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Reply to Where can you find the patches for Medieval II total war and kingdoms? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Whenever I install the patches I get constant crashing. So I stopped playing the game months back. I hope they get around to bringing out some unbuggy ones.

Reply to SPORE in PC Gaming Sins Forums

For me convenience is key. I put Stardock at the top here. If I want one of their games I just log onto their Impluse thing enter a few card details and download. Then reinstall whenever like. Second to that is deciding to play a game, going on Amazon, enter a few card details and I get the game a day later. I am fine with that. I'm also fine with keeping the disk in the machine when I play, why not. Where I absolutely draw the line is renting a game for a short duration. That

Reply to Mini dump Hell! in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

Hi Monk, is it possible with a game like Sins to allow players back into the game in the event of a crash or a disconnect if they are gone about a minute. Or is that just not going to happen in this game?

Reply to Mini dump Hell! in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

Thanks for the above. I will give it a try. [quote]Apples and oranges.[/quote] Yes, WoW is hosted on a server and Sins is hosted locally on each machine playing. But I'm wondering if it is possible for part of the program to allow a player back into the ring if disconnected. It would be very handy. Perhaps this is a feature of Alloy?

Reply to Gas Prices: $12-$15/gallon in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote] I think the Churchill quote goes "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried." [/quote] I think Plato had it better. Democracy is just the worse (although the most likely and achievable) of the 3 good forms of government. Now if only the world would just install me as their Benevolent Kingship I can start the good work.

Reply to Gas Prices: $12-$15/gallon in Everything Else Sins Forums

Hmmm, I'm not entirely with you yet, but your frequent swearing and sexual reference's are slowly winning me over. So basically, lets screw the pouch (as you might put it) to get short term world wide production up and the it will all be OK. For a couple more years at least. Then when that party goes bad, we can swear at lefties some more. Now I quite agree its ok so insult lefties, but the biggest mistake the right can make is to make this a them vs us issue. As oppo

Reply to Piracy, Magic, and War: Free MMOs in PC Gaming Sins Forums

As sales pitches go, its well written and non-offensive.

Reply to Is Starting Position ever going to be addressed? in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

I do wonder why the official silent on this. Perhaps there is a technical reason why this is difficult. Perhaps they don't care/agree. it would be interesting to know. After all we know that they are reading this.

Mini dump Hell! in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

Arrrgggg!!! Yet another great game ruined by Mini Dumps. I've have never seen a mini dump before Sins. Is it my machine at fault somehow?, or is this a sins thing? Its got to the point I really wonder the point of playing. I love Stardock, but please guys, why the mini dumps, why can I not rejoin a game if I am only gone a minute? I mean with (spit) WorldofWarcraft you can rejoin a battle ground if you are gone only a couple of minutes. This way Since I am one of only

Reply to Gas Prices: $12-$15/gallon in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote] WI've got news for you:-Comfort isn't the problem. Using oil is.-Speed isn't the problem. Using oil is.-Size isn't the problem. Using oil is.There's no way we should have to sacrifice any of this, because frankly they're not the problem. You really want to make a difference? Fix the problem. Don't go around blaming side issues.The idea that we should be switching to alternative fuels and use clean technologies is a very good one. The idea that we should have to start driving in

Reply to Gas Prices: $12-$15/gallon in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote] I'm a lapsed civics teacher and a working editor/writer, so I'm perhaps oversensitive to a definite vs. indefinite article thing [/quote] I spent most of my English classes with my mate Rixon talking to that Kim girl and whatever her name was on the desk in front. But I think I get what you mean. For your part it would be quite fair to say that Europeans are cheese eating surrender monkeys. I know I'm not, but enough of 'us' are that its a fair comment. [quo

Reply to Gas Prices: $12-$15/gallon in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote]Cultural change is your solution for the waning oil supply and surge in price?I'm mailing you a get-well card.-Dr. B[/quote] Thank you. How did you know I sprained my knee? I am in favour of a range of solutions. Inculding a far greater use of Nuclear Power, change in habits, increased energy efficentcy across the board espacially in cars, extended research into hybrid technologies. There are a very broad range of things that need doing. Many of them cultrals habits

Reply to The tipping point: Global warming "deniers" may have the last laugh in Republican PolMach Forums

