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Reply to Hmmmmm.... Is It 6 Or 7 Houses I Own? in Democrat PolMach Forums

Years ago, McCain made a promise, as a result of some controversy or the other, to keep his wife's finances and properties separate from his own. As wealthy as she is, and as many companies as she owned, it was felt that the wise thing to do was for him to not even know what she owns, to help prevent conflict of interest situations. As a result, he had no idea how many homes she owned. If the question had been "how many homes do you own" it would have been an easy answer, bu

Reply to Know a great RPG? in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Apart from the lack of Orcs and a fantasy setting what is different about this game to any other story driven game?[/quote] Being story driven does not make it an RPG. In fact, many non-story driven games are RPGs. It also doesn't matter if you are, in your thinking, "role playing" a character or not. The term RPG refers to a specific genre, which GTA definitely is not. The keys characteristic of an rpg is a character, or characters, with evolving statistical abilities which

Reply to Only have 504 RAM, what to do? in Political Machine PolMach Forums

A new card will do him no good. It will still eat up the 8 mb, at least on some systems, even if diabled. However, as was stated on the other thread about this problem, you can download and install it from Impulse, if that is an option for you.

Reply to Know a great RPG? in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

I think you're making a HUGE mistake only going for new, shiney looking games. Good games are still good even when old, and some of those older games may not look like you're there, but the developers had a lot more time and money to throw into the game play instead, and it shows. So yeah, the Baldur's gate games are good, as are NWN 1. I'm about to get 2 but haven't played it yet. The graphics don't look really that much better than 1, though. NWN1 still looks pretty good, IMO, and

Reply to Galactic Stargate Command in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Just so you know, Promiscious (that's not evens spelled right, but I'm too lazy to look it up) is a sexual reference, while Prometheus refers to a character to Greco-Roman mythology who aquired fire from the gods and brought it to Earth, appropriate since the Prometheus is the first starship made out of technology taken form aliens pretending to be gods and brought to Earth. Of course, in the series, only one Prometheus was ever made because the Dedalus rendered it obsolete. Those in turn are

Reply to Galactic Stargate Command in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

It's Prometheus class, not Promiscious class. Just saying.

Reply to 2k's excuss for not having Civilization Revolution on PC, total BS? in PC Gaming PolMach Forums

AS a long-time Civ fan, I don't see any way they could have made it for counsels without severly dumbing it down and reducing options and complexity. That's fine if that's what it takes to make a Civ game for those systems. It's an untapped market for that series, so I can see why they'd want it, but why in the world would anyone who actually plays real PC strategy games ever want something like that for the PC? I wouldn't, I'd rather play Civ 3 or 4.

Reply to With Skyrocketing Gas Prices, Americans Can No Longer Afford Rubber Stamp Congress in Politics PolMach Forums

It's not a rubber-stamp Congress, it's a do-nothing congress. BOTH conservatives AND liberals are frustrated at the lack of things they are doing. I do think booting everyone out and starting over might not be so bad of an idea. (Consequently, congresses approval rating just jumped to a single digit for the first time in the history of the rating. Oddly, the Democrats in congress as a group get a much better rating even though they control Congress.&nb

Reply to Pirates are eating themselves! in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]So, basically, there is no one in this discussion who believes that digital rights should be defended? In fact, everyone here praises Stardock because they just let pirates steal from them if they want? I am confirmed in my initial belief that you are ALL pirates. I have not heard an opinion from anyone who I would assume has not and will not steal ideas.[/quote] No, no, no, you are mixing up two very different positions. Most of the people in this thread aren't defending the pi

Reply to Pirates are eating themselves! in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

I agree that the whole idea that piracy is directly sapping sales is in many cases, completely wrong, and is a myth perpetuated by naive companies who are stuck in old school thinking and don't understand the modern world. For one thing, when they claim how much money is lost to piracy, they assume that every download would translate into a sale otherwise. This is just plain wrong. Some people who download games simply want whatever they can get without paying for it, or they are the equivile

Reply to 512 MB RAM requirement in Political Machine PolMach Forums

[quote]or--SHOCKER!--checking to make sure that you meet the minimum requirements for a game BEFORE you buy it. [/quote] That's the problem, technically we do have that much RAM, just not according to the computer. [quote]Also, I have another fix idea: could you disable the integrated video card (uninstalling the drivers if necessary) before you install the game in order to push your RAM total to 512 MB?[/quote] As stated before, several of us have done so, and have a

Reply to EU to Ban Pirates from the Internet? in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

While I am very much against piracy, I am conerned that this might go so far, and just as with some of the things that have happened on youtube and elsewhere, people that are doing nothing wrong will be caught too, or the rules will be changed as things go along.

