Matchoo

Sorry, I guess the title of the topic is bad. I don't know if it's just the SFM or not. I tried starting an new profile using just the default parameters, which made me a terran male commander starting at Galcom. I did same thing, but when I docked and went to Tradcom my finances were 75000, and after 5 minutes they hadn't changed, so I don't know what the exact conditions are that are causing it.

I was playing as an insurgent space force marine last night. I entered a system with a veridian military star station (hostile) in it. I hyperjumped to the supply station and then got out my shuttle. I flew over to the station (it ignored me) and when I got next to it I launched a few missiles from my gun. I guess it made them a little mad because they sent out 2 space force marines to try to get rid of me. I killed one of them and decided to tell my shuttle to cover me. It flew to me and kept flying around and through the station on autopilot, and the station ignored it too. I finally gave it a halt command and it stopped so I could get back in. I started flying away from the station and eventually it used it's PTA system to destroy me. I'm curious to see if you could do any damage to a station just using the missiles the space force marine has, but he only has 8 of them and I haven't found a way to replenish these other than going to a supply station. Is it possible if you have extra clips and/or rockets in the cargo hold of your shuttle to re-supply from it, or even to put the items into a cargo pod, jettison it, and then retrieve items from the cargo pod. I know you can fill a cargo pod with stuff and beam it to a planet, but how do you access the stuff in it once it's on the ground?

Last night I started a new roam game (using version 1.00.06) as an insurgent space force marine with a shuttle MK3 asset. I started at Sygan(s) and first off docked with Syganstar. I went into the tradcom and bought some stuff. I noticed that while I was buying stuff, my finances would occasionally jump. After some testing I discovered that it was jumping 37500 once every minute. After 12 times it stopped doing it. I know the documentation says that an insurgent will be paid in 2 daily installments, once every 12 hours of gameplay, so maybe this is the way it is supposed to work (even though it doesn't make much sense to me at the moment), but when I tried starting a new career as a commander at Galcom I didn't get the same results. So is this a bug or do I just not understand how it works? Below are the steps I used to consistantly recreate the problem if someone else wants to verify it. 1. Started a new Roam game at the main menu 2. Started a new profile with the following parameters: Name: John Doe Sex: Male Race: Terran Caste: Insurgent Career: Space Force Marine Launch Region: Sygan(S) Launch Base: Syganstar[TER/INS] Mission Zone: Asset Class: Shuttle Asset Type: Shuttle MK3 Asset Loadout: Default Player Gear: Profile 1 Asset Name: 3. Selected 'Roam Roam and explore scenario' 4. As soon as it started I flew full speed to the Syganstar station and docked with it (I didn't slow down when I reached it, I just docked) 5. I brought up Tradcom and at 12:31am(my time) my finances were already at 112500 6. I would click on the 'Info' button at the bottom, wait a minute, and when I clicked back on the 'Trade' button, my finances will have jumped the 37500. Here were the times and amounts: 12:31am 112500 12:32am 150000 12:33am 187500 12:34am 225000 12:35am 262500 12:36am 300000 12:37am 337500 12:38am 375000 12:39am 412500 12:40am 450000 12:41am 487500 12:42am 525000 After the 12 times, it stopped doing it.

Wow, bad timing sainta117 . When I first read your last response, I thought you were telling SC that you doubt it is working the way it should , but then I realized you were replying to UnderLord and SC just replied before you did.

Hopefully this isn't a totally stupid question, but I was wondering what is the purpose of the space force marine? I assume from his name that his purpose is to fight in space, and since he is a 'marine' rather than a 'pilot', and his asset is a shuttles rather than a fighter, that his basic purpose is to fight as an infantry unit against other infantry units. This assumption leads to this question: Can/will space-stations and enemy craft in single-player deploy infantry in space suits to attack you if you are walking on the outside of the station/ship, or is this something that really would only occur in multiplayer? I assume their PTA would destroy you before you got too close, but if you did get close enough it would be cool to stand on their ship and shoot at it (it would be the equivelent of shooting a freight train with a BB gun, but it would still be fun ) Now what would be cool would be if the space force marine had a high-explosive demo charge that he could place on a station or ship's hull. It could have a 30-second timer to give him some time to get away, and when it went off would create a fair amount of damage. It could give his life a little purpose (not to mention a large number of experience points if he survives it) Either that or give him a missile launcher that he could use when standing on a ship hull that when he fired it would make the target think that it was coming from the ship....you could shoot a station and make it declare war on poor little ship that you just happened to be standing on Just dreaming.........

