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Reply to Favorite classic films in Movies & TV & Books Elemental Forums

Tell me about it.

Reply to Play it *NOW* or play it later in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Steam sales have really been a tipping point. I've got enough of a backlog of good, slightly older, much cheaper, and "complete" games waiting that the urge to buy shiny new ones is more easily resisted. That being said, if I get fantastic fun/value/playtime out of a game, I will sometimes purchase a sequel/expansion at launch as a "reward" to the devs.

Reply to Favorite classic films in Movies & TV & Books Elemental Forums

[quote who="starkers" reply="56" id="3200107"] My fave horror [slash comedy] is 'The Evil Dead' series with Bruce Davidson... and of those 'The Evil Dead 2' tops the list. [/quote] Sorry I have to be "that guy," but my handle demands that I point out that Bruce Campbell was the star of the Evil Dead series.

Reply to Favorite classic films in Movies & TV & Books Elemental Forums

Going to list some of "my" classic comedies: The Great Race "Push the button Max!" Young Frankenstein/Blazing Saddles (1974, the year of Mel Brooks) "My, what knockers!" Airplane/Naked Gun/Top Secret "Is this some kind of bust? "It's very impressive, yes." Kingpin (Munson: "How's life." Neighbor (smoking with oxygen on): "Takin' forever.")

Reply to Stardock Account Registration fails me for Rebellion in Technical Sins Forums

Ahh, after trying many things, success. By running the Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion Dev Application as admin from the steamapps/common/sins of a solar empire rebellion folder directly, it allowed me to open the registration and have it actually work. The error seemed to imply i should run SDActivate as admin, but that was a red herring. Signing off...hope this helps you future theoretical people.

Reply to Stardock Account Registration fails me for Rebellion in Technical Sins Forums

I am going to record things here for the possible future google searches that may look for help with similar issues. All prior forum/posts with similar issues never posted anything regarding a resolution, so I'm not sure if any of them were ever solved. Hail future people, I shall post for your future reference. Unfortunately, another day of Sins abstinence. Got a prompt morning reply from support, but couldn't try fix till home from work. Provided a ne

Stardock Account Registration fails me for Rebellion in Technical Sins Forums

Hi all, I've already sent an email to support, but other than the autoreply, haven't heard back. While waiting, I was wondering if anyone else had the Stardock Account Registration verifier hang/do nothing, thus sticking me with some free time to kill? For kicks, I even hit the "Reset password" option, but it just says it could not contact server (at least that option indicated it was trying to do something). Google searching showed a few older posts with t

Reply to Advice on getting new PC gaming rig in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I got my latest gaming rig through ecollegepc. Good customizability, good prices, great customer service. With no time/interest in putting together the pc myself, this was a very reasonable option. Good hunting. Groovy

Reply to Shopping for a New Computer in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

You and others might checkout ecollegepc, I just ordered from them and so far prices/email question response has been good.

Reply to Gildar bug in War of Magic Elemental Forums

My pioneer kill netted me just over 1.35 billion gildar...

Reply to I am rich! in WOM Support Elemental Forums

I too just had this happen...instant billionaire! Not sure how to get a screen capture.

Reply to Question about Warhammer: DoW II in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="Phalnax811" reply="3" id="2070822"]Ugh I hated DOW II Beta, I think they totally ruined it. They changed from 11 races to 4, added GFWL, and lowered the ammount of soldiers. They have a total of 7 maps, not 2v2 maps as well. Graphics are nice, I'll give them that. I'm not getting the game. Starcraft II, Demigod, and Empire: Total War are on my list however. -Phalnax [/quote] To be fair, it took the main game plu

Reply to Why I haven't enjoyed multiplayer RTS since Myth: TFL in PC Gaming Sins Forums

With 500k plus units sold, how many online games are going on at one time? I think the dev's have noted that the vast majority of Sins players play solo, so I'm not too worried they'll over cater to multiplayer. The thing I find interesting is that my tastes continue to change as I age. I played Starcraft like a maniac there for a while. Somewhere in the multiple 1000s of games on Bnet, and could hold my own just fine. Now, that competitive itch has been scratc

