Uranium - 235

[quote]gas giants are nothing more then vacuums in space[/quote] The definition of irony.

[quote]If some one breaks into your shed, you would put a lock on it. Its not really different with games, but Stardock is doing pretty well without a lock, but its hard to track these kinds of things.[/quote] Actually it's more like you buying a car, only there's a device hidden in the driver's seat that propels an iron spike through the body of whomever is in the seat if the car thinks you're NOT the original owner. I buy a car, I'm going to do whatever I damn-well want with

Stardock should go scoop up the ILE staff :D

[quote]crysis (87K in 2 months)[/quote] Crysis actually outsold its sales expectations - the developers never expected it to be flying off store shelves, specifically because of its high requirements.

[quote]And we should believe you instead of someone who works in the industry... why?[/quote] Torrentspy or someone posted their own stats and less than 15% of torrent activity was on games (includes console and PC). About 70% of torrents were TV shows and movies.

Video game piracy is still a tiny fraction of overall piracy. Something like 70-80% of piracy is movies and TV shows (TV SHOWS! Some 'piracy').

And nobody believes me when I say that piracy is an over exaggerated myth.

poop

My personal favorite Homeworld 1 song was track 16.

[quote]Defensive Hangars now host one additional fighter/bomber wing per/platform[/quote] PS: A handful of fighters/bombers is called a squadron. A handful of squadrons is called a wing. A handful of wings are called a group. ;)

AI-wise they don't put enough bounty on anyone. Midgame the AI is putting 1500 credit bounties on each other - I'm putting 20,000 credit bounties.

[quote]I was going to write up a huge essay on the merits of my idea, but then I realized who posted this, and laughed it off. I can't believe I almost took you seriously.[/quote] In other words, you knew none of your half-assed stupid arguments would change my opinion of you that you're a moron? Or because why? Because you "wouldn't change my mind"? Because I'm not a moronic sheep like 99% of the internet populace? Because I don't try to hide what I mean behind futile

[quote][quote]Stardock releasing an optional Single-player Campaign for Sins of a Solar Empire in dozens of monthly chapters at the low-low cost of $7.49 an installment[/quote] Pay-per month only works for the MMO's... right?[/quote] That's the stupidest idea I've ever heard. Today. Let me break this down for you. First of all, $7.50 is a fucking RIP OFF. Unless these 'installments' were promising at least 20 hours of gameplay each, I wouldn't pay anywhere NEAR that much. $

[quote]When you look at the sales of really hardcore games like Crysis and you think, "Wow, those games should have sold a lot more,"Wow, christ taylor is an idiot Neither Crysis nor Supreme Commander "should have sold a lot more", because there were (and still are!) basic fundamental huge issues in those game.[/quote] Actually the biggest problem facing those two games was that they BOTH would devour systems. SupComm was nearly unplayable on a big map on anything less than a quad-core

Yeah radiation is kinda lame. Who the hell worries about repopulating that fast? On a tiny game, radiation could be crippling, but on a large game it means nothing, absolutely nothing.

That means that your capital is in the presence of EXTREMELY heavy enemy influence. Or at least, it tells me it is.

[quote]I saw an article at IGN about how PC developers are blaming piracy as the reason some high profile games aren't selling in the quantities they should.[/quote] Interesting fact: Bioshock's Xbox 360 version was pirated ABSURDEDLY more than the PC version. I believe when I saw it at launch day, there were 26,000 people leeching the Xbox 360 version, and only about 1,500 some leeching the PC version. Here's my two cents. First of all, nobody has actually published piracy NUM

$50 says 99% of the people having problems also installed Nvidia's Ethernet Controller. I don't remember if that's the exact name, but it's part of a suite of drivers you install if you have an nForce motherboard, among other things. It runs its own shitty firewall that will cause nothing but problems.

[quote]Just because a game is enjoyed by the mainstream doesn't automatically make it a shallow, "crappy" game that only xbox tard/idiots can appreciate.[/quote] I dare you to prove that one. I mean look at what you have going for you: Oblivion, Call of Duty 4, C&C3, God of War, Bioshock - whoops. The closest you can get is Mass Effect which still fell short of being a Baldur's Gate 2. Oh and fanboyism has nothing to do with me being "angry" (anger is a rather poor word for it)

First, as if my first post didn't make it clear, I'll state my allegiance. I hate consoles, with a passion. I don't mind Nintendo, as Nintendo generally has their own franchises and doesn't port things to the PC. However, Sony and Microsoft proved it's cost effective to make games, copy-paste them into the Windows OS, and sell them for $50, even if their quality is ass. I've always been a PC gamer. PC games used to be all about depth. Yes, I'm a high-and-mighty games-are-art aficionado.

I don't think it'd hurt to remove all shields and shield mitigation when the phase jumping is in progress. Seriously, that alone would let you do tremendous damage to them.

Some of these have been listed before, but here's some input on ways to improve the AI and make things more fun overall. - Cowardice needs to be adjusted, as I'm sure has already done. If a fleet is massive compared to theirs, I don't blame them for running. However, when a fleet is just a bit larger, there's no sense in running, really. This goes for defenses too. I think the AI dramatically overestimates the power of defenses, as I've had a fleet of siege frigates flee when encountering

For starters, they NEED to split fleets into a second tree - since the right side of the screen is completely vacant, why not just list fleets over there? Having them in the main empire tree is stupid, tbh. They're totally worthless there, as 99% of the time they're all hidden at the top, since the tree ALWAYS sits at the bottom.

I can confirm I can see your edits too, and I'm using latest Firefox as well. All the carriage returns have obviously evaporated out of your post.

Appears I was correct - edits don't show until someone's replied, and all your carriage returns will explode out of it. You also get 404 errors when someone replies to your post in the meantime - though that's not much better than before where it would tell you you were banned or something. Going to add another edit to this one - reply first if you see it in the meantime. EDIT: TEST TEST CAN YOU SEE ME? :(