Reply to 512 MB RAM requirement in Political Machine PolMach Forums

[quote]As for not reading the customers concerns, besides posting the link to get Impulse (which does let you install) there's not much that can be done/said about CD's that have already been printed. At best, it's something that will have to be fixed in the next run.[/quote] I simply meant reply #23 above. The rest of you have done the best you can it seems, it's just that his solution is irrelevent given the full context of the discussion. So one of you misread and hopefully he won'

Reply to 512 MB RAM requirement in Political Machine PolMach Forums

I never thought I'd catch a Stardock person not bothering to read a customer's concerns. The problem is that the game won't let many people install it at all. The Impulse install is after the regular game install, so no impulse either.

Reply to Will Modding take over? in PC Gaming PolMach Forums

This already discribes many comercial games, which are moddable to the point of adding entirely now adventures. Many of these games are never used to much of an extent. The most popular example is the Neverwinter Nights series which has hundreds of player made adventures. Indeed, many people encourage others to buy it for the user made adventures, but the majority of people who buy them still only play the included stuff.

Reply to Will Modding take over? in PC Gaming PolMach Forums

Games make money from the average joe. The average joe expects to push the disk into the system or computer and start playing as soon as possible. I mean, compare the number of mods downloaded for any given game to the units of the game itself sold. Only a small fraction ever use the mods at all. Your everyday person will simply refuse to buy it, so unless it's freeware or a very, very niche indy production, it will never fly.

Reply to 512 MB RAM requirement in Political Machine PolMach Forums

Tycore, it was running a bit laggy with 512, I doubt your 216 is enough to even run the thing even if it was installed.

Reply to Did you know McCain has a son serving in Iraq?? in US Domestic PolMach Forums

Yes, I was aware. The McCain's are a very private family. At one point, his son returned from Iraq and attended a McCain rally or event that same day and no one pointed out that he was there or that he had just returned from that war, and the family prefers it that way. Unlike so many others, McCain doesn't exploit his family for political gain, even though he easily could. While I have a lot of issues with some of his stands, I have nothing but great respect for his conduct as far as his fa

Reply to Questions to the devs > why ... ? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

#1 While I haven't played this expansion, in the previous two, you could select a technology you don't have the ability to research yet, and the game will automatically research all technologies leading up to it. I'd be surprised if this had been removed. While it isn't quite what you are looking for, it's something vaguely similar.

Reply to Disappointed in the seemingly unbalanced game. in Political Machine PolMach Forums

Um, no. Republicans and democrats today BOTH want large government even if they say otherwise. A few CONSERVATIVES who happen to be Republicans want small government, but they are in the minority, even in their own party.

Reply to 512 MB RAM requirement in Political Machine PolMach Forums

Confirmed, it does install from Impulse. Which further puzzles me as to why you'd do that in the disk version.

Reply to 512 MB RAM requirement in Political Machine PolMach Forums

[quote]My suggestion would be to use Impulse, I bet it doesn't have that check.[/quote] I'll try it, but not everyone who buys the box game will be willing to do so.

Reply to 512 MB RAM requirement in Political Machine PolMach Forums

Thanks. Much appreciated.

Reply to Great Day for the 2nd Amendment in Politics PolMach Forums

There are three reasons for the right to bear arms. I present them in no particular order. 1. For self defensive purposes, as upheld by this court decision. 2. For hunting purposes. 3. As a defense against the government. In fact, this seems to be the main reason for the amendment in the first place, according to several the founding fathers and things they said. They wanted the government to know that if they stepped over the line there would be an armed militia

Reply to What's new in TPM2008 version 1.03? in Political Machine PolMach Forums

[quote]That's weird. How much ram do you have?[/quote] He may be having the same problem that I and a lot of other people are having. The minimum RAM is 512, which is what I have. If you have an integrated graphics card, even if it is disabled, the amount of RAM is displayed as 504. Since the game won't even install without 512 (a big mistake in itself IMO--you're always better off leaving the consumer with the choice, not taking it away from him) anyone with the minimum RAM require