Heh, well, GalCiv itself is still downloading, so if it's messed up too I wouldn't know yet. :) ~SDC~
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Arg, edit features are useful. ;) The 'boom' is things in windows directory getting deleted, rather than "just" the c:\ directory. And it was apparently happening to everyone, not just a few unfortunates who got the program at the wrong moment. :) ~SDC~
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Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Dranor was a recent game that was (apparently) even worse than this. You could install the game just fine, but if you went to uninstall it... BOOM! :notsure: ~SDC~
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Brad, just thought I'd say: I'm *REALLY* pissed off about this.... **BUT** I have to commend you for the way you've handled it. Many other companies would be burying this and denying there was a problem, but you've admitted there's a problem and jumped right into action to get things rolling on a solution. Top stuff. :) Obviously, things can go wrong no matter what you do. What makes the difference is how you handle it when they do. Of course, my lower amount of annoyance may just b
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I'm not sure about XP, but in Win98 I noticed I'd been affected by loading Windows Explorer and looking in c:\ and finding no files in there. :notsure: ~SDC~
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Thanks DismalScience. I got an undeleting program from a friend through IRC which seems to have gotten most of the (important) stuff back. No sign of msdos.sys or io.sys though. Friend sending both of them too. ~SDC~
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I will be cursing you out if I can't fix this. :P ~SDC~
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Scratch my previous report of no problems... Everything is gone from c:\ >:( Anyone know of a way to restore them? ~SDC~
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Erm... I installed it without any troubles I can see Brad. I'm using Win98SE. ~SDC~
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With the archiving thing, does it attach the serial number to the archive or not? I want to download it and burn a CD for a friend, but I don't want to be pirating it, they'd have their own serial number. Will it prompt for a valid serial before installing from the archive? ~SDC~
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While I do favour the approach of the MoO games of allowing you to design ships, or choose between various pre-made designs, there's still plenty of strategic choices to make with just the "basic" rock, bigger rock, approach. Do you build a small number of VERY powerful ships and attempt to have them smack down enemy fleets by themselves? Do you build a decent number of slightly less powerful units and try to use enough of them to win each time? Do you build a large number of weaker uni
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Is it possible to purchase it directly ASAP and then say 3 months down the track pay the extra $10 to get the CD shipped out? Or does it have to be done all at once? ~SDC~
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Perhaps to go along with the high score list, an average score? And if we're going to go really stat heavy, a lowest score that resulted in a win and a highest score that resulted in a loss? :) ~SDC~
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Where can a guy get a spam on spam, spam sandwich around here? :) ~SDC~
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I finally got SDC the other day too, and I agree with Rusty - the download for it is impossible to find. I only got it because someone linked to it on the forum. :notsure: All the little icons and the medals for people like midnight louie for being in 1st place and so forth are cool. For those wondering, there's a Drengin.net game manager program as well that does something similar I believe. You could maybe get that instead of SDC. I'm sticking with SDC anyway, since I'm contemplat
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"I stand corrected. Now how am I going to break it to my kids that they can't dress up and pretend to be "Star Wars" characters because it's a copyright infringement?" I hope that's not sarcasm because you think you're right? Disney has issued a cease and desist against a school play before. It's a common misconception that you can do whatever you want if you're not making money from it. You can't. You must have permission or it is a breach of copyright laws. Breaching
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"Correct me if I'm wrong, but user created mods are not subject to copyright laws." You're wrong. :) Just because it's fan based doesn't change it being a copyright infringement to use material that doesn't belong to you. Of course, some companies recognise that it's just a bit of fan based fun and will turn a blind eye. Lucasarts, for instance, apparently only ask that fans not use the "Star Wars" name in the title of their mod, so it isn't confused with the official games
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It does cheat at the highest levels.... sort of. It gets a boost to it's economy, but it otherwise plays by the same rules. I still think that's cheating, Brad doesn't. I think it's at "Intelligent" that it plays by all the same rules as you do, without any bonuses, so I'm content to play at that if I want a "fair" match-up. ;) ~SDC~
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Is "borrowing" ideas from other sources okay then? In the Star Wars books there was a fleet of ships known as The Katana Fleet, from memory. It was a large number of ships that had been designed to have an unprecedented amount of automated systems and "slave circuits" that allowed some master control circuitry to guide them remotely. Unfortunately (and predictably) the system went haywire on the maiden test flight and the Katana Fleet went to hyperspace and was never seen again. Eve
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If we download the "unsupported window mode exe" can we still use that one to run it in fullscreen mode? If not, can we easily swap between the two exes? And in fullscreen can we alt-tab anyway? :)
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"And yes, the BonusPak does have the pleasant side effect of discouraging piracy." I don't think it discourages piracy so much as it ENcourages legitimate ownership of the game? If the game is as "complete" as you say, the lack of a bonus pack isn't going to discourage people from copying the game, but if they do and they enjoy it, they may then go ahead and buy it to get the extras?
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Excellent explanation, Brad. :) If the AI is being anal like that then I guess the economic penalty is a fair trade-off. The alternative would be programming it to be less fussy about resource wasting, but I suspect that would add stacks of code and the bugs associated with adding stacks of code. :) A human player could still keep up with an infinitely anal AI, but it would have to be via superior strategy, rather than resource fiddling. Guess the setting where the AI gets no penalty wil
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I asked at the Penrith EB (west of Sydney) and they didn't have it listed, nor did the Games Wizards. GW guy said to try again in a couple of MONTHS! :(
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"The only question is: would that extra level of flexibility be a more worthwhile investment of their development time in terms of how much FUN it actually adds compared to something else they could add or improve in the same amount of time? Obviously each of us will have a different opinion on that. *shrug*" Maybe as a "bonus pack" feature, then? They seem to be trying to cram as much stuff into that as possible. I don't know how the game setup screen works entirely, but if there's som
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That first line was a quote from Frogboy, didn't realise I can't use italics to quote, sorry. :)
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