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  1. alpha123
    For some reason I keep reading your posts in this voice. Must be the caps. Wow Katuko, color me impressed. I remember when I first started following this game around Alpha 4. I had high hopes and low expectations. You’ve definitely delivered! There are a couple bugs I found in Alpha 14, but unfortunately I can’t recall them right now. One thing that would be nice is if laser vision hit the first thing that collided with any part of the beam, because currently it is very hard to hit anything. So if an enemy flies into the middle beam (or more likely the beam is simply fired as the enemy is falling) it would get roasted, but anything behind the first enemy would not. I’ll see if I can remember any of the bugs. That mask stacking still works is one of them, but at this point I’d almost call that an undocumented feature....
  2. alpha123
    Definitely some of ToaDraconixMahvi's stuff.
  3. alpha123
    On the topic of the Akaku, Tolkien considers it "aka-aku," meaning "power-vision." "aku" being sight/vision seems reasonable although I disagree with him on the rest, preferring "ak-ak-aku" with "ak" perhaps meaning "well" and "ak-ak-aku" (shortened to "ak-ak-u") meaning "seeing very well." Admittedly this is a shaky theory at best and was largely contrived to support my repeated-syllable-means-emphasis theory. However, it has a bit of evidence going for it in Volitak, perhaps meaning "well concealed."
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    That makes a great deal of sense, especially considering that the Ruru is much more powerful than natural night vision, which could certainly carry the connotation of being unnatural/granted by a power. That's awesome! Tolkien, you're amazing.
  5. alpha123
    I think in Matoran repeated syllables add emphasis (as in some Native American languages), not necessarily completely new words (although your example with "extended dive" is effectively what I'm getting at with emphasis). Kakama may mean "very fast transport." I'm a little stuck on Ruru however. If "ru" meant, say, "sight," emphasized sight would be more like the Akaku. Perhaps you're right with repetition being different-but-related words. Interestingly enough, I can't find any repeated syllables past 2001, so syllable repetition probably was taken from Maori.
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    That is amazing! Wow. I prefer Dual Matrix's approach with syllables, however I can't deny Tolkien's work is crazy awesome, and very thorough. Perhaps I'll work on a way of unifying those two sources (I have an interest in linguists as well, although I don't plan to formally study it).
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    I like Self-Restriction now. It sounded very odd at first and then I realized it has a number of creative uses. Setting up an opponent like Meta-Mind said, as well as possibly being useful to say, mutants without good control of their powers or a new Toa learning their element. No problem.
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    Ah right, I forgot Mavrah's Rahi. Arg, that's annoying. I guess it's really whatever Matoran deem a Rahi then - frankly I find Keetongu less Rahi-like than the Skakdi.
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    Out of world, they were just a really cool set that TLG needed to fit into the story. In world, they where probably either a mental test for the Toa - "Hey look, these are powerful, let's use these," when what they really needed was unity - or perhaps guardians of the Bahrag that recognized the Toa needed to capture the Bahrag and hence didn't try to stop them? I would say guardians that broke and ceased to function autonomously, but in 2003 we saw them fighting unmanned against the Bohrak-Kal.
  10. alpha123
    I consider 'Rahi' any living thing not made by the Great Beings or Mata Nui. This is all the Makuta creations, including sapient ones like Krahka and Keetongu. The lines get a little blurred however - Krana are classified perhaps wrongly as Rahi, but I don't believe Kraata are considered Rahi and they are created by Makuta.
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    Conveniently enough, I happen to have PDF versions of all the Cipher Chronicles episodes so far (they're sooo good, congratulations to all the writers). Safety in Numbers Escape the Fire Cold Truth Sticks and Stones Current Events I didn't actually check if the archives of them are still down, but if they do again or if anyone wants offline versions of the Cipher Chronicles, I'll leave these here.
