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LucasArts should license the Star Wars IP to Sega so they can develop a game around the Total War series engine the game would be kickass. This game was too bland and I hate fixed camera perspectives, Total War lets me ignore the other 2000 guys on the field and zoom in on those knights dualling it out on the walls...

Check the first post, first page. I added simplified directions for a manual installation using a supplied *.reg file. I think there were some similar directions here before the forum crash and all the posts got lost but I think that file was wrong, this one came direct from x64 so I know it works. Should work to install Rebellion under Vista x64 as well, however as far as know the graphics "retained mode" of direct draw is no longer supported in any Vista version and the game graphics will not work as the moment.

Open up urban dictionary Create random entries for stupid stuff you and your friends say that don't exist yet. If you don't have any that don't exist then do some very minimal brainstorming and post the results here as well. My first three: (submitted, but not approved yet) budious gymp snaffy waffy

I'm always having one of those days... still drunk and writing fictious entries on urban dictionary between random forum postings across the internet... it's 9am so think I'm going to shower and goto bed.

Or simply to put, there is no need for the UN because - While technology and time progress, human nature simply does not. ~ me How the hell do you apply the UN to a stateless enemy such as radical islam? There are no methods to supress human nature and any given thought that you can control it is just disillusion. I think everybody agrees on the principles of religous freedom (unless of course you are an islamic radical) but it does not necessarily have to be inclusive of religious integration. If you don't like me, and tell me this in my home, you can damn well go back to yours. I don't think the USA is any where near that point (yet) but from all that I see in the international press, the UK has a mess on its hands and needs to start deporting some radicals before all hell breaks loose. Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli

I'm working hard on it, however here is my idea... open this link and just open and click back on your browser for the first ten results. If everyone who finds this thread does this for me then maybe I can work myself back into the top 10 google results at the least. That was budious + rebellion... you could also try + linux or + neowin , think most of my other dealings are with somewhat sketchier parts of the internet where the results for some reason or another don't usually make their way to google (can anyone really hide from it?).

Ok, a bit far fetched, but is it feasible? If there is one thing America exceeds at, it is our abundance of lawyers and the ability to sue the every living crap out of each other. So anyways... I am ever getting confused with this budious who evidently owns some slamming night club full of ectasy and mushrooms somewhere in florida. Now I first noticed this guys results showing up on google instead of me sometime around 2003... but now it's 2007 and he's completely blown me out of the top 10 google results. Digging through the google results I can find evidence of posts (comparitive third person references and dissillusions of grandure as evident lingual style) prevailing ever since my 1998 conception and first uses of the handle. I was clearly using the handle as of 1998... unfortunately I did not know that it would become permanent, else I would have filed for some sort of trademark, or even the domain name before he has now snatched it... damn you budious (the other one!). It appears he even has started up a Budious L.L.C. (limited liability corporation) business, so trademark infringement would have only be plausible if I had beat him to the punch somehow. Thus, I have no legal recourse, even if I had 'first dibs' on the handle's use. Any law students here who can help me out?! My only solution... to post as many bizarre and dillusional posts as I can across the Internet with the same handle with the intent to confuse or discredit his validity with the use of MY nick name and least any person searching with intent for this Mr. Joe Budious shall instead find my pointless rantings scatterd across the web. If there was any possibility of applying a negative stigma to a night club promoter it would be easy to convince anyone that I have probably dropped way too much LSD, ectasy, and shrooms for a lifetime. Afterall, that is my calling card. Unfortunately, in his line of work I think it would only build stigma... so I'm lost... any ideas? ... ... Google keyword "budious" results Goto to page 2, result 11 is the first one pertaining to me... (this is the point that I find my inner shatner and let out a long "KHANNNNN"!)

Perfect example, Hugo Chavez shows up at the doorstep of the UN in NYC. The US as the host country of the UN headquarters has to put on good face and allow the dictactor/enemy to enter our country freely. Hugo comes in, offers free heating oil for poor US citizens, bashes Bush, and the UN celebrate his visit. Ack Med Automad, or whatever the hell name president of Iran gets the same previledge to visit UN and share his rhetoric. The UN cares nothing of solving the worlds problems, they only exploit politics and try to give the little guy a helping hand, regardless if he is friend or foe. They only delay the inevitable and are an inadequate solution as peace keepers. Look at their roles in African war zones, they stay camped up in their little UN compounds and the UN forces are not allowed to interfere in a fight right outside their doors. Unless they come under direct fire, armed UN forces do nothing to enforce "peace" in the regions they occupy. It is a continous waste of resources and left-winger optimism left over from a post WWII era.

