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[quote]"Tactical Zoom Level" I think it's called. Also if memory serves, as the slider goes up, the further and further you must go in to see 3D mode, so people who pull every slider to max get stuck in 'crappy graphics' mode.[/quote] i think you're right. and yes, on super-zoom-out everything does look pretty bad. i consider the tactical zoom as much an aesthetic thing as "tactical," since there comes a point when things get so small that the chess pieces are more useful.

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H has also publically disavowed any relationship to this, so i think we should send some greetings to our new member.

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did harbourne ever register at the ToE forums that you know of, neilo (or motti)? and do you have a way to check IP addresses? that's be the most logical (in my mind) way to confirm things one way or the other. i just checked and "player sg1" submitted a few games midway through last monty. all pretty low scoring and on cakewalk. thing is, he (or she) could've joined us noting that we've got some of the strongest players in the MV. this is a tricky issue. we've made some allies and do

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just a point to everyone who strongly prefers the 3D or tactical view: the point when it switchings can be changed, to either extreme either such that it's always 3D or always tactical. i meant to bring that up earlier. not sure exactly which preference it is (i'm at work).

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[quote]Besides, I highly doubt Stardock has ever conducted a poll in this regard ("What would you prefer - an attractive 3D engine or a deeper gameplay?")[/quote] no, they conducted a poll along the lines of, "would you pay for a multiplayer-only expansion." they also openned a discussion about multiplayer, and the community overwhelmingly shot it down. [quote]Where did I imply that?[/quote] here: [quote]Think of what could be added to the game if it was just b

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i'm thinkin he suspects player sg1. but i don't know who everyone is.

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[quote]But you could also argue and say this is "myopic" of him to think so - many would prefer to see multiplayer in galciv at the expense of the rather shallow campaign and perhaps some scenarios.[/quote] not according to the pole they conducted. an overwhelming majority of players considered multiplayer such a low priority they didn't care to see it at all. which in fact makes it far from myopic: they actually took the time to try and determine if their focus away from multiplayer

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[quote]And sorry about TOE Destroyer I was having a bad day as you should know by the post on the last page and I could not think of anything else at that time[/quote] i don't speak for all my fellow tyrants, but i think it's pretty innocuous, and actually kind of funny. you're not being truly offensive, and you're getting extra accounts the legal and sanctioned way. i see it as more playful than anything, and you can clearly take a joke, a bit of friendly rivalry, etc. i even gave TO

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DA, we're gonna have a bake sale to get you some new hardware.

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[quote who="Freeman43" reply="25" id="1893889"] [e digicons](\B):vulcan:(\B)[/e] [/quote] LOL i never realized that was s'posed to be a Vulcan, good stuff! [e digicons]}:)[/e] (evil)

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i gave "TOE Destroyer" some karma for the advertising.

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[quote]So, are we still on for spamming the ZYWs? I've been doing a run of them and got within 10k points of his top character before the dove hunt started. I should have time later for one or two and maybe another run tomorrow.[/quote] i'm still in, and i'm sticking to my goal of adding 50 games within the next two weekends (got about 13 in this weekend). i went from 106 to 40 in the MV rankings this weekend alone. i know it becomes exponentially more difficult, but still, i'm taki

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[quote]Thanks for the free advertising[/quote] indeed. new players are going to see that and say, "what's the ToE?" then they'll see us, the good times we have, the wealth of knowledge about this game we posses, and be much more interested in us than your *cough* "roleplaying". thanks! PS: 1 million points added to the ToE score in 2 days, without any new players or characters added. good luck with your quest to overtake us.

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[quote]dystopic - you didn't get my point.[/quote] i didn't at all, actually; i was responding sarcastically. it's true that the game map is two dimensional, and it's true that at times the tactical view can be more useful for some users. on the other hand, i have a decent graphics card, and while gameplay is primary, i also enjoy having nice graphics. is it "useless"? that depends on how you define "use". some people "use" a 3D engine to create a game that couldn't or couldn'

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[quote]The 3D is simply useless.[/quote] well if you want to go that route, graphics in general are pretty "useless" a good deal of the time. most games could be played with little more than text and/or spreadsheets. it's call immersion. it's called eye-candy. call it what you want, some people enjoy it. you obviously don't: that's your perogative, and you've obviously acted on it. congratulations for having the ability to make a choice, and thanks for sharing.

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heh, well, i give up. or i guess, you all give up. i dunno. the lyrics were from "Sample in a Jar", by Phish. only reason i thought DA might know it was, well, nevermind... [e digicons]:puke:[/e]

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[quote]I was just imaging if it was in MK it's finishing move would be to grab an opponent's head and slam it into their chest...FATALITY!!!![/quote] FINISH HIM!!!

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[quote]Still wait for the OLED monitors..[/quote] there are a couple models out, but they're really expensive.

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[quote]Yeah, the Mojave Experiment, I saw that. I believe there was a skeptic guy who, when told the truth that it was Vista, said, "Then why is it fast?" Got a great laugh from it, but it proved how little people actually knew Vista[/quote] speaking for myself, i'm not strictly anti-vista. i'm anti-bloat. it took me long enough to configure XP to do most things i wanted and few things i didn't. if windows 7 weren't on the (albeit, somewhat distant) horizon, i'd be con

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[quote]Why stop there? I'm sure there's an IMAX going out of business somewhere...[/quote] LOL, 10,000x7000 (approximate) resolution? you'd need one hell of a graphics solution. perhaps submerge the whole system in liquid nitrogen.

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[quote]Digressing, did you guys catch where Seeker owned up and said he had done what Harborne did as well? Interesting turn of events. i have already looked at another MV user as a possible candidate for using these illegal methods, well at least the user in question may have in the past and has wiped all the scores as he sees the writing on the wall.[/quote] i did see that, but seeker's case was a bit different since he wasn't using the accounts for bloating MV scores. he doesn't se

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okay, it's been too quiet. just woke up and trying to fall back to sleep, so in the mean time (this one might get me a bit of mocking, but i figure if you know it without googling, you'll be just as guilty of liking, or at least knowing them)... And on the market stands unfolding With all their willies and their wares I shuffle by alert but numb To all the glances and the glares And I think of you unheeding All the times I raise my cup

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re: MV ranking, it mostly just thought i'd throw a taunt of some sort out there. it's been too quiet this round! TGE: yes, thank you. any takers for captain of team C? captaining really isn't much work unless you want it to be (just ask team A) [e digicons]^_^'[/e]

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microsoft operating systems are like star trek movies: only every other one is good. /joke i do hope to see an OS with the (few, small) advantages Vista offers but none of the bloat. i've been holding on to my XP keys until then. it's not so much that i'm opposed to a higher memory footprint. that's inevitable. i just don't need or want Aero. i'll get products from Stardock to make my desktop look prettier, if i decide i want that.

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i didn't play an MVL game this weekend. but i did manage to snatch Davabled's spot in the MV [e digicons]}:)[/e] loup, you'd better watch out. i'm coming for you next [e digicons]*_*[/e]