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[quote who="TobiWahn_Kenobi" reply="1897" id="2777749"]Yes! Having 6 Cores / 12 Threads MacPro now makes me smile! What an upgrade from my old core2duo ( and my old PowerMac G5) [/quote] I got Intel Hexacore Beast recently as well, though i have a PC, not Mac. It was 3,33 at default, but i overclocked it to 3,78 GHz (for now) and in Cinebench it scores 9,6 points now. And the RAM, now i have 12 Gigs and do not need to worry about running out of it during rend

I used to play this game a lot. It was absolutely superb, to certain extent it had almost everything i wanted from space RTS...especially the map divided into those star systems, which gave you a feeling of actually planning on grand scale, conquering enemy worlds and traversing vast distances...i always wanted to Star trek armada to adopt this style or Conquest set in Star Trek/Babylon 5 universe...Sins was the first game since then, which reminds me of conquest...though it is bit more

thanks for the link, now i am going to sleep but will check it tomorrow [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]

My RUSE version is Czech/Slovak - i live in Slovakia and the download region was set to Hungary... i changed it to Czech Republic, but it did not help... Slovakia is not on the list. Regarding uselesness of units, i cant obviously evaluate them myself, i just watched those commentaries and the guy presented it this way, it is just his opinion after all...but i would not be surprised if he was at least partially right, cause this is common problem in RTS - i mean some units not cost-ef

[quote who="OsaErisXero" reply="1581" id="2764474"]Not to sound terribly contrary, but the Dominion ships never really had abilities per se. Fed ships are fancy, and have all sorts of science equipment laying around for fancy abilities and ability-like-objects. The dominion on the other hand have a fleet of warships. They likely never needed them, victory through superior firepower and numbers, not nessicarily cunning, guile, and superscience. Dominion ships not having huge

Thank you for advice, but i did not play RUSE beta, so there are no remnants of previous install in my computer... talking about regions, i suppose u mean "download region" option in the steam settings, right? I tried to change it to more appropriate country (because my country is not on the list) as the default one, but to no effect... I am really not impressed by this, i have the game since thursday and still cant play it, nor do i have any assurance, that somebody at the su

Aaaaaaargh! F*cking Steam wont activate my cd-key, saying "This product code cannot be activated in your region"....though i do have a proper version bought in my country and with localised manual... the steam support was not very helpful, saying i should ask for refund and local publisher of the game ignores my mail sofar...

I got it yesterday, but did not have chance to play it yet. It certainly looks good on those videos, graphically far superior to Supreme Commander, which is probably only comparable RTS to it...however i am not sure if the gameplay is good enough...hopefully it is, cause it cost me 30 euros... [e digicons]:)[/e] Any opinions?

Homeworld 2 is great, though original Homeworld was even better (the single-player at least). Regarding space games i would suggest Conquest Frontier Wars, which is similar to Sins, but is mostly RTS, it used to be competition to Star Trek Armadas and IMHO it was far better....though i liked and played Armada 1 a lot.... And old DOS game Star Command Revolution, it was fantastic funny RTS, which i suggest to everyone, who likes Realtime strategies with starships. It was the on

Thanks everyone for your answers. I do not mind Steam, i already own and play 2 Steam games: Modern Warfare 2 and Supreme Commander 2. However the fact, i wont be able to buy retail copy, worries me...i have mine own account only for 2 years (though i am 26 lol) and never used inet banking or paypal or whatever it is called...everything i bought, even via internet, i paid cash on delivery...and i really hoped to continue, cause i am too lazy to learn how to do it... [e digicon

What´s up with Steamworks? Is it different to Steam? Will the game only be available through it? I hope not ffs, i want the physical copy...

Blizzard do what they do - i mean they split up campaign into 3 games - because they simply can. You can be sure they are going to sell shitload of copies of those expansions. Anyway what do you expect from company (Activision-Blizzard), which is run by Bobby Kotick? They are even worse than EA and that is some feat. IMHO the Ghost of the Past trailer looks pretty good, almost like trailer to a movie. It actually contrasts with the gameplay graphics, which looks like cartoony. And Sar

[quote who="OsirisDawn" reply="15" id="2647499"] Quoting caross73, reply 13Why would you get a caviar green? They are slower than the Caviar black and for a game system, you want a large cache and high speed. You're not trying to minimize power consumption. Edit: Oh, nevermind. Too late. At least you're being nice to the environment. I hate the way they market those drives, right alongside the much faster caviar black. I thought the exact same, myb

This whole thing about cruisers and destroyers is quite interesting and confusing....as far i remember, destroyers were smaller than cruisers...but then Freespace 2 biggest ships were destroyers....babylon 5 - omega class destroyer was bigger than Hyperion côass cruiser...and finally i am not sure about this, but it seems to me that in modern navies destroyers are second biggest ships after aircraft carriers.... wonder why?

