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After Gabriel Byrne slammed The Gathering it emerges he ran up $20,000 in expenses as cultural ambassador
Having dismissed tourism initiative as a "scam" Department of arts release his spending figures
Published Tuesday, November 13, 2012, 10:20 AM
Updated Saturday, June 29, 2013, 2:02 AM
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DowneyPerfectio | Nov 16, 2012, 03:41 AM EST
Oh all of these crap articles 'slamming' Gabriel just because of what he said about "The Gathering" just because government people are embarrassed because as an actor Gabriel is more "for the people" than they themselves can ever be-a bunch of jealous MF's the government sounds like just because they're greedy and he's not! Hahaha..Go Gabriel-prove the government wrong! I say kudos to Gabriel on everything! Since-one knows damn well that Gabriel was not the only one behind the cultural movement-and there were others involved who ran the damn bill up-not just Gabriel himself!
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eiriamach | Nov 14, 2012, 07:59 AM EST
spoirtfest, for me it's not about the financial rip-off. It's about the cultural rip-off. The government dumped writer, actor, brilliant cultural doyen, IRISH Gabriel Byrne and brought in millionaire American CEOs like Denis Swanson, President of Fox Broadcasting Company, instead. There are plenty of devotees of Fox TV who post at Irish Central. They are Obama haters with little regard for facts and much regard for "white America," and they worship at the altars of the cult of prosperity. I hope Ireland makes MANY MILLIONS, or BILLIONS of Euro off them! But the thought of attending a gathering that caters to such people scares the expletive deleted out of ME. So tell me please, in just one sentence if you can, what kind of "cultural experience" has the group of millionaires designed for The Gathering? Why should someone who's not an arch-conservative, culturally insular, wealthy member of the Diaspora in the USA attend it?
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spoirtfest | Nov 14, 2012, 06:21 AM EST
Its very disappointing to hear so many dissenting voices. I head up a volunteer led group and we are working our socks off to put on events for The GAthering, because gimmicky marketing ploy or not, we need to be doing something positive for ourselves over here and working together as a community and interacting with cousins, families and friends abroad, and hopefully meeting many of them too, is a great fillup for the soul.
Of course it is unfortunate that some business will take the mickey out of it, but out of interest how fair are New York hotels for instance at New Years or in the run up to the marathon? And how often do you think the Dublin hotels have jacked up their prices on All-Ireland weekends, fleecing us Cork folk for many a year in recent decades. It is the nature of the beast in every City in the world.
And in our case, we will be deliberately offering up college accommodation centres as ideal places to stay and we've asked them if they wish to partner with us, to not change their prices, so a lot of us are concious of not fleecing anyone.
Regardless of the optics outside of Ireland, and regardless of Mr Byrnes comments, The Gathering initiative, for all its flaws, is the only, single positive initiative for Joe Public to have a hand in and take pride in over here, which is a damning indictment of the Government, but nonetheless, and seeing those effort ridiculed and mocked by those who aren't on the ground over here is incredibly disheartening.
So you know what, anyone who would like to visit next year, but is afraid of being ripped off, book your flights and turn up at my door and i will make sure you have a free bed and good grub for the duration of your stay.
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casper1377 | Nov 13, 2012, 08:52 PM EST
I'm glad Gabriel Byrne said what he did. It definitely needed to be pointed out and it's good the Gathering is being shown as the corny ad-campaign it represents. I'm bummed all the same that I'm one of the many, many Irish-Americans who has never been to Eire and probably will never be able to afford to go.
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eiriamach | Nov 13, 2012, 06:16 PM EST
Once when I was an unpaid volunteer in Ireland, I needed a medical exam for a license application. The doctor refused to take the usual 25 Euro fee from me because I was working unpaid. And the Dublin hotels wouldn't even cut their rates for an unpaid ambassador? How much has the government paid to host 100's of business people for Global Economic Forum meetings at Farmleigh, Buenos Aries, etc.? And how much return has Ireland had on Gabriel Byrne's unpaid work? Millions in revenue plus priceless good will, I'd guess.
