Yep, pretty much. Demigod beta just fell on me like a ton of bricks, so I'm out of it for a few more days. Oh, and essays. I'm ready to get enough stuff in for a public beta, it'll just be very bare bones.

For your camera problem:

-Set it to macro mode (if it has one) which should be a little flower. This will reduce its focal length to about 12cm.... allowing for much more close up pictures

-Hold the button only halfway down, aiming the redicule at the object. This will get the camera to focus manually. Wait for the image to focus, then press all the way down.

-Set the camera to a timer, say 5 seconds, and put it on a stand (or like me, on a pile of books) and aim it at the object. Then press the shoot button, and step away from the camera. (No human, NO HUMAN, can hold a camera steady. If you shake even the slightest bit, it will blur the image)

-A plain white or plain black background. always helps.

-Good, white, lighting. Get an energy saver flouresent lightglobe, they give off the best light.

These are the steps I take when taking photos. You should end up with somthing like this, although this image is slightly blurred due to poor lighting angle and JPEGing so that it was no longer 5mb! lol.

NINJA LOL

Yeah, I tried stripping it of paint, but ended up melting parts of it instead.... So i turned it into a hulk and bought more. Thats why the prow looks so 'dirty'.... its just residue scraps of paint from the last scheme. Its just so annoying when playing a big game when your ships get turned into flaming hulks..... Its hard keeping track of which ones are hulked and whiche ones arnt. So a model hulk helps alot lol

WHat? THat thing? It was just somthing I did when I was bored.... And very, very tired. Dont pay any mind to that, wait for me to finish my whole IN fleet It was done very badly....

You know you could try some brake fluid for removing paint.  Trust me you do not want that stuff anywhere near the exterior of a car.

Some cameras (although unlikely) just plain old cant take close up photos, because it has a normal sized focal length that cant be reduced. Im guessing it was a cheap camera then? If not, then theres somthing terribly wrong, that I cant explain except for that the warp is playing hell with your camera

No no, it should just work. Are you sure they have no macro function? (little flower) Because if it doesnt have one, it means its A ) Auto.... which means it should automaticly do it for you, although they are only on the new ones... B ) It wasnt made for close up shooting, and cant focus within 12cm...

I need to ask how many of you guys are planning on getting the first expansion online. Because if they're doing what I think they are, then the additions the first expansion makes should make ramilies star forts and blackstones really easy to do an awesome job on, but if it won't work for most people, then we have problems. So, how many?

yes but we would then have to make the ramalies and blackstone a ship which could cause problems for the mx ships things. instead we could make it one of these starbases which perfectly fits it

How are the planets going to be done? I want my forge worlds!

I will probably get the expansion ($10 isnt much...) But if your mod is only going to stay on the vanilla  Sins, then I wont get it. If you decide to move over to the expansion, so will I. You lead and I follow lol!

So... I don't suppose there is any ETA on a demo or, dare I say, a beta release? I know, not likely. But I can hope, can't I?