Tge warez

#21 Freaking script kiddies. I not only paid for the source code, but for the tutorials, and help. At the time i bought TGE it was a learning experiance, and a fun one at that. But now, I have moved on. I think these little warezer's need to be chased down and beaten with a stick. Anyone wanna help?

Sorry about your fraud rate Jeff, I paid legitly :).

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#22 Back when I worked for the Federal Courts they called me "web nazi" because I enforced a
zero tolerence for mp3's and such on our internal network. But ethically I didn't see how we
could people people in jail for it and not enforce it ourself.

I used sniffers a lot, mostly in the military. Have caught people doing everything from porn, warez of games
and applications and huge MP3 libraries on dedicated government unix servers lol. I have helped put people
behind bars for various white collar computer crimes. Warez is more of a civil court issue. It's sad how it hurts
folks.

#23 As for the issue of people warezing TGE, I agree the the earlier poster who said something along the lines of "Even current owners can barely figure the thing out." If I were GG, I would simply do what MySQL has done, same type of thing open the source, and charge some bucks for support and tools to work with it. The code by itself is a royal pain.

I am trying to develop a nice commercial game with it and I swear 80% of my time is spent here in the forums, asking questions.
2% of my time is actual coding and development and 18% of my time is spent debugging whatever I just managed to accomplish.

I consider myself to be a very proficient programmer, most of the script kiddies who manage to get a free copy of the source, could probably barely even get the thing to compile, let alone mod it to do anything really useful.

#24 As much as you spend 80% of your time on the forum, that is because you are not fully used to all the nooks and cranies of the Torque Code. You'd be in the same situation if it was Unreal 3 or RenderWare, simply because it takes time to get used to an engine. Once you've figured it all out, you'll be rocking along at the speed of light. It takes 18 month to get a fully capable programmer up to speed with an engine.

Toby
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President
Game Development Society Leeds Uni
www.gdsleeds.com

#25 >I paid because I heard that chicks dig guys who are TGE owners

@Brian: sorry man, the chicks are all running to the TSE and T2D guys now. rough world, I know. :-)

#26 @Brain You paid cuz you think chicks dig TGE owners? I bought cuz my wife threatened to leave if we kept having to use A6. So I guess some chicks do dig TGE owners. :)

@Toby, I spend 80% of my time in the forums, because honestly the docs suck pretty badly for anything specfic, and getting support in the forums is about the only way to figure things out. I'm pretty familiar with the engine at this stage and still am spending 80% of my time here.

#27 Somebody tried that PayPal trick on me. Paypal "asked" for the money back (which I did not pay), but my account was frozen for a month while they "investigated".

#28 Dreamer,

You spend 80% of your time of the forums because you do not have a better way of getting information (which is fine...nothing wrong with that). The docs do not suck, but they are also not really needed. You have the source and all the answers are in there. I spend more time posting answers than asking for questions because I am a coder skilled in reading large code bases that I did not write.

#29 Well I for one will not be a victim.
I'm releasing games for free.