Soback

Enigma, what the.. are you talking about? America founded by thieves and crooks? I think you have it backwards. It was founded by heros and now is rulled by crooks and thieves.

Instead of joining UN, Switzerland should have voted to join US.

Didn't I say almoust the same thing as #2 states, only a while back and in a different thread.

What I feel like is riping my hair out, and tatooing BCO on my arm. MP patch, bah, BCO man, that's the real goal.

Use your fighters wisely. The transport ships aren't that strong and instead of using your capital ships to jump from point to point trying to catch/intercept transports, if you use fighters they can easily outrun transports and destroy them. Also, destroyed ships leave cargo pods behind. The only thing about blockading the station is it takes a while, but you don't run the risk of getting destroyed if you face it head on and don't have a cloack. That's why I love the new stations. Not because they are more chalenging, but because now it actually makes sence to blockade and you have a choice to either face considerable risk or actually WORK on capturing that station by blockading it. This game is getting better and better.

Hey, that's nothing. (takes out his CGW april issue). CGW gave Frank Herbert's Dune one star, and that was the funniest review I have ever read. Do you want to know why it got one star? (they said it would have gotten NO stars if not for that) "Is there nothing this game does right? No, nothing. It earns it's one star for it's toothy sandworms, which manage to pull off the neat trick of being simultaneously penile and a perfect specimen of vagina dentata." How's that?

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: whoa!! thats high man. Note to self : remember to reduce LF and increase FF based on player's jetpack altitude. And cap altitude to 2000mARGH, the next person who gives SC the idea to remove/cap/adjust/ something in BCM will have a bullseye painted on their back/front/left/right/up/down sides of their ship and back/belly/head on their AE.

LOL. That's funny, but the sad part is --> some of it might actually come true.

Hey Menchise. I don't know how to do multiple quotes so I am going to keep editing this post to answer some of the stuff you have above. For starters, I am very much fired up about UN saying that the constitution should be either changed or done away with since it's old and has no purpose in these times. What ties into that is that they have attacked our right to bear firearms which is in constitution. What they said is that is barbaric and started quoting other countries which has strict gun control laws and trying to point out that they have less gun related crimes. (which is not entirely true - for one, they might have less gun related crimes just because the weapon of choice might be different as it is easier to get, and second I am interested in their TOTAL ammount of crimes, reason being is the GOOD guy owning a gun will thwart off the criminal from comiting his crime) That will answer your first question. Second. Yes US tries to influence other countries and that's just a part of being a country is to try and have more influence and more power. But what is UN? Is it a country, is it a government --> NO. Then why the hell is it trying to influence US? I don't know. As for the part that other countries just ignore US demands then when things get tough, US steps in with force. Is UN going to back up it's influence with force in US be it political or economical? Well if it will then it brings back the question, WHY is US funding some organization (and that's what it exactly is and should stay - not try to become some governing force) that is trying to inforce it's opinions upon US? Third. Reread the part in my post about how US CAN separate from UN but it's hard, and then me saying that UN will get off US soil SO FAST. You will realize that little part in there that says that right now it's not as easy as it sounds BUT when PEOPLE WILL GET FED UP with UN the US will separate from UN and they will get off our land SO FAST. Right now not everyone is just as fed up with UN as some of us are. Fourth. Exactly. UN is trying to change. Change from what it was originaly designed to do into something more. And by more I don't mean something more good. It's trying to change itself into a form of governing body, and don't you see the danger of governing body that has the interests of many countries to consider? It means that is will pick and choose witch interests to impose, but that won't be good for all the countries and thus chaos, corruption, and unfairness will plague UN like nothing before it. And Fifth. Like I said before, the larger the governing body, the larger the corruption/waste within it. If UN becomes so influential that it can actually inforce it's proposals onto others, then who do you think makes those decissions/proposals so that they can be enforced onto others? Somehow I doubt that whoever will have that power in UN will do things for the good of the peole. More like they will do things for the good of themselfes. As for the part of who watches the watchers? Well, someone whos bank account will receive monthly installments if you know what I mean. [ 03-08-2002, 14:32: Message edited by: Soback ]

I hate intruders. I am in this huge fight. 3 intruders onboard, power to launch controll off so nothing gets stolen, everything looking good. Then one of my fighters get's damaged and I have to dock it because just a little more and it's going to blow. Well, I finish off the oposition in a minute and now have a choice of turning on launch control and risking a stolen asset or watch my pilots die in that fighter. So I take a look at perscan, the intruders are close to some of the launchbays but not quite there, and I decide to go for it. I save the game , turn on lauch control and dock my fighter. Right as it docks, #11 launches. @#%$%@!#$ <-- "My thoughts". Then as I target the stolen fighter, it flies to about 10clicks from me and stops. --> "my thoughts -- Is he taunting me?" I give it an order to return, it just sits there, so I guess the intruder hasn't changed alegiance, but he is still just sitting there. I get my tractor beam ready and go in to retreat the stolen fighter. Right as I lock on, BAAAM, it blows up, and since the shields were down for the tracktor beam I now have damage like you wouldn't believe. Damn terrorists. Conclusion: Like I said above, I hate intruders.

