LadyCrimson

If I had an optical mouse I might not find a mousepad neccesary either. But I don't like the feel of the mouseball - or the plastic casing for that matter - on a fake-wood laminate desk.

A part of the reason GW has no monthly fee is that they had plans to release expansions that you have to buy for new content. Originally they were hoping for 2-3 per year perhaps, which would essentially add up to close to what you'd pay if you paid monthly (10-15 a month) - assuming you bought them. I don't know if they're going to keep up with that or not; they certainly don't seem to have released much. And I don't know if they have a big enough fan base/other money/projects like Blizzard does, to make free-hosted servers work financially forever if people don't buy. Another couple years shall tell. As to the original question - if you don't care about graphics at all (and I mean at all) some people really like Maplestory. I haven't tried it tho, and I hear it takes literally forever to level past a certain point.

I spent $20 (don't remember...) on a large metal mousepad by Allsop. Funny, I can't find it on-line - it looks like the charcoal grey Metal Art Pad - but mine has no "special textured surface" that I can see so I don't know? Anyway, I love it - it doesn't move at all, it has no plastic or cloth texture to wear down over time, won't crease/bubble since it's not bendable - it also stays clean somehow - I haven't had to clean it since I bought it. My mouse (still a tiny rollerball one) doesn't even get dirty or collect dirt/lint anymore. Before that, I used to like the $10 Accutrack plastic mousepad, also by Allsop.

I haven't played Zeus, so I can't say. There's no monument building ala Pharoah or some of the other recent city builders - it's really a lot like Caesar3, except without the major "walker" issues (a 'pull system' is used instead) and a few mechanics/rule changes like seperated housing and such. I think TM wanted to make it feel close to the old game only updated, and it works - which is why I'm so hooked.

Caesar4, city builder/strategy. I need to get out of the habit of abbreviating it on non-Casear4 forums. heh

I can't get NWN2 until I at least finish my massive population Caesar map (reached 35K, had to start over cause of food distribution issues). One-game mind thing, y'know. Which is what I'm doing right now.

Hero followers? Better than the old party-helpers because they're customizable - can you keep them from play session to session? I might like that, since I'm a loner even in on-line play... But I haven't really been playing any on-line games recently. I did reinstall WoW but haven't done much with it. I think right now the only on-line "action" I may see is competing with other city builders for scores and titles in C4.

Nice viewpoint read, thanks. Lucky for me, I'm spoiler-proof.

Or try another DVD drive, would that help? I've heard some drives are pickier than others with that stuff. Maybe I've heard wrong tho.

lol, that was my favorite too. There's one 'building idle' animation that has a pleb breakdancing. It's hilarious.

It's not a screenshot, but apparently Sierra just posted an ad/video on Youtube for Caesar4 called Plebs Gone Wild, and I find it funny. Really silly, but still amusing. :D P.S. - all those animations of people are actual building animations in the game. I like the guys who catch fire.

Two singles. I like the way it looks better - the fighting animations. Although when Atton does his leap with a double-bladed saber in one hand and the other empty hand stretched out behind him, it's kinda cool.

Could it be a copyright protection disc/disc reader sort of problem? Sounds odd.

I haven't reformatted in a long long time - (edit: over a year I think) - hubby even longer. I've definitely noticed XP needs it a lot less often than 98 or others. I'm sure it'd run a little better if it was a clean install but it's still going strong. I'm kinda like Diamond, tho - I usually keep things "clean" for a long while before I start doing crazy things, and a defrag a lot on principle. But even with all the stuff I've installed the past several months, XP's still crusin' along.

Same thing as last I posted, only more wrinkled. I never went to bed.

Fraps will show your FPS in-game.

You could use the KSE editor to raise the experience level of a brand new character and then run through peragus trying to kill the super-droids with your puny vibrobalde and T3's starting gunnery. I'm serious. I tried that once, I can't remember my reasoning for it - but since the monsters level up with you, when I gave myself and T3 some experience, I had my arse handed to me upon entering/loading a new area. It was pretty funny really. As to mods...I don't know of any of those - there's re-balancing mod/tweak, made by the people doing the Kotor2 Restoration project, but I don't know how much harder that makes it, if at all. Never tried it.

Define everything. Did you turn off shadows completely etc? I find shadows are a big lag inducer for some games. Even if my computer can run with them, it's always better with them off. I'll be curious to see how it does on my system.

Turkey carvers work well for ice cream slicing. :D I'm putting on my sneakers to get ready to go out and buy some food that's tastier than what's in the pantry.

Pork jerky sounds like a nasty combo to go with the ale. I like the long ponytail.

Black stretch pants and the grey t-shirt that was designated as being too loose and thus got me frisked for weapons. It's not really that loose - but it is long. I like long shirts.

Same here. But some people dont play on PC, so then the console menu cheats may be their only option. There are many 'mods' that aren't big gameplay-changers either...Morrowind and Dungeon Siege was full of those. Tiny little 'mods' that really did nothing but give you lots of money somehow, or gave you a house to put all your stuff in, or made shopkeepers sell potions at an earlier point etc.

I've noticed Alt-Tab doesn't seem to work as well, as often, in many games lately.

You look pretty good for being 120. :D I suspect I'll be making a Drow when I get the game, which will hopefully be in a week or so, if not sooner.

Since your other thread has replies, this one is probably uneccesary.