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For the longest time, I just could not understand, What he was saying.

I don't keep up as much any more. But when I'm in the market, I'll do some research to see performance, any issues, and so on.

I was thinking Skeeter more because he's a tech junkie. We can still have the byline that says "Come Here to discuss Hardware" right below it, as it is now.

6, 7, 13, 14, 5.

He's the haiku guy!

I am in the process of a total conquest in my RTR game I didn't know you could have retinue swaps. Interesting.

What, no Michael Biehn or James Earl Jones?

Hmmmm...would the 286 even like multiple threads running at the same time? This emulator would have to be pretty intense (and even then still slow as hell).

I'd imagine if I could acquire an infinite number of monkeys, checking their working wouldn't be as difficult as us mere mortals would think.

Does anyone else get the tune for Elton John's Rocket Man whenever they see Profit Man? As for the emulation, I imagine it'd be a real bugger. The 286 is a 16-bit processor, so it'd probably have to find ways to split instructions. Depending on memory constraints, you might need an outside memory manager to deal with extra addressing.

Well, my expansion in Carthage continues, though a bit slowly as I wait for Reinforcements. My 0 star general that hated Carthaginians is now a 4 star general, that also gets an addition +1 against Numidian and Carthaginian troops. So given the area he's in...he's a 5 star general, and frequently a 6 (since he loathes carthaginians already). I had to load up a hotfix for siege towers....as the guys in the bottom would do a dance and all in all my siege defenses rather boring. After weathering a plague in Rome, I sent out a young general with loads of fully upgraded legionaries. Their goal is to take out the Iberians. Turns out they had a feeling something was amiss, as they tried sieging one of my places. Fortunately my full stack of legionaries (with the general and a single unit of Roman Cavalry) were able to siege Orca the same turn. He tried counter attacking with a large stack but lost, so he had to pull of his siege to try (fruitlessly) to save Orca. I demolished both armies! So with a net gain of about 2000 soldiers after the two huge fights, I think the Iberian Penninsula shouldn't be too hard to take. I have also taken Denmark/Sweden (apparently they are just one province), and figured I'd take the rest of Scandinavia. A large stack inside the town there, but my siege has brought their 120 stacks down to 83, so that should make the numbers more in my favour. I also took out a large force in Britannia Superior, and am sieging one of their towns. I see the adjacent one also has a mine (as well as a shipwright!), so it looks like it will be profitable as well. And I'm not going to need to build a big wall to protect myself from the Saxons either :D The war against Macedonia goes well. I have pushed them into the Black Sea, and it looks like they only have a single province left. Turns out they had split Thrace in two, so I'm between two of their provinces now. I cancelled the alliance against them, and am hoping I can do some bribing in the area. The people of Macedon will soon be fully a part of the Roman Empire soon. I also took a general and a full stack of legionaries onto Crete. The two cities there are Rebel from when the Greek Cities were killed. They have some large stacks, consisting of hoplites and peltastati. I besieged one of their towns, and expect a counter attack in the coming months. I also found out that Elephants really are battering rams. During a siege from Carthage, it started running into the door and did damage. Fortunately it didn't survive the hot oil being splashed on it...but I was very confused to see that. Did not expect it at all.

I think it is "teh," because the weaker, more english "l33td00ds" on teh internet are teh bomb and all that In any case, I'm voting Skeeter's Junkyard.

Valve's design paradigm is probably better suited for the PC, as they seem to be very meticulous and patient. A 5-6 year development time for a game is probably a negative for a console game.

I typically make sure I come at them from all sides. I also try to have a cavalry unit as well. Though this doesn't help a whole lot with the horse archers :\

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I use GAIM at work, and it works pretty well.

I was actually being serious.

I'm harping on it because you're being a twit by saying the pregen is a deal breaker, yet at the same time you have no problems stating that a game with a pregen is your #2 favourite game of all time. It may not be your most played CRPG, but by your own words, it's your second favourite one. Don't want to by the game because you aren't a fan of Gothic 2, then fine. Why you decide to come into a thread about Gothic 3, knowing you aren't interested in the game and are not even a fan of the series is beyond me. But don't go around saying that it's a deal breaker, when clearly it's not. If you were willing to let it go. You would have. But instead, postCount++

Actually, it looks like you specifically said no sale because of the pregen character. Which means it's a deal breaker. Things change? So that means you no longer like PST?

I actually sort of agree.

I'd be very surprised if you needed that $4000 computer to play NWN2.

You asked if Gothic 3 would have a pregen or not. When you were told not, you said that that was a big deal for you. Based on the current discussion, it seems you are being critical of Gothic 3 for its lack of character creation, rather than any supposed similarities to Gothic 2.

Tech Plaza works for me. It's a bit more non-chalant so people won't think it's tech support. But maybe we should get rid of the word tech altogether? Hardware Plaza?

Well, don't forget that the original GeForce wasn't very good at Hardware T&L either. In many cases you could still get faster performance by letting the processor deal with it. I still think physics cards will eventually become popular. I guess the big problem here is that the GeForce cards were still better at doing the rendering. I'm sure if the Voodoo was initially poorer than a CPU, the 3D accelerator craze would never have started off as strong as it did. Which is a definite disadvantage of the physics cards right now.

We're talking about Gothic 3.