Re: NTLK Re: REMOTETOWN challenge.

From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent_daudelin@fanniemae.com)
Date: Tue Dec 14 1999 - 10:11:40 EST


Y2K wrote:

> Laurent Daudelin wrote:
>
> > Wow, if you did it with the version I put on my website at
> > www.nemesys-software.com, that's really impressive. What people need to keep
> > in
> > mind is that there are at least 2 versions floating around. Mine, which is
> > just
> > a translation from the japanese version, and somebody else put another
> > version,
> > where, I think, he tripled the duration of play.
>
> OK, to make it clear: I did the "other" version of the Remote Town, altough
> it is probably pritty the same (http://metastasis.net/people/mi(c)i/pkgs/).
> all i did is english translation and minor correction, so there is no harder
> or easier version released. (NTLK comes to me as a digest in the middle of
> the night here in europe, so sometimes i am doing or writing things allready
> done and written... sorry for that.) what i am working on now is a version
> that will let you continue to build your town after a goal is met, i.e. with
> population over 60K (?) in the first 21 year cycle you will get a "congrats"
> message instead of "thanks for your trouble", statistics graph will reset
> and you may continue to build your old town. this should make potential
> gamers busy until MP2X00 version or SimCity Classic clone is cloned finally.
>
> i was testing modified version of the game (tripled playtime, multiplied
> income) to see its limitations but never released this version public (it
> crashes when those limitations are met). i anyone else is improving Remote
> Town lets keep together, it is silly to do the same work several times. i
> may even send you what i did so far and enjoy YOUR version of the Remote
> Town in the future with others!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael Vacik
> mici@metastasis.net

Sorry, sorry, Michael. I've been quite busy and lost your email :-( and I didn't
remember if you actually put the version with triple playtime on your site or
not...
There was another post from a student at some university, saying that he wanted to
make major changes to the application during his holiday break.

How's the things going?

--
-Laurent.
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