On Sat, 29 Jun 2002 21:02:02 -0700, "SHONNER" <shonner@hotmail.com>
wrote:
>This site still appears to be the bible as far as TA vs. SC is concerned:
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http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tauwisdom/anon1.html
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>SHONNER
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Took a glance at it, and many of the 'reasons' are design
*differences*, not shortcomings. A few others are misleading, like #
of differrent units. (explain to me the differences between ARM and
CORE missle towers?) And some of the design differences are kinda
odd, and could even be interpreted as shortcomings in TA. For
instance, yeah, point #40- 'all weapons are objects,' doesn't this
sometimes cause lag with things like EMG units? Is an easter-eggish
behavior worth this sort of problem? (OTOH, I'm not sure how to
change this and stay true to the 3D terrain
advantages/disadvantages... but it's still a bad description of the
good things about the idea)
Eh, it was too biased for me to spend any more time picking apart. If
by 'bible,' you mean resource used to bolster pre-concieved biases, I
guess you're right. If by bible you mean an authoritative resource
you can trust, well, I'd rather read Isiah than that website, and I
think that book skirts uncomfortably close to the rantings of a
demagogue, when read quickly.
There are dozens of ways TA kicks butt over SC, even after design
differences/preferences are considered and discounted. The biggest
of these these would be the obviously superior automation and GUI.
But the way to get converts is not by saying 'everything in SC is
stupid (and wrong)' since that ignores what SC did right, and makes
you look childish and ill-informed. Intelligent advocacy is more
imporant than ever now, esp. since TA is getting harder and harder to
find...
To be fair, people and publicists on the SC side will also find the
goofiest things to brag about. 'Set a unit to follow another. You
can even set them to follow each other in turn, creating congo
lines!'(1) Umm, yeah, 'cause the first thing I try to do in a RTS is
create dance scenes and arrange choreography...
1- taken from an actual official SC/WC website
Jonathan Fisher
who finds human nature quite quirky and amusing...
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