Darkling

quote:Originally posted by Dragon Lady: This is a very interesting idea, but I think the interpretation of everyone having there own is a bit skewed.That may be true, but it makes me thing of some quotations: "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas Watson (1874-1956), Chairman of IBM, 1943 "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 And as for the problems with the smell, left over minerals and other problems and logistics: "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems." - Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode"

quote:Originally posted by Eboda: So when I prep the Marines, how long do they stay preped?When you look at your Marines just before the menu that tells you their assignment, you will see something that says "Active" or "Ready". If it says Ready it means that they are prepped with their guns in their hands.. If it says Active they are not ready to fight. Usually what I do is Prep all of my Marines for Combat when I first start the game. Later after I take them off duty (which I only do after their hunger factor is over 550 since they will both rest and eat at the same time) I let their fatigue go down to less than 5 and then prep them again before sending them back out. BTW If you're in a super carrier, you have 40 Marines, good idea to keep a couple in each shuttle, this way if you get intruders, once your search pattern starts and they head for the shuttles, your Marines will be ready for them in the shuttle! Intruder: Whew got away from those bastards... now to power up this shuttle and get away! Marines: Surprise!!! Here's a bullet for your A**!

quote:Originally posted by Jaguar: Are you an author, or write stories? Actually, I'm kind of a "Jack of all trades". I work for a Tyrant of a woman that everyone pretty much quits on her, so over the course of 4yrs I ended up taking over Accounting, HR, IT, Sales Training and general administration. I've actually quit myself 3 times, but every time I do she offers me more money to come back!

Fast forward 20 Years: The United States, once the worlds biggest producer of trash, has now turned all of their "Mount Trashmore's" into veritable gold mines. Using thermal depolymerization first industrialized back in 2004, the US is now mining what used to be trash into, Oil, Gas and other usefull minerals such as Mercury and lead. What used to be toxic waste, is now a gold mine. At first the Mideast made good use of this technology and turned their old dried up oil wells into spigots of cash, but the ensuing glut of oil, gas & other minerals from this technology cut the prices of once precious materials to mere commodity status. The short sightedness of these leaders (not investing in their populaces education or production of anything other than oil) has now made their countries beggars in the world economy. The Bin Ladens have been multiplied a thousand times over, with their jealousy of US world dominance in Technology, Military, Economy and now Energy. But with no one to finance them, they have nothing but words and demonstrations against us, while acknowledging that something must change in their homelands for them to prosper. Every new home is now sold with a mini thermal depolymerization unit in the basement and old homes are being retrofited at a rate of tens of thousands per year. The gas created from the trash and human waste that is fed into these mini-monsters can now power entire neighborhoods. Kazaa file sharing networks has now expanded to the Kazaa Electricity Sharing Network, helping to reduce, or eliminate electric bills for the biggest producers of waste - with a mini thermal depolymerization unit of course! (Like that family of 6 living down the street) The Nasa team has now put together a unit that is flying to Mars that will be fed some of the Ice and sand lying just below the surface of the Mars Ice caps and will begin producing Oil, Minerals and purified water for the Mars landing mission that is to arrive several years later. Who would have thought back in the year 2003 that the world would be changed by a company with the name Changing World Technologies.

That's what I figured.. At first I thought that the Aux. life support was just a backup and wasn't too important. So I left it alone for a while, but then I noticed that everyone was getting stressed out, so I fixed it right away. I guess the sheild level has nothing to do with it.

I'm curious, does flying around with no sheilds have an effect on the crew? I've noticed that my crew seems to start suffering from high fatigue pretty quickly. I'm not sure if it's because I've had to repair the auxilary life support system or if it's because I've turned off the shields to save on Plutonium. I know that it's most likely the auxilary life support system, but I was wondering if the sheilding had any effect (such as exterior space radiation and such) [ 04-29-2003, 07:36 AM: Message edited by: Darkling ]

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: I think we know the first person to get court-martialed in BCG as I described above. LOL!!!!

OK Men, the orders for the retrofit have been rescinded so you can stop dreaming about a vacation. I've begged borrowed and stole the credits that I've needed to get that Linear Spec IV upgrade and so we can survive another encounter with the Gammies, and I'm not talking about your Grand Ma's. We need to put in some serious overtime and get that damned thing up and running. The last thing I need is to get caught with my Pants down and my shields at only 50% while the upgrade is being done! And don't give me any of that rubbish about you needing some sleep, you can sleep when your dead! You have your orders!

quote:Originally posted by Tyrn: that depends. Somethings are much easier to remove than others. That being said, I was under the impression that the discharge water was straight H2O with inert pathological vectors. If it's anything other than that processing becomes complicated rather quickly. Well if the EPA is classifying them as Manufacturers and not putting them in any type of category where they would need regulatory approval for buidling one of these things, then I would say that the water they are discharging is pretty clean

quote:Originally posted by Tyrn: Throw the extra baggage in the MEDIBAYThat's what I always do... the guys with the lowest health go in Medibay, buy the time everyone else is rested, they get released from medibay to their quarters. What are we running here a battleship or a luxury hotel!

