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Personally I'm a fan of building big windmills all throughout the Alaskan tundra. Winds up there average between 30-60mph. Everyone's all worried about "destroying the environment" up there--hello, there is no environment up there to destroy. And the eyesore the windmills cause is not a problem, because no one lives there. It would be like putting solar panels throughout the Sahara Desert. The big challenge I've always seen is, how in the world do you transmit the energy you just captured

When the hugely threatening Dread Lords event pops up two parsecs away from you and...one loaded transport and 5 turns later, they're gone.

Good Drengin still have slave pits, they just give the slaves lemonade from time to time and throw company parties. Reminds me of my office.

I depended on that Xeno Ethics treasury bug for my early game for a long time.

If it comes out by Christmas, okay, but if it comes out more like Valentine's Day 2008, that's when CnC3:Kane's Wrath comes out. I won't be around then.

Evil should be a rush race. Good should be an economic boom race. Simple as that.

The problem I have with the humor is, if you're going to have it, then it needs to be funny.

This may make the Galactic Guide Book actually marginally useful. Build the Eyes and station a bunch of sensor ships everywhere and,...survey.

oh no, it's turning into a political thread! What does the thread's subject line say?

What about all the Mega events? Is that slated for 1.7 production version? I was renewing my interest in Galciv2 because of that. This doesn't look like it particularly has any major game-changing features to it; just the morale buildings and the spawning anomalies. And then the nice-to-have governors and the usual bug fixes. But otherwise basically the same game.

I updated in 45 seconds. It will be ineresting to see if this changes any of the bad behavior I've been seeing in Windows Vista. drrider: I thought the same thing. I expanded the Galciv2 plus-sign, and just Dark Avatar had a beta update available.

Software developers do like to isolate issues, though. Mixing Nvidia/Vista issues with 1.7 beta issues could be harder to debug.

We have the most advance military in the world and I for one would like to keep it that way. Pump tens of billions of dollars into shiny new missiles but let our own bridges collapse. And conservatives like to say they're pro-life. Helloooooooo.... What concerns me is the spineless liberal people in this country that would love to just hand our country away. I am no fan of morally liberally pe

Optical computers aren't the same thing as quantum computing--yet--and I'm more skeptical of optical computing. You have to fab optical components on Galium Arsenide wafers instead of silicon and the power consumption is way up there. Basically all your wires are lasers. You can imagine the power that takes. It would be nice if you could use optical components for just your long transmission lines (such as on PCB boards), but the technology to fuse together GaAs with silicon doesn't exist ye

I really hope you can steal other races' unique stuff. Like in all the Command & Conquer games, you can capture other races' buildings and steal their abilities. P.S. What about that Terran technology that lets you put an impenetrable shield around Earth?

And I thought that crap happen in just the USA. Well it is good to know we arn't the only nation suffering from this Political Correctness bullcrap. This happens in the USA? We just had the I-35 bridge collapse in Minneapolis because of government negligence. All our tax dollars are going to outsourced toll roads and shiny new weapons in Iraq instead of our OWN infrastructure.

Naw, what I was talking about was even crazier. I was suggesting making DLL's available to the expert user base and letting them mod that with source code. And then maybe having some mechanism for sucking user changes in to the Stardock "blessed" source code. Thus Stardock effectively gets free man-hours of work from gaming enthusiasts, along with another source of resumes. It'll probably never happen.

I do play with mega events, and I think I may have gotten one once.

and it'd take source code access to do anything of that sort besides. Hey...maybe it's time for another one of Brad's innovative, new customer support models. At least, it doesn't hurt to ask.

I'm not skeptical about quantum computers at all. It's not necessarily about the performance, it's about the power consumption and area usage. This could mean "flash" drives with more memory than today's hard drives, and mobile CPU's and video cards with 1/10th the battery drain. There's just several key technology breakthroughs researchers need to find. There's: a) how to get subatomic particles to "remember" states indefinitely (i.e. store bits), b) how to create switches, analogous to

I always get into early wars, so I use small ships a lot. Also, Tiny ships stack very nicely together with military starbases. Another use is for scouting if you have the Eyes. The big quality I like about Tiny ships: they're only 80bc. That means even your mickey-mouse planets can make them on their spare time. They can supplement your 400bc-and-up dreadnaughts you're making on your manufacturing powerhouse planets.

When I started DA I was playing Suicidal, too. Then again, it was the beta.

That's why I don't build ISB's unless I'm close to an influence victory. Cause I don't understand the freakin' things. :-/

I think what the OP mentioned about "civilization" games being brain games is the crux of it. I like strategy games over action games, because I like to be constantly stretching my brain. Real-time-strategy's even better, because you're thinking on your toes and stretching your brain. Some people, action games are more their thing, because they're more into performance, or athletics, or something.

Not mp's are bc's. FREE mp's are bc's. Actually, I would readily argue that free mp's are worth more than bc's, because free mp's are a done deal. You've got the mp, it's paid for, factoried, everything. 1 free mp is worth somewhere between 1 and 4 bc. The reason is, it costs >4bc to rush-buy something. You have to build factories to get 1 bc to produce 1 mp. So somewhere in the middle, that's what 1 free mp is worth. To go a step further, this is how factories' and e