TheDarkKnight2008

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Lol, sorry, I answered that post early in the morning and skimmed over what you said, then I spent the rest of the topic fighting over fps mindsets. I screwed this up as good as pyro trying to take down 5 sentries in Team Fortress 2. There ya go. FPS mindset ;p You answered me. You did it first. I'm sorry I missed it :( Also, I kinda said thank you as a way to end the topic. I kinda want this topic to end. I could never imagine why..............

Reply to Thalan story needs revisions... Bad. in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Eh, but wouldn't giving them a chance also give them a chance to destroy the galaxy? If I was faced with this choice, I'd give up fusion and hyperdrive to stop them. Why fight them anyway, if they destroy the universe? Anger begets anger, hate begets hate. Why not appear as diplomats, or spiritual advisors yourself? It seems to me that fighting the humans would end up with them destroying the universe faster, or even the Thalans destroying it while trying to stop them. <

Reply to EU to Ban Pirates from the Internet? in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote]Regardless, it is obvious that this law was cooked up by someone who hasn't got the faintest idea about how the Internet works. You can't ban people from the net. Its impossible. What if they use their friends connection? Or get someone else to open an accout with an ISP? Will you ban them too? How will you know who to ban?What if my brother/sister/room-mate/whatever is a pirate and you ban our phoneline from having access to the net via any ISP? You just punished an entire group of peopl

Reply to EU to Ban Pirates from the Internet? in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Try educating yourself on what intellectual proptery is, idiot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property IP is given on a wide spectrum of things. From inventions, to education, to entertainment. Stealing IP is worse then holding up a car dealership.

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[quote]TheDarkKnight2008 comment 23 If a quality product is a determining factor on whether your not some kind of 5 finger discount asshole, what does that say about your own morals? Firstly, i'm a software engineer, the issue of interlectual property and priacy of it is somewhat an issue i take very seriously. That being said however, I think entering a dicussion with regards to morales with somenoe who cannot make the distinction between copying music illegally and holding

Thalan story needs revisions... Bad. in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I understand it's a game, but the story being setup like this is sooooo common. Thalans say humans destroy universe. They want to stop them. So.... They go back to 2225? What, so they can give them a chance to fight, setting up the game series?! Why not go back to the 15th century, blow up earth. Or land on it, make them think your God and make earth your slaves. Couldn't this have a more interesting story?

Reply to What's the point of advanced governments? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

So something like a star federation can add 10/20/30% economy? Thank you. Someone finally answered my question. I'll change to a star federation next game.

Reply to What's the point of advanced governments? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Does the game have socialism? In the future socialism could easily work, with everyone having what they need, and not turn into the bs that is communism. Now that's one government I'd switch too.

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Herm. I guess then I'll unleash the biggest surprise of all: [img]http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg151/Zellio2008/starfederation.jpg[/img] My yellow tech tree. I've been debating whether or not to change to something else, as it doesn't doesn't seem usefull when I hve 90% approval. And tech trading is great. Trade with the small civs, you can trade them doom rays, don't really matter, their too small to attack :p Can we get back on subje

Reply to What's the point of advanced governments? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

After reading over the posts again, I stand by my original words. I asked about political changes. Not knowing how I actually play, some idiot comes and tells me I have an fps mindset. Not being helpful in the least with my real question, just judging the way I play. Oh but I agree. I have an fps mindset. Here's a glaring example of it: [img]http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg151/Zellio2008/yousuck.jpg[/img] Oh yeah, with all my strategy, sim, rpg, and r

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And I must mention a few things: We're a saintly race, highest morale in the universe (Not when we just wake up and are grouchy though X-( ) All we defeated was the drengins. The other races died when people went to war and we stayed out of it. We didn't build a military AT ALL until the drengins started attacking us. I usually use the beginning to get as many planets as I can in the universe, and colonize them, then make colony ships and constructers, and build eco

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Anyway though, next time I won't answer when it's 6 am and I haven;'t had coffee :NOTSURE:

Reply to What's the point of advanced governments? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Well the last Civ I played was Civ3. I'm actually unaware of the political thing in Civ4. I really didn't play too many strategy games with political changes. Sorry for getting upset, but I didn't know. And I probably got upset at the fps mindset thing (Just waking up didn't hurt). I figure, you start changing politics and it'll be like washington. Sometimes things work better, sometimes nothing gets done and people just fight. I say ignore that political s

Reply to What's the point of advanced governments? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

If I lost 30% economy I hate to think of how all the other civilizations did, considering I have the best economy. But whatever. Obviously you've played alot of strategy games with 'political climates' before, eh? It's not like you have my history of strategy as far back as Civilization? Obviously a political change is needed, as it's truly affected all strategy games before. Obviously I have the fps mindset. All of these assumptions you made were quite love

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Ea has a new CEO, and is heading under a new direction. I wouldn't judge so early.

Reply to EU to Ban Pirates from the Internet? in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

If a quality product is a determining factor on whether your not some kind of 5 finger discount asshole, what does that say about your own morals? Are you gonna shoot somebody if he doesn't live up to your standards? That food wasn't good. Next time take it. That car had poor mpg. Hold the dealership hostage. Your an asshole (If ya pirate). You deserve prison. Hopefully now you'll get it. And the lawmakers feel the same way, so don't have another

Reply to What's the point of advanced governments? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Eh, I was too busy researching and trading techs to ever worry about trying to research advanced political crap. I cut out the BS and did what needed to be done.

What's the point of advanced governments? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I don't get it. I'm the war party, been that way all game. Own 80% of the galaxy, 71% of the influence, tops in everything except production. 90% of the population loves us. Why would switching to another government help? Their all under my control, bwahaha.

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I'll bring the shotguns.

Reply to EU to Ban Pirates from the Internet? in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

^ Apparantly people who think alike are already in office. Enjoy prison.

Reply to EU to Ban Pirates from the Internet? in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Good. People would be faced with the fact that their commiting a crime, and this will lower game prices by $5-10. I hope the 4th time (going online illegally) means jail. If it was up to me, thieves would go to prison.

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I've had three 64 bit machines for awhile. First off, ALOT erasier to run games using a nvidia card then ati. I only have problems with one important game: max payne. I can run games as far back as 1995 (diablo 1)

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The usual, TF2 and Twilight of the arnor.

Reply to Study: 40% of Internet Users Run Vulnerable Browsers in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

It's probably due to all the old fogies running windows 2000 and ie6.

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I thought Nvidia said cpus don't matter? I'd kinda expect them to make $800 agp cards if thats true.