Wolferz
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To Kalshion and DarkNSF 
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I viewed the first episode and thought it was going to be another yawner.
So, I gave it a fair chance and watched a couple more and it has started to interest me.
Will see where it goes from here.
Ya gotta love HULU
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Ronald Reagan once said , " The nine scariest words in the English language are; We're from the government and we're here to help"
That says it all for me.
Like everything else the fed sticks their fingers in.... It will be majorly FUBAR!
They use no logic or common sense.
It might be time to unfurl the banner... VIVA La REVOLUCIONE! and take our government back from the greedy self interests of lobbiests. There once was an item in the Bill of Rights that prevented the fed from competing with the private sector It seems they have forgotten that.
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Yeah I don't like the whole must connect to internet to play singleplayer thing. Its much nicer to just have to verify it once and be done with it. This very thing stopped me from buying C&C4, and almost Napoleon Total War.
I heard that it was removed from C&C 4
At least EA isn't totally brain damaged.
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Update on Ubisoft' latest debacle... aka OSP DRM....
It turns out that the reported DDOS attack on their authentication servers was a LIE!
There was no attack. It was merely their clumsy attempt at implementing the new Ball and Chain DRM systems. The hardware couldn't handle the load of literally thousands of Assassins Creed and Silent Hunter fans trying to play their "single player" games. Probably all on the same server I would bet. The fan base is pissed! Understandably so. There are still ongoing problems as of this date.
I can understand Ubisofts' position. It's only fair that they collect on their IPs and throw up the old middle finger at the software pirates. Most of which are likely to be Asian. A market they don't sell in.
But it also gives the finger to the honest gamers that don't have an always on internet connection.
Gamers like travelling business people. Soldiers and sailors on deployment, just to name a couple.
It also fingers the gamers fair use rights by preventing you from selling the license to someone else.
Or loading onto a laptop for portable gaming at the lake.
File it in the dumbest idea of the twenty-first century folder. Because they can't guarantee that their end of the bargain will always be there.
Something that is missing from the requirements list on the box. It only states "broadband internet connection is required."
So, if Ubi or any other publisher wishes to commit corporate suicide, I say let the lyiing bastards do it . We're better off without them.
EA figured it out. The publishers of Rise of Flight figured it out. They dumped their OSP DRM schemes poste haste.
Ubisoft could have used the same authentication process that Microsoft uses with their software. Check the license during updates and disable it if it isn't kosher. Oh, wait Ubisoft doesn't fix what they sell. Disregard
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It's been a long while since I last said something. I took a long look at both the manual and the keyboard information that came with BCM but I cant find an answer yet.
My PC is not that of a monster and so has it's limit. I am stationed in a planet and look around every so often at the enemy bases on it with Tacops, now the problem is that it will not flush my previously viewed targets, they keep massing up in my tacops, the list is so long it is making everything slow down. How can I reset the tacops computer? I tried emerging and then planetfalling again to see if it would work, but no, the list is not flushed.
I am a SF Pilot with 53AI, so restarting is not a solution I'd gladly take.
Thanks in advance, hopefully someone can enlight me.
A SF pilot you say?
Everything you need to know about Tacops is in the manual. Not the keyboard sheet, the manual.
I beta tested BCM and from the description of your problem I am clueless as to what you are talking about. Take a longer look at the manual is all I can suggest.
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That day won't come, so for now the only thing we can do is stick with those game maker that goes to the market with good games, good support and always an eye to the needs of their customers.
I'm now playing Dragon Age Origins and I'm pretty much happy with Bioware's products since Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights.
Dragon Age is the shiznitz. Mass Effect wasn't bad either. Neither of those titles had bugs. At least none I could find.
Every Ubisoft title is released half finished. Full of bugs. And with no fixes in sight. Little if any support. Mostly garbage disc filler.
And now they are using this new DRM without the needed infrastructure to properly service it.
DO NOT BUY games from Ubisoft.
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If you ask me, all DRM does is annoy the paying customers. I've yet to see a single pirate protection not cracked before/just after release.
Scutt;ebutt has it that the pirates have already cracked the new DRM and are happily playing SH V offline,
One must wonder who the hell is running Ubisoft? Lars Ulrich?
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You wouldn't NEED DRM if people wouldn't PIRATE games anyway.... oh wait.. that's a concept most people don't seem to understand or get
Though I am glad I decided to hold off on getting SH5, will eventually. That being the case; you want to stop DRM? Get rid of the pirates, or.... *gasp* LOWER the prices of some of these damned games. It seems that recently, standard edition for video games now run $59 a peice.. it'll get to the point where video game companies will lose money to pirates not JUST for the DRM but also because of the price (I refuse to pirate due to the higher likelyhood of virus's and trojans in the games)
I'm with you there, Kal, but getting rid of software pirates isn't exactly something your average Joe Gamer can do. I don't download pirated anything for the same reasons you don't.
