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Boo! I've been on a Mac for years, but a mate is giving me an old Windows laptop, i'm looking at giving the game a go again. Been making ship cards using stuff from: http://fractalsponge.net/

A little late, but I blended together some recent events, with a little celebration score from a galaxy far far away Good to see you Tex and E!

Golly, that seemed like time travel

Supremacy, as it was marketed in the UK, is curiously the only PC game I couldn't let go of, once I migrated to a Mac Still there on my shelf

Nice, I remember when you were an annoying teenager as well Alas, I migrated to a mac rendering most of my gaming options on a computer obsolete (no cheats/hacks on Empire at War anyone?), but ultimately the limitations of Rebellion pissed me off to much to bother using Parallels to play on my system. To me the game was an epic tale you could be part of filled with imagination, swiftly ruined with the game's original limitations, that Revolution's editor made somewhat more enjoyable; such as making the entire 200 systems core worlds, but no one ever getting to grips with the most hated aspect of the game; the pain in the arse 'natural disaster' that simply pissed off everyone. Epic tales I love, give me a thousand star systems and just a gradual increase in eaches' resources and you have the ultimate reason to build a Death Star and destroy worlds. I loved the option to name ships as well. This was a mellow game that so could have been

Busy with life, but all is cool. You well dude?

Hahaha That's brilliant

Well done you mate; life is a bit easier with a few academic options under your belt

That would be cool, given it's Darwin's big moment, I would be happy to show you the first addition of the book; it goes at auction for hundreds of thousands of pounds. A freebie in the zoo goes without saying

Hello matey! Sorry I haven't been around of late, real life rather gobbled me up in 2008, work wise. Good to see so many of the old faces of more or less grown up with online are still about. I can't promise this is my grand return, because i'll wake up tomorrow and nothing will have changed in so far as how I juggle time. As you may have realized work got suddenly very busy. I basically got put in charge of an image data base at the Zoological Society of London and tasked to build it from scratch, in part from working at a paparazzi company called Bigpictures some of you may remember I worked for briefly, where I used some software called Fotostation which you basically use to attach meta data to images, making them easy to find. (Bigpictures literally had millions of images). Cool thought I, then the immensity of the task set in; there were at least 500,000 .jpg's alone on the servers when I started in 2007, not to mention 30,000 b\w historical pictures, and at least eight filing cabinets of slides. Due to this wonderful digital age, the photos being added to the servers on a weekly basis is huge; not just from London Zoo and Whipsnade safari park, but our scientists uploading stuff from their conservation projects around the world. It's also utterly fascinating if you appreciate animals and wildlife, and hence highly addictive hunting for newly uploaded stuff on the servers, especially when you have been given privileged access everywhere. If things couldn't get worse to my excuses not being here, I inherited a minor fortune; not enough to fly us all off to a mid pacific tropical island for a swrebellion member meet , but more than enough to not worry about the house anymore, or my pension to be honest given i've been able to invest a six figure sum in the stock markets via a highly respected firm of investors, and go shopping on my passion for photography; I worked out I spent almost £10,000 on gear in 2008, here's why: http://s4.b3ta.com/host/creative/9805/1233589195/MeandRoxy.jpg A few moments later I took this: http://s2.b3ta.com/host/creative/9805/1235507919/rockhoppers.jpg which got in the The Times Quite a buzz.. I also have access inside the various animal enclosures, which is a photographers dream; and you'll have to bear with me as i've forgotten how to thumbnail using this site's coding; though they aren't that large: http://s1.b3ta.com/host/creative/9805/1235254138/Rickythelemur.jpg A Lemur called Ricky http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/9805/1229465389/IMG1797.jpg A big fluffy overgrown kitten who likes to snarl lots http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/9805/1231006977/IMG1622.jpg A model with a snow leopard cub at the Cat Survival Trust in Hertfordshire http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/9805/1231095094/IMG1050.jpg Me, taken by the model; hence out of focus http://s1.b3ta.com/host/creative/9805/1235173056/AdrianCrackers.jpg and a wildlife film maker I was asked to photograph in our giraffe house So you can see the distractions! Anyway, I hope you guys are all ok, my first internet community this, so I don't think i'll ever be gone to be honest; just my job preventing more interaction, not that that's something I resent as you may have gathered from the above. I'm still on the same email if you want to drop me a line, and will try and pass by tomorrow, assuming nothing dramatic happens; which generally does at a zoo unfortunately! May the Force be with you, always

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aigI3Fs9Jv8 Remember some of this lot?

