[bf1942] Dont be too hard on DICE

[g8 at the.whole.net]

Abyss!!!  Send them your original petition link ;)

Anyway, unnecessarily high SNR on the list lately, perhaps we can get back
on target.

-g8  (another CE veteran and DICE groupie :P )

On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Daniel Bissett wrote:

>
> I agree DICE are a fine bunch of people, my name is AbyssUK and I was
> probably the first person to ever rant at dice to make a dedicated Linux
> server for bf1942. I even pushed them for a Linux dedicated server for
> codename eagle way before battlefield was ever considered. (Codename Eagle
> for the uneducated was the spiritual precursor for BF1942).
>
> Am telling you it wasn't easy for them to-do it, it took them months of
> arguing with EA just so they could even suggest building a Linux server. I
> never in my wildest dreams considered it would be made, if you remember this
> was going to be an xbox title (hmmm an xbox title with a Linux server...). I
> know that DICE want this server much more than you all think, they have
> fought hard to get it this far.
>
> Mainly I think because they promised it too me and the cebf community
> (http://cebf.ws) and they know I'll send my clan members back over to Sweden
> again to ask awkward questions and annoy the hell out of them if its not
> good enough...I know your reading this dice... I'll send them back.. I
> will..
>
> AbyssUK - Codename Eagle Veteran
> -----------------------------------
> "Poons, TheGrey, Jackal, Teddy and GP300 all Sweden bound.."
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Killing [mailto:killing at barrysworld.com]
> Sent: 04 February 2003 21:21
> To: bf1942 at icculus.org
> Subject: [bf1942] Dont be too hard on DICE
>
>
> Don't be too hard they have come up with a game that loads of
> people want a good server for so they must have done something's
> right. its hard to do everything right. I'm sure the devs would
> have been fighting to get time to do these nice things but ....
>
>     Steve / K
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Cash" <rbcash at covad.net>
> To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
> Sent: 04 February 2003 20:23
> Subject: RE: [bf1942] nice'ing processes
>
>
> > Dice needs to apply the following query:
> > SELECT * FROM Corporate_Drones WHERE clue > 0
>