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[quote who="CariElf" reply="20" id="1933570"]I didn't say that we were going to put 2.0 on Stardock Central; we don't have anyone to spare for the extra code it would require. I haven't looked into making any alternate arrangements yet.[/quote] Ah, I misunderstood you. Sorry. Anyway. Today I needed a break from a game I was playing (basically an AI profoundly whopped my behind), and I decided to give Impulse a try. I do have a skeleton XP installation on my PC (it's a mu

[quote who="CariElf" reply="20" id="1929844"]As I said in another thread, if for some reason you can't install Impulse (you have Win98 or Win2k), we can probably work something out with support, but it may take a week or so to make sure that we don't need to put up another update due to something that didn't come up in the beta.[/quote] That would be great. As a Win2k user, I'd really love to be able to use Stardock Central to get GalCiv 2.0. I'm not opposed to upgrading my OS and usi

[quote]Twilight 1.95 should be up on both later today if all goes well.[/quote] Got it from Stardock Central, installation went smoothly and without any problems. Thanks from a happy customer. :)

[quote]Just to be perfectly clear on the issue: Will 1.95 *only* be available on Impulse?[/quote] I second (or third?) the question. Information about Impulse is still far too sketchy to make an informed decision about it. Terms of Service are nowhere to be found on the site. Plus, a requirement of Windows XP or Vista means that I'd need a new operating system just to patch a game. SDC is perfectly able to handle ToA updates. I see no good reason to deprive SDC users from a

[quote]Note that I'm not including websites. This may be personal prejudice but as a user (whether it be games or software) I don't like having to mess with websites to manage my programs. But feel free to correct me on this if you disagree with this view.[/quote] Hmm. I think that from the perspective of a user, it's important that a download service is ... a) reliable b) easy to use c) secure (if money transfers are involved) Of course, other (more general) c

[quote]I don't understand how people can even compare Vista to ME. Windows ME didn't even use the NT kernel.[/quote] Because Vista, like ME, started with stability problems, a lack of drivers, lots of compatibility issues, and got rejected by many potential customers.

It's true that every new Windows version has met (well-deserved) skepticism. That was true for XP, ans still holds true for Vista. However, the difference is that people were nevertheless willing to put up with XP's shortcomings. There were a lot of complaints when XP got released, but people adopted it nevertheless. Eventually XP matured, and now it's actually as sound and solid an OS as Windows gets. Compare this to the continuous news of people demanding XP on their new PCs, of PC di

I agree that Limewire is much more likely to have caused the system corruption than a game. That is, as long as you didn't use cracks or pirated pirated software. Cracks are *even more* likely than Limewire to cause problems. In any case, mutual finger-pointing will neither help you nor your sister. You won't find the exact reason anyway, there's always a *chance* that it was something else. For example, I had (unpatched) Civilization IV corrupt my Windows account. Things like this *do*

[quote]Yeah, they both fly modified fighter jets, but they do so in a way that's artful and entertaining, not militaristic.[/quote] Well, there you've got the problem. It's actually both - an art form *and* a display of military machinery. Imho, you can't ignore the military aspect just because it's *also* an artform. I can line up tanks and have them shoot olympic rings in the air - could certainly be done in an artful way, but it's also still a display of military machinery.

[quote]I hope they return it to it's RPG roots.[/quote] I strongly doubt that. With Todd Howard at the helm, Bethesda is much more likely to produce further commercially successful, but shallow games. The people who made previous TES titles great are long gone. Petersen only contributes bits of writing, Kirkbride (whose whacky ideas are sorely missing in Oblivion) dito, LeFay is lost, and Ken Rolston (Morrowind's lead designer) has fled to Big Huge Games. There's an interview of him flo

Hmm, actually I'd rather support the decision. The Olympic games were historically (and should be) a time where nations focused specifically *not* on military matters, but on the sport. A show of military aircraft really doesn't fit the spirit imho. I wouldn't want a Panzer parade around the stadium either. Is there any reason given why the UK absolutely needs military sabre-rattling while hosting the Olympics? I didn't find one on the petition site.

