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I mostly want to see Homeworld 3 because theres no other game in town. Honestly, early disruption is a key part of any RTS. Frigs are useless unless they are massed and hit before the most heavy stuff arrives, and a frig rush is hard, except maybe a vagyr one. Recalling wings only works if you are winning, otherwise it just speeds your demise. I don't mind either of these things. It's still very satisfying to blow the other guy's shipyard before he can get anything out of his massive investment. If anything the super heavy ship classes come too soon in HW2. Is it as good as Homeworld, no way, but like I said theres no other game in town.

You would only need to have NWN2 to play any adon, surely. The OC was miles behind Mask of The Betrayer, which felt a lot more like a complete game. Odd that, but it's worth getting just for Mask. Assuming it's somewhat cheaper now.

I didn't think HW2 was so terrible. I played it loads online. I dunno about the single player, that never interested me.

I don't see any tomatoes, this is a hoax.

http://www.geocities.com/zhentar2003/toril_2.jpg Its a little better when viewed as a whole. It looks like proto-earth, I wonder if thats intentional.

Ghay

Are there two adons, or is this just westgate renamed ?

I think you would have to show that the shooting related deaths resultant from every one being armed would end up being less than those of the maniac killing sprees.

This looks interesting.

Yes the guy in the opening link obviously had some wires crossed. Nothing much to do about violent maniacs. Either they don't show symptoms or the infrastructure to deal with them is just not present. Walsh is on the money there I suppose, but I think achieving a level of readiness that would prevent these occurrences would require an extremely invasive apparatus. We are talking Orwellian in size here, not merely welfare state.

Whoha Holland, I'll be rooting for them from now on. First match without dull patches

Not offside, the situation was between two Italians, the goalie and the defender. The goalie pushed his own man off the field. You can't just jump or be pushed by your own side outside the pitch and prevent a goal against you by having a new last man like that. The rules are specific on this point, as I'm sure will be pointed out after the match plenty of times.

France - Holland is on, ftw, to be continued.

Let me ask you this, what is the greater truth to prisons, is it that criminals exist, or is that society incarcerates. When we attempt to dissect criminality what we are really doing is defining a moral foundation which we all expect people to live up to. Do you really think we have the resources to deal with deviants by getting inside their minds. Thats sounds awfully lot like one of those ideal societies that never work in reality. It's work worth doing, but it's not a solution. Crime is a variable component to any society, the aim has to be to limit the total number of people who are ostracized from the whole while maintaining protection for the individual.

The problem here is that guns and knives are used with the intention of causing harm quite unlike children with scissors. Would you argue that simply holding a gun causes you to commit a crime? If not then guns are just tools. Guns are primarily used to shoot coke cans - at least where you let everyone buy one. I'm not making any distinction between criminal and upstanding citizen, just that if the aim is to reduce incidents of lethal violence it makes good sense not to allow guns. Therefore, the scissors in the sandbox metaphor seems apt. I don't think this is true since it isn't the difference that creates crime but rather there being an actual poor segment of society. You seem to be agreeing with me, near as I can tell. It kinda goes without saying that a society without poverty is going to have less crime.

It's all in the mind, guns are just tools. What the hell kind of new age hippie bullcrap is that. It makes perfect sense to limit the availability of lethal weaponry in the population. If you don't send the kids out to play with scissors, less kids are going to get hurt. Now of course there is one major caveat here, you have to reduce crime to a level that the population does not feel it needs to arm itself out of fear. I don't think the scientific approach of 'understanding crime' has very much practical to offer. Crime is a social phenomena, and all the experts in the world aren't going to offer much in the way of solutions. Forgive the Marxist departure, but the less difference there is between rich and poor the less crime will be a problem.

Still sore about that bit of skulduggery at the world cup ehh

A strong squad can never be about just one striker.

I dunno I just get depressed when I think of what they could have done with Homeworld 3.

It would be nice if they created a copy protection scheme that didn't involve always having the CD in the drive. I just bought Sins of a Solar Empire, and it only requires online registration, no CD. It makes sense too since the virtual drive software can fool it anyway with the help of stealth programs. Online banking requires an encrypted USB key, at least where i'm at, why don't they try something like that instead.

Sounds like a nice gig writing for dumbasses with too much money.

A shirt with color pictures of aborted babies, yum.

If our game had so little to offer that unlimited ammo was a big enough turn off that people wouldn't buy it, we'd still have much bigger problems than just having made an unpopular choice on ammo. Well i'm talking about the people, like me for instance, that are automatically turned off without knowing very much at all about the game. A lot of grumpy old men buy games.

Forgoing a proper ammo system for spending that development time elsewhere is a bit problematic. Aren't you worried no one will buy the game just on faith that it's actually a worthwhile trade off ?.

I still say theres gonna be a barkeep in there somewhere with rats in the basement. Just you wait.