I have yet to find anything on this planet that is worth stealing.
Still, software piracy is not something you can combat by punishing your paying customers that don't have a 24/7 internet connection. Even the ones that do have internet can't play the games because Ubisoft pinches pennies on their servers and the employees that run them.
Requiring the disc in the drive is more sane than this new garbage.
I can sum it all up in three words....
Dumb
Retarded
Moronic
Goodbye Ubisoft
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all upcoming ubi titles will have this drm.
im a subsim (and all kind of sim) fan, but ill not buy this crap. tbh one of my friends pre-ordered AC2 and he cant play the game for several days.
What a shame. Ubisoft is so afraid of software pirates that they are scuttling the boat.
I guess if you sink your business, you don't need to worry about a few pirates stealing your IP.
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Its not just Silent Hunter, Assassins Creed has the same problem.
This is just a ploy to get everyone on consoles.
That is a possibility. Microshaft has been trying to turn every PC out there into a console for quite a while now.
If Ubisoft wants to go strictly console, then they should stop publishing PC games.
Only one problem with that idea... Most of their console offerings are shovelware. They even admitted to producing shovelware for the Wii. I don't think Sony will put up with that kind of crap. Microshaft might, if they throw enough ad money at them.
If it really is a ploy, they're failing miserably.
I have a PS 3 and I'm not too keen on playing games bearing the Ubishaft "Black Hole" logo.
They are rip off artists and I have chosen not to help finance them.
I'm glad I didn't run right out and buy Silent Hunter V the search for more Das Boote money.
At the moment, the Ubisoft web presence is non-existant....citing some kind of security problem. Probably a continued Ddos attack from all the Germans they pissed off.
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Ubisoft releases Silent Hunter V with a new form of DRM that requires an internet connection to play single player. Pretty much thumbing their noses at travelling Laptop owners and everyone else without internrnet access. The first few days after release, Ubisoft suffered several days of a DDos attack on their servers that rendered the new title totally unplayable for everyone that shelled out the sixty bucks to buy it. As is usual for Ubisoft, the game was released with a myriad of bugs and blatant omissions. They have taken anti-piracy to a whole new level with this internet only DRM scheme. The scuttlebutt on their forums has not been pretty. Complaints have ranged from a useless manual to a clunky user interface and I can't figure out how to drive my sub because I'm using the manual to level a table.
Assassins CreedII will use the same DRM.
This is all ramping up to their new Uplay idea. They want to be like Microsoft's Xjunk Live and Sony Online Entertainment. So far, they look to compensate their customers for this latest debacle by offering them Uplay points to spend on downloadable content. A useless gesture if the Chaos Club continues to attack them.
It has also been reported that all of the Collectors Edition copies of SH V sold in Germany had to be recalled for illegal symbols being found in the printed materials. Germany has a distinct aversion to Swastikas.
I swore off Ubisoft products after the last two Sub simulator games were released in beta form and sold as complete, working titles and then abandoned.
Silent Hunter III and IV would have gone the way of the Dodo if it weren't for selfless fans modding them into great titles. The same thing is happening with V
It's a pretty sad state of affairs when you depend on your paying players to debug, finish, and fix your games.
The only reports in the good category for SHV have been the graphics.
Derek, maybe you could give Yves Guillemot a call and let him in on the secret....
"Graphics do not a good game make" and " Ball and chain DRMs won't stop software piracy"
His answer to under performing sales is "Throw more advertising money at it"
IMHO, the only games that should require an internet connection are MMOs. Not stand alone single player games.
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Unexpected I must say.
Will you be relocating to pheonix?
What does the future hold for 3000 AD?
You know who to call for beta testing, right?
Good luck with the new job
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It has to happen: http://www.bgo.bigpoint.com/
Well, hush my mouth and call me a Daggett.
Do you think they, who ever they are, will stuff it up as bad as STO?
Pile on on the Cylon!
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Hi All
Brand new to the game having only downloaded it yesterday and already it's had me scratching my head in confusion. Then there was more head scratching when I tried to find a current forum! We Badgers are a simple folk and I can't help but think that getting stuck so very early on, does not bode well for me having the smarts to run such a complex game.
Never mind though, I've found you and now I have the attention of experts, I hope you won't mind if I ask you a couple of (possibly silly) questions.
1/ The link I clicked on for the free download, billed it as "Battlecruiser Millennium Gold Edition" and I ended up with version 1.09.03. When I went to make sure this was the latest however, I found that patches for "Gold" (unless I'm missing the obvious) were more in the region of 1.01.**
Also "box art" pictures seem to have "Gold" on them, where my splash screen does not. Am I right in thinking that 1.09.03 is not after all, "Gold"?
