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[quote who="Ovangkol" reply="8" id="2087499"]I think the current AI is just too easily depressed. A major battlefield reversal, and it jumps off a bridge. Maybe if it saw a counselor, and took a few prozac, it could find a way to pull back, make a new plan, regroup its forces, promote a new admiral to lead its fleet, make a new alliance or two, and not wreck the game. [/quote] I'm thinking more along the line of Stalin-style purges. [e

Just because you don't use IE doesn't mean you shouldn't keep it up-to-date. It's so intergrated into Windows that it is foolish, from a security standpoint, not to keep it updated.

Or, more simply, who are you going to believe? The propaganda coming from the holonews, or the big, honking enemy capital ship hanging out in low orbit of your home planet. [e digicons]}:)[/e]

[quote who="e-stab" reply="4" id="2086072"]From my observation the AI tends to surrender rather quickly once you have beaten their main fleet. I think this is premature and I hope that they will include a "no AI surrenders" option like the one present in GalCiv 2.[/quote] I have seen this as well. In several games the Ai (unfair) surrendered upon the destruction of its main fleet, this despite having more income and planets than me...

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="6" id="2080734"]I also notice that most warez people seem to have an uncannily bad luck getting Impulse to run even though my 73 year old aunt with her ancient PC had no problem downloading it and getting the program I bought for her yet these same warez people have no problem monkeying around with the latest torrent trackers and P2P software running via Linux.[/quote] Probably just another absurd 'rationalization' justifying their stupid behavior. </p

Are any of you running real-time antivirus protection? That can sometimes affect the install process in Impulse. You could try disabling your AV while you install it. (Damn, I hate telling people to disable their security apps to fix things.)

Most software pirates seem to suffer from an acute form of cognitive dissonance.

Shazbot! Just saw this a ten minutes ago. My reaction to seeing dozens of invulnerable mines slamming into my fleet; "Crap! Crap! Craaaaaaapppppp! Run away!" Lucky for me, they other AI stumbled into this deathtrap. [e digicons]}:)[/e]

Here you go; -Fix for encoding issue with some French and German characters -Fix for crash in French version of the game (e.g when selecting Argonev star base's upgrade button). -Fix for mods being disabled. -Research description for improved destabilization fixed to refer to the Argonev instead of the Orkulus.

[quote quoting="post"] To people who play singleplayer only : PLEASE DO NOT COMMENT OR POST ANYTHING HERE. This is dedicated to real-life multiplayer.[/quote] Let me get this straight. You are proposing changes that will effect everyone and you don't care how this will affect single player? Hate to break this to you, but MP is the minority here. This seems to happen in almost any game with MP. The vocal minority tries to dictate to the majority w

Care Bears..... it's Care Bears....... [e digicons]:digichet:[/e] An amusing April Fool's Joke from IC. Vasari Nemesis

Even though I do not play MP, I applaud ICs stance. [quote who="Annatar11" reply="19" id="2073447"]He too will eventually grow out of the "rage against the machine" stage and learn the ways of the Real World. [/quote] Heh, I doubt that. But then again I am one cynical bastard. A product of the 'Real World', if you will. [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

[quote who="JDoe1013" reply="5" id="2070620"]Okay, but it just doesn't seem to make sense to me that the time will take longer. Its not like the pop effects build rate or else the pirate base would be very very slow.[/quote] How's this? 1. The unskilled aspect of the prisoners cause them to make unintentional mistakes during construction. 2. Some prisoners may try to sabotage the construction project. 3. Because of 1 and 2, projects requ

Penal Colony reduces the cost, and increases the build time. Free, unskilled labor. Maybe a + or - instead of colors?

It seems rather elusive. In Beta 2 I had a mothership cast Malice on targets clear across the grav well, way outside of its range. It only happened once, and I've spent the past few weeks attempting to replicate it. No dice.

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="3" id="2067679"] Quoting TheSpydyr, reply 3Hey Anny, It's about time to get those pitchforks out...don't ya think??? Way ahead of you. It's a long walk to their offices, though [/quote] Well, you and your mob can have access to my planetary transporter grid if you are interested. It can get you within 10 meters of the target, though a few may materialize in solid matter... [e digicons]}:)[/e] *returns to his evil

[quote who="CreditSuisse" reply="21" id="2067693"]Hey Howdidudothat, How about you spam Capital Carrier Ships instead of the easily spammable Light Carrier we all know is too cost-effective. I'd have no problems with Capital Carrier Ship and in fact I think they need to be buffed. Regardless of anything strike craft should be able to be soft countered or at least prevent you from getting annihilated by not wielding any of your own strike craft. AND YOU CAN'T.

[quote who="CreditSuisse" reply="7" id="2067662"]Your logic is pretty [censored] up. Go read these lists of logical fallacies. I bet if you took the LSATs now you would epic fail. List of fallacies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/quote] Are you in perpetual attack mode or something?

[quote who="GHenrikG" reply="25" id="2065752"]I don't know. Keep the caps the way they are... There ARE flak frigates in the game. Some people claim that they are a good counter. You just need enough of them and SCs don't matter anymore. IMO, they are a bit too weak and need to get a higher damage output. But that's just me... However, who am I to speak. My opinion is worthless, too as I am not into multiplayer matches...[/quote] I'm on the fence on this issue as well, but

[quote who="wnmnkh" reply="23" id="2065736"]Funny thing is that there is no solid reason for having flaks, nor solid reason for NOT having flaks as well. It is all about "I want flak!" and "I don't want flak!" which both have no base of argument. Finally, Annatar, you need to be civil and learn some basic manner for communication. To be honest, your writing style and use of similes are the worst I've ever seen. I completely understand

Thar be Demilichs here! [e digicons]}:)[/e]

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="1" id="2063186"]What point are you arguing? Why does it negatively affect you if you have a ps3? It doesn't. That whole thing about claiming exclusives is just the customer trying to rationalize his own decision of which console to buy. Frankly, Square has made some of the best games of all time, and if they want to expand I say good for them! More cash flow for future projects. Since this is quite a good deal for MS, hopefully they can do a proper po

[quote who="harpo99999" reply="2" id="2061980"]I would suggest a higher power psu as 520 watt would be running at 95-100% of total power available ie each video card 140w,cpu 50-100w,mb 50-100w,hdd 10-30w each dvd 10-30w each, and I believe that the psu's degrade about 30% in the first year due to the heat being dissapated in the psu ie between 10-50% of the power rating EXTRA power to supply the output due to the power factors in psu's at high percentage of max power output[/quote] I

[quote who="Ron Lugge" reply="11" id="2056394"]OK, short of getting a dev in here I know no one is going to believe this... and given the current status of my education, I don't have the credentials to say this with the kind of absolute certainty needed, but... This game was not designed around multiple cores from the beggining; as such, it will be very difficult to change it to multiple core design. In all likelyhood, we're talking about it being diff

Trade ports will increase your income. They need to be researched, and take up 4 logistical slots. What race do you play?