User talk:Hobbes

Geneva

Hiya Hobbes. Check out my 5th Geneva Convention on Talk:CFN and see what you think.

Some of the points it may need to address are: XCOM exclusive right to deal with Aliens; basing rights; military cooperation: however I see it as an overall document that permits new directives and regulations to be issued by the Council so it doesn't have to cover everything.

feel free to move / copy / edit. Spike 02:22, 12 March 2008 (PDT)

XCU

Hiya Hobbes! Good edits there on XComUtil. The only option I accepted after "prompt before each ship" was "use new Farm and Desert terrain". Is just selecting this enough to spoil the "prompt before ship" option?

Cheers, Spike 17:58, 8 September 2008 (PDT)

Hey there. Yeah, that should be it. I never use that option because you can get some really strange effects like Skyrangers on the middle of pyramids. Hobbes 18:01, 8 September 2008 (PDT)

Funny you should say that, I just had that situation as soon as I applied the patch. Skyranger smack in the middle of a pyramid. Kind of hard to drive my tank out through the walls! I guess I'll turn that Desert terrain option off, as I would like to play with the "select-a-ship" feature, it sounds fun. Spike

It's different alright. Have you ever tried any of my terrain mods? There are some challenging ones, but you'll need to use XComUtil Hobbes

Unknown Menace

I've just started reading your first XCom novel and I'm hooked! But I'm going somewhere with only patchy internet. Is there a way I can download the whole novel as a zip file? Spike 16:30, 9 September 2008 (PDT)

Here's the full book in a pdf file (3.4 mb). Have fun :) Hobbes 17:23, 9 September 2008 (PDT)

Thanks. I had a bit of a struggle to convert the RAR to .zip - RAR's not so common on some types of computer. And I've just this morning finished reading the whole thing. I'm very impressed, it's a big work. Must've taken you a long time to write it. I really like your take on a lot of the back story behind XCom, CFN, etc. It's an exciting plot, a "page turner" as they say. Spike 13:44, 13 September 2008 (PDT)

Thanks. Took me over 2 years to finish it, and I about figured the time required for me to write it after 3 months! I didn't simply want to give the 'ingame' perspective of endless battles. :) Hobbes 14:12, 13 September 2008 (PDT)

Apocalypse updates

Good work on the Apocalypse updates Hobbes. Problem I've always found with the wiki is that a lot of the articles are out of sight and therefore out of mind. With the updates, there looks like there are heaps of articles that need an overhaul and some of the not-entirely-canon bits left over from our earlier days that may need to be culled or revised. -NKF

Thanks. Updating this section will be a long term project and but the Mega-Primus section is mostly done, all it requires now is more images for the buildings and tactical tips for each building. Most of the other material can be reused though, in many cases it is merely a matter of rewording (changing gender into a neutral 'it' helps) but there's non-canon bits that should be dropped. Hobbes 06:31, 2 November 2009 (EST)

Is there a reason for the (Apocalypse) suffix at the end of Apocalypse page names? I mean, there aren't any Queenspawns, Skeletoids or Psimorphs in the other X-COM games so there should be no confusion figuring out which game they belong to (even less confusion if they are listed in the Apocalypse section template). I thought our agreed-upon standard was to only use a suffix if the page could be disambiguous (for example: Medi-Kit and Medi-Kit (TFTD), and in this case the UFO variant of the Medi-Kit takes precedence and doesn't require a (UFO) suffix). So before we go all crazy adding pages with the (Apocalypse) suffix let's please agree upon a standard to use. ;) --Zombie 22:22, 13 November 2009 (EST)