quote:Originally posted by Tac: The UN charter includes it having its own armed force. Been so since it was first drafted. UN's failures have largely been the fault of the member nations, that see it as nothing more than a global non-aggression safety blanket (you hit me and the whole world hits you.). And even in this duty it fails miserably. Why? Because its got no armed forces. You think that the world wouldve given a rat's ass about Kuwait if it was the leading exporter of Watermelons instead of oil? Just look at the half-assed UN effort in the yugoslavian conflict. It wasnt until NATO stepped in that anything got done. What did yugoslavia offer the wealthy nations that could veto/influence a UN decision? Nada.. zilch. Thus, no interest at all to help. Just send in a token bunch of blue helmets..until the crap hit the fan. Members only act on their own self-interest (as every and all sovereign nation on earth does).. thus no effective measures are ever taken. Unless its good for them. Like oil. oil goood. UN evil? Thats kinda ackward.. the UN is mainly run by the major powers.. and u know who those are (at least one of them). Is it each individual member's fault instead? YES. Yet, as Murphy states, "If a group of people are at fault, no individual is to be blamed". Nice tiddy loop in which everyone messes up and no one dirties their hands. "The UN is increasingly socialist every day. It is not based on private enterprise" It cant be based on private enterprise. Ever. Thats the whole point. UN is to be a worldwide organization run BY member NATIONS. Not by Bill Gates & ilk. "I give it 10 years TOPS before it has its own TRUE Military force, Own Currency, Own Trade Laws and Security policies ETC.... All opperating independantly and with Jurisdiction over Member Nations." I hope its so. Own military will mean that they will be able to DO what they originally were intended for. KEEP THE PEACE. Own currency? EXCELLENT. Trade laws? Security policies? "All opperating independantly and with Jurisdiction over Member Nations" Sounds good to me. Whats the point of appointing a mutual overseer, giving it all the responsability and none of the tools? You know why this is so scary to member nations? It would make them all EQUAL under one body of law. Will Iraq be allowed to keep bombarding its neighbors with chemical weapons? They've been doing it for decades. No one gives a sh*t about it.Unless they're hurt by it. Kurdish child != < 1 barrel of oil. "Not us" syndrome. And while many of you US folks may not like it, what about the Cuban embargo? "not us" say the rest of the world. Cuba rots in the meantime. No oil in cuba though . Or the chinese invasion of Tibet? African slavery (diamond trade comes to mind)? Almost every nation has its own shame.. and it aint over yet you know.. it will keep happening until someone with enough international authority comes into place.. with the fangs to back its bark. The UN becoming a 1-world government? That'd be nice, albeit impractical. There's a better solution, a better system. One that has been working and proven over the last few hundred years. Yes gringos, thats YOU. The USA. Each of your states has its own laws, own regulations.. yet all answer to the federal system. Federal law. (please correct me if im wrong, some of the terms I use may be the wrong ones). Thats almost unheard of before. In my own country its 1 law for the whole land. No exceptions. I havent heard of any Euro nation having different laws for different parts of their lands. Heck, must be because we like the metric system UN would be the federal system. Each nation would be something like a state. Each one ruling its people as they see fit.. but under certain set parameters and rules. Each one equally represented in the fed. system.Yeah, but what UN is trying to do is come into other countries (US for example), critisize their laws, and try to CHANGE them as to what THEY think it should be like. Well, to hell with that. Don't you know that the bigger the governing body, the larger the corruption, the more things can be "missing" and "unaccounted" for. UN is trying to be that LARGE governing body, and what I don't like the most about it is that it's trying to impose it's opinions and make them laws. Who do they think they are>? US has got it's own problems without some other inforcer wannabe butting in and trying to change things the way they see fit. What US needs to do is RE-READ the constitution and not by the lawyers or workers of government, but by some SMART people chosen out of the general public. And after that, it needs to take a loooong goood look at the laws and corruption we have right now in the government body. Then what we need to do is as hard and painfull it might be, GET RID of all that corruption. It will be just like curing cancer, but it will be well worth it. That whole cleansing process is long overdue. Large companies hire consultants once every 5 to 10 years to go through it's staff/paperwork and see what is needed and what can be done away with. WHY don't we have the same in government. It seems like if you got a government job, you are set for life, no matter how incompetent you are, and if there is some law or regulation it almoust never gets revised, no matter if it has outlived it's usefullness or is completly unneeded. Now think about all this and tell me why we can't "clean" our laws and people working for government every 10 years or so? Because those who work for government DON'T WANT it to be done, because thousands of them would loose their jobs for incompetence or just because they are not needed and just sucking money out of our taxes, that's why. Whooh, anyway. I gotten way off topic here. Anyway, UN is a joke, and sooner or later people will realize it and then we will see some changes.

quote:Originally posted by Duncan Idaho: Fox__Trot, I think you need a game where you can play....as a Klingon captain. IdahoOMG, Klingon Academy II, but open ended with no hardcoded missions WOULD BE SO COOL.