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: I wonder what would happen if he was asked to review, say, Silent Hunter III... When the game first came up and he found himself in the control room, he'd probably take a look at the german writing on the controls, start clicking around the screen until something happened(which for this situation is putting the sub in emergency reverse) back into the dock, sink his sub, and complain that the controls were difficult and there weren't any documented keyboard commands (except that full sheet of them that he probably threw away with the box) and give the game a 3.1/10.0 rating because it didn't hold his hand the entire game......

I sold my SUV last week and now I am taking the bus to work. It was just getting too expensive to drive due to increasing gas prices. If I could afford a $80k hummer that get's 5mpg do you think I'm really going to care too much if I get charged with an extra tax on my gas? I agree that we should look for better alternatives in transportation and fuel, and I am totally for giving tax breaks and incentives to people who have decided they want to go that extra mile in protecting the environment so they buy a hybrid vehicle. What I'm NOT for is charging other people an extra 'dis-incentive tax' just because they don't agree with someone elses tree-hugging principles.

quote:Originally posted by Grizzle: You aren't reading deep enough Soback. It's NOT about taxation for it's own sake, it just so happens that in a Capitalist society hitting someone in the wallet tends to get results. Let's say you own a economy car that gets 30mpg and I have a SUV that gets 15mpg. Also, say gas is $2.80 per gallon for regular unleaded. We both fill up and leave from the same gas station and drive 200 miles to the same location. You will have used 6.67 (200/30) gallons of gas and I will have used 13.34 (200/15) gallons. At $2.80 per gallon you will have spent $18.68 in gas and I will have spent $37.35. This is a pretty considerable 'hit in the wallet' for me already. quote: We penalize corporations that pollute the air, we provide tax breaks for those that take measures to reduce it. The concept we are discussing is NO different. Get it? [/QB]There is a difference. Say we have 2 corporations, company A and company B. Both A and B make the same exact product, produce the same amount of pollution per item made, and both get charged a tax by the goverment according to how much pollution they generate. If company B is able to market their product better and sells exactly twice as much as company A, then we should assume that the would generate exactly twice as much pollution as company A and therefore pay exactly twice the tax that company A has to pay. But according to what you're saying, they should be penalized further and therefore pay 2 1/2 times more than company A. Why not just assess a fixed fee to every gallon of gas that is sold, that way the more the person uses, the more they use the more they pay? Oh wait, I know why.....because that's fair.

quote:Originally posted by Soback: (Bismarck) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes!!!! (Bismarck) France is going to house the new nuclear fusion reactor! (Bismarck) If it suceeds, cheap long term energy. If it fails, BAM! France is gone! (Bismarck) It's win win!

quote:Originally posted by Grizzle: While a person who drives a gas guzzler may pay more overall, they also use up more resources and generate more pollution over the same period of time than a more efficient vehicle. In other words the consumer of said vehicle has a disproportionately negative impact on others that use the same resource and breathe the same air. Just because a vehicle uses more gas doesn't mean that it's going to generate more pollution than one that uses less. If it did, emissions tests would be done by looking up your vehicle in a book and assigning it a value, not by the exaust to see what's in it. Coal is a limited resource and the more you burn the more pollution is caused, but on your power bill do you get charged more per KWH of electricity the more you use each month? I know I don't. There's no difference in charging a penalty on gas as there would be on charging you extra on your power bill according to the size of television you have. The larger your TV, the more power it will draw, so the more you should get charged on electricity. After all, a large television (or even a television at all) is luxury, right?

