Gorgon

just so we are on the same page, I'm saying that DRM constitutes bloat because it can slow programs down. I am completely indifferent to whether the linus installation uses 500 or 700 mb. It has no impact on performance, except perhaps boot times because of what is pre loaded. Grasping at straws with the last bit, I don't know how linux handles scratch disks and virtual memory. In any case programs you don't need are easily removed.

This is what I got after 30 mins of loading "Error, unable to load steam.dll". Doesn't bode well for me getting to play this game, demo or retail.

DRM slows programs down by unneeded processes, bundled programs don't to anything until you start using them.

Rifles are better, improved accuracy over long range, just as good in close.

The sea battle I lost, because I didn't have a clue what was happening, but sea battles have always confused me, so that's probably my fault. The graphics are nice. The ships are hard to maneuvre, but I guess that is realistic. Sea battles with wind powered ships have always been messy due to the unpredictable environment. In a 1v1 ship battle, the ship with the wind in her favor can engage and break off faster than the opponent, that is a huge advantage. Disable the enemy's rudder or mast and you can strafe it to pieces from where the broadsides can't hit you. Lines of battle were the order of the day for the largest warships, basically a gunnery contest to see who could cause the most damage in the shortest amount of time. Imperial Glory, an otherwise rather buggy dame of the same type handled naval combat excellently up to about 5-6 or more ships total were engaged, then it all became too much up to chance, as you couldn't hope to order them all around at the same time.

Isn't NORAD completely useless after targeting technology improved sufficiently to ensure a direct hit, which it is not designed to withstand. They might as well have built it out of straw for all the good it's going to do.

I agree, although I wonder what the damage would be over time, after radiation storms and such. Initial casualties in Nakasaki 39,000, Hiroshima 140,000 due to the firestorms, and that was the smallest device used. Total secondary effects due to radiation damage and subsequent cancer increase not known. The blast area does look very small, I would have my windows blown out if I happened to be inside I might survive, although it would be a good idea not to be downwind of the particle cloud.

Except for his unrequited man love for the NWN2 engine.

You can't change the keyboard assignments for select functions (bloody amateurish by the way) but you can bind those functions to your mouse, if it's even half decent.

You sure they didn't just cut the existing material into another season. Seems like I've seen it all before.

Especially bad if you are, say, defending a small hill and have crammed every foot of it with gun infantry. The old Total war had a hold position command that somehow disappeared. Even if all my gunners couldn't shoot, it was still better than having them pull themselves out of position, greatly decreasing their overall effectiveness. In Medieval it was too much hassle to have more than a few gun units to manage at the same time, you would get too annoyed at your own AI cramping your style.

I agree that on the combat mechanics level, everything depends on line of sight. Aside from the cavalry theres one infantry type of different variations. I enjoyed having archers that can shoot over my heavy cavalry shock troop's heads, dual purpose heavy infantry equipped with bows, Pikemen you have to be quick to outmaneuver etc. On the other hand, historically, politically, it's a lot more interesting, and a 68 gun 3 sail ship of the line is about a million times cooler than a tireme or a schooner.

Do all gun units still have auto face enabled so they end up facing a million different directions after the first engagement.

Surely they will make an over the counter version.

DRM nonsense level is how high.. I might pick it up when it's out in stores, but only if I get to install it as many times as I want.

Yes, but you should still be able to get them the hell out of your party. No immortal superglue NPCs. It's the principle of the thing.

I dunno, I kinda suspect it would have been better if it had just been 3. Too much filler across the board. The pilots and the double headers where all excellent though. 45 minute intervals seem to spell doom. It's plenty of time do do nothing, and not enough time to do something worthwhile.

Countries are overrated. We should live in village sized anarchist communes practicing direct democracy. The representative part of representative democracy is the problem, without it corruption, two facedness, playing to the lowest common denominator, these things just aren't as useful when you look the constituency in the face every day.

Fails witty response roll.

Also stopping the game in the middle of combat to open the pipboy and heal yourself, repair your weapons or switch between them, have a look at the map, read some books and have tea and biscuits... it's pretty silly. They should have made weapon slots you could scroll through with with the mouse like in practically every shooter.

Linux doesn't care for bloat.

It's obviously an ill disguised mechanism to allow Gaius to be a major player again with his cadre of killer concubines. I didn't believe it though, even despite clearly showing Adama's fear of everything Cylon.

Some of the characters are really suffering under the weight of all this pent up plot that's landing everywhere all of a sudden. Adama arming Gaius' harem, Saul Tigh, Tyrol wanting to fix the Gallactica, and then run away at the next moment. It's made all the worse by the audience not having any idea what motivates the 'final five', the actors haven't got anywhere familiar to ground their characters.

They already handle that in primary schools. You can't graduate from anywhere without taking a social sciences course. I'm sure the US is the same, although you can't force people to listen.

I'm presently doing the song and dance with the unemployment insurance office, making money doing nothing. Ain't welfare states grand. Sucky situation, I hope you manage to dig yourself out of it.