Just the fact itself that UN is proposing some of the things they ARE proposing is showing how ridiculous and power hungry UN is. Also I VERY MUCH don't like the fact that it's trying to flex it's muscle in the US and is sugesting that US constitution is old/outdated and needs to be changed. Who the @#$@# are they to tell US that our constitution is outdated and some of our laws barbaric (like the right to own a firearm for example). Also the reason US doesn't pull out from UN because right now it's harder to do than it sounds. It's not like US can say "we just quit, get off our land" (UN "offices" are located in NY after all), but trust me, when enough people get pissed off and will have enough of that the US WILL be out of UN and they WILL get off our land SO FAST.

On the news today: (this event happened about 4 months ago, but is being reported today) A doctors aid (nurse?) drives home at night. She hits a man walking across the street, he falls onto the hood of her car and slams his head through the windshield. She gets scared, flips out and continues driving home (a couple of miles from the place of the accident) with the man stuck in her windshield. Once she gets home, she parks the car in her garage and goes to sleep (the man is concious and is still stuck in the windshield). Over the next 3 days she comes down to her garage and appologizes to him for this "accident" (I call it murder), but does nothing else to help, while the man begs her to call the ambulance and help him. Man dies on the third day, and she dumps the body in a park. 4 months later she is caught (this week) and confesses after being questioned. When asked why she did it she says that the accident occured because she was driving home drunk and high on ecstasy but when asked why she never called the ambulance in the next 3 days she has no answer. Now because of this (I don't even want to call her an animal) a human being, someones father/son/husband is dead and all because that $%@#$ wouldn't even help him but instead APOLOGIZED for the accident while the man slowly died in the course of those 3 days. What do you think the laywers are going to claim in her defense? Insanity? Drug usage? And if she is well defended what do you think her sentence will be? Couple of years in jail? Probation? Mental treatment? and who do you think will pay for that? HER? Yeah, right. YOU. So my question is. WHY should she be kept alive and us having to bear the financial responsibility for the problems she has inflicted? So that she can be "treated" or "pay" for her crime and then continue with her life, and possibly cause someone else to die>? Think about that if you are agains death penalty.

In a 100 years it's going to be just like in one of those sci-fi movies. One world governmet with "ants" working for it and a couple of "terrorist" cells fighting for freedom. I am just glad I won't live to see that.

Let me try and make something understandable of all that. Do you know that your P3 chips have an ID # that you can inable/disable in BIOS? and that when you cruise around the internet you have an IP # and also if that ID # is inabled then it can be displayed too. Well, what that means that all new electronics will have some kind of tracking ID but this time it will be illegal to disable them. So in other words your actions will be monitored/recorded. As for building your own PC. Don't worry, you would be able to do it, but with approved parts, that have the security devices build into them, and it will be illegal for you to deactivate those devices (right now you can go into your bios and turn off/on your serial # for your p3 chip, if those proposals become regulations then you wouldn't be able to do that on the new computers, the old ones would still be fine, UNLESS, read that part about how that regulation can be tailored afterwards, well, that means that later on they can even say that your old computer will have to have some kind of security device build into it and acitvated) I think that's what it says.

Here is the homepage for Galactic Civilizations. [ 03-05-2002, 22:50: Message edited by: Soback ]

If you like Imperium Galactica, Master of Orion and such games then check this out.

Ok, I probably don't know what I am getting into, actually I really don't know what I am gettin into. I am going to try and "paint" some ships. The next question will be how do I post the shots here when I am done?

How hard is it to make custom skins, or to add to existing skins (ex. to "paint" a name of your ship on it's hull) and what program would you need to make that skin playable in game. All answers apreciated.

I can't open the .info file. When I double click on it I get a message --> "Microsoft system information cannot open this file. The file is corrupted." I tried downloading the zip file twice just to make sure it's not a bad download but still got the same results. Ok, I renamed the .inf to .txt, and now I can open and read the file. Probably should have done that in the very begining. [ 03-04-2002, 11:43: Message edited by: Soback ]

So, since he doesn't want the poster. Is it for sale then? Cause I would buy it.

Nice, I like the stations much more now.

quote:Originally posted by ShoHashi: quote:An entire ship? That sounds great, but I also want some fighters, land on planets, and be able to be FP in space. Wonder if that will be in ST Bridge Commander.Why would you want that? BCM lets you do that anyways! Hmmm... Maybe I should have loaded up a little more on sarcasm.

Wow, a new patch for civilization 3. How long has it been since the last one? 2 - 3 months? At that rate we will see multiplayer maybe around 2005.