All the event does is give the minor race access to the tech, you still need to trade it off them somehow. All minor races like to be offered systems though. Unless like me the minor race your spies choose to work with happens to be the one you've been at war with for the past few years.
[quote who="psychoak" reply="10" id="1984543"] I have never seen a proven correlation between so called casual piracy and lost sales. [/quote] That's great, or at least it would be if you were a game developer. You're missing the point somewhat though; it doesn't matter if the publishers erroneously believe allowing people to purchase coloured cheddar results in lost sales of their games. Fact is that perception is causing them to move away from the PC as a platfor
[quote who="Mascrinthus" reply="3" id="1973453"]Why would anyone play GalCiv I today when we have GalCiv II TA, except out of curiousity to see how far the game has come along since that release.[/quote] GalCiv 1 is a completely different game in many respects. I still play it from time to time. But Space Rangers 2 for $4? Guess Santa came early this year!
Make sure you've disabled indexing (properties tab of the drive in Computer. Something like "for fast searching, allow the drive contents to be indexed..."). Also go into the disk tools, defragmenter and turn it off (or schedule it for once a week or something). You don't need your disk constantly defragging in the background. Between them they should cut down on pointless disk and memory activity which should help boost the game. You might also want to try downloading SP1 if you have a
Worked fine for me once I switched to US-1. Are you hitting ok after switching? I noticed if you flick the server and then do anything else, it'll default back to US-2.
[quote] I hate to say it, DRM is going to win. [/quote] I doubt it. I remember two years ago DRM was the future of the music industry, and it failed. I suspect the same will occur in the game market for much the same reason. I think a big factor in DRM is that it's now intruding to the level that consumers are actively boycotting or avoiding titles because of the DRM used. The real problem with the method is plain here - if there was no other option but to use the DRM enabled software, t
Release a couple of decent selling games and suddenly you can turn all elitist :P Nah, not much point in turning up. Assuming you have no intention of selling up and looking to be employed elsewhere there's little benefit to the networking. The talks, panels and similar waffle might be interesting, but the way I see it anyone who knew anything about succeeding in the industry would be busy sunning themselves on their personal tropical island rather than turning up to these things. That
To be honest, there's few activities you can do which would give the brain such a thorough workout as a modern videogame. You're dealing with 3D space, abstractions, pattern recognition and a host of other things generally unavailable without casting yourself into a deep ocean or space.
[quote]a related idea I think would be valid and perhaps acceptable would be "fleet tenders" which could serve two purposes. [/quote] Chuck in some kind of fleet maintenance reducing component for ToA and you're pretty much there.
[quote] Frankly a lot of the problems with new games running slowly have less to do with the state of hardware and more to do with sloppy coding. [/quote] It's nothing to do with sloppy coding, barring the relatively new OS to get to grips with. It's simply that the game market (at least the traditional high graphics stuff like FPS's) has moved away from graphics as the demanding feature (you can thank the consoles for that). To bring up your example; COD4 i
One thing I'm not thrilled about is the mutilation of the Fallout series by Bethesda. PCG had a preview this month having been able to play the game. Apparently, all the worry is for nothing (it seems all Bethesda have really done with the overall theme is add in a little bit more 'Mad Max' for the East coast). The only problem they highlighted was the VATS combat system, which may or may not work. Oh, and for those shouting about it, Spee
The problem being, those people listing it on Ebay should be perfectly aware that the serial is needed for the game to work. It's those guys you really want to be complaining about.
Hmph, I go away for two days and we end up in a creationism vs evolution debate. Indeed, but unless you believe in a creator or magic, they just don't appear out of nowhere. The current hypothesis for the emergence of new traits is, AFAIK, mutations. Unfortunately, mutations often cause a greater loss of information than gain, so it's a questionable explanation at best. Depends on the mutations. Also, define 'information loss'. If anyt
I'm actually talking about the idea that single cell organisms eventually changed over a long period of time to become the species we know today, including humans - and yes, mutations are required for this. Ah, I see what you mean. The theory basis itself on the assumption that all life ultimately derives from a single common ancestor, which is not necessarily true (gets into the various theories of arbiogenesis though, and I'm no expert there) .<br
Maybe they were traded the ship? Opens up an interesting avenue actually. If you give a minor race colonisers, would they use them? Could come in handy...
True, I'm not a "literalist" in the most literal sense of the word . When "science" and scripture seem to conflict, however, it becomes a question of which one to prefer as the more reliable source. Unless you do adhere to a literal reading of the bible, then there's little conflict between it an
It would help if you explained what exactly you're having the problem with
In addition, I do agree that there may be issues with translations and between different manuscripts - however, the difference are usually obvious, and none of them are large enough to change the basis of our faith as far as I know. It wouldn't affect your faith unless you're a literalist. Genesis for example has signs of alteration (you can tell through the verse structure, notably the relation between the part of God seeing whatever he's done
You haven't shown that "I" is actually just simply a "noise". So, despite the fact that your sense of self, personality and pretty much everything else entwined into what makes the mental 'you'is provably and indisputably affected by occurences in the brain, it is not therefore a property of the brain? Even assuming there was a soul which carried on after death, would the fact that our self is dependent, even in part, on the physical brain not
the point of the "knob" metaphor is to point out that those "settings" must hav been placed or set by something intelligent, I know. My point was that is not the case. but its to show that the creation of the universe could not hav been a cause of a series of accidents............even simple highschool science can prove that..... No it can't. Furthermore it wasn't a series of accidents, unless one
now the universe (metaphoricaly of course) has each and every knob set to a specific settting, and if one SINGLE knob goes a tad out of sync, the whole thing is messed up so there has to be SOME intelligence behind life and all............ Not necessarily. There's three problems with that logic: 1. We don't know how strict those settings are. It could be that any setting would result in the same universe eventually, or it might require
i didn't say otherwise, and it's equally repulsive among religious people. No, but the highlighting of Athiesm and Christianity tends to point towards an 'Us vs Them' type of mentality, which tends to contribute to the problem I see it as a quirk of human nature which we all tend towards (knowingly or not), even if not all of us take it to the extreme.
That Civ theme song, Baba Yetu, is The Lords Prayer in Swahili - I love it, it has a great catchy feel to it and the African Harmony in it is superb. Most of the Civ 4 music is superb. Bit of a problem sometimes - I nearly always implement State Property just for that "The People Are The Heroes" song, despite the fact that it's not always the best civic...
So you believe your "Self awareness" is just a noise. As I said earlier, you can prove with a simple magnetic experiment that this is the case. Isolate the frontal lobe activity from the rest of the brain and it results in a detachment between your self and the rest of the body. Would be an amazing co-incidence for your sense of self to just happen to go on a wonder when the magnets were placed... Also I like how
I only exist becasue I have an exact electrical field generated in my brain (which for some darn reason, "I" happen to equate to the electrical field generated in a now 26 year old white male body). No, there is no you independent of that electrical field to equate to anything. You are the electrical field, and the electrical field is you. how was "I" (whatever "I" is) equated or "chosen" to this electrical fiel
