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Firstly, Australia is still a British Commonwealth country, and the largest proportion of landholders (by a significant margin) are British. Secondly, your point is specious. Why would the status of another country have any bearing on the independence of the USA ? ... The 2.15% of you who are aware that there is a world outside your borders may have noticed that no one else plays "American" football. You will no longer be allowed to play it, and should instead play proper football. Initially, it would be best if you played with the girls. It is a difficult game. Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which is similar to American "football", but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like nancies). ... That made me chuckle. I don't like whomever it was that typed up the document, though. It was thoughtful of them to use US grammar, but it is totally fallacious (unless it was an attempt at irony ...). "

Just on a cursory skim of the FAR TOO LONG post, I noticed quite a few liberties being taken with Bible scripture interpretations, for example, and far too few citations from other sources; not once was there a reference to one fo the numerous "scientists who noticed perterbations in the planetary orbits" since the early 1900s. It sounds exactly like every haox ever boradcast. But wait! He has a book I can BUY and read.

Wouldn't that negate his use as a mule, and make you liable for trafficking and kidnapping? (Not to mention importing a dangerous substance: pure spamorama.) Anyways, let's see ... how about Malaria from an equatorial country?

Please: one of my pet peeves is people who do not use Syst

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Bourgeoisie: Pearl of the Wastelands is the name that some Polish fans havve given their post-apocalyptic, cybernetic implant, mutant game. It's a 3D engine, but uses an isometric view. Check out the site at: http://www.innyswiat.pl, if you can speak Polish ...

Heh. The last Ultima game I played was ]I[, although I did start messing around in Ultima IV, but I neve got into it ... Was Lord British still alive?

You can always go and tell them that, there's a forum at the end of the link I posted, above.

Um, that's the point of the mod.

This month's PC Gamer records how, since 2004, a band of Ultima fans have been working on a new ending for Ultima IX: Ascension, inspired by Richar dGarriot's original concept. ... Ultima IX: Redemption is actually a Morrowind mod so will require that game and both expansions to play, but will have a completely different interface, skills system and mechanics. It's far from complete, but head to http://ultima.cfkasper.de/ to show your support for an admirable effort. PC Gamer, issue 151, August 2005, p21. My highlighting. :D

I just read another drip-feed in the latest PC Gamer, apparently the on-line multiplayer will allow closer and more sophisticated alliances; for example it will be possible to jointly research technologies. Sounds like they have been busy implementing interesting stuff, at least.

The Sith can manipulate, and we want to see more of that. I think Palpatine was best at it. Kreia was antagonistic and somewhat obvious. Palpatine was better IMO. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Further to that, I wanted my DarkSide PC to be able to manipulate the drongos around me. :angry:

D'Oh! Thanks, I have fixed that. (Incidentally, the correction that I sent out was due to me abbreviating the mis-spelled Burgundy ("Bergundy") in Germany's orders. I thought it was a move to Berlin (which is also contiguous with Munich). This just underscores the need to check abbreviations. (And it was easy to trace in the audit trail, because the orders were written in full.)

No, I said that if I didn't hear from people, I would assume their vote was to restart. As it was, I heard from everybody (except Nartwak ) and it was not unanymous to restart. So, in all fairness and good conscience, I could not restart your game unless all of you agreed. Anyway, I have sent the results to you ... ENGLAND F NTH - Nor A Wal - Bel F ENG C A Wal - Bel FRANCE F Bre - ENG A Par - Bur A Mar - H GERMANY F Den - Swe A Ruhr - Hol A Mun - Bur ITALY A Ven-Tri A Rom-Apu F Nap-ION AUSTRIA F Alb-Gre A Ser-Tri A Bud-Tri TURKEY A Con-Bul A Smy-Con F Ank-Hold RUSSIA NMR Okay, remember the first post has the updated status of the game. Please supply your Build orders by noon (UTC) Friday. Failure to submit will mean no builds ...

I'm thinking about whether to ... ... add a nice little spreadsheet of positions and possibly a nice graph, so there is a nice split-level effect ... "

I sense a quote from War of the Worlds ...

Standard procedure is to place a link to it in your sig, then people can pull-down the site when you post something terribly witty or inciteful ... "

That requires an exceptionally sophisticated pathfinding AI, with impressive collision-detection, both of which were quite poor in K2. That's not boring, that's immersion-enablement! Seriously, though, it was my inference that there was a conscious effort to flesh out the areas by putting triggers and action areas in distant and non-linear connecting paths, to try to encourage the feeling of large, open spaces for the PC to explore. I thought it was quite well handled, though, e.g. especially on Dxun and Onderon, in that there were guides to escalate passage through completed areas, and cut-scenes were timed to intercept the narrative and propel it to the next interactive part.

Nope, they did want to introduce it, no idea why it was removed though. I mean, this little option would likely be LESS work than adding in Transport consoles on Telos, a guide on Dxun and a speeder on Nar Shaddaa (including damage trigger, additional speeder spawn stuff etc.) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I think they were going for a total solution, whereby there were multiple methods to achieve similar effects. But their eyes were too big for their monkey-coding-brains, and they ran out of time and just cut the transit system, because it required a lot of tweaking, as is also true.

... And, although I respect peoples' right to choose their own lifestyle, I would not be disposed to personally follow said lifestyle. PS I didn't see that episode

Deadline: One Hour to Go. Please make sure all your orders are in for Fall 1901 turn, by the move of the hour hand. Thanks

Well, the point of the game is actually to connive, cajole and co-opt eighteen Supply Centres on the world map. I found the on-line articles to be invaluable. The way to play the game is to negotiate; there is no way to win by brute force in isolation from everyone else. All countries have advantages and disadvantages, the corner countries are easier to defend but they are almost impossible to win from (because bringing up reinforcements from home base gives too much warning to the opposition, who can block the advances); similarly, the central powers are the most difficult because they MUST form strong alliances to even survive the earliest stages. Advice: Know the map. There are some very important choke points. Have a plan. And the plan shouldn't just be attack everyone, or even lie to everyone. If no-one believes what you say, then you can't convince / manipulate / bribe / whatever them. Talk to everyone: my enemy's enemy is my friend. Basically it is a game of persuassion (and that includes deception); it is a stud poker game (i.e. with most of one's cards face up). "Gunboat" games, i.e. race for the flag, aren't anywhere near as interesting.

He also thought there was no way to overdose on cocaine, and prescribed it as a panacea to all his patients ... some of whom died from cocaine overdoses. But, yeah, bloody Russians and their offensive form of defence. I think everyone should attack them from now on.

Also, keep in mind that even though Freud started modern psycho-analysis, he was also incestuously in love with his sister, and beside all that, a loonie.

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