Sevenhertz

As a gamer, there is nothing better to simply click on an icon - and the game loads. For me personally, between a game taking up to 1 minute to authenticate and a game that takes 5 seconds, I'll often choose the faster. For real horror stories with copy-protection, google 'Starforce problems' and 'pace interlock problems'. Pace Interlock is especially nice. It installs and *bypasses the OS* writing to a part of the hard disk. The problems caused by this are simply jaw-

What a great topic & thread. It has always been my arguement that CD copy protection doesn't work and it really, really sucks. How many of us know, that no matter how carefully we take care of our CD's, after a couple of years (several months even) there will be a time you put it in your drive and it won't validate - the result is you are left with an inacessible game. The truth is, at this point, we will do one of 2 things: download a No-CD crack, or buy a new cop

[quote]http://planetpixelemporium.com/earth.htmlIm not sure if that will help, but i found it very useful for fiddling and getting my earth to look just right. it has about, 15+ useful texture maps of all the planets in our solar system.[/quote] This does help very much - thank you greatly for this! -Seven

Has anyone made Earth & planets of our solar system? This would be a great mod! I know how to make new textures except Earth is different - the map must match-up...

Thanks for that Kryo - I'm all for pirates but perhaps in a later update there could be an option box for 'realistic' pirates which means destroy their base = no more pirates. Of course I can see the reason for a Pirate *base* to re-appear someplace - that makes sense and in my opinion would work better with this new option. It is just frustrating, that as a strategy gamer I cannot plan logically for dealing with pirates: e.g. Locate the base, deal a crippling blow etc. <b

Its a Game-Breaker. Plain & simple. Tactical thinking, planning and skill are useless if you have random spawning pirate fleets. Game-Breaker. Not sarcasm or spite, just fact.

I have the same problem. If it is indeed free-spawing pirates appearing, with no regards to game reality (i.e. pirates must have a base, logistical requirements etc.) then tactics, strategy and intelligent gameplay get thrown out of the window along with the reason to play. I really hope there is a valid reason for Pirates appearing like this, and a tactic to stopping them. I'd hate to stop enjoying this game...

From a military/tactical viewpoint, wouldn't you think that the R&D guys in this universe would not think of the possibility to mine phase lanes? I don't know about game balance or the pseudo-science compatibility but it should be considered...

Apart from some of what has already been mentioned, I have a few esoteric requests: What I would really love to see is: -The ability to make our solar system (an Earth texture please?) -The ability to choose the color scheme for systems in the map editor/ Galaxy Forge (Real Space Blue, Red, Green, etc.) -Ability to add more unique races -True full-screen mode (no icons, no buttons, just the graphics) By the way, you guys have done it again: superb