Re: [Audyssey] combat drones

2009-10-22 Thread Darren Harris
It is somewhat adictive isn't it. I woke this morning to over 1000 fuel again so I'm happy with that!!! So now am going to feed my dog and then it's trade missions for a good while I think with the odd passenger one I think. Hmmm come to think of it, I think I have a resident that I forgot about...

Re: [Audyssey] entombed

2009-10-22 Thread Jason Allen
Hi Hayri, It doesn't currently. I asked the company for their SDK though. Tom, does MOTA use Infovox? If so, how did you find implementing it? Cheers! Jason On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Hayri Tulumcu wrote: > How infovox desktop to work in Entombed? > > --- Gamers mailing list __ Game

Re: [Audyssey] Asking a technocal question.

2009-10-22 Thread The Kolesar Brothers
Thanks cory. You advice worked like a charm. Here's a lesson to all of we gamers who's thinking about the ms fs glying sim or just wants to work with a headset mic combo. Ron and that four pawed game cheater boz who turns seven on Saturday. Matt & Ron Kolesar & there great Dogs! kolesar16...@road

Re: [Audyssey] Mota

2009-10-22 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Hayri, You'll just have to wait and see. At this point I can't really say what every level will be like at this point as I'm still in the process of creating them. Even if I knew I wouldn't tell as it would give away far too many hints, secrets, and spoilers away before the game is released.

Re: [Audyssey] Mota

2009-10-22 Thread Bryan Peterson
Here here. I want to get that nasty surprise the first time that new enemy comes after me LOL. Homer: Hey, uh, could you go across the street and get me a slice of pizza? Vender: No pizza. Only Khlav Kalash. - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: T

Re: [Audyssey] Mota

2009-10-22 Thread Charles Rivard
I agree with you. If I have to cheat to win, I've been beaten. --- Shepherds are the best beasts. - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 6:46 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Mota Hi Hayri, You'll just have to wait and see.

Re: [Audyssey] MOTA Question

2009-10-22 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Ryan, Good question. I'm trying to decide weather to release the bug fixes as a small miner patch or just to finish up a few things I am doing, and release the whole works as beta 9. Anyway, in either case the hand to hand combat will be in the next release.It is already coded into the game

Re: [Audyssey] Heather Voice in Mota Beta 8

2009-10-22 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, Well, I could use a British voice like Scansoft Emily or AT&T Audry, but again it is probably not appropriate given the fact some people would prefer an American English voice. Microsoft Anna is ok, but there are better female American voices out there. As for ESpeak that is definite

Re: [Audyssey] Asking a technocal question.

2009-10-22 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, In order to fix that problem you have to open the control pannel, go to speech, and redirect the output to your USB device. Redirecting the Sapi speech varies slightly between XP and Vista, but what you are looking for is a button labeled output or something like that. The Kolesar Brothe

Re: [Audyssey] Asking a technocal question.

2009-10-22 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, Yes, Sapi can be routed to a separate audio device independant of other sounds, music, etc. There is a button in the control pannel called Audio Output which allows you to configure Sapi's prefered audio device. shaun everiss wrote: h. a usb mic set will usually have an output d

Re: [Audyssey] combat drones

2009-10-22 Thread shaun everiss
aah thanks dark. I have not checked that, Good to know what that is needed. I never checked the skills, I will have to put that skill on to what it needs to be at. Do I need to shift the drone to the area? I was told the drone was in the cargo bay so does that mean it should be already where it n

Re: [Audyssey] MOTA 8 bug

2009-10-22 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dean, Unfortunately the bug you are speaking of is a rather difficult one to track down. It doesn't often happen, but I can say that particular crash happens when one of the threads, such as the speech thread, exits improperly. I've een trying for a couple of months to fix that one, but bec

Re: [Audyssey] Heather Voice in Mota Beta 8

2009-10-22 Thread shaun everiss
well there is always eloquence samples though that would make your stuff bigger. At 07:16 a.m. 23/10/2009, you wrote: >Hi Shaun, >Well, I could use a British voice like Scansoft Emily or AT&T Audry, but again >it is probably not appropriate given the fact some people would prefer an >American E

Re: [Audyssey] combat drones

2009-10-22 Thread Darren Harris
What do they do exactly. Are they a form of wingman for you or something? Or can you use them as settlement defence. -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of shaun everiss Sent: 22 October 2009 20:09 To: Gamers Discussion list S

[Audyssey] we are featured in top tech tidbits

2009-10-22 Thread shaun everiss
Hi. This mag is part of www.topdotenterprises.com and flying blind which sends bits out and such at least thats what I get in my mailbox. This thing goes out every thursday us time. anyway entombed is featured. Also klango 3 is also featured. just thought I'd do a multipost. --- Gamers mailing

Re: [Audyssey] Heather Voice in Mota Beta 8

2009-10-22 Thread Bryan Peterson
I say stick with Heather. Granted my first preference would have been Neospeach Kate but Heather is definitely a very high quality voice. I'd say just leave it the way it is. Homer: Hey, uh, could you go across the street and get me a slice of pizza? Vender: No pizza. Only Khlav Kalash. - Or

Re: [Audyssey] Heather Voice in Mota Beta 8

2009-10-22 Thread Bryan Peterson
No. Eloquence is totally wrong for a game like this. The only reason, and I mean absolutely the ONLY reason that I even use Eloquence in Window-Eyes is because of its fast response time. I wouldn't use it at all otherwise since I hate the voices. Homer: Hey, uh, could you go across the street a

Re: [Audyssey] Asking a technocal question.

