G'day guys.

I have not been around for a few years.

Thought I would drop by to see if anyone is still alive.

My husband has been trying to track down some of his Air Force buddies and It has been depressing.

So far he has found one suffering dementia and two widows.

Thought escaping into the internet would cheer us up.

The stimulus has been the fact that optic fibre cable is being laid down our street, so we should get a fast internet soon.

Hi Neilo.

Might have known you would be around.

We are not connected to the NBN as yet, but it is tantalizingly close.

It would be a disaster if Abbot got in and said we had to use our existing copper connection.

I can't be bothered searching the site.....is there any sign of Gal Cicv3 ?

I am playing around with Civilization 5 at the moment.

We are thinking of buying one of those All In one computers. I like the look of the Tsohiba...It looks like an Apple.

Hubby will probably be swayed by that boring technical stuff.

Hehe Embird...yeah i lurk about from time to time. I dont think a GC3 is cost effective for SD these days. The fact they have sought rights to another space game kind of sounds the death knell for GC i guess. Though i couldnt be happier if i were to be proved wrong.
Hate to say it but i think Abbot will cruise to a victory...gilliard killed the labor party's chances id say.

Hmmm....might want to either sell or return it then if Fail8.

if you ever do decide to switch:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834314079

go get Ccleaner, and do the drive wipe and manually install a windows 7 copy.

Different genres. Don't count GalCiv out just yet.

Dont write off Win8 just yet. I use it and with just a few bucks worth of Stardock products you would never know its not win7 till you look under the hood.
Start8 is worth every penny, brings back start menu and more importantly allows you to boot direct to desktop. I have not seen the metro screen in weeks.
This way it looks like 7, but i have all the under bonnet goodness that win8 brings to the table.

Best 5 bucks (iirc) i ever spent.
I' ll check out Egosoft's game....

I don't use any feature of 8 that requires my email. I still use office 07 and just port my isp and gmail accounts into outlook. If you use Start8, you wo'nt ever be using metro anyway. I don't believe ive used a metro app in months, so no need to mess with the native client.
In fact i never have, i have no email registered to it at all. Grab Thunderbird as your email client?

Thunderbird is great.

I will be using that from now on.

Loved the way it automatically used the correct settings for my provider.

Looking into Start8 now.

Hi folks! 

Yeah, I have Win 8 on my gaming computer, but not on my regular media computers.  I find that web surfing is easier with Vista and Win 7, but Win 8 is a nice gaming platform.  I'm looking forward to Win 8.1 later this month.  Hopefully, it'll have some of the lost functionality back.  If not, I'm ok with Vista and 7. 

I haven't reinstalled GalCiv 2 onto my gaming computer yet, but might sometime later. Definitely looking forward to GalCiv 3 if it turns out to be more than vaporware.

Oh, and multiplayer FTW!  

Yep, the Tyranny lives!  The FAQs say it'll be some sort of asynchronous multiplayer so we can be on at different times.  I'd think we could start off as a coop and go to adversarial later, if we want.  I wonder if team play will be in there?

A new Metaverse is mentioned that will allow the AI to learn from us mere mortals. That'll be real cool.  

As to Win8,  I'm waiting to see what 8.1 will bring before going with Start8.  If 8.1 is too little too late, I'll grab Start8 pretty quickly.

I would swear I had read somewhere, within the past 24h, that a more primitive version of this function was incorporated into the GC2 MV-but I can't seem to find it, and I could have been extrapolating from incomplete data.

It's great to see you all again.

Hey Mumble! Hey SS!  It's good to see yall.

The idea does seem familiar.  I seem to recall reading something along those lines some years back relating to GalCiv2.

Hopefully, MP will do that.  Playing for score eventually sucked the life out of it.  

Yeah, a Tyranny thread would be nice, especially since the Galciv2 forums are largely hidden from the GalCiv3 ones.  There doesn't seem to be a place to put it yet though.  Maybe they'll develop that side more as the game gets developed.