SanChonino

I agree with most of what you've said, Zydor, other than your praise of Guy (who I feel is an utter twat with nothing up top but a bunch of hot air who is long overdue a severe kick in the jimmies). Mostly I make comments like that trying to get some new blood to come and play in the JU waters. Besides, there's a whole lot more than debate over there. Some of the finest writing you'll read can be found in those pages - everything from compelling fiction to travel journals to 'mommy-bl

[quote]Any idea if medals will show up for people using IE any time soon?[/quote] If JoeUser (another - oh hells, the kewlest - in the Stardock suite of sites) didn't hate cut and paste with Firefox, I'd say the good boys of SD are trying to migrate you to a different browser. ;)

[quote]The Off Topic Forum will appear in all Stardock Sites as a "common" forum,[/quote] Actually it's just the game sites that have the Off-Topic section that gets shared. They don't show up on WinCustomize or JoeUser. (Thank goodness. The fine folks of JU would get all sorts of ugly on most of the Off-Topic threads, because we do not puss around. You all should come play with the big kids on JoeUser if you really want to sharpen your 'yummy-yummy' innards-viscerating chop

[quote]It's more a thing for JoeUser than for the other forums, though.[/quote] So we can see how many poor suckers on teh intarwebz are inadvertently clicking on our terrible articles instead of relevant, helpful pages. :CONGRAT:

Blowing crap up and shooting suckers in the face. Strategy I only play occasionally.

[quote]Freespace . . . 3 . . . ?[/quote] I wish there were a Freespace 3. I freakin' loved the first two. There's not. OP is wrong. As for my favorite types of games - I like to blow shit up, and shoot suckers in the face. Straight up.

[quote]they know it would entice people to buy that product.[/quote] People who get enticed to by a 3cm pic of a box need to get their glands checked out. It's what's [I]inside[/I] the box that matters, people . . .

[quote]Yea I'm new, I just found the Leave UP option. I am so gone. I lost the game anyway, but at least I know this for the future.[/quote] Hey, it took me a while to figure out how to leave those suckers at the altar, too, but hey - I get cold feet sometimes, and I'm out. ;)

[quote]i'm not very smart... I didn't back-up. I Modified just about every file so I thought I could reinstall it if I stuffed up. I was the Twilight of the Arnor stuff that stuffed it up. I never should have included it in my version. anyways what it says is; "This Product is no longer valid, Please reinstall and try again" So I reinstall... "This Product is no longer valid, Please reinstall and try again" I unistall... Shut down, and reboot... Install... Shut down and

[quote]Because you know just as much as I do that it will just end up in a corner.[/quote] Not for these strange people who like to line up their software boxes on the shelves like the action figures in '40 Year Old Virgin'. Some of us like shelves stacked to the brim with books, some of them like . . . other things.

[quote]The greatest movie monster definitely was the rabbit from "Monthy Python and the holy grail" - What do you say NOW? and sharp pointy teeth that go nyagh nyagh nyagh! just one question though. "What is your favorite color?"[/quote] Ugh. I get so tired of Monty Python quoting. [img]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/monty_python.jpg[/img]

[quote]I know, you can turn off Super Abilities, but I like my Super Breeder.[/quote] Can't have one without the other. If you want your people to screw like bunnies, you'll have to defend from the spore ships. ;) And besides - you might think it's unbalancing to have that ability, but once you play as the Korath, you realize how tough it is to [I]use[/I] those fancy new planets and how fast your economy TANKS because they have NO population whatsoever. So, in realit

And [I]that's[/I] when I click the 'Leave UP' button. I'll play along with those tools until they do something to piss me off, and then I'm out of the door. What's that? 2 module upgrades for starbases? Bye. 10bc a week for war? Suck my exhaust and my missles, suckers. Unless you rely on trade (which I really don't anymore - I used to, but I really try to avoid it now), it's usually the best option. :CONGRAT:

[quote]1,2 or 3 modules available but I can't seem to click on anything to assign / build them (if thats what I am meant to do) any help appreciated![/quote] You have to take another constructor to the starbase, and then a pop-up will . . . pop up . . . and say something along the lines of "Do want to upgrade this bad boy?" You click yes, it gives you the upgrade options. Good luck! Any other questions, pop along here and we'll be glad to help.

[quote]I didn't realize if I was looking at this thread in the Sins forum all the people's karma would show differently. Interesting..[/quote] Yep. I have a mountain of Karma at JoeUser, and next to none on GalCivII and WinCustomize. I'm almost sure I don't have any on the Sins forum, since I've never actually gone there . . . I wonder if I have any at the Impulse site? :NOTSURE:

[quote]Lol Annatar has more karma than kryo XD.[/quote] And see, on the GalCivII forums, kryo has 32, and Annatar has none. :LOL:

I think the thing that bothers me most about this thread is the ennui being exhibited by 'teh hard kore gamz0rs' who think that if you don't know how to build a computer, from scratch, in less than sixty seconds with your penis tied behind your back, you don't deserve to be a gamer. This elitist attitude does more to drive away users than I think you all realize, and is the biggest reason why I hope PC gaming dies - You're a bunch of pricks and I want your feelings to be hurt.

I'm sick and mother f*ckin' tired of being chased by zombies. Screw that. I want to be the first zombie, out infecting the unsuspecting town. Now THAT'S a zombie game I'd finally give a damn about - be the antagonist, be the bad guy, kill all the humans or zombify them.

[quote]SanChonino, that's pretty mellow imo ;>[/quote] Mmmmm, OTEP. Pretty heavy, but I wouldn't say apocalyptic. I'd say more it's like the soundtrack to a personal breakdown. Rocks hard, but Neurosis has more presence. ;) You don't really understand what Neurosis does until you've got the CD in your player, cranked as high as possible, and you can feel your ribcage cracking with each beat. :CONGRAT:

Seth: No. Not at all. RedOrbs: Closer. The apocalypse? Only truly captured musically by Neurosis. You wish you could play metal like these guys.

Wow. I'd seen [I]The Thing[/I] at the rental place before, and it looked mildly interesting, but after reading all of these, it's on the top of my list for 'next movie I need to watch'.

[quote]My bet is it will return as GalCiv III in due course, although not for a while yet (aka 2010?).[/quote] Last I heard it's looking more like 2012 at the soonest. Gotta get Not-MoM taken care of, first, and that's 2009 at the earliest at this point.

[quote]I think it is Exactly as comical as it was intended. I crack up when I see these pop-ups.[/quote] I agree. If anything, I see it as another way to bring some levity into the game. When Lord Kona brags, "Oh yeah, well, I just researched Slave Pits!" and you can counter with invasion next turn, I think it's just rich.

[quote]I just find it much more informative to play on the icon-only level because I can identify ship types and planet class at a glance....plus, I can see more.[/quote] I usually start the game zoomed in enough to see my pretty ships, pretty planets, et cetera, but after a year or two of in-game time I'm too spread apart, so I find myself zooming out for the majority of the game. Plus, my laptop (I'm living out of my home country and using a couple-year-old lappy) seems to ru

[quote]We are NOT on holiday. The dev team has been working weekends since the beginning of April, and some of us have been working weekends since March. We've been working a minimum of 10 hours a day, but most of us have been putting in 12+ hours a day. This includes both Scott and Charles who are new fathers with infants at home. So don't you dare suggest that we are relaxing.[/quote] You, sir, have been sufficiently bitchslapped. Thanks for all you do, Cari and the rest