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Danno | Nov 13, 2012, 12:43 PM EST
I've been going to Ireland 3 to 4 times each year since 1984 and lived there between 1979 and 1984. Gabriel Byrne is quite correct, indeed. American Tourists have always been viewed as cash cows and were actively preyed upon by unscrupulous hoteliers throughout Ireland. And, it really got out of hand during the so called boom years of the tiger. These "bad egg" hotels deserved to fall by the wayside since the crash of ' 08. Half the hotels in Ireland are empty and the other half are on the verge of collapse. If "The Gathering" brings "yanks" back to Eire, the locals had better be fair and true as beggars can't be choosey and this can serve as a chance for redemption. So, take heed all ye money grabbing bed owners and shop keepers, wise up and consider the future of your business's and your country.
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Portia777 | Nov 13, 2012, 11:11 AM EST
Ireland is a rip off and the prices described prove Gabriel is right.
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Ballyphehane1 | Nov 13, 2012, 10:51 AM EST
I don't think this article is really helping the gathering redeem itself by showing how expensive the hotels in Dublin are. You know, I kind of agree with Gabriel Byrne here - why else would they be doing this if not to bring money into the country, and it would be very surprising if prices didn't go up.... Scam/opportunity - as a visitor, I'd see the high prices as a scam but I'm sure that the hoteliers etc. and the government would see it as an 'opportunity'. I say fair play to Gabriel for calling them on it.
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cillowen | Nov 13, 2012, 10:33 AM EST
the quislings are even devouring themselves
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Jerry Kelly | Nov 13, 2012, 10:30 AM EST
D'oibrigh an fear seo tuirse gan stad gan pá ar son na hÉireann an bhliain sin go léir. Ar chóir dó codladh ar an tsráid? Ní hé a locht é go mbíonn óstáin i mBÁC chomh daor sin. Cinnte gur eitil sé "sa chéad rang". Ar chóir dó eitilt i gcóiste le gach tuarasóir ag iarraidh síniú uaidh gan stad do shé uair an chloig? Tabhair dom briseadh. Rinne an fear seo jab iontach. Is bualtrach an t-alt seo.
This man worked for Ireland tirelessly non-stop without pay for that entire year. Was he supposed to sleep in the street? Is it his fault hotels in Dublin are so expensive? Was he supposed to fly coach with every tourist asking for his autograph non-stop for six hours? Gimme a break. This man did a great job. This article is bualtrach.
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Murph46 | Nov 13, 2012, 09:51 AM EST
Regardless of that,is there anyone who will dispute the point I made on this issue-There is not an Airline,Car Rental,Hotel ,or B&B that won't raise their rates to gouge visitors?
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Even though I make various saves, I seem to have forgotten to save since about half of Act III, so playing since that point was gonna be kinda annoying. I've also lost my older save games since my backup HDD fried last year, so I was kinda stuck. I managed to find a save game on the internet from the start of Act IV, and played with it until after killing Dagon. By that time, the quest Path of Destiny was finally updated.
After that, I developed a small fix for those who want to keep their original saves with their own choices. This fix is only PARTIAL, but allows you to proceed with the game.
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Marqibo (vinCRIStine sulfate LIPOSOME injection) is vincristine encapsulated in sphingomyelin/cholesterol liposomes. The encapsulation formulation was designed to enhance efficacy, with the potential for reduced toxicity. Vincristine is a vinca alkaloid; it is thought to work by interfering with cancer cell growth during mitosis.
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Marqibo (vinCRIStine sulfate LIPOSOME injection) is vincristine encapsulated in sphingomyelin/cholesterol liposomes. Non-liposomal vincristine sulfate binds to tubulin, altering the tubulin polymerization equilibrium, resulting in altered microtubule structure and function. Non-liposomal vincristine sulfate stabilizes the spindle apparatus, preventing chromosome segregation, triggering metaphase arrest and inhibition of mitosis.
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A complete, edited transcript is now available of the Bradley Center's November 23, 2004 discussion on campaign finance reform, entitled
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
12:00 – 2:00 p.m.
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AMY KAUFFMAN, Hudson Institute
GERI MANNION, Carnegie Corporation
CURTIS GANS, Committee for the Study of the American Electorate
STEVE MOORE, Club for Growth
Event Summary
Campaign finance reform is one clear example of public policy success for the mainstream foundations involved, even though it is often left unmentioned by the foundation sector and in the media.
Philanthropic foundations played a pivotal role in nurturing the efforts that made possible the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002. Through the McCain-Feingold Act, as it is also known, they sought to "improve disclosure, strengthen enforcement, ban or curtail soft money and regulate issue ads intended to influence elections."
To draw more attention to this success and its implications, the Bradley Center brought together the Carnegie Corporation's Geri Mannion, Curtis Gans of the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate, and Steve Moore, who at the time was the director of the Club for Growth. (Moore is now president of the Free Enterprise Group.) Hudson Institute's Amy Kauffman served as moderator. Many of the approx. thirty-five audience members, several of whom knew or had worked closely with a panelist or two, actively participated in the discussion.
NOTE: An echo of the reaction to this event can be seen in an article by William Schambra in the May 12, 2005 Chronicle of Philanthropy article, "In A World of Bloggers, Foundations Can Expect More Scrutiny."
NOTE: Sean Treglia, formerly of the Pew Foundation, had initially accepted William Schambra's invitation to participate as a panelist, but was unable to participate. He wrote a response to Schambra's Chronicle piece, mentioned above and published in the subsequent issue of The Chronicle. (Click on article title, above, for details.)
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The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA), otherwise known as the McCain-Feingold Act, came after foundations spent $120 million promoting campaign finance initiatives, began Amy Kauffman's introduction of the panel. It did not quite have the effect that it was intended to have on the 2004 election, which cost a total of $4 billion (up $1 billion from 2000). Avenues for spending were not closed off. Corporate money still flowed in torrents. And Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 527 organizations [527s] strengthened ideological giving. To panelist Geri Mannion, Kauffman posed this specific question: Have the Carnegie Corporation's goals been realized through its donations? Geri Mannion responded first, followed by Steve Moore and then Curtis Gans.
Since 1992, Carnegie has spent about $20 million on the issue of campaign finance reform, Mannion began. The foundation focused primarily on disclosure of contributions. Could the money be followed? To this end, Carnegie Corporation funded or founded two research institutes and offered training courses for journalists. In addition, various reforms were tried, and most failed. However, under President Vartan Gregorian, who came to Carnegie in 1997, funding was stepped up and came to include more initiatives at the state and local level. For example, Carnegie helped advocate for reforms such full public financing of state elected offices, now in place in Maine and Arizona. Carnegie has also supported litigation to defend reforms, and has funded research, mostly on soft money at the federal level.
As for BCRA, Mannion disagreed with Kauffman that it has failed. BCRA was never intended to take all of the money out of politics, she argued. It did manage to stop corporate contributions, at least in the form of soft money. There were more small donors. Labor was taken out of the equation. But Mannion also disagreed with William Schambra, who claimed that campaign finance reform was a success on the part of liberal foundations. "…[T]he Democrats hated campaign finance reform, and they hated foundations for doing campaign finance reform. We had as many people mad at us on the left as on the right."
The 527s were perhaps the one unanticipated, and bad, consequence—but "nobody saw then coming," Mannion told the audience. "And they certainly have become an issue." Mannion went on to point out, however, that "the bigger issue is that fact that we have a Federal Elections Commission that is run by people who are, let's just say, not very good at their jobs. They don't know how to enforce the law."
Carnegie will maintain an interest in campaign finance reform, Mannion concluded. "We see it as an important part of our democracy agenda."
Steve Moore, the next to speak, told the audience of his experience heading one of the largest and most successful 527s of the 2004 election season. The reason for the success of 527s, in Moore's view, is that they brought in money—in some cases even larger donations—from donors who in prior elections gave big contributions to the parties in the form of soft money. Closing one source of money in politics simply caused another to open. "The campaign finance bill privatized the functions of the parties, in a way," Moore said. 527s, not the parties, were setting the tone and sending the messages people heard. "I'm not sure it's a good thing," he commented.
Moore took the opportunity, however, to point out that money in politics has steeply diminishing returns. You can only pump so much in, and beyond that it loses its effectiveness. You can only run so many ads and print so many posters. The trick is to command voters' attention, for example by getting your ads in the news.
The biggest threats to democracy today, in Moore's view, are gerrymandering and incumbency, not the money in campaigns.
All three panelists agreed that redistricting was necessary to stop gerrymandering and make elections more competitive.
Curtis Mans, the last to speak, took a moderate stance after placing himself in "the camp that essentially says most of what we have done since 1971 has, because of the limits imposed, created distortions, undermined accountability and limited systemic flexibility." The greatest problem with reforms, in Gans' view, is that the money no longer goes to the person who can most easily and most directly be held accountable for it: the candidate. Instead, reforms have seen donations received by political parties and now independent groups—the 527s. "These are people who have no responsibility to the political process; who are the most intransigent people in our politics; [and] who make it less possible to find the middle."