Just now i am listening to Mystery: One Among the Living...strongly recommended to anyone who likes progressive rock

Sorry for reviving necro-thread, but yesterday i managed to watch 2 final episodes of first season of Flash Forward and it thought it was really good... however today i found out, the show was canceled!...really WTF? I am so pissed off and disappointed...

[quote who="Orvidos" reply="80" id="2627639"] I miss Conquest: Frontier Wars. I wish they'd made 2.[/quote] Have you tried alpha/beta demo of Conquest:Vyrium Uprising? It looked almost the same like the first game apart few new effects - IIRC specular maps on ships etc... There was a new race called Vyrium, who were in possesion of some cool weapons, planetkiller for example... there was only one mission, where you have to stop them from attacking one of your

Homeworld is best game ever [e digicons]:D[/e] ...however multiplayerwise Sins is better...i remember back in the day i really wished for game like HW but with this 4X feeling to it, colonizing planets, building starbases in different starsystems, bombing enemy homeworld to stoneage like Centauri did to Narn on Babylon 5.... i had to wait for Conquest Frontier Wars for this and then Sins...thank god there are people like Sins developers, who know what kind of game i like, otherwi

Wow, thanks for your advice... [e digicons]k1[/e] i am not really pleased with the RAM thing, i really wanted to avoid overclocking them other way than via those XMP profiles...to be fair since the memory controller is built inside CPU, i am scared to "play" with the voltages...i would like to overclock to CPU itself, but only without the bumping of Vcore...according to TomsHardware, it should be possible to do it to circa 3,7 - 3,8 GHz by upping the multiplier from 25 to 28... so i w

So i finally decided to spend my hard earned cash on a new computer. Specs are following: CPU: Core i7 980x 3,33Ghz MOBO: Gigabyte X58A UD7 RAM: 12GB Kingston HyperX 1333 CL7 HDD: 2TB WD Caviar Green WD20EARS SSD: Intel X25-M 80GB Heatsink: Zalman CNP

[quote who="Star Adder" reply="144" id="2525945"] Are you kidding? No human will ever leave the solar system...![/quote] Hehe, i am sure we will and it might be sooner than anyone thinks.... just wait for the technological singularity and then the things will start to happen really fast [quote who="Star Adder" reply="144" id="2525945"] NO! We must go to Mars! We must wake up that Shadow Ship... ! [/quote] Yes! Shadows FTW!

To Clonmac: (cause the forum is broken for me and i cannot quote [e digicons]:)[/e] ): i would not operate much with Milankovitch cycles and their influence on ice ages, cause it is incomplete theory....just like AGW...

[quote who="clonmac" reply="1022" id="2512846"] Quoting Timmaigh, reply 1021 Sure, no problem. The term cutting emissions is simply a broad term that means the cut back on the emissions we produce. This term does not differentiate between the means to so. A synonym for "cutting emissions" would be to "lower emissions". Cutting emissions could be anything from me (a consumer) purchasing an efficient hybrid vehicle. Or it could be a company heating a n

[quote who="clonmac" reply="1020" id="2512818"] And this is where you fail to see the point in my previous post. You are tunnel-visioned in your ideology, that you failed to see that I was NOT talking about any particular solution. Yet, you went ahead anyway and claimed that I mentioned any sort of emissions capping. I did not. That is why in my previous post I said the following: Quoting clonmac, reply 1013 Explain to me how cutting back on emissions is

[quote who="clonmac" reply="1015" id="2512777"] Quoting Dr Guy, reply 1014 It hasn't!!!!! All of our data shows that CO2 is way higher than it has ever been going back as far as we can with our data. In over 400,000 years, CO2 levels have never risen about 300ppm, and now we are approaching past the 400ppm mark. This isn't even disputed by anyone. So get your facts straight. [/quote] Then tell me why current interglacial period is 2C cooler then th