Reply to Why I haven't enjoyed multiplayer RTS since Myth: TFL in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="Draknahr" reply="9" id="2040954"]"For me, one of the absolute best RTS games (that no one ever played) was Sacrifice." QFT [/quote] This game and some other treasures can be found at Good Old Games website, gog.com. Only $6 I think. My friend, your RTS preferences place you squarely in the Ancient Order of Turtles, welcome. On a side note, you might find Defense Grid, the Awakening enjoyable.&n

Reply to Where do you put downloaded maps? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Yes, thanks. Switched the version number to 2 using notepad and all is well.

Reply to Where do you put downloaded maps? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Hmm, that's where I've put them, not appearing with the other maps though.

Where do you put downloaded maps? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Noob here, but the search function only pointed me to the galaxy forge beginners guide, which doesn't really answer my question that I can find. I've downloaded a couple of custom galaxy maps, but they do not appear for me to choose when starting a new game. I've tried placing them in programfiles/stardock/totalgaming/sinsofasolarempire/galaxy next to the other maps, but they're a no show after starting up the game. I'm running 1.1 beta. Any clues where I s

Reply to Single player map recommendations in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

This may be a noobish question, but where should one put the file? Running 1.1 beta. The map doesn't appear anywhere (I've tried it in programfiles/stardock/totalgaming/sinsofasolarempire/galaxy, as well as in the application data/mods area without success.)

Reply to Carriers are too powerful in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

[quote]The root of the issue is that the carrier got another squadron without anything being subtracted to offset this. This results in a loss of gameplay balance.Perhaps if the carrier was slower due to having lost an engine to accomidate another squadron, or something similar it wouldnt be so bad.As for anti-strikecraft, its all but useless unless you build one per squadron. Even then its pointless unless you take out the carrier itself. Maybe if strikecraft were not free.[/quote] Cor

Reply to CD Projekt Announces No-DRM Classic Games Store in PC Gaming Sins Forums

The best thing about this on their webpage...... Sacrifice is one of the games displayed. Hey Stardock, how about getting the rights to that gem and giving us a proper sequel?

Reply to Expelled: Is Intelligent Design a Science? in Everything Else Sins Forums

It amuses me that this thread seems to be more popular than the movie that inspired it.

Reply to Expelled: Is Intelligent Design a Science? in Everything Else Sins Forums

Ok, maybe this is a slight derail, but I can't resist. [quote]I was taught both evolution and creationsim in public school (Newfoundland, Canada). I think both should be taught as they are the two major theories out there right now to explain the diversity and fossil record.[/quote] This type of thinking brings up some questions for reflection. Why do people make the assertion that there are [B]two[/B] views, evolution vs their particular belief system, instead of evolution vs

Reply to Expelled: Is Intelligent Design a Science? in Everything Else Sins Forums

Interesting that I keep seeing these same arguments crop up across multiple websites. On the side of "exposing" Expelled is a decent site[link="http://www.expelledexposed.com/"]WWW Link[/link]. I do have a degree in molecular biology as well an MD, and took courses in evolution, as well as doing years of basic science lab work. Like any other scientific endeavor, "evolution" is a vastly more subspecialized and complex field of study than most people realize. In fact, the more educate

Ressurect Sacrifice in Games Sins Forums

Reading the post title calling us "Sinners" reminded me of one of my favorite games, Sacrifice, and its Saccers. As long as Stardock is going nuts with its teamups and Impulse stuff, maybe I could throw out a suggestion they look at bringing this classic back to the digital distribution era in an updated form. I promise I'll throw in my 300 crystal if that day ever comes. Stay Groovy

Reply to A suggestion for the expansion...If I may be so bold........ in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote] But if we were so "into violence" we would have much more efficent killing methods then our current or experimental levels of weapons technology. ......[/quote] Are you referring to the in game TEC as "we", or are you living on a different world from the one I inhabit?