If this is for real & doesn't have any game-breaking drawbacks down the road, this could go a long, long way to curing our energy dependence on other nations until we get our stuff together with more renewable power sources.
Of course the cracker might not care - pirated games are very often unstable and buggy compared to the retail version, as they only care about getting you to install their virus anyway.
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Great post, wish I had mod points.
Ubisoft.
Oh, and update your virus definitions. And defrag your disk. Be sure to reboot today. Oh, update those drivers, too.
Linux works just fine on Netbooks, thanks.
... it's my recommendation that the IIPA & all of it's member groups get put on the "Special DiaF" list.
This is one of the dumbest ideas I've heard out of a politico in a long, long time.
Is it just for biowaste? When they say trash I think landfills & not sewage & old food.
If this is for real & doesn't have any game-breaking drawbacks down the road, this could go a long, long way to curing our energy dependence on other nations until we get our stuff together with more renewable power sources.
Even better, slipstream the damn things with nLite.
The tectonic payloads would be more fun.
Looks like somebody started on something similar years & years ago.
http://freecivac.sf.net/
The terraforming & unit design would be the hardest things to add, I'm thinking.
The AI cheats in SMAX above either citizen or librarian difficulty. May want to try GalCiv 2 for a non-cheating AI in a 4x game.
Civ 4 is pretty damn fun with both expansions installed.
Thanks for the info, that sucks.
Already using that patch, BTW.
Have you ever tried Planetfall for Civ4?
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=252829
I just got BtS recently & haven't had time to check it out yet.
Odd, I play SMAX @ 1280x768 & 32-bit color on Windows XP. The game says the units won't animate right, but I've never noticed a difference.
The Civ games are awesome & all, but I *really* want to see a sequel / remake of Alpha Centauri / Alien Crossfire!
The rush is the schools are looking desperately for any way at all to cut their budget.
Of course the cracker might not care - pirated games are very often unstable and buggy compared to the retail version, as they only care about getting you to install their virus anyway.
Reality FAIL!
No real loss. Ubisoft games are generally crap anyhow. The last one that even slightly caught my interest was Beyond Good & Evil.
Me too, the only thing I miss is the airbrush tool.
Because 100mbps is the bandwidth required for the telescreens?
Yeah, I'm all for nuclear energy as well. I'm not sure what part of my (erroneously downmodded) previous post led you to believe that I wasn't.
Let me sum up the first article "Some people say nuclear energy is somewhat difficult to do correctly, so we shouldn't bother."
Which leads me to believe that Aussie biker gangs aren't quite the same as US biker gangs.
I'm old enough that I wish I was 9 again, jackass.