{"id":2493,"date":"2012-01-29T21:32:43","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T01:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2493"},"modified":"2012-01-29T21:32:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T01:32:43","slug":"winter-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2493","title":{"rendered":"Winter 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">O<\/span>n the personal side: This month the weather has been really wet and mild. The weather has been hovering around the -5 to +7 degrees. I recall we only had 2 or 3 days really cold weather (-19s). Additionally, we had a couple of snow days, but since the temperature still goes up during the day, most of the snow has melted and\/or changed into ice. It definitely doesn&#8217;t make for good photo opportunities.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n<p>Continuing on that post I made earlier this month on Elite and X3 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2486\">here): I decided to get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starwraith.com\/evochronmercenary\/\">Evochron Mercenary<\/a>. From the initial screens,the impression I got is that this game strongly resembles Elite. It looks like fun (you know, that is if you like these free-form games) but you can&#8217;t compare it to the X3 series. Evochron seems to focus on the Newtonian flight model: to be honest, the flight model is not all too different from X3. When I find time (time is precious), I&#8217;ll take a closer look at EM. Get it or not? Well: it&#8217;s not badly priced. If you&#8217;re into games with a steep learning curve, you should check it out.\n<\/p>\n<p>Having spent almost 100 hours on X3:Albion Prelude, I find the game itself sort of boring: this is mostly because there are no real missions in this extension pack. Sadly, X3:AP does not include the X3:TC missions and as far as I can tell only contains one true mission. Egosoft promised to reintroduce the PHQ (Player Headquarters) in a V2 of X3:Albion Prelude, but the emptiness has quite some people upset. Lets hope I can run <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deepsilver.com\/en\/game-view\/view\/game\/access12\/x-rebirth\/\">X Rebirth<\/a> on my laptop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the personal side: This month the weather has been really wet and mild. The weather has been hovering around the -5 to +7 degrees. I recall we only had 2 or 3 days really cold weather (-19s). Additionally, we &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2493\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301],"tags":[508,254,121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}