Well, we will see who wins I guess. EDIT: I went back and looked at it, and yeah, the Stardog just hadn't been in the Red Wings theme like it was supposed to be. I hope that nobody else was able to see it while I wasn't.
Wow, ok. We are not talking about the same thing at all. I am saying that I solved the second clue, but on the SoundPackager page, the dog gave me the second clue again, instead of the third one. I refreshed the page to see if that would fix it, and the dog disappeared. Now that I think about it though, Shadowdragoon might just have finished right before I refreshed the page. On the other hand, the Progress Tracker didn't appear to be working eit
It has been clarified that "Do you hear what I hear" referred to SoundPackager, which ironically is what I originally thought, but a glitch of some kind made it not work for me. That's too bad too, I might have won.
I will just say that when changing out components in your computer, never ever wear a fleece shirt. I recommend you wear a normal cotton t-shirt. The reason for this is that certain kinds of shirts, especially fleece ones, have a tendency to build up static charges which can easily destroy a computer component the instant you touch it. I've destroyed several computer components simply by not paying attention to what I was wearing.
That's stupid, I had the sound one pinned down right away, but the thing gave me the same freaking clue as before! Then the dog disappeared when I refreshed the page and I couldn't get the actual third clue. Freaking contest.
No that the first day's contest is over, I would like to submit a bug report. Firstly, as soon as the contest started, the progress tracker showed one person on clue five already, and another on clue one. After I refreshed the page, it did not show any numbers at all until Shadowdragoon won. Also, the Stardogs seem to all give the same clue, which I think may be intentional, but then on the 'do you hear what I hear" one, something strange happened. I went to the SoundP
Now that I restarted IE, the progress tracker is showing how many people found each clue, and now all of the Stardogs are gone, so it seems to be working okay. I hope this won't happen tomorrow - I would like a fair chance at winning this, so please fix whatever issue your contest is having. EDIT: Also, I should mention that the instant the contest started, the progress tracker showed one person on the fifth clue already, for a moment before it stopped showing any numbers at all
Umm, I think there is something screwy going on with this. It doesn't seem to be working right. Are there supposed to be Stardogs all over the place, all giving the same clue? And no, I don't hear what you hear. I thought maybe a Christmas theme or SoundPackager, but not there. But wait, no, it was there - once - and it gave me the same clue as the demigod website did. Oh, and your 'progress tracker' doesn't work either. What the hell?
Sins uses OGG? That's kind of ironic, I remember thinking that Stardock should have done that for GalCiv2, since MP3 is proprietary and its compression isn't as good. I actually use OGG myself for the small hobby game projects I make every now and then. You could download a copy of Winamp, that will play OGG files, and then you wouldn't have to mess around with burning it to a CD or whatnot.
I take it that someone in Stardock's graphics department is a fan of Illustrator?
As for the whole apocalypse idea, I personally would be more worried about someone creating a giant magnet and moving Earth closer to the sun (or the sun closer to Earth). Or we could invent a machine to destroy the nitrogen bonds in the atmosphere so that the sun's gamma radiation can roast us all like the Hulk. We could put a geosyncronized mirror into orbit and create a miniature Antarctica in the middle of New York. We could eat all of the fish in the ocean so that the w
Well, there are certainly both sides to the issue. I personally think that based on objective information (water = stability in temp, more CO2 = more plants and less CO2, etc.) that the earth's temperature merely cycles every so often, and that global warming is not caused by humans. The 'denialosphere' seems to have the better argument. But yeah, the information is out there if you just look for it. EDIT: What I meant earlier is that
I've had one like that that even the Dread Lords couldn't beat - it started out with I think 900 base hp, and after killing a few hundred Dread Lords, it wound up at 1.5k hp. Quite awesome.
Using the TA Iconians, I once had a game where it was me against the Dread Lords. The Dread Lords had, through my laziness, managed to conquer the rest of the galaxy except my two starting planets. This is the first and only stalemate I've ever seen in this game - my ships guarding my last two planets each had about 1.5k hp apiece, as well as some 500-ish beam attack and 300-ish defense (it's been awhile). The Dread Lords couldn't beat them, and my economy couldn't sust
You can't do it in the game, you have to go into c:/program files/stardock/totalgaming/gc2?/twilight/data/ and open the raceconfig.xml in Notepad. In this file you'll find all of the race's attributes, one of which is range. You can change this value to give every race a -200 to range. Just make sure you back up that file first, in case you mess up.
Cool. Too bad I never win any contests though. Maybe I'll try it anyway...
I have a race I'm working on right now for a mod, which goes by the name of the Ashevan Commonwealth, and their homeworld's name is Iyto. They're an intelligent but xenophobic race which only recently emerged from hiding.
Here are some links you can look at eqfan592. They have some information on the global cooling which I talked about. The first one is particularly good. http://leatherheadblog.com/2008/12/05/top-10-global-warming-myths/ http://acuf.org/issues/issue62/060624cul.asp <a href="http://www.isthereglobalcoo
Temporary, yes. But, considering the amount of water on earth, it isn't going to go anywhere anytime soon. I never said that CO2 has no greenhouse effect - it does, and denying it would be stupid, as you point out so kindly. I also never said that coal burning doesn't cause pollution or that pollution isn't dangerous. What I said was that the water in our atmosphere will make it virtually impossible for additional CO2 to raise the temperature. Pointing o
Wow, awesome! I have to ask though, what does industrial pollution and global warming have to do with cosmic rays and whatnot from outside our solar system cooking us? Is it global warming or a cosmic microwave? Seems to conflict with itself in that way. Also, I would like to point out that the earth's most prominent greenhouse gas is water. What this means is that as the earth gets hotter, more water will evaporate and form more cloud cover, reduci
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[quote who="WOM" reply="20" id="1966403"]I've never BSOD'd in Vista and I don't think I ever did in XP either but when I had(shudder) ME, it was a daily occurrence. [/quote] Oh, yeah. I have never had a problem with XP, but ME... man. I heard that Bill Gates himself said that that was the worst OS that Microsoft had ever made. My parents had Vista for awhile, but went back to XP because the Vista media center program was considerably less user-friendly (you co
I also would like to see the morale formula tweaked to allow much higher population levels. For instance, the Thalan's Hyperion Matrix essentially ruins a planet if it is built on a farm tile - why can't a planet have 42 billion people living on it? Besides the obvious, I mean. I would really like to be able to have super-populated planets if I so chose. You would have to keep an eye out for the Torians and Krynn though. Also, it would be coo
I actually read all of that, and my opinion is that I liked the wording of the original Gamer's Bill of Rights considerably more. It is nice to see a little clarification on Stardock's stance on DRM too though, and I recently have been realizing just how big Stardock has become in just 15 years. You must be proud, eh Brad? My last thought was that you must really want a Java programmer.
[quote who="verxintRising" reply="3" id="1903813"]The standards of internet speed went up really fast since a few years ago. I have a 1500 Mbps connection and people call it slow [/quote] I think you're mistaken about your connection speed. Even T3 internet connections only run about 45 Mbps.
Paint will not save anything transparent, except [i]maybe[/i] a *.gif. Don't quote me on that though, I even when I used to use Paint I never saved anything as *.gif.
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