I'm blind because I don't agree with you? You don't hate liberals you just think their stupid? Well all right then lets be pedantic, I don't hate liberals. I hate the effect their misguided attempts to better the world actually end up doing more damage than good. Most damaging of all you think that there are two 'sides' to the discussion. Liberal and conservative. Well once you start polarising an issue you effectively take all reason out of it and it becomes

Reply to Gas Prices: $12-$15/gallon in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote]I find this thread intriguing as an insight into the mindset of Americans... I find it intriguing that a European would be so ready to consolidate and oversimplify the US. [/quote] Please... I am not saying that the views on this forum represent Americans in their entirety. However, I think it does represent 'a' mainstream view among what would be my peer group. Typically people in their 20-40's, computer literate and likely to play Sins. Not a perfect comp

Reply to The tipping point: Global warming "deniers" may have the last laugh in Republican PolMach Forums

[quote]E The beauty of this particular debate is that the people who have argued that human carbon emissions (CO2 in particular) are causing it have been so obnoxious, so smug that it will be a pleasure to say "I told you so."[/quote] This is the problem. Liberals ARE obnoxious and they ARE smug. I truly fecking hate them. What's even worse, is that they are not always wrong. I think you need to be quite narrow minded to think that everything on the conservative side of the f

Reply to Gas Prices: $12-$15/gallon in Everything Else Sins Forums

Oh btw, The dollar is not weak. China did deliberately for years use vast sums of money from a current account surplus to buy American debt. This had several effects. It kept the dollar high and the Yen low. This allowed American consumers to buy imported good from China cheaply, also Oil from the middleeast. Meanwhile of course debt becomes extremely cheap. More credit going cheap means more money chasing assets. Like houses. If you look at PPP. Price purchase parity: “This is

Reply to Gas Prices: $12-$15/gallon in Everything Else Sins Forums

Incidentally I might otherwise seriously consider immigrating to the states. Yet I worry that as a nation you guys are starting to be so insular and myopic that all your forbearers hard work is being lost. By that I mean the dizzying rise in bureaucracy. The get rich quick mentality of personal injury law. The extreme polarisation of politics meaning that both democrats and republicans are having to pander to the least realistic elements of their base. The liberal rot in criminal justice. The en

Reply to Gas Prices: $12-$15/gallon in Everything Else Sins Forums

I find this thread intriguing as an insight into the mindset of Americans. Essentially the view that is getting banded around is that the high oil prices are a short term blip that is the fault of X. X can be anything from china, oil companies, speculators, government etc. The mindset seems to believe that it is their birthright to have cheap oil and that someone had better do something about it or your get really pissy! Like it or not oil is finite, the market price a

Reply to Isn't the Assailant missile upgrade useless? in Strategy Sins Forums

I've often wondered that. You get a small about of Hull HP come off but not really anymore than hey can regenerate. You still have to remove all their shields anyway.

Reply to RA in beta 1.1, broken? in Strategy Sins Forums

Its certainly not an instant win any more.

Reply to TEC Player........... which Advent, Vasari ships to take out first? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]with Vasari do you also have to take out phase gates so they can't use RA?[/quote] That will work on a single system, it will also slow down their backup. But really you want to destroy their labs. Without enough of those they loose the RA ability.

Reply to So I got banned from Eve. in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote]To be banned for "advocating piracy" because some idiot didn't know the licence conditions must be frustrating...[/quote] Thing is it wouldn't surprise me in the least if according to the Microsoft T&C you do need to buy a whole new copy if you loose the disk but still have the license.

Reply to Leased entertaintment in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Paragraphs dude!

Reply to Biggest Weakness of On-line Multiplayer RTS Games: The Players in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

That's not just RTS, that's the internet full stop. You get that level of inconsideration and immaturity on everything from forums to Poker sites. Although that's fun because if you know what your doing you can take their allowance while they vent expletives. The guy above is right Sins is relatively mature. But I am hopeful things will improve on the net. Reason I say this is because I'm a first generation home gamer. and by that I mean the old BBC computer, the one where you

Reply to New Star Trek 4X? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Actually looking at those screen shots that IS BotF, indeed in one they call it BotF2. Well judging from those screen shots its BotF 1.5 not even 2. Maybe its early days, but it does not look to me like they have come very far from 1999. Yet..