quote:Originally posted by Robert Iceman: quote: Matchoo stated: I noticed that all the hardware codes my pc generated are saved in the registry...Where in the registry did you manage to find the hardware code? I'd just like to know because it'd be nice to have a back-up I can refer to if I lose one. I'll look tonight for their exact location, but I don't really know if it would work re-entering it after a fresh install since I don't know what is used to generate it. If the activation just searches the registry for a hardware code that matches the activation code without bothering to re-check to see if the hardware code stored in the registry actually could be generated on that system, then it would work and would also open up a simple piracy scheme. I doubt the creators of the protection were that dumb (for lack of better word), so I'm guessing that adding the hardware code in the registry wouldn't work if you changed any hardware (probably even software)

quote:Originally posted by Aperson: quote:Originally posted by Soback: Why would you want to "penalize" someone TWICE.To further reduce the number of people driving said vehicle. This could also get car manufacturers to make more fuel efficient cars of any type. quote:Originally posted by Soback: Artificially penalizing them on top of market forces is just smacks of a socialist system. That's why I am so serious. As you know, that system has been tried time and time again, and each time it has failed, with drastic consequences for the people living under it. Even the United States dosn't operate under a pure capitalistic system (as far as I know anyways) and a blending between two systems may produce a better result than a pure socialist or pure capitalist system. quote:Originally posted by Soback: Rome has failed because of it. I've heard quite a few theories on why Rome fell, and I have a feeling its a bit more complex than that. So if this can be done with gasoline, can it be done with water, natural gas, electricity, phone usage, etc? 'Lets see, you used 2000 units of natural gas this month, at $.03 each, thats $60.00. Now lets go ahead and add on the the 'dis-incentive' penalty for your 2850 square-foot house. The penalty tax at a rate of one-one thousandth of a cent per unit per square foot comes to $57, making your total gas payment this month $117 even . Now, lets Talk about you water bill..... ' Last Sunday I sold my SUV because it got too expensive. Now I ride the bus to work. Adding a penalty tax to gas is unnecessary because the current price of gas is having the same effect the penalty tax would.

I use XYZ-Aneres. The 'XYZ' changes depending on the my caste, and the 'Aneres' is my infant daugher's name (Serena) backwards. (p.s. I originally wrote it as XXX-Aneres, but I didn't want any of you to get the wrong idea )

quote:Originally posted by sainta117: I suppose I could detonate them, though. They seem to be messing up my tidy little corner of the galaxy. LOL. There's an idea for a new caste: "Garbage-Detail"

Something I think that might be cool is the ability to buy a missile that doesn't have any explosives(or a minimal amount), and then be able to fill that missile using minerals that you mine on the planets. Different combinations of minerals would have different effects (e.g. Some more powerful than others, some work like dirty bombs, some work better against shields, and some just don't work at all ).

Go into control panel and set their mouse double-click speed to it's highest setting. Makes it hard to register a double-click fast enough.

I think while OO programming adds a lot of functionality and powerful features, it also adds a lot of overhead. Games need to be written more for speed than re-usability. A few of the game programming books I have tell you to make your variables global. That's a bad thing to do in regular C++ object-oriented programming, but when you're handling input, calculating behavior of the AI, and rendering the scene at a MINIMUM of 30 times a second, the less function calls you have to make the better.

quote:The Right To Control Cut-Scenes. This means the right to pause them, to interrupt them, and to replay them again later....This one is a MUST. I've been playing 'Prince Of Persia : Warrior Within' the last few days, and it won't let you skip the cut scenes. I was at a point where I was fighting someone kind of hard, and between the save point and the actual fight was a cutscene. I don't know how many times I had to watch it before I finally won.

quote:Originally posted by Chavis: Same question here.I upgraded my bios the other day,which then forced reactivation. I now have zero activations left. I noticed that all the hardware codes my pc generated are saved in the registry, so even though the hardware code that I used to activate the game was no longer on the screen as the current one, it still accepted the activation code. My question is why couldn't we just save the hardware code we used for the original activation, then when we had to reinstall, just put it back into the registry and use the original activation code?

