2 Pl=2 Xe=2 Au=2
Exchange rate
all 3:1
Hg=8 Pl=0 Xe=0 Au=0
Exchange rate
Hydrogen 2:1
Hg=4 Pl=3 Xe=0 Au=0
Exchange rate
Platinium 2:1
Hg=4 Pl=0 Xe=3 Au=3
Exchange rate
Xerium 2:1
Hyper Market
Hg=3 Pl=3 Xe=3 Au=3
Exchange rate
all 2:1
Tera Market
Hg=3 Pl=3 Xe=3 Au=3
Exchange rate
all 2:1
Hg=5 Pl=5 Xe=5 Au=5
Exchange rate
all 1:1
Platinium detector
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Hg=4 Pl=0 Xe=0 Au=0
Increase Platinium
Platinium sniffer
Platinium=3 Xerium=0 Gold=0
Hg=3 Pl=2 Xe=0 Au=0
Increase Platinium
Platinium extractor
Platinium=7 Xerium=0 Gold=0
Hg=3 Pl=5 Xe=1 Au=1
Increase Platinium
Platinium=10 Xerium=0 Gold=0
Hg=3 Pl=5 Xe=3 Au=3
Increase Platinium
Xerium detector
Platinium=0 Xerium=2 Gold=0
Hg=6 Pl=0 Xe=0 Au=0
Increase Xerium
Xerium sniffer
Platinium=0 Xerium=4 Gold=0
Hg=3 Pl=2 Xe=1 Au=1
Increase Xerium
Xerium extractor
Platinium=0 Xerium=8 Gold=0
Hg=3 Pl=1 Xe=3 Au=3
Increase Xerium
Platinium=0 Xerium=10 Gold=0
Hg=3 Pl=3 Xe=5 Au=5
Increase Xerium
Golden eye
Platinium=0 Xerium=0 Gold=5
Hg=10 Pl=5 Xe=0 Au=0
Increase Gold
Gold finder
Platinium=0 Xerium=0 Gold=10
Hg=10 Pl=10 Xe=5 Au=5
Increase Gold
Posted 07 September 2009 - 08:52 AM
So let's jump directly to last action
Action 7/ Prospection
This action is very simple, you get 1 free material.
The choice will depend on your probabilities of finding each material, if you have a look at bottom of build list, you will notice that some builds affect these probabilities (it is also used for terraforming, it affects which kind of material the planet will produce)
This action is different from the other, because it does not affect other player, and give no extra bonus.
Or you may consider it a wait move : do nothing (everyone) and give 1 material as bonus (player who chosed this action).
This kind action exist in Puerto Rico, only when number of player is sufficient (but Puerto Rico does not have same role selection mechanism if you look closely at the first posts, so this action is only to allways give last player a choice between a standard role and get 1 bonus for himself only)
This may be useful when you need an extra material and don't want to chose explore to go back on a asteroid or production, because this would imply to let opponent explore and produce (or maybe, you expect your opponent to chose explore & production and want another material, but be careful, if everyone act like you....)
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There are still some things to do for technology, to implement the market, but the biggest problem is that last time I tested it for a long time, I had memory corruption and program crashes, so I need to find why, but it is not easy to play for 1 hour or 2 in order to make a (nearly random) bug appear, and having to retry if I don't find why...
And of course, there are still no AI, and this will be a big job to implement.
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Thanks again Steve.
Your dog days may be just beginning but things haven't even got rolling up here yet.
Big stripers are pushing herring in the Merrimac and Casco Bay has yet to even warm up.
I think you'll hear more from me this season. I've decided to spend more time on the water than I have the last few seasons. I've got to get my casting back into shape and stregthen my leg muscles so I'll be able to remain standing in the bow of that Whaler of your's when the water gets lively.
I don`t know about that! Lets see, since last Wed when we last were together. I worked Thur, Fri, Sat, Mon, Tues and Wed, with Thur and Fri still to go! Of course the weather`s supposed to turn crappy for my once every 2 months Sat off.
