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I hate to correct people, but as an IT person deploying XP, I have to chime in. What Gallion said is incorrect. XP is completely based off the Windows 2000 kernel, and will recognize and support 4 GB of RAM. Windows 95/98/ME have been hamstrung without tweaks at anything above 512 MB, but XP has NOTHING to do with those operating systems. XP will support 4 GB just fine. How do I know? My development machine at work is running XP Pro with 1 GB of RAM, with no hacks, no regkey tweaks, just the stock installation. My company also is beta-testing the next version of Windows servers, currently called .Net server. We have an 8 processor machine that has 3+ GB of RAM, again, the OS (it's essentially XP server) detected it all just fine. Please tell me you really meant to say ME doesn't like anything about 512 MB, because that would be accurate. If you look at the version strings of the files in XP's system directory, you'll notice a pattern: 5.1. That's because it is based off of NT 5 (Windows 2000). Not 95/98/ME. Not meant as a flame, but I hate seeing misinformation.

Well, as a newbie to the BC series, although I've lurked around since May after I pre-ordered, I must say I didn't quite know what to expect. I've only had time to play for an hour or so, and still learning, but I'm extremely impressed so far. While the learning curve is somewhat steep at first, I'm slowly getting there, and the sheer amount of stuff in BCM is intoxicating! The graphics are great even at 800x600 (I'll probably bump it up, I'd rather get more eye candy than 60 fps, at least until MP). The score is great, the gameplay, well, I haven't played enough to rave about that yet. I did hit the bug with mixed-races on planets and moons, and I'm very impressed to see the workaround already out there...not many developers can do that. Now if only I could stop being sick on my vacation week and be able to play BCM for hours and hours! Good job SC!