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Is there a journal or something on Rebellion to know its status, kind of like Stardock does for its games? I'm interesting in buying, but I want to know more.

[quote]My favorite RoN campaign was the Cold War. [/quote] That's what everybody says, but I actually liked Napoleon campaign better. I liked all the diplomacy, and playing your cards right. I had to bump up the difficulty, though. Alexander the Great campaign was the toughest, but really I thought that was because people probably play that first, when they should be playing it last. I put it off till last and didn't have that hard a time of it when I d

Star Wars Galaxies + World of Warcraft w/ add-ons. Wear a Stormtrooper Helmet, mithril breastplate and wield a plasma rifle in your right hand and an Axe of the Dwarven King in your left. We did this to success on a MUD before, where different wizards coded very different castles and we mixed it all together. It was fun!

So...I've got a decision to make: Star Ruler or Sword of the Stars? I already own SOTS but never got past the tutorial. Suggestions?

There's a few things keeping me offline: 1) Lag. Why deal with it if you don't have to? Diplomacy is already long enough as it is. 2) Drops. My provider and wireless do drop sometimes. Again, why deal with it if I don't have to? It doesn't help those you're playing with, either. 3) Commitment level. Trying to become a respected member of the online community takes a higher level o

I would rather see a new King's Bounty come out.

[quote]Well as some of you know, after Elemental ships I am planning on taking a sabatical to get back to my programming roots and most of that time will be spent making mods for Elemental. [/quote] You know...I would love to see an innovation in the modding "business" where we had more liberties to program. I don't know how that would work, with IP protection, licensing and all. I'm just pointing that out. I would love to see software engines where

[quote]Did you not read the OP? I specifically said that that's not the case anymore.[/quote] Then I would specifically say you're wrong. When my internet goes out, I cannot play Total War:Napoleon. It does not start. Period. I could care less about Steam; I just want to play the #$#$ game I bought. When & how often I play my game is none of Steam's damm business.

It's not just anti-right-wing. A 9/11 conspiracy theory thread was locked, and that's far right-wing. Global warming is allowed, and that's left-wing. I mean I do agree, it's their forum, but it's our time. We're told OT is not a political forum, but in reality it's SOME politics that are not allowed, and we don't know what those views are. It's like once you talk politics, you cross the line into illegal, and they reserve the right to delete/lock your posts

Then: Democracy = rule by the people Now: Democracy = rule by the media

[quote] What's confusing to me is that there are some political threads allowed. If all political threads were banned (no matter how civil the discussion), the ambiguity would certainly go away.[/quote] I agree.

[quote]but the "cloud" is no different then a fancy battle.net.[/quote] That's about exactly what I thought. What I like about battle.net is, it counteracts a lot of cheating. Your data is on the server, where you can't hack it up. I could foresee even turn-based games storing data on the server in an attempt to stop the whole save/reload crap. Then things like Metaverse could gain a little more credibility, or people could download Civ IV maps and play some ga

I'm an orphan. No game for me. :( An old fart gamer needs a home.

I am looking into my crystal ball...and see...the future.....

I did a user review on Real War back in 2001 and ripped it to shreds.

[quote]Just one more.[/quote] The life cycle of a gaming CEO is not complete until after they have launched into space. Especially for someone whose specialty is space games. It's about time Brad goes to Russia. Or fly in one of Richard Branson's little planes. You're not in the club until you do.

Starlanes are far easier to code an AI for. That's a directed graph. There's a whole library of algorithms (e.g. mincut, random walk, partitioning) already researched and developed for directed graphs, and the subject of white papers, articles in ACM, doctoral dissertations, etc.. To do open space, an MSCS postgraduate would probably formulate starlanes dynamically out of open space and incorporate in some fuzzy logic. Much easier if it's just s

Man, Command & Conquer 4 is getting slaughtered by the reviews. On Gamespot, it's getting an average 3.4 out of 10 by the users, after 734(!) users reviewed it. What a disappointment! I was waiting for this. I'm glad I waited for the reviews.

I found out someone was videoconferencing on the plane using the wireless, and a flight attendant said you can't do that. You're not supposed to converse with people on the ground, because someone might be coordinating with a terrorist. The flight attendant showed him the policy manual. You've got to be s***ing me.

A nice overpowered computer makes a good space heater in the winter. Of course, there's that minor problem: spring. I prefer not to think ahead that far.

If they carded me, I'd probably take it as a compliment. Or I'd think they were joking. If you looked like Myles, I'm sure they wouldn't card you. It's not easy being 40,000 years old. [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

It's okay. The gaming part of SXSW was not that great. The interactive part was pretty good, though.

Nvidia had a big lead over ATI prior to the AMD acquisition, but there have been some changes since then. ATI has been getting a big influx of engineering talent. AMD has a big peripherals division, and they're able to share talent and design methodologies across boundaries. Plus with Freescale Semiconductor laying off big-time (even talented people), AMD has been capitalizing on that a lot. Nvidia hasn't, even though they've got design centers in a lot of

We can have wireless, but we can't have cell phones. Go figure that one out.