2/ Haven't properly started the game yet. I clicked on "Training Academy" obviously expecting basic tutorial, but ended up standing on the ships bridge whistling to myself as nothing much seemed to be happening. NO instructor, text or otherwise seemed to have joined me...... hmmmm, these buttons look tempting, perhaps I should just press them all?? Oh.. what does s.e.l.f.d.e.s.t.r.u.c.t. mean?............
Thanks all
Badger
Welcome to Galactic Command
So, Commander Space Badger,
Did you really think that Galactic Command would just hand you a brand new ship and turn you loose in the galaxy?.... First things first... GalCom doesn't provide hand held training.
Report for school by opening the .PDF file that came with the D/L . Read and study it thoroughly.
We don't provide training in these forums if it's in the painstakingly written manual.
Subsequent questions should be referred to the forum search mechanism before starting a new topic.
Please read the Terms of Use regarding this forum. Doing so will prevent accidental ejection out an airlock.
And/or summary deletion of your comm traffic.
Again, welcome to Galactic Command.
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I have considered switching to Linux. After the scew over known as Winblows Vista. I guess Microshaft decided to go the same route as most of the shovelware publishers... They took Vista and made a few well needed changes and slapped a new name on it (Seven)...And still charging a premium price for the Same Old Shit, just like 99% of game publishers.
What was Activision doing? Counting all of the sales for every iteration of the COD IP? Sounds about right to me.
Don't get me started about the X-Junk consoles. I'm a Darksider with the PS3 now. Those money grubbing bastards in Redmond can blow me!
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What makes it suck Wolferz?
There are dozens of FPS games out there and I can't see wasting my cash just so I can shoot Borg drones with a phaser pistol. The graphics looked terrible but that is probably due to the conversion to MPEG in the videos. I'll have to save judgement on the graphics until it's released.
I have been a fan of the Star Trek series since it's inception and I consider this game to be a major rape of the franchise.
As of now, there is only one space combat MMO that I'm looking forward to... GCO. I know for a fact that Derek will get it right.
If this was the only space combat game out there, I would get me a Photon revolver and play Klingon Roulette and maybe illuminate my mind.
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LCARS.....
Lame Crappy And Really Sucks
It should add a whole new meaning to the term "Anal Probe"
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A hunger factor of 130 isn't enough to send crew to the galley.
If they are losing health...how many times have you been boarded by those pesky intruders?
Always remember. your Combat Officer is a blithering idiot who would rather spend time in his quarters than send troops to round up and kill intruders.
As for your slow down problem....post your system specs and we'll go from there.
How to trade IS in the manual and items in the manual will not be repeated here.
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Yup, inaction will cost you points that are easily made up by dropping a few OTS weapons onto insurgent bases.
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I checked out the beta offer and walked away from it, due to TTH's Fort Knox style sign up procedure.
My god!!!! their password requirements are rediculous. Bank websites don't require that level of pass word protection. I wish them luck. They're going to need it with all of the peeps suffering from Short Attention Span.... I'll do something else.
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Hail to the Supreme Commander
and all other Players!!I am brand new to the Unervisal Combat Series and I am absolutely enchanted with this game and fascinated by its depth, even though I get my ass kicked on a frightenly regular basis, I still love it. But that is beside the point.
In most of the games I play, I like create an avatarthat looks somewhat like me. It helps to immerse me into the game world and improves my enjoyment many fold. That being said, I was wondering if there was a way to change the appearance of the Terran AE, as I really don't look like a six foot white guy with dark hair(more like a 6'2" black man with thinning hair). Not this takes away from my enjoyment of this game, but it would help me enjoy it more if I could change it.
Is this possible? Please let me know!
Thank You very much!!
Darien Huey
That's a pretty accurate description of the SC.
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And when you do trade routes, do it in a shuttle. MUCH faster.
That works well inless you're trading OTS weapons. That type of cargo will attract attention from someone meaning to do you harm. Don't be surprised if a Gammulan decloaks at a gate and turns you into a clone.
Hauling around in a vulnerable shuttle is dangerous.
Also, leaving your mining drones trundling around on a planet while you are off trading, leaves them subject to disappearing.
I always mine manually and dust the drones off before leaving the planet.
The best places to mine are moons. You can jump straight into planetfall, land and do your mining thang without using tacops to set waypoints.
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My brother picked this up last week as an early Christmas present for my family along with Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. So far, I'm liking what I see with it. I never realized you can use Netflix through it, stream videos from your computer to it, etc. Pretty cool device.
What I'd like to ask to you XBox 360 owners is what "must have" accessories do you recommend for it? I already bought the wireless adapter.
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A PS 3 It doesn't cost $50.00 a year to get on their network.
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