US wouldn't have to try and be the world police if the UN was capable of doing the job it was organized to do. At this point it should be disbanded... as far as the US goes I'm tired of defending our gov't at this point. It goes beyond the Bush administration, the whole system has failed miserably. The injustice done to Ignacio Ramos and his fellow border guard, who are serving 11-12 years respectively in prison for doing their jobs as border patrol guards. They shot a drug smuggling mexican illegal in the ass, the mexican gets immunity, a green card, a $5 million dollar compensation suit from US gov't and these two fine border patrol agents get thrown in the federal pen. Our national guard on the border have orders not to engage armed mercenaries (politically correct liberal press' phrase for describing well-armed drug smugglers) even on US soil. Nancy Pelosi can grand stand in front of Congress all day calling for stricter emmissions on US carbon dioxide levels to prevent global warming... the only restrictions on emissions we need are on the BS coming out of her mouth. Point was back to topic... the US is capable, but unwilling to secure our own borders at home. I don't think it needs to be disputed that were not doing any better abroad. Oh... the over half of this bash. The general public of the US probably doesn't even have much breadth of knowledge or substance about this case or how disfunctionally our gov't is handling the border the situation but that's because I spent 3-4 hours today trying to find a cable news broadcast that hasn't been offering wall-to-wall "Death of Anna Nicole Smith" coverage... OMG - ANNA - NO!!! /insert sarcasim US press totally fails to cover the issues just due the fact that either people don't care or the reporter's personal bias.

Im happy with tuxracer and gnometetris ... or at least the latter anyways I really prefer having a desktop w/o any games to play... it's the only way I can get my programming class and SQL class homework done. If I boot windows I just sidetracked playing CS:S or MedievalII.

Actually I think it is the other way around... sound battle tactics of yourself in playing the battlemap give the same units much better odds. The autocalc algorthm just looks what ratio of units you have and their stats in paper-rock-scissors fashion and takes into no account any sense of battle tactics. Again with the diplomacy... I just force the AI to give me a couple thousand florins to agree to peace and then go back to war with them again in a turn or two. lol... guess the backstabbing goes both ways.

Yeah... the allies are pretty much useless, even if you marry a princess they still backstab you no more than 5 turns later. I stop using diplomats except to get trade rights. I been playing on Very Hard Campaign, Very Hard Battlemap settings and it can be mighty tough, but if you last the first 75 turns on very hard then you usually can win the game. I can definitely do far better managing the battlemap myself, I have auto'd some battles I thought to be no-brainer victories for me and the AI scores it for the other guy... pretty much gotta battle manually to win the game on very hard settings.

The sign about the store hours was in the window of that Starbucks. =o) LOL... I really should have had that sign in the window of my last job. I would stay out drinking late and just wonder in the next day at 10:45 or whenever the hell I would drag ass in. Most days the boss was not there so I was responsible for opening store and there be a bunch of customers standing around waiting on me ;p

Im not much of a developer but I voted for C++/OpenGL. I like C++ and OpenGL as they are platform independent. OpenGL was would be an excellent choice to provide a native linux binary, but from my understanding the newer versions of DirectX along with SDK's make DX far easier to program. The support of Cadega/Wine is getting far better quickly so unless it uses DX10 I don't think it would be much problem to emulate a Windows version in linux. The other suggestion would be to team up with other enthusiast strategy gamers looking to develop a game for their genre of taste and develop an open source project game engine. Then have a seperate team of model and graphic developers specifically from this site working on our "Rebellion 2" game. If you are going to seriously consider putting time and resources into developing a project of this nature then in the best interest of long-term use and support it would be ideal for the engine to modder friendly and seperate from the game content.

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Let me revive this thread shortly... I am attempting to get Rebellion working in wine 0.9.30 on ubuntu 6.06. I] installed from the Rebellion CD but when I run the executeable from the wine windows location the game window comes up and abruptly exits. I am curious to the two guys who have this working in wine what your winecfg settings are, did you do anything special as import native windows dlls or using the standard wine libraries? Library overrides, etc.? Update: Nevermind, I figured out the problem. Winecfg drives even when I edit them would add a second drive letter for the cdrom every time I mounted a cd. I changed the original cdrom drive entry from hard disk to cd_rom for whatever reason it was auto-detecting it that way, but now everything works. I guess there's no combination of settings to get it to display a full 1024x768 in an emulated desktop? Even set to 1024x768 using the -w or not it only shows 640x480 in the emulated desktop. I run 1920x1200 native res on my laptop screen so it's utterly annoying to try and play the game at this point, but at least it works. Update: Added some pages to the SW Rebellion Wiki - Please discuss your problems or changes to posted solutions to the original forum thread. Refinement of the wiki documentation will be updated as deemed necessary. http://www.swrebellion.com/rebedwiki/index.php/Windows_XP_x64 http://www.swrebellion.com/rebedwiki/index.php/Windows_Vista http://www.swrebellion.com/rebedwiki/index.php/Wine_on_Linux_or_BSD

All you need for successful uprising missions are characters with high leadership rating, it's optimal to have a high espionage so the mission will not be thwarted by garrisons. Use a bounty hunter character as a team decoy, anybody with high espionage and combat skills to protect weaker officer characters. I suggest on uprising using two members with good leadership ratings... if you are Imperials with Emperor on Coruscant all characters get a %50 leadership bonus, keep that in mind. With Emperor bonus you can be ok with just one strong character as agent portion of mission. Look for creating a combination of 1-2 characters with a combined leadership 130+ rating and don't forget the mission decoy character (you can also use imperial commandos or rebel guerillas as decoys, use 2-3 of those cheaper units in place of a bounty hunter).

