lesfleur

[quote]It's like playing as Oddjob in Goldeneye 64 - an unfair advantage.[/quote] oddjob, ha ha. :) i was a May Day man myself.

use the right button to orbit, and the middle scroll button to zoom in and out. ;)

the futureshop on granville street just got FIVE copies in this morning. saw them with my own eyes. not collector's editions though, i'm sorry to report. just the amazing regular edition.

[quote]a button that removes the entire UI so we can take even better cinematic screenshots.[/quote] control-shift-Z

[quote]when zoomed out to galaxy view double click on the planet you want to zoom in to, and press caps lock.press caps lock again to zoom out to galaxy view[/quote] or try the Z, X, and C keys. even easier. :)

try freezing the rotation before you export the model out of xsi (transform > freeze rotation). freeze the scaling and the translation too, while you're at it. :)

[quote] I Best Buy didnt have it in their system, and EB Games say they only stock 2 at a time - which always seem to sell out. [/quote] but there's a pic posted of a girl holding the box outside the best buy in burnaby. the girl had windswept hair...

poang!

the more we reply to this thread, the longer it stays on the recent post board out front. not the first impression we want newcomers to have, considering how great we all know the game to be. time to start ignoring the trollers, i think, since we clearly outnumber them 1000 to 1.

click on the "random" button after the scenarios page, and you will see that it flips through all three races. i'm a vasari man myself. :)

hey, bthunder. click the "change maps" button under the left column of small maps scenarios. this will toggle through the medium and large sized maps, and also any custom maps you have created and saved.

another thought: don't forget that those extractors aren't yours to keep -- other factions can come in and capture them for themselves! you may want to keep a fleet there to guard them, if it's strategic to do so. :)

yeah, set those scouts to capture (or auto-capture). the icon is in the bottom right hand corner of the screen, along with the scout's attack and move (and other) commands.

[quote]If you're sitting around waiting for something to do outside of the first few minutes, you're doing it wrong.[/quote] my thoughts exactly: it took me a few games to realize that one really needs to play proactively in order to achieve anything. i don't necessarily mean going on the warpath right away (although expansion certainly helps ;)), but there is always something to do. in some games that may mean creating a massive fleet, and in other games it may mean focusing on empir

while i usually just ignore most of the ai requests (the unreasonable ones that want to send me halfway across the star system), i have found that it's really worthwhile to accomodate the requests that are convenient. one faction in particular was pestering me for metal and credits, of which i had plenty to spare, and i ended up allying with them. without this cease fire, i probably wouldn't have won the game. :)

with many of the cap ships, upgrades allow you to deploy a greater number of fighters and bombers at once. a level 10 advent carrier cap ship is truly a thing to behold. :D