It's nothing. He's following directions. Even if he's not, it's not that hard to figure out that changing "viewdistance 3" to "viewdistance 30" is going to do something interesting. (That's a completely made up example. I haven't played Tribes, but I've played enough other games to extrapolate.)
Hope this gets to you soon enough. -Kevin > -----Original Message----- > From: Dana Tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 3:45 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: tribes question - annihilation server configuration > > > I am not a fan of first person shooter games (I can hear you > all out there > going naaawww...you're kidding... really?) :) I do have a > question about > Tribes that someone here may be able to answer. > > My son is an avid Tribes player. I think I have mentioned > here before that > I homeschool. I need to have a chat with someone about his academics > tomorrow as I am thinking, if he is willing to get serious > about his math, > that he would be best off just writing SATs and/or a GED and > enrolling in a > computer science curriculum, which seems to be where he wants > to go. The > thing is the school system here apparently requires some sort > of permit to > graduate early (which I think is really dumb) and I am liable > to need some > professionals backing me to get it. Thus the conversation tomorrow. > > On to the tribes question. He has taken to modifying the > configuration > files, and I would like an idea how impressed I should be by > this. Is this > common practice, or something he would find a cookbook for on > one of the > gamer sites? In other words, is he just good at following > instructions or > is he actually reading code? What is Tribes written in > anyway? Anyone know? I had assumed he was working through > some sort of UI but what > he was looking at earlier looked java-ish. I don't want to > embarass myself > by citing this tomorrow if it's something pretty easy to do > and I just > don't know it cause I don't play the thing. If that's the > case I will just > stick to the hardware skills when I brag about his computer > knowledge <g> > > Thanks for any answers, > Dana > -- > Mr Jones and me > We're stumbling through the barrio.... > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
