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sadness... but i think schod could cheer up a little while conveying the bad news

which i see you did to, HIaFIVa (horrible attempted to e-quote Borat)

... well if i need your permission i might already be screwed... but i already put in my vote for change the name to PS-Piss

and again theemperor beet me to it!! you guys are just too quick for me

wow in the time it took me to write that post 3 of you posted before me i need to type faster to keep up with you guys

well... im no PhD but to my limited knowledge as an undergrad in physics, motion through 3 spacial dimensions is not the 4th dimension. and neither is time. Most Physicists agree to at least 9 (some string theorists say 10) spacial dimensions and a half-dimension of time. Yes, time is only a half dimension (and always the last to be listed) because as already noted we can only move through it in one direction. Now some say all of time exists already and we are just moving through it like a ve

Now take one step back and think of use as the little guys in 3-D land and this bug dude who looks at us from above and can see and touch every thing in our present past and future. hmmm... an interesting concept... i have to say i have herd of God described in this manner, except that he exists out side of space/time... which is weird... anyway back to Gas Giants, it really doesn't really mater to much to me if there are multiple moons or just

I realize we will all find out tomorrow... but just for kicks and giggles, Who thinks we will see either of the other two races in Beta 3? If so which, and what is your reasoning for thinking this?

I am betting that gas giants have massive gravity wells that contain MORE than just a single moon for colonization dont hold your breath. just because some of the fans didn't like the idea in past threads doesn't mean the devs felt the same way... and lucky for us they tend to do what they think is best for the game regardless of how much we wine about it <img src="http://im

i am sorry but this Thursday has been canceled. we are going to go from Wednesday to Friday. i say again this Thursday has been canceled. we are sorry for in inconvenience this may cause. you're not funny...

well he said they would have some "other strategic impact" since one cant colonize the surface, the only other way to "own" such a planet would be to colonize their moons. Other wise maybe their are used as "gateways" to several other asteroids. kinda like the suns are, only for moons and asteroid fields or somthin... But what i do know is i CANT WAIT TILL THURSDAY!!!

Polluxo... oh i wish...

yeah i wondered that too, i also wondered why my trader ships would never jump to other systems. it didnt seem to mater weather i had planets with trade posts or trading treaties with the inhabitance... after reading your question i was curious and went back and checked on my current game and i found i had already invaded a naboring system but handnt reseached long jumps yet... this is deffinitly a bug, however i havent looked through the forums enough to know weather its known by the

and just to make sure i wasnt just missing somthing and i actually was shut down i went back and read that thread... yes the idea of limiting the AI when there is no Command Cruiser and returning it to full when the CC is present was shut down, and i agree with that. that is not what i meant. i meant enhancing "focus fire" type abilities causing ship AIs to work together rather then separately, as one would logically expect a fleet to do in the presence of a "Command Cruiser". Its these type

I dont ever recall it being vetoed... the thread lost intrest yes, but the idea was never vetoed

esspecially if said techs are connected to the command cruiser... wich is the ship that is supposed to be increasing fleet AI anyway...

wow

i just want to place my two cents in the bucket and say i love the hoshiko. i think it is a great ship and while i dont disagree that maybe it could use a little work, there are much bigger things i think the devs should be focusing on. i say, its a great little ship. leave it alone unless your really having a slow day and need really need somthing to work on... thats my two cents. i love this game!

this leads to the last point I intend to make: phenomena that block jump lanes, so ships need to drop out, pass it via normal travel, then go to phase space again. would also be a nice tactic for a retreating fleet. jump away, drop out near a nebula and hide until reinforcements arrive then launch a two pronged attack. or something like it. in general I like the option of waging limited combat outside planetary zones, dido... makes me think of long a lon

next week if all goes to plan. almost pees pants with excitement...

so what if rather then limiting range, they made the command cruiser (or cap ship) increase the speed of a jump. so that frigates jump really slowly with out a bigger ship with bigger nav computers. this would fit in with the idea that to save room TEC skimped out on bulky computers and nav equipment in favor of armor and guns. Just for the record im not retracting my ideas of limiting rang. i still like that idea, i just realize that it would take some thinking through logistics and

im not playing with low quality textures however i can. i have 128 MB of video ram. so that shouldnt really be the problem. though i suspect not having directX9 is mostly to blame no mater my desk top runs the game fine... its a beast

I just want to start by saying i love the idea of the Command Cruiser. I want it to be a ship that demands intimidation... not because of its size or gun compliment, but because of its ability to create a truly awesome fleet combat machine. However right now its, well kinda lame. I'm sure the devs are already working on balancing it out and i know there have already been past threads similar to this, but i had an idea. What if frigates had a range restriction. At first I was thinkin

is DirectX 9.0c going to be a requirement for this game? i cant find the min requirments on the site anywere (though i didnt look to terribly hard). or will it be a DirectX 9 for optimum settings, but blahblah for min? and if so what will those blahblahs be?

unfortunatly i have to show my sub-par geekyness and admit i dont know what pixel shader 2.0 is... where do i go to find this out?