It was a real pleasure to have Mike onboard! It was a far cry from Albies off the WW, but he rose to the occasion and boated a bunch of nice fish. His biggest wish was to catch a fish as big as his newest son, and he came real close, 29"! Guess thats why we haven't heard much from him lately.
It's nice to be called Capt., but I really don't deserve it, I'm just a guy with a boat that likes to fish. Real Capts. have earned that title with a lot of hard work and study and time on the water. I would be an egomaniac if I thought I was in the same league with people that have devoted a lifetime to attain such an honored title.
I think the easy, big numbers fishing is about to end with the fish spreading out and taking up summer residences. Now it will become more about structure and current and matching the hatch. We may see a few more days of wide open surface blitzes but the summer pattern is about to set in. That leaves us plenty of time to fantasize about TUNA!
Slinger is the man!
He's hard core.
Spends more time on the water than he does in his bed.
Heck!.... even more time than work.
Hot time on the Bay - late report from sunday
Captain Slinger was kind enough to have me aboard for a little excursion on the Bay this past Sunday. The action was as hot as the sun. Foolishly I got so caught up in the catching that I failed to apply sun protection or drink even slightly reasonable amounts of water. Although I took a couple of days to recover, I'd do it again [prolly will ].
Conditions were beautiful for boating but I was skeptical that stripers could be found. As a longtime land bound striper hound, I depend on whitewater, riptides, and lots of exposed rock to point me toward the fish. It was hard to reconcile the mill pond conditions with the stripers I'm used to hunting.
We launched at sunrise from a very nice little park in [i think] Providence. Right away we were into schools of full sized adult pogies. Although no preditors seemed to be bothering them, I was very excited as I have not seen big pogies in years. I'd like to think some of those schools would make it up to Casco Bay for my vacation at the end of June. It has been many years since the big pogies have brought the great fishing of the early 90s to that region. Unfortunately I'm told there are still pogy boat at work in the Bay .
Anyway, Steve took me on a nice tour of many of his spots, many of which produced the occasional schoolie. Finally we spotted birds and breaks out in the middle of what to me looked like a structurless, currentless, well, mill pond. The stripers didn't seem to care however and we had a couple of hours of running up on schools, catching a few before they sounded, then spotting another school near by. We had a lot of fun, especially after Steve was kind enough to provide me with the correct fly as well as the special retrieve I needed to keep up with his mounting tally.
The fish were chasing silversides and were trapping them against the surface in water that was sometimes as much as 50 feet deep. It was interesting from my land based perspective to hook stripers at the surface and have them run straight down. I had to winch them to the surface like blackfish. There were every size from runts to keepers but the aggressive little ones seemed to get most of the flies. I managed to land one cocktail blue that didn't steal my [Steve's] fly.
It was a great day on the water!
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Tizen OS Shows Up On Rightware Browsermark, Appears Close To A Samsung Debut
Two phones that are believed to be bearers of Linux-based Tizen, the Samsung GT-I8800 and the Samsung GT-I8805, registered Rightware Browsermark scores on Rightware's Power Board. Neither are top of the class, although the GT-I8800 currently sits in the 9th spot in the rankings, while the GT-I8805 is at number 21.
Samsung GT-I8800 running Tizen (Credit: Tizen Greek Community)
Both are running "Tizen Browser 2", and it's notable that the GT-I8800 is a stock model while the GT-I8805 lists Orange as its carrier.
It's unclear when the devices may arrive, but the fact that someone is benchmarking them is a good sign that they'll be here soon. Presumably, Samsung will continue putting Android on the majority of its handsets, but it's intriguing that the company is exploring additional operating system options.
Samsung has previously indicated that its (partially) homegrown Tizen will likely appear on devices such as TVs and home appliances next year, so it's possible that Samsung is looking to build its own ecosystem of connected devices running its own operating system.