Conquer

Well, no news on Vanguard's server merging yet. They are merging down to 2 US servers, 1 EU server, and 1 PvP server. That's from about a dozen or so, which tells you the subscription population is probably down around 30K or less. I have an SOE game time card waiting for them to finish the move so I can return for one more month to see how things are improved (or not).

If they don't hurry, I might use it for Pirate of the Burning Sea. Yes, that's right SOE has their mitts on that game now. Unlike my friends, I don't directly blame SOE for everything, even though they could have spared Vanguard from its fate if they'd forked over some cash or just made a better offer to purchase it from Sigil before launch.

EVE is still going strong. I suck at level 4 missions, which means I suck at outfitting a raven. I may join Don's corporation in the next couple of weeks. I played City of Heroes for a month, and it was fun. I may even sign up for another month when they release their next expansion (issue 10).

I've started playing Civ 4 again, and their new expansion is due out this month. Amazing game, and it's turn based. I wish I could convince my MMO addicted friends to give it a try, but they all can't stand turn based games unless they're text mode I guess.

I'm working on the old conquer source code again. I decided to see if I could drag it into some sembelence of maintainability. I almost have a database schema done for it, and might actually rewrite it in perl. I'm debating if that would be easier than all the damn malloc() calls I have to add to wrench it out of #ifdef and hard-coded array land.

I went to see Transformers in the theatre this week. It was surprisingly good and I highly recommend it. I'll probably go see Harry Potter sometime this week, and of course the Simpsons movie at the end of the month.