2009-10-22 Thread The Kolesar Brothers
Thanks for this help Tom. But cory already answered it for us. Thanks for the help. Ron Matt & Ron Kolesar & there great Dogs! kolesar16...@roadrunner.com - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 2:25 PM Subject: Re: [Audysse

[Audyssey] CE getting started?

2009-10-22 Thread peter Mahach
I decided to check out core exiles. I like the game idea so far but I have difficulties. I talked to jonas and I got a mission to deliver some stuff to messer in the destert system. now, how the heck do I ge there. I managed to undock and so on, and now, I don't see a jumpgate to the destert sys

Re: [Audyssey] CE getting started?

2009-10-22 Thread Darren Harris
Hi, When you get into the nexus, look for the plotter. Activate that link. Then it will bring up a window. In there are 2 combo boxes. The first one is your starting point the second one is the destination. Adjust them accordingly and then click on the button. A route will be displayed for you. -

Re: [Audyssey] Heather Voice in Mota Beta 8

2009-10-22 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, How do you figure that? A wav file saying play game at the same sample rate should be roughly the same size regardless if it is Heather, Eloquence, AT&T Crystal, etc. I don't really get why you think Eloquence would make the game bigger. shaun everiss wrote: well there is always el

Re: [Audyssey] Heather Voice in Mota Beta 8

2009-10-22 Thread Bryan Peterson
It might not make the game bigger but it would definitely detract from the atmosphere as far as I'm concerned. Homer: Hey, uh, could you go across the street and get me a slice of pizza? Vender: No pizza. Only Khlav Kalash. - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussio

Re: [Audyssey] combat drones

2009-10-22 Thread dark
Nope, once it's in your ship's stores, it'll show up automatically in combat if you've got the level and skill requirements. HThey really are dam useful! I managed to take down that blasted marauder, and some nastier bigger ships besides thanks to said drones, though having a massive

Re: [Audyssey] combat drones

2009-10-22 Thread dark
Once you launch them in combat they automatically do damage to the enemy each round. Also, the enemy sometimes shoots at the drone instead of your ship which provides some measure of defense, they're not invinsiable though, they have hp and can be destroyed if enough damage is done to the

Re: [Audyssey] Heather Voice in Mota Beta 8

2009-10-22 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Bryan, Smile. I have no plans on changing voices at this point. If I didn't like Heather I wouldn't have used her for the game. It is a decent voice, and I can't please everyone when it comes to TTS voices anyway. For example, I know several people that love Eloquence. As for me I am no fan

Re: [Audyssey] Heather Voice in Mota Beta 8

2009-10-22 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Bryan, Agreed. Eloquence is fine for general day to day screen reader tasks, but using it in games or having it read books is terrible. For one thing it totally kills the ambiance for me. Tomb Hunter is a game series with a very strong female character roll. Therefore it follows the game's n

Re: [Audyssey] Heather Voice in Mota Beta 8

2009-10-22 Thread Bryan Peterson
Exactly. And that's one thing my fiance and I intend to keep in the forefront if and when we work together on games. As little synthe speach as possible and when it's required, as high quality as we can swing. Homer: Hey, uh, could you go across the street and get me a slice of pizza? Vender: No

[Audyssey] Ce threat access change!

2009-10-22 Thread dark
Hi. People will be pleased to know there has now been a change made in core exiles. The view button in the combat scan screen is now labled with a threat rating of 0-26 which says how dangerous the ship is, 0 a pushover, 26 flying death! Note, that this is the title of the button, not it

Re: [Audyssey] Heather Voice in Mota Beta 8

2009-10-22 Thread Phil Vlasak
Hi Thomas, I think people are confused when you use the Heather synthesized SAPI voice to record what is said in the game. To get a human to sound as consistent in rate, volume and lack of background noise would take weeks if not months of sound studio work instead of the few minutes to have t

Re: [Audyssey] Heather Voice in Mota Beta 8

2009-10-22 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Bryan, Yeah. Unfortunately it is not always possible to come by actual human speech for games though. For one thing getting the person to record, rerecord, his/her voice over and over again to get it right is very tiring work. Then, there is lots of editing required to make it as smooth and

Re: [Audyssey] Heather Voice in Mota Beta 8

2009-10-22 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Phil, Yes, that was my experience as well. Last year, when I was beginning Mysteries of the Ancients, I originally was going to have Cara Quinn cast in the roll of Angela Carter as well as the games narrator voice. She definitely had a good voice for the roll, was fairly decent voice talent

Re: [Audyssey] Heather Voice in Mota Beta 8

2009-10-22 Thread Bryan Peterson
Exactly. I like the Heather voice. I might actually look into getting her myself, though I don't know if the license agreement permits using them as screen reader voices. Homer: Hey, uh, could you go across the street and get me a slice of pizza? Vender: No pizza. Only Khlav Kalash. - Origin

Re: [Audyssey] Heather Voice in Mota Beta 8

2009-10-22 Thread Bryan Peterson
At least you did get a human for the Angela voice. I don't think any Sapi voice exists, exccept possibly the hugely expensive Loquendo voices, that can convincingly produce a scream as the character falls off a cliff, into a lava pit or whatnot, or a cry of pain as she takes a hit from an Amazon

Re: [Audyssey] CE getting started?