[quote]...Ahh... but don't stop at Morrowind, there were Daggerfall before it and Arena before that.[/quote] I did play both Arena and Daggerfall shortly after release. Oddly, after initially liking them, I found both games rather boring. They gave you a huge world to play in, but it was so generic that after a while I kept getting this "been there, done that, got the T-shirt" feeling no matter where I went and what I did. Actually, I planned *not* to buy Morrowind because at that time

Huh? What has Aaron Hall got to do with Lucas Arts, or Starforce for that matter?

Yes on both accounts.

There's been quite a bit of talk about arrogance or aggressiveness here. Personally, I don't think that's the issue. Brad, one of the things that set you apart from other people in similar positions is (imho) - [I]passion[/I]. No matter whether you're talking about your game, your company, the business in general, politics - you always seem to do it with passion. Being passionate also means that you're often not very careful. You're stepping on other people's toes. I also suspe

I'm still running Windows 2000. It's a great OS, very stable, much less of a resource hog than XP or Vista, and also actually safer than these two. It runs every program I want it it to. So why should I upgrade to an inferior product?

The setting was nice, but the characters were boring. Especially Super-duper-hyper-I-can-take-out-an- entire-army-and-won't-even-get-blood-on-my-clothes River Tam was so overdone it wasn't even funny. The character might still have worked if they had found a better actor for her, but Summer Glau is not very good at conveying strange, yet strong emotions believably. She has good command over her body though, probably that was why they chose her, for the action scenes.

I don't see the logic in their statement either. However, there have been far too many bad PC ports of console games already. Instead of making another half-assed attempt at a PC port, it might actually be better to not even try. Depends on where they see how many customers, and we don't know that.

Oblivion has been a great disappointment for many people who played Morrowind, and hoped for a worthy successor. I don't usually use the term "dumbed down" (because people fling it around so often that it has become pretty much meaningless by now), but judge for yourself. Compared to Morrowind, Oblivion has ... - less dialogue - less quests - less NPCs - less settlements - less guilds and factions - less skills (e.g., axes and hammers have been merged into the catego

[quote]I'm wondering if BioWare didn't just do an end run around EA.[/quote] That occurred to me too, but judging from the first days of Derek French's responses in the Mass Effect forums, I don't think it's likely.

The influence you acquire through trade has no effect on the map at all, so it doesn't "spread out". It also doesn't add to the influence needed for an influence victory. It just adds to your number of votes in the *next* UP issue.

[quote]But I do know that jusht like in 2004, if McCain wins, the rest of the world is going to shake their collective heads and our "superpower" status will sink another 30 degrees into oblivion.[/quote] Being part of this "rest of the world", I can confim that. I doubt that the opinion of the rest of the world would bother the people who voted McCain into office though. Regarding the original question (i.e. will the US always be a superpower) - obviously, the US won't lose it

[quote]Here's what I gathered from Derek French (Bioshock official)[/quote] [quote]oh... i thought bioshock implements an uninstall type that reverse the count so you can install it again without diminishing your install count[/quote] Sorry, I meant *Bioware* official. I was talking about Mass Effect. I keep mistyping "Bioware" as "Bioshock", sorry.

The statment from Caryl that's quoted above sounds pretty sensible, although he didn't give us any specifics about a limited number of installs. "Being able to install and play on multiple computers" could mean anything in that regard. The new statement from Bioware specifically states that the "3 installs on differing hardware and you need to call support" policy will stay in effect for Mass Effect. For me as a collector, who enjoys to play old games every couple of years (and naturall

Were the spies actually hurting the Torians before? The Torians may have decided that your spies weren't annoying enough to spend their own spies on them. Perhaps the new position of your spies hurt them more. Also, the Torians might have had their spies on away missions which they deemed more important.