Captian's log stardate 3010.04.27 After recieving a request from Galcom headquarters to head back to home base for a complete retrofit to give my crew "better quarters" I thought to myself, what an utter waste of time. The Gammulans have been attacking our friendly bases around in the Alpha Majora Sector, and I'm to decommission my ship and crew for a "Luxury" retrofit of my battlecruiser. I think NOT! What I really need is a new Linear Spec IV, not some more off time for my crew. What are these other captains complaining about, don't they know how to properly manage their ship and crew. Sometimes the beaurocracy, just drives me insane. Oh well, I'll hold out as long as I can. Besides, I can't just leave the Alpha Majora sector with so many problems from the Gammulans right now.

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: All previous saved games will be invalid.I don't know if it's worth it.. I've never had to have more than half my crew go off duty at the same time.

quote:Originally posted by Jaguar: the fact that you can practically throw anything into this process and get something useful out of it,.....Put one of these things at EVERY landfill I kind of read between the lines and surmised that they need to fine tune this thing for whatever type of waste they are throwing into it. I'm not sure if they can set it up to generically handle everything, at least that's not the feeling that I got from the article. But with that said, if you install one of these things at every: Refinery, Slaughterhouse, Papermill, Recycling Center, Manufacturing Plant, Sewage Treatment Center, Tire dump, Medical Waste Center... pretty much anyplace where you pretty much know the types of waste that you will be getting, then we would definitly get a much better handle on whatever is ending up in the landfills and we can significantly reduce that, while turning a liability into an asset!

quote:Originally posted by Emmett.hendrick: [QB] Right Click your background and select PROPERTIES Display properties go to SETTINGS and click ADVANCED. Click the TROUBLSHOOTING tab and move the HARDWARE ACCELERTION SLIDER one place to the left.QB]I was having some issues with my Radeon 9100 & Privateer and this same thing fixed all those problems. I guess a lot of games have these same issues with Video Drivers.

quote:Originally posted by Race Bannon IV: No way the big oil companies let this happen, no friggin way. Big oil companies have to pay Billions of dollars to get rid of not only the toxic wastes that are produced from their refineries, but also the sludge that is left over from extracting the oil. Also, Oil & Gas companies still own the mineral rights to vast areas of land that they've extracted oil or gas, but the remaining shale in certain areas is too contaminated by other vectors for them to extact usable energy from them. Considering the fact that this technology uses very similar plumbing, machines and procedures to what the Oil & Gas companies are already using, why in the world whould they NOT want to plug this into their system to make them not only more efficient, but to take the EPA and other environmental groups off their backs??? Are you kidding me, they will be one of the biggest benificiary's of this technology!

quote:Originally posted by Tyrn: Does it take more or less energy to produce a barrel of market ready offal oil when compared to producing it's conterpart from crude oil?From what I remember reading, they were saying that it takes aproximately 15BTU's to produce 100BTU's of energy, so that's pretty damned efficient. Supposedly, within 5yrs or so, they will have it to where it's significantly less expensive than extracting it out of the ground.

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: My original design back in the late eighties, was to have them power all building units in the base i.e. if one wasn't present, then for e.g. the EWR won't work. Can you imagine having implemented that back then when Processing power of computers was relatively low! You're ideas where just way ahead of their time (or the hardware available to power them)

quote:Originally By Brad Lemley on Discovery.com: If a 175-pound man fell into one end, he would come out the other end as 38 pounds of oil, 7 pounds of gas, and 7 pounds of minerals, as well as 123 pounds of sterilized water.Finally, we have some good use for people like Zacarias Moussaoui and Scott Peterson

quote:Originally posted by Kalshion: experincing slow downs... Generally has to do with Memory. I have a Duron 800Mhz system that had 256Megs of RAM and I noticed that once I've been playing for an hour or so and visited several different places I would get slowdowns on the system. Noticed that the HD light was blinking like crazy so I knew that it was swapping back to the HD. Upgraded to 512Megs of RAM and the problem pretty much disappeared. BTW if you have over a Gig of RAM you might want to turn off the swap file completely, or do like I'm planning on with my next system, go with 4 Gigs of RAM and have no swap file, since that is the Max that Win2K or XP can address anyway.

quote:Originally posted by Terrik Durlun: What is the best tactic for the taking the stationUsually what I do is jump into the sector in plain sight, watch all of the baddies come after me and just before any missiles hit me, I cloak and move out of the way. I then start firing at the station and pound it down to call for an SOS and dock with it. Sometimes I decloak a few times to play with them, but if they get 1 or 2 good shots in with missiles, it's over!

quote:Originally posted by Twitch: For some strange reason the waiting worked for me. It's a swap file issue. When you play the game for a long time, you end up with a larger swap file on the game. If you exit the game because you were killed and then load a saved game, remnants of your swap file are left over. Waiting for a little while may help to clear parts of it, but to fully clear it you probably have to log off windows and log back in again.

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quote:Originally posted by Twitch: I now have two saved games where, after it's done loading, will run for a few seconds than freezeYou might want to try defragging the HD. I had the same problem with the older version of BCM, I now keep a regular regiment of defragging and I havn't had that problem in a long time.