2009-10-22 Thread Tristan B
Hey there all, My (captain[S]) name on C.E. is Lancett. i'm getting into it, Just have a question. What is the graphic in the stats display that is labeled "PG"? Is that experience? Thanks. Tristan B TrekGames.net Cosmos - TrekGames.net, port 1234. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audysse

Re: [Audyssey] CE getting started?

2009-10-22 Thread dark
Yes. if it says something like 300/5000 it means you currently have three hundred xp, and need five thousand to get to the next level. Hth. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: "Tristan B" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 12:31 AM Subject: Re

Re: [Audyssey] CE getting started?

2009-10-22 Thread Tristan B
Thanks, Does anyone know how many Ashar cargo missions I have to do, before the NCP on starbase-51 gives me 5 k credits? grin - Original Message - From: "dark" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 8:00 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] CE getting started? Yes. if it

Re: [Audyssey] CE getting started?

2009-10-22 Thread shaun everiss
you need to go to jumpgate nexus then jump through various gates. use the plotter to find where to jump to. At 08:40 a.m. 23/10/2009, you wrote: >I decided to check out core exiles. I like the game idea so far but I have >difficulties. I talked to jonas and I got a mission to deliver some stuff to

Re: [Audyssey] combat drones

2009-10-22 Thread shaun everiss
hmm i have a gatling at 248, I think I got your drone. on that note, if I can find a gun that will use 300 units of power exactly then I will get it. I have 54 units left from using the scanner and gatling, I have used all my cash in getting one drone. oh do they need repairing at all? or can I t

Re: [Audyssey] entombed

2009-10-22 Thread Valiant8086
I think Hairy recognised Akapella heather, the voice used to do voiceovers. Not the actual voice itself there Hairy, just a recording of it. - Original Message - From: "Jason Allen" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 7:42 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] entombed

Re: [Audyssey] Heather Voice in Mota Beta 8

2009-10-22 Thread Valiant8086
Hi, you might try DSpeech from dimio.altervista.org as apose to text aloud, maybe it'll serve you better. it's free. - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 10:58 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Heather Voice in Mota Beta 8

Re: [Audyssey] Ce threat access change!

2009-10-22 Thread shaun everiss
jaws says it correctly. although I did wander what the value is. At 10:43 a.m. 23/10/2009, you wrote: >Hi. > >People will be pleased to know there has now been a change made in core >exiles. The view button in the combat scan screen is now labled with a threat >rating of 0-26 which says how dang

Re: [Audyssey] CE getting started?

2009-10-22 Thread shaun everiss
its your exp. on that note I have still not ben answered with what a good free irc client is. I heard mirc4life but the site is invalid can't find where to get it. or what it is. I want an accessible client like freedom chat that does not to much. doesn't even have to be fully featured just able to

Re: [Audyssey] CE getting started?

2009-10-22 Thread shaun everiss
just check your npc mission active box. you will hear when you have completed a mission. At 03:13 p.m. 23/10/2009, you wrote: >Thanks, Does anyone know how many Ashar cargo missions I have to do, before >the NCP on starbase-51 gives me 5 k credits? grin >- Original Message - From: "dark"

Re: [Audyssey] CE getting started?

2009-10-22 Thread James Howard
Hmm, i have also just signed up there tonight, you can find me as ciris. the starter missions do seem easy but fun and helpfull. I have even already gotten on the IRC server. On 10/22/09, shaun everiss wrote: > just check your npc mission active box. > you will hear when you have completed a miss

Re: [Audyssey] CE getting started?

2009-10-22 Thread dark
If I remember rightly, you just have to do enough to make 2.5 k, which doesn't take long. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: "Tristan B" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 3:13 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] CE getting started? Thanks, Does

Re: [Audyssey] Ce threat access change!

2009-10-22 Thread dark
I actually find it weerd that Hal doesn't do this by default, and that onone of the read attribute keys worked. I'll be contacting dolphin about this one myself. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: "shaun everiss" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Friday, October 23,

Re: [Audyssey] combat drones

2009-10-22 Thread dark
Hi Sean. do you have a reactor? You need to use Ip on reactor tech skill to install one, but they can provide a lot of energy, like an extra thousand units. Also, the hammer reactors give you a damage bonus as well. I don't have one yet, but there will be a point when I run out of energy

Re: [Audyssey] combat drones

2009-10-22 Thread shaun everiss
aah ok. does this have to do with the random events you find round the place? Hmmm I may look at joining a gild then. how much can you get a reacter for I am sort of straped for cash. I got a level1 drone, but its not doing that much, although I am confordant that I can probably get through things