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    This is basically what I always imagined Matoran to look like. Can we presume that it is a Verb-Subject-Object language like Hawaiian? I would say no on the basis of "Manas zya", given that zya is the verb there. Also, that sentence is probably extremely archaic given that it doesn't contain the 'av' syllable, which I figured would probably feature on the back of the Mask of Light. I think the relationship between modern Matoran and ancient Matoran that requires a Rau to translate is probably similar to Old English (think Beowulf) vs modern English - there are some similarities especially regarding grammar but for the most part it sounds extremely foreign to modern speakers and the vocabularies are fairly distinct. I think this guy is really on to something when it comes to the Matoran language. My personal theory is that because Matoran is a programming language, they are exchanging data structures with each other in some serialization format. This would mean the Matoran language that gets spoken and written down is a subset of the Matoran programming language, sort of like the relationship between JSON and JavaScript. Anyway, that means Matoran is probably very compact - I like Dual Matrix's approach since the syllables could represent bytes in the serialized format.
  13. alpha123
    Spirits aren't tangible in the physical world. They might be tangible in the spirit world.
  14. alpha123
    Actually it means BIONICLE Conflict Zone (the name of the online multiplayer game I made). Sorry, I thought it was reasonably obvious from context, but now that I re-read my post it's really not.
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    You mean over the internet? BCZ works over that, too. (Although it's probably even worse to set up; you'd have to hard-code the host's external IP directly in the networking code.)
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    Definitely Skrall (who are technically Glatorian, as that's the name of the profession, not a species name). They're simply physically superior to the "regular" Glatorian species, plus Skrall basically train all their lives to fight. As far as actually Glatorian, I'd probably say Tarix. According to BS01, he won the Arena Magna championship 93 times in a row! Ackar and Vastus are very good as well, probably very competitive with Tarix. I expect a Bota Magna Vorox would have fared extremely well in the arena system, as a result of their modifications from the Great Beings and the fact that they didn't regress in intelligence like the Bara Magna Vorox. They'd probably be a little better than regular Glatorian and worse than Skrall.
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    This isn't even the first one of those. I made BIONICLE Conflict Zone, which has a network multiplayer function (although it's admittedly very difficult to set up). It does work well though; I occasionally play with my brother from time to time. (Not to toot my own horn, just pointing that out. My game is not very fun, actually, you probably shouldn't play it. )
  18. alpha123
    Wow, that was very interesting. I like how you were able to find such interesting connections by breaking down the words. Matoran say things differently than we do. So while Makoki literally means "Life giver to gates," we would just translate that as "key."
  19. alpha123
    This was really quite hilarious. I actually thought some of these may be true, although others were obvious jokes. I actually kind of like "Krakalin," and I've been wanting Void to be an element for... years. Muffin button.
  20. alpha123
    Woah! An update! I must admit I underestimated your motivation Katuko. I thought this was going to die. I'm so glad it didn't. Thank you for uploading the source by the way. I certainly don't plan to copy any of it (I don't even have Game Maker Pro ). I just wanted that, in my pessimism, as a safeguard in case you did give up on this. I haven't yet played alpha 11, but I will shortly, and definitely tell you what I think. Psionics looks like pure awesome dipped in awesomesauce, with an extra helping of awsum on the side.
  21. alpha123

    Something big got delayed. :-/

    1. P~M

      P~M

      :'(

  22. alpha123
    Since you might not be able to work on this for a while, would you consider releasing the source and assets for the game, so the fans can contribute to it? Please don't say "I'd like to clean it up first," because then it usually doesn't get done, the project dies, and nobody is able to continue it.
  23. alpha123
    Definitely the MNOG soundtrack. It just plain screams "BIONICLE". Gravity Hurts is easily second, followed some ways behind by Crashed and Creeping in my Soul.
  24. alpha123
    Good thing I have ways of brutalizing cheaters, then. A simple variable check now and then from the server, and if your stats pass the maximum possible amount, your head explodes. Or similar. That's a good strategy. Unfortunately, it wouldn't detect, say, both invisibility and levitation, would it?Not that I think cheating will be much of a problem in this game.
  25. alpha123
    Dangit, someone told him. That was my secret advantage for when multiplayer hits. I've been using that bug since around Alpha 5.I believe I reported it a while back and it got fixed slightly, but it still happens. If you get a Huna on and activate it before grabbing the Kakama, you're permanently invisible too. So yes, I admit, I was planning to be a super speedy, invisible, flying Toa in multiplayer. If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying....
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