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* I'll be on hiatus from this bb for a 2-3 weeks for work-related reasons already referred to. Upon my re-surfacing I'll make widely available an RC of the
Trinity 2: High Command map with it's own .AVI Mission Briefing. I started incorporating suggestions from my LAN buds in CO that are enriching the GPMs significantly - thanks guys. I've also done some prelim work on
Trinity 1: Training Grounds... all good fun, indeed.
* Till then let me wrap-up my monologue on advancing WZ 2100 GPMs.
* Let's start with a snippet from my last post:
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* Besides the already mentioned inspirations - "Trinity 1 & 2" maps embody my limited attempt (constrained by source issues, ie. GUI widgets, etc) to make a passageway for such evolved GPMs - that is, encouraging an "MC-2" experience.
* To most fully implement the
Millennium Challenge 02 GPMs in WZ 2100 you need multiple windows, a new Command GUI and some other stuff related to AI modularity.
* Three years ago my answer to this was a postulated implementation I called "GCI" aka
Global Command Interface and back then did the following widget mock-up with accompanying design spec doc.
* For the last 6-months I've been beta testing a New RTS that has implemented player Command & Control along the lines of the "GCI". This RTS will be released in a few months and will become, I predict, an instant classic, and the most popular and successful RTS of the last 6 years. I cannot disclose any specifics at this time..... Save I am building a site around this game, plus WZ 2100 plus what follows.......
* Since it's availability a year ago I've been addicted to a high-end "4-G" War Game Battle Simulator (both strategic & tactical mechanisms are implemented) that has an awesome
Global Command Interface...... here is a screen cap that just merely scratches the surface of it's depth & power vis-a-vis Player Command & Control over all GPMs on the battlefield:
* One last lagniappe.... (I'm all 'bout lagniappes, coming from a potlatch culture... that is we take a self-measure by what we give rather than takeing what we can).
* For some years now the WZ community has brought to mind the parable of the
Blind Men and the Elephant...... the Buddhist version goes like this (there are many variants):
~~~~~~~~~~ The Blind Men and the Elephant ~~~~~~~~~~~~
A number of disciples went to the Buddha and said,
"Sir, there are living here in Savatthi many wandering hermits and scholars who indulge in constant dispute, some saying that the world is infinite and eternal and others that it is finite and not eternal, some saying that the soul dies with the body and others that it lives on forever, and so forth. What, Sir, would you say concerning them?"
The Buddha answered, "Once upon a time there was a certain raja who called to his servant and said, 'Come, good fellow, go and gather together in one place all the men of Savatthi who were born blind... and show them an elephant.' 'Very good, sire,' replied the servant, and he did as he was told. He said to the blind men assembled there, 'Here is an elephant,' and to one man he presented the head of the elephant, to another its ears, to another a tusk, to another the trunk, the foot, back, tail, and tuft of the tail, saying to each one that that was the elephant.
"When the blind men had felt the elephant, the raja went to each of them and said to each, 'Well, blind man, have you seen the elephant? Tell me, what sort of thing is an elephant?'
"Thereupon the men who were presented with the head answered, 'Sire, an elephant is like a pot.' And the men who had observed the ear replied, 'An elephant is like a winnowing basket.' Those who had been presented with a tusk said it was a plough-share. Those who knew only the trunk said it was a plough; others said the body was a grainery; the foot, a pillar; the back, a mortar; the tail, a pestle, the tuft of the tail, a brush.
"Then they began to quarrel, shouting, 'Yes it is!' 'No, it is not!' 'An elephant is not that!' 'Yes, it's like that!' and so on, till they came to blows over the matter.
"Brethren, the raja was delighted with the scene.
"Just so are these preachers and scholars holding various views blind and unseeing.... In their ignorance they are by nature quarrelsome, wrangling, and disputatious, each maintaining reality is thus and thus."
Then the Exalted One rendered this meaning by uttering this verse of uplift,
O how they cling and wrangle, some who claim
For preacher and monk the honored name!
For, quarreling, each to his view they cling.
Such folk see only one side of a thing.
* Well gents, it's been real, cya again in a few weeks, till then...
- Carpe Diem with gusto, rv
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Contrast
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