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: 450MB of memory is nothing.Thanks. I was just looking for confirmation that that amount of memory use was fine. quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: The game's requirements are crystal clear and there are no crashes, memory leaks or whatnot (we have tools for that) or there would have been a patch released by now.Sorry, I wasn't trying to imply that the game had a memory leak, just that my system could since my Visual Studio is suffering from one.

quote:The United States Treasury has announced they are recalling the new Texas quarters. "We are recalling all of the new Texas quarters that were recently issued," Treasury Undersecretary Russell Shackelford said in a press conference Monday. "This comes in the wake of numerous reports to this agency that the quarters will not work in parking meters, toll booths, vending machines, pay phones, or other coin-operated devices." The winning design for the Texas quarter was submitted by Texas A&M student William Doutrieux. "We believe the problem lies in a design flaw," said Shackelford. "Apparently, the duct tape holding the two dimes and nickel together keeps jamming the coin-operated devices." quote:Shortly after President Bush took office, an old man approached the White House from the park across Pennsylvania Ave where he'd been sitting on a park bench. He spoke to the U.S. Marine standing guard and said, "I would like to go in and meet with President Clinton." The marine looked at the man and said, "Sir, Mr. Clinton is no longer president and no longer resides here." The old man said, "Okay," and walked away. The following day, the same man approached the White House and said to the same Marine, "I would like to go in and meet with President Clinton." The marine again told the man, "Sir, Mr. Clinton is no longer president and no longer resides here." The man thanked him and, again, just walked away. The third day, the same man approached the White House and spoke to the very same U.S. Marine, saying "I would like to go in and meet with President Clinton." The marine, understandably agitated at this point, looked at the man and said, "Sir, this is the third day in a row you have been here asking to speak to Mr. Clinton. I've told you already that Mr. Clinton is no longer the president and no longer resides here. Don't you understand?" The old man looked at the Marine and said, "Oh, I understand. I just love hearing it." The Marine snapped to attention, saluted and said, "See you tomorrow, Sir!" quote:I sat, as did millions of other Americans, and watched as our government underwent a peaceful transition of power in January 2001. At first, I felt a swell of pride and patriotism as I watched George W. Bush take his oath of office. However, all that pride vanished as I watched William Jefferson Clinton board Air Force One for the final time. I saw 21 U.S. Marines in full dress, with rifles, fire a 21-gun salute to the outgoing President. It was then that I realized how far America's military had deteriorated. Every last one of them missed.more...

I have been trying to play UCAWA, but after about 10 minutes the game will crash on me, sometimes giving me the lovely generic microsoft error, and other times just going straight to the desktop. One of the times when it crashed with the error I brought up task manager and noticed that UCAWA.exe was using around 450,000K of memory. I have been having a problem recently where my Visual Studio .NET will leak memory and eventually crash, but no other programs on my PC were having the problem(that I've noticed), so I figured it was just Visual Studio. Now with UCAWA crashing, though, I'm wondering if it's a system problem rather than a Visual Studio one. Should UCAWA use this much memory? If it's not supposed to, then I will go ahead and reinstall Windows to try to 'plug' the leak. If it is, then I'll try some other things. Thanks. [ 09-06-2005, 08:01 AM: Message edited by: Supreme Cmdr ]

Rowan Atkinson using the 'Mr. Bean' persona. (I know he did 'Johnny English', but that wasn't 'Beanish' enough)

Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear. I did run the program on my home PC at first, and I noticed every time I did it I got a new hardware code. I assumed that it probably used the pc time along with some hardware information to come up with a unique code. When I got to work I entered the hardware code along with my game key to get the activation key, which I assumed was generated using my hardware code. When my pc at home died and I lost the hardware code that was on the screen, I figured that the activation code would no longer be valid because the next time I ran the program I would get a new hardware code which would require a new activation key. It did give me a different hardware code when I ran it, but I entered the original activation key and it accepted it. I probably just don't understand how the whole protection scheme is working, and it's working fine, but I wanted to make sure that there wasn't a bug or loophole that could be exploited.