That's the one!

I'm opposed to those Macs primarily because of the new LCDs they're using, which have a high gloss finish (if you've ever used a laptop with a high gloss screen you'll know how annoying it is, if you haven't they look cool and glossy for about a day and then as soon as you start having dark areas on the screen all you get is a reflection of the real world. Can't watch movies, can't play games, can't do graphic work. Glossy screens have to be one of the stupidest fads of recent computers - PC and Mac) and the smaller model, which is a 20" or 24", only shows 6bit colour and not the quoted 8bit. Some people were suing Apple over this a while ago, false advertising and the such, I wonder how that went? Knowing Apple it was either settled out of court or they were bullied out of the law suite. I can't help but get more and more annoyed at Apple, they make decent products (OK, well the design things well - how they make them is another thing as many iPod gone another brand MP3 player will tell you, or someone who's dropped an iPhone), but they have become real pricks. Websites, or people, who speak out against Apple get shot down. I remember when AppleInsider was forced to take down news articles about Macs because Apple didn't like the PR. They closed an entire site because they were sick of the bad press - and these are sites that report soley on Macs, the good and bad - threatened with law suits that people can't afford. Hell, how many people heard about Apple using slave labour and when they were caught raising the pay of said people to just above the slave labour mark. Sorry for the extended, anti-apple rant at the end there, I'm just getting sick and tired of this sort of political, don't tell the truth, act all nice up front and be a prick in real life bull crap and Apple play the part too well - maybe they should run for some political position? I used to sort of understand this sort of argument, but don't anymore. This machine has simply mental speeds, and to be quite honest, every Mac user i've come across since buying it yesterday as more or less shrugged when i've expressed any concern about all the shit being bombarded at PCs, except my IT manager who after a long pause said he would bring some stuff in tomorrow casually, and picked up the phone to take a call Despite arming myself to the teeth with protection on a PC, still these little annoyances slip through I can't be arsed to be living with in all honestly. An extra grand rid of that crap is fine by me. I finally understand those who mock Microsoft products; and from me without the slightest bit of anti-globalization crap to boot, this simply seems better. Did I say it looks nicer?

My only solution to this completely pointless event in the game, that took far to long to sink in, is you do not not need have to defend every system you control. Watch how the stupid AI behaves. If you control every system in a sector and have them undefended, the AI will randomly bombard you here and there and you will loose support for not being in total control, but with one system in neutral or in it's favor, will not touch you; thus allowing you to build up vast fleets based around shipyards you want to hang onto with troops Having said that, a nice mod to the game expelling this complete blunder to the original game and enabling systems to have at least 15-20 energy slots, given our processor's are a lot harder these days would be cool.

Anyone got the rather woo opening video of Nar-shaddaar from Jedi Knight II?

Utterly amazing stuff! Woo dude I just spent £2500 on a mac today, and fearing a sad departure from a rather old game I have always loved, was amazed as my IT man set up a virtual Windows XP environment for me to play my Star Wars games on When me and my credit card are sober from such expenditure (good god, Macs cost bucks), I will try and engage again; I got nine years out of my PC, NINE YEARS! And it still works, just a bit slow The beast I am now on is on lightspeed

The Natural Disaster, as with the allocation of system energy in systems, are quite frankly the chief disaster of the game, and why I would applaud anyone reverse engineering this bullseye of a game and reseting it on target like it should have always been. I little mod for all of us lot to enjoy, surely System energy has to be one of the great failures of this wonderful game; can you imagine the gameplay with about twenty slots per system without the threat of an illogical disaster? Magical! Oh well

Looking VERY nice!

You certainly pull them from the hat, dude! Educate young minds to the chemical reactions and feelings that will inevitably occur in their brains and bodies, rather than pollute it with mythological and superstitious jargon, so they are best served when they have sex; and thus do so more safely. The religious 'abstinence crowd' I would like to kill with flame throwers and cluster bombs, given their moral religious bullshit is a bit out of date with humanity, and making only matters worse.

Maybe it was modified with a HIMS? THAT needs to be added to Rebellion 2! It could be a researched item. After it's researched, you could have it built on your ship as a mod. Maybe research 2 or 3 versions for large, medium and small ships. Of course you would have to sacrifice something to get this do-hickey onboard. Large ships could sacrifice troops or fighters, the same with medium ships -or- some hull points -or- both, smaller ships would have to sacrifice hull, engines, shield generators, whatever. You could only install the appropriate size HIMS to