We were just discussing in the lobby (still without input from Idlebot) if ICO use ICQ or something and if Idlebot was a bot monitoring the ICQ chat...
Hack78
Just got the following (in red) in ICO ICO Server: IdleBot I love you
IDLEBOT IS BACK!!! I asked if he/she/it had seen this post - no response... Even when I told him/her/it how famous they were!!!!
You don't need Impulse running to play the game - you only need it to patch the game...
Go on - spill. Who was it???? ;)
What version were you on when you last played???
One issue with this theory - Sins has HCs, not HKs.....
[quote]Spock losing his cool is coming damn close to that... I hope he won't be screaming around like a little girl with spittle flying or something like that. About the only passable form of rage for a (Half)Vulcan I can imagine is a silent deadly one.[/quote] Maybe its that 7th year thing again - pon farr :D
Conspiracy theories are more then welcome at this point...
[quote]That's my position, more or less, too. It's a map-based strategyu game like Civilization or Alpha Centauri, so what do you need a campaign for? The problem is that other RTS's have "campaigns", some with B-movie-like cutscenes (Command and Conquer series).[/quote] Ah - I see the problem here. People are used to starting of with little baby steps as a Lieutenant, and then being promoted via the cut scenes, ultimately getting supreme commander status when the video conversation t
Have you emailed this article to the game mags so they can lift it for their publications??? ;)
Assuming it IS a bot :) Maybe he/she just enjoyes watching the sinners talking in the lobby???
[quote]it is also the appropriate response for those on the receiving end of my game play[/quote] Really - I thought it was - "Oh #^&$@# &(#$^#* *#@%#$#!!!!!!" :)
Just remember, these strats of making multiple fleets etc... work in SP, but when you play a human, his larger fleet will pick apart yout smaller fleets one by one (even if you actually own more ships in total).... And sometimes this does apply with the AI as well...
[quote]I don't play mulitplayer because there is no pause button in multiplayer.[/quote] Not strictly true - the game CAN be paused, up to 10 times per game. However, other people can unpause it for you...
I've noticed him/her/it (could it be an actual computer bot???) sitting there on a number of occasions.... I asked Blair about it while I was online talking to him in ICO last night - as I posted above, he is a user and nothing to do with IC.
Blair says he is a user!!!
OMG - I talked to Blair in ICO :) And there were two of him!!!
Is port 7000 open on your firewall - that was my issue
Reminds me a bit of a Quintesson from original transformers :)
You go into Impulse, click Install on the game you want to patch (i.e. Sins) and wait.
So I was wondering - what is the deal with Idlebot. He/She/It sits in the forums, never says anything and has no game history. Is anyone else curious about this, or able to shed light on why idlebot sits there? (I'm bored while I wait for someone to log in to play, and idlebot is there and doing nothing...)
Ohhh. The anticipation...
So is this post supporting ironclad or attacking them??? BTW - threatening to throw out the game is an idle threat when you can re-download it again!!!
Ah - bit like the CC bug where you could sell a turret, get some men out and cancel the decon and keep the men. Result was heaps of minigunners!!!!