Ironhandx

[quote]Uhm, if I remember correctly gates use tac space not logistics. But I could be mistaken...[/quote] yes, they eat up tactical slots, arguably the most useless resource in the game converted to the most useful resource in the game. Free ship producing gates. Also, your economy means nothing once RA is up. Once its up you rush max fleet right away, because RA is also your source of income. Especially since it spawns carriers and skirmishers fairly often that you have to scu

[quote]Yeah, that's why I put the 'nerf' in '' and added that it's actually a fix Which you seem to have read over[/quote] I just felt the need to add that it was an exploit ^_^. I read the post through.

[quote]The other 'nerf' (though really it's a fix) is that now it checks fleet supply after every ship spawned, so while before it was possible to go fairly far above the max fleet cap by activating the autocast simultaneously, now it won't work[/quote] thats a fix not a nerf, the ability to do that was never intended and was an exploit to begin with.

[quote]whats up with everyone saying RA was already nerfed? RA was NOT nerfed. It STILL takes longer to recharge the AM to use dark armada than it takes for the cooldown to expire. It takes approx 8 & 1/2 minutes to recharge the AM, and the so-called 'nerf' bumped the cooldown up to 8 minutes for first level, 6 minutes for second. With all antimatter research(which is a LONG way down the milit tree, and has no bearing at all in a short game) it takes longer than 6 minutes to recharge the AM. Soo

whats up with everyone saying RA was already nerfed? RA was NOT nerfed. It STILL takes longer to recharge the AM to use dark armada than it takes for the cooldown to expire. It takes approx 8 & 1/2 minutes to recharge the AM, and the so-called 'nerf' bumped the cooldown up to 8 minutes for first level, 6 minutes for second. With all antimatter research(which is a LONG way down the milit tree, and has no bearing at all in a short game) it takes longer than 6 minutes to recharge the AM. Sooooo exp

woo, it double posted, but at least left me with an edit button!!! yay!!! :(

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[quote]You guys forgot to mention that several dozen people have openly admitted to pirating first then going legit and they still have active accounts here and even a few who have not gone legit as far as I can tell. I have seen on other developers ANYONE that has admitted such action has been summarily banned and their license revoked. Talk about showing love for the converted and honest. With customer support policies like that it is no wonder many people have real issues with many developers

I've got 3 trials available when the game comes out as well(2 are already taken), hit me up if you want one.

its not the BW its the latency, comcast is worse down there than rogers is here. Edit: And you remember the 2 months I spent with 800ms ping right? this dialup has lower latency most of the time than that rogers connection did.

Word of advice, if you have another option, ditch comcast. This is coming from someone who knows for certain its a good idea. Well, it somewhat depends on where you are, most places comcast is not the best choice.

yeah, a good photo editor if you don't wanna use photoshop is Gimp, little tiny bit harder to use, but it can do pretty much everything that photoshop can anyways. It is extremely nice of SD to let us argue away. Though I think secretly they let us do it simply for frogboys amusement >_> Of course sometimes frogboys amusement is not so secret O_o

bah, no edit button again, no more than 10 seconds, come on!!! I forgot to add the development/updating cost of the software for doing the cd key swappage. Really tho, for a lot of software companies this would be an almost inconsequential addition at best in comparison to what they are currently paying for licensing fees on their DRM.

Hmm, thats strange, I just found a crack for Earth 2160 within about 5 mins, appears to work, don't have the game so can't check to be sure. The online server authentication I don't like either. If I wanted to install malware on my computer I'd go to www.freexxxpron.com with 0 AV/fwall/etc, not buy a game. IIRC the phoning home thing was why I didn't buy the game in the first place. Never even bothered to download it, didn't want to risk actually liking it and wanting to buy it from a

Wow, and here I thought I'd be in the minority. Advent is my fav, has been since 1.0, just because.

[quote]Ah the old "FUKK U SIMCITY PLAYZERZ" routine. I haven't seen this since I crushed some poor rusher in Starcraft whose poor tactics slammed right into a row of supply depots.[/quote] terrible rusher then, you should never have had a chance to get more than 5 or 6 depots out, and he should have beaten through them with a half dozen or so zealots pretty fast, since you wasted credits on the depots, you don't have enough marines to counter, or have firebats yet, etc, etc, etc. <

Right, so your entire idealistic solution is for everybody to just get along essentially... thats not gonna happen, sadly. It would be nice, but has no hope. The thing about returning the game opened, the analogy does pan. All they need is 1 cd key to prevent anyone from getting updates etc. If the game is returned, retailer X gives product code A and cd key A to company y and company y provides retailer X with a new cd key for product code A and disables cd key A for updates/online pl

[quote]I think his point was that by saying pirating is wrong, you have to by default support the measures which combat it, other wise its just empty words.[/quote] Again with the edit button :/ Precisely, right on the money. TYVM. God, I can't seem to simplify things down sometimes :/

[quote] I've read this rationalization many times on different forums and I really can't understand it. If you can't afford a car, a bike, a book, a tv, or anything else, do you go out and steal it? I find the whole attitude towards software absolutely bewildering. A large amount of people don't hesitate to steal software, yet most wouldn't dream of shoplifting or stealing material goods. Why is software looked at so differently? It's a product like anything else and pirating it is

Dammit: No edit button :( The SRD has everything in it. You have to specifically know the game inside and out to avoid simply having it broken by a kensai, hulking hurler, etc etc etc, and have about 50 bans in place before starting the game so that it lasts past level 5 or 6. Of course, we had a good game going like that, and then killed tiamat via suprise attack round and using 2 scrolls to drop a elder earth elemental on her(final damage was somewhere around 3k in one

[quote]Just a note Ironhandx: you can DL the System Reference Document for D&D right from the WotC website, so no pirating involved in that. As for guilt by association: I don't agree. I'm not advocating DRM. Not at all. But pirating is the root cause of DRM in the first place. Like it or not, game companies are forced to use DRM because publishers have the impression that 90% of people playing their games are pirates. Whether that's true or not (and I doubt it is), that's what they think. So

[quote]I ran into this problem this past weekend trying to get a game going with some friends. One thing that we found for those who purchased via SDC, doing an uninstall and reinstall of the game *does* get you the latest version. So that's an option, albeit a time consuming option.[/quote] hmmm, so it stands that whatever is doing the file checking actually has the 1.04 patch files then, but the dates and/or version numbers that they are checking against are the only thing thats incor

Aye, I also have confirmation of this through zzzguy. The SDC version is messed up, checking changes that were supposed to have been made, the SDC version doesn't have them(defense vessels still cost 3 supply, aren't affected by weapon techs, etc). The web site download is the only real patch.

No luck here, not that I could play anyways. And yeah, the install is massive, because the world is massive. Its not quite as big as vanguard, but much more detailed etc. I already preordered the collectors edition tho. Hopefully I have a half decent internet connection again by the time I get it :/

[quote]it's kinda hard to umm, find other things to do, when everyone else you know is playing some video game or other. Not be a troll since I do agree with what you mean about there not being much else for modern entertainment for a lot of people this day and age, (triply so if you live in a small hick town and it's winter 7 months out of the year and physical disabilities prevent from doing outdoorsy stuff) but it is fun being the devil's advocate so here goes: (pardon the sarcasm )#1: Ther