Alternate suggestion for the characters in the first situation. If you have the characters in the same sector as your diplomats and there is a system of the opposite faction with minimal garrison and is no more than %75 in the opponent's favor find your characters with strong espionage and leadership ratings. Use these characters as two agent, one decoy (high combat, high esp for decoy) configuration in an uprising mission. Uprising has the opposite effect of diplomacy. When the planet reverts to neutral it will create a swing across systems in the sector to your favor. The combination with diplomats on other planets can also create chain reactions. For your second situation, I can confirm this does work. You can leave a fleet for a prolonged period of time at a neutral planet and it will eventually turn if nothing else in the same sector has interfered with the shift of favor on the system you are blockading. Leaving a fleet over an enemy system for a prolonged period of time, especially a low garrisoned one will also show results more readily in swing to your favor.

Well first off look for good diplomats, ones that start with a 75 or higher Diplomacy rating. If you are in a sector with mostly neutral systems (7 of 10) pick the two with strongest favor ratio. Green for Imperial, Red for Rebel, etc. Pick out the ones over %50 in your favor and send one diplomat to each. They should turn the planet within a couple of turns. Cancel the mission and send the diplomat to next strongest ratio which your other diplomat is not already on. Use this method early in the game to get control and resources. The reasoning behind this method is that when a diplomat turns a system, all the other systems in the sector get a small push in ratio towards your side (%2-3 maybe). By starting with the stronger systems you turn them quicker moving the other neutrals closer to your side, turning a quantity of neutrals quickly will move the entire sector to your side (7*%2-3 = %14-21). By the time you turn the last neutral system, the first neutral system you turned will probably be around %70-75 in your favor though you haven't down any diplomacy on it since you started. You will also see this happen as a chain reaction event sometimes when your diplomat turns one system and 3-4 other planets in the same sector without diplomats on them will turn to your side during the same turn.

Speaking of conversations... has anyone else noticed in ROTJ that when the ewok that finds Leia dives under the log at the approaching storm troopers he yells "Eat Cha Mamma"... listen closely to the rest of dialog and you find lots of little jems... kinda like trying to figure WTF Kenny says on South Park. (Not quite sober yet)

I just use Han Solo to sabotage everything. You don't even need a fleet n00b... sorry if that takes the fun out of it for you

Just to elaborate on George's use of Ewoks in the ROTJ: 1982 represented a year in which dozens of unemployed entertainment midgets fell on hard times. More likely George Lucas woke up from an all night crack binge in a stingy Los Angeles alley next to a few of the little guys wrapped in cardboard and carpet scraps... to which he OMG'd and some some drunk midget slurred back WTF E'WOK! Riding on success from Star Wars: ROTJ the midgets enjoyed their fame. But in 1987 things were again rough. The going rate for midget entertainment had fallen slightly behind hispanic lawn care rates in the greater Los Angeles area. Ron Howard had a couple of the little guys cutting his grass that summer and while binging out with George Lucas discussing the "Willow" budget wrote the little guys in another part. Why Jar-Jar is really in prequel triology: Jar-Jar represented the 1998 transition of outsourcing Industrial Light and Magic to India. Trained with the latest ethnic slurs Indian voice-overs provided an authentic african-american tone to a racially cultivated and computer generated stereotype straight from Bangalore at an amazing rate of US $1.27/Hr. Damn... I really need to pour out the vodka and goto bed.

Mediclorines... stupidest thing ever. Thanks George

Well I was attempting to play Rebellion in VPC 2007 RC and cannot get the game graphics to display. Note that I was using a Windows 2003 Enterprise Server SP2 RC build that I was also testing, but I had enabled hardware acceleration in the dxdiag utility and turned on the windows audio services which are disabled by default in MS server editions. Im not sure if this is a configuration issue or lack of support. The interesting advantage to this if the game did work is you can use a 64-bit host OS with a 32-bit guest OS installed in VPC. The 32-bit OS will allow the 16-bit game installer to run so this would add an alternative to the x64 installer I was messing around with at one time.

Hmm... so if you wrote a new executable then this technically isn't a mod? Rather a full fledge fan creation.