>> ^Xax:

Er, so the strategy is to trick the other person into quitting the game? Fail.
All games are a little about playing with the nubs, surely?

Press F10 for Rocket Launcher
Alt+F4 for more resources
Press the windows key to win
Press the windows key and L to win more.

That kinda stuff.

It's all in good fun.

Problem, Blizzard?

Lulz! Someone fell for the alt+F4 trick.

Next time this happens, close the warning dialogue and hit alt+F4. That should take care of the problem for good.

I picked this game up on a trial once, and here's how the tutorial/introduction welcomed me to the game:

Welcome to EVE! There's a small asteroid over there, go and mine it, you might find some stuff!
*i mine the asteroid*
Well done, you have mined the asteroid! Now you have minerals which you can sell. By choosing the right place to sell the minerals you may have to travel further but you will maximise your profits! Try and find more asteroids to mine, you can make more money and buy a bigger ship that will carry more minerals!
*me repeatedly spamming alt-f4*

That was the best this game had to offer me at the time i gave it a try. An endless loop of mining/selling minerals to buy a BIGGER SHIP!!!!! .......to sell more minerals with. Genuinely, that was what i was greeted with and that's what the game suggested to me, it was many years ago, perhaps the introduction is a lot more enticing these days.

And don't get me wrong, i played everquest from the day it started, the learning curve/difficulty in that game was hard as shit, but it drew me in, and that's something EVE has completely failed to do with me.

Boring, boring and boring are the three words i'd use to describe my experiences with EVE, and if a game doesn't snag your interest, it doesn't matter if it turns into HL1, HL2, quake, duke nuken forever and duke nukem 3d all wrapped into one, cos you'll never play it enough to get to that point. It's got to make you want to play.

Also, as a coincidence, i played in a TF2 clan with a guy called "lofty", who perpetrated one of the biggest ever EVE scams (so i was told) that pretty much every EVE player knows about. It was big enough to affect the whole game, iirc.

If you press F4 enough times a ROCKING GUITAR SOLO appears according to CSI.

^ Agreed
I've seen Slash using that F4 trick.

Bono is really good at charts and pivot tables, but gets bogged down by long embedded formulae so he does a calculation in stages and just hides the columns.

Although the real master of the HLOOKUP is of course Bruce Springsteen who really knows how to work his functions. There's nothing quite like gathering round his cubicle and watching the boss at work.

If you already knew about the loosely related "F4" trick, good for you - I was amazed by it though - love these little secrets.

The speaker sounds a lot like the crazy old guy at the end of this video:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Tornado-Manchester-F4-Wedge-Brown-Pants-Award

(at 2:30 in the video)

You're gonna hate me for making you watch this heheh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXveLdO-F4

Anyhow, thanks for the nice comment heheh




In reply to this comment by choggie:
upvote for the skiddo, these folks inna car-wreck(@train-crossing), and goddamn!!!!!

$50 says these guys are NOT real storm chasers, but more like amateur storm chasers. Had they been professionals, they certainly wouldn't have 1) been whining about it coming closer 2) would not have sworn like that and 3) most certainly would NOT have made the ABSURD claim that they are safe because they "have a car". You CAN NOT outrun an F4 - or most 'nados for that matter - ESPECIALLY if you only have one road to travel on.

Just for reference, i corrupted my save game files in PC-GTA3+ through over-using Alt+F4..Several times.

I still do it, but it happens.

>> ^budzos:
Eventually you will regret using ALT+F4 when your profiles and save games don't load because you corrupted them by killing the game task instead of allowing it to shut down properly.


But eventually, you will learn to play a different game that isn't designed like shit.

Yeah, this was bothering the hell outta me, didn't think to use alt-f4, doy.

"No, we don't need to do any rework for the PC port. PC's are exactly like consoles!"

I imagine Alt+F4 doesn't cause the game any harm. On both PS3 and X-Box 360 games have to accept that they can be terminated at any time if the player decides to return to the "home" screen. For reference, here is the proper way to quit Assassin's Creed on a PS3:

1. Hold down PS button for two seconds, which brings up the operating system's game menu.
2. Select Quit Game.

>> ^budzos:
Eventually you will regret using ALT+F4 when your profiles and save games don't load because you corrupted them by killing the game task instead of allowing it to shut down properly.


Except, alt+f4 sends a signal to the app to close. It isn't killing the game task. For the game to quit when you press alt+f4 it needs to catch the signal and exit out on its own. In doing so, it can save your profile etc. Whether it actually does so, who knows. It is however unlikely it will quit in the middle of writing your profile though. I wouldn't worry about it corrupting anything.