Gans, like Moore, supports raising individual contributions, as BCRA did to an extent. However, Gans told the audience, "We need a[n]… approach other than limits. …Labor unions and corporations and individuals with money aren't necessarily evil… They're a part of American pluralism… People ought to be able to advocate at any point in the campaign for and against a candidate… People ought to be able to give money."
Gans went on to identify what he saw as the reasons for the declining interest in politics among the electorate: a lack of civic awareness due to lack of education and little discussion of politics.
Mannion, in response to the panelists' remarks, proposed a different kind of ideal: "If we actually—all citizens— paid $6 per voter, we could fund all elections in this country and you wouldn't have to have special interests engaged…. [I]t could actually be something that would level the playing field and maybe make democracy seem a little bit more relevant to people."
A lengthy question-and-answer session began with a good question from Pablo Eisenberg: "If you had to go back… and write a campaign finance law [from scratch], what are the major ingredients you would include in the bill?" Each panelist took a stab at an answer, and several members of the audience pitched in.
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New data suggests blockades of The Pirate Bay are ineffective against illegal filesharing
The blockade of The Pirate Bay is ineffective against illegal filesharing, according to information gathered by the BBC. In April, six major ISPs in the UK were forced to block The Pirate Bay. However, one of the ISPs states that the peer-to-peer activity on its network hasn't decreased since then. Immediately after the ban, the peer-to-peer traffic dropped by 11%, but only a week later, it was back to normal again. The ISP shared data with the BBC on the condition of anonimity.
The anonymous ISP emphasized that the disclosed data relates to the volume of traffic, not to the number of users. It might be possible that hardcore file sharers have become more active while casual users have been discouraged. Also, the data is not able to distinguish precisely what material is downloaded and from where. Users might have used other sites than The Pirate Bay to access files.
Loz Kaye, leader of UK's Pirate Party, does not think blocking is an effective method: "It's not in any way productive. Anyone who knows anything about how the internet works can get around it."
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Despite the release of this data,Geoff Taylor, chief executive of BPI, told the BBC that it will continue to take similar actions in the future.
The anonymous ISP in the UK is not the only stakeholder claiming to possess data that proves the ineffectiveness of a blockade in the battle against illegal filesharing. In January of this year, two major ISP in the Netherlands were also ordered to block The Pirate Bay. In April, the University of Amsterdam measured the bittorrent traffic to see if the blockade made any difference. According to their research report, there was no significant decrease in torrent traffic between 7 and 10 April 2012, around the time of several blocking orders. Also XS4ALL, one of the providers that had to block The Pirate Bay in January, states on its blog that there is no decrease in torrent traffic since the blockade. The data of XS4ALL only measures the traffic on familiar bittorrent tracker ports, though. There might be traffic on other tracker ports as well. Therefore, the data does not give exact information on bittorrent traffic, and the effects of the measures remain difficult to calculate.
Read more about The Pirate Bay on FutureOfCopyright.com:
1. Traffic to a site that has links to torrent files has nothing to do with P2P traffic in general. It's like arguing that speeding tickets are useless because other people are still driving to fast.
2. Decreasing website popularity will affect advertising revenue
3. Rights owners will now move to have proxies/VPNs blocked (like in The Netherlands)
4. Are ISPs suggesting the P2P protocol itself should be blocked or throttled down (like they're already doing) for any "blockade" to have effect???
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In fairness it should be said that ISPs generally only keep a very vague record of overall network activity, which cannot identify precisely what type of files are being transferred over P2P networks (legal, unlawful or illegal content etc.). As a result it's difficult to know what the real impact has been, although users of such content tend to switch over to a different site or simply work their way around the block itself. In any case overall P2P traffic, which was the primary focus of The Pirate Bay, appears not to have suffered.


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Need ball park power and cooling requirements
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On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 09:19:31AM -0400, Robert G. Brown wrote: > ... > > > > Rough BTU/hr cooling = (((Amps * Volts) * 0.8) / 1000) * 3413 > > The 0.8 is something called "power factor" I think, and largely > > relates to how efficiently the power is converted and used. I > > believe the 3413 is just a conversion factor; it takes 3413 BTUs/hr > > to cool a constant load of 1250VA at 0.8 power factor. I think. =] > > > > Rough AC Tonnage = BTUs per hour/12000 > > It is a lot easier to combine these two computations, especially when > the power factor is irrelevant to the cooling requirements (it increases > the peak current required to produce a given AVERAGE power consumption, > but the AC has to remove the AVERAGE power being consumed, not the peak > VA). If you do a long and tedious computation that converts a "ton" of > AC (air conditioning that can remove enough heat to melt a ton if ice at > 32F in 24 hours, so help me -- God help the evil fiends who came up with > this non-SI-unit abomination:-) into something approximating sane units > (SI) one concludes that a one ton air conditioner removes a teen bit > more than 3500 Joules of energy per second (3500 watts) continuously. > > HOWEVER, when computing the wattage that needs to be removed, one has to > remember that heat bleeds into any cool space from any contiguous hotter > place, AND that you need to room to be considerably cooler than ambient > air in most situations. Building ambient might be (e.g.) 72F but you'd > like your server room to be (e.g.) 60F. You'd need some AC capacity to > maintain this temperature differential even for an empty room with no > nodes at all. > > The >>baseline<< estimate for cooling capacity is therefore based on the > number of nodes. > > d) T = N*W/3500 > > where T is the number of tons of AC, N is the number of nodes to be run, > W is their average power, and 3500 converts Watts in to Tons. You can > then apply a fudge factor to come up with your actual requirement: > > d') T' = T*1.2 or T*1.5 or whatever. > > The correction should be sufficient to deal with human bodies in the > space (100W each), electric lights in the space (add their wattage), > heat coming in through walls, windows(! -- a window can add LOTS of > wattage in the form of sunlight and conduction), and any other non-node > electrical equipment you might have handy -- monitors, switches, video > games to play while waiting for jobs to run. > > Warning/disclaimer: Although I've been gradually building up the > understanding explicitly represented above for some years now, it could > still have some errors in it (although it almost certainly is, if > anything, too conservative and not too liberal). I invite comment and > correction from those on the list that are wiser than I. I'm very > shortly going to go ahead and add the above to my online book so that > this FAQ can be referred to the book in the future. > > rgb In addition, code will require some fresh air addition to the room, in most cases, to accomodate the average number of people that will occupy the room. In our case, "fresh air" means humidity laden warm air drawn from an intake on the roof. You need additional cooling capacity to handle that additional load as well. ============================================================================= Ray Muno http://www.aem.umn.edu/people/staff/muno University of Minnesota e-mail: muno at aem.umn.edu Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics Phone: (612) 625-9531 110 Union St. S.E. FAX: (612) 626-1558 Minneapolis, Mn 55455 =============================================================================
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For a few years, our local national park has been working towards being added to a United Nations list of "World Heritage" sites.
This weekend, a panel of experts have been touring Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, along with the Newark Earthworks and Fort Ancient state sites.
They met here with local leaders Monday morning, under the leadership of Dean Alexander, superintendent of Hopewell Culture National Historical Park.
Gustavo Araoz is the international president of the advising council. "Universal importance" is one of several considerations to get listed, and he said the mystery of the mound builders places these parks among the most important sites in the world.
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BOUNTIFUL — The defending 5A champion Lone Peak Knights will come to Bountiful Friday night to take on the Braves at 7 p.m.
With the many changes the Knights have gone through, specifically on offense, it will be tough to get out of Bountiful with a win in 2012.
The difference between last season's Lone Peak roster and the 2012 version are night and day. Taking care of the rushing and passing duties in 2011 was Chase Hansen, who accounted for close to 4,500 combined yards with 54 total touchdowns (38 passing, 16 rushing).
With Hansen and the team's top two leading receivers from 2011 gone, the offense will rest on the shoulders of either Braden Miles or Baron Gajkowski. Neither played much last season, and Gajkowski is a transfer student from Jordan High School.
Talon Shumway is one of the few familiar names returning from the 2011 championship season and was the team's fourth best receiver in terms of yards (459) and touchdowns (five). He's one of the few weapons Lone Peak has from last year's roster, which could give the Braves' defense an advantage heading into Friday night.
Bountiful's defense will consist of at least three key returning starters from last season, including linebackers Rylee Gautavai, who led the team in tackles, Ryan Curtis, who tied the team lead with four interceptions, and defensive lineman Junior Hamilton (46 tackles).
Jakob Hunt, who led the team in sacks last year, will also give the defense some spark as one of many players who will play both sides of the ball this season.
With Lone Peak's defense a question mark coming into the start of the new season, Bountiful's plan to run the football could be an asset for the Braves Friday night.
Hunt's return to the backfield provides some stability to a team that returns very few starters from 2011. Last season Hunt proved to be the workhorse that Bountiful coach Larry Wall needed, rushing for close to 1,200 yards while also catching balls out of the backfield.
At receiver, Tanner Redding was a favorite target of Cam Zollinger (who graduated) in 2011, scoring seven receiving touchdowns with 403 yards on 29 catches.
Mosese Manu could be a secret target for whoever starts at quarterback Friday as well. Last season the tight end only caught seven balls, but five of them turned into touchdowns and came at key moments in the game. Should the Braves need some go-to options, Redding and Manu will be nice targets.
The key component in this year's game will come down to Lone Peak's offense versus Bountiful's defense.


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I killed a lot of bugs this week.
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We did manage to determine that it is unrelated to the "Warning: Clone Frames Failed" message in your debug.err files. That happens every time you go to build a starbase that is not on a resource or an ascension crystal. The next build after this one will fix that.
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+ FIXED: Took out line from AISetColonyMilitaryProject that was not in Drengin AI which is the probable cause of the space miner spam. Also added code to prevent it from trying to build ships it hasn't designed yet.
+ FIXED: Added check to keep minor races from placing spies
+ FIXED: Now saving the weapon and defense focus variables so that they won't be reset to defaults when loading a save game.
+ FIXED: Bug where ShipDesignFocusWnd reset the sliders to the default after loading a save game
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+ FIXED: Bug that caused the context area to not show any information except about Ascension crystals once an ascension crystal was clicked on
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+ FIXED: Bug where certain races didn't have anything regarding their relations with you in their reports when playing as certain races. This would have occurred for the Drengin viewing Torians, Iconians viewing various races, and Drath viewing Altarians.
+ FIXED: Bugs with initializing asteroid fields and other game objects
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+ TWEAK: Assigned Ascension victory weight of 2.5
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+ TWEAK: in scenario editor, made it so you can't set the Dreadlords as the player race. This was a bug that existed in the old scenario editor and was overlooked until a user had pointed it out to Cari today.
+ TWEAK: In an effort to get more information about why some ships are invisible, I added information to the "CloneFrames failed" message
Yes. It falls between Military Conquest and Influence Victory. I figured that since the AI gangs up on you when you start getting close, it'll be harder than Influence, but it's still not as hard as a military victory.
It's not actually possible because they are technically a minor race, although they have their own AI. Also, they don't have all of the models that they need.
To give us better control of what techs they have access to. We were talking about gimping the minor race tech tree and maybe making the Dread Lords techs more powerful so that if you take over a Dread Lords world, you have the chance to steal a really awesome tech.
Well, we don't really have the room. Also, the number of core ships that will show up is now reduced. Only the cargo hulled ships and the scout will show up now. The rest are loaded invisibly for use in custom maps, campaigns and tournaments or free ships from random events.
The difference is before they were using the Default tech three, which is compiled from other tech trees and includes the race specific techs from any civs not loaded in the game. The Terran Tech tree is the closest to the tech tree from DA, so we used that as the basis and took out the special techs. As I said above, we would like to tweak these further but we didn't have time before this beta.
Brad was out of town all last week so he didn't have time to work on the AI and besides being swamped this week, he's sick again.
Brad was planning on making changes to the other AIs after he saw how the Drengin AI does and then make similar changes to the other AI accounting for their personalities. We could probably do a last minute beta next week, but I have to ask him about that. So I can't guarantee another beta.
All of the developers send out e-mails with the changes they made when they check in something to the version control system, so when I make the change log, all I have to do is go through the subfolder in my inbox with all of those e-mails. Then I sort them into New, Tweak, Fixed, and try to make them semi-comprehensible to non-developers. I also have to weed out the things that would make no difference to you guys because it's deep in the code, like "wrote new helper function to wrap text for formatted strings because DirectX does a crappy job (well it does!)".


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