WilfredOwen

I'm a massive fan of Iain M. Banks. Consider Phlebas, Against a Dark Background and The Algebraist are his best books, I believe.

I have Vista and I think it's very good. I have had no issues with games being unable to run on my system (other than Silent Hunter III - but then again, every iteration of Windows will have older games it cannot run). I have to say I find it weird people place the '$' in Microsoft. It's a corporation trying to make profit, just like every other company. However, because it's incredibly successful people somehow think that it's wrong to make so much. I'm no fan of capitalism, but

It's a fantastic game. I'm a U-Boat fanatic, but I have to admit I am enjoying playing an American submarine commmander.

Frogboy, I'd love to hear some details on y'all's pretty good idea of the key points that made MoM so fun for us I also think that <TD class=mb-Body-Quote-T

1. Heavy weapons for battleship-sized vessels. Only one of them can be mounted on a hull, and they inflict immense damage. Kind of like the Star Blazer's Wave-Motion cannon, or the main weapons used on various ships in Robotech (i.e. the SDF-1's super-weapon). Maybe to limit abuse with this, you can only mount the heavy weapon on a flagship (obviously not the starting one) - meaning only one ship. Or perhaps the cost to install one is exhorbitant. 2. A new alien race. Something t

First post here. I bought the game about a month ago. So far, I love it. It's better that Master of Orion 2 and anything else in the 4x genre. I can well understand how Gamespy has given it an award; the game is amazing. Anyway, I'm off to buy a copy for one of my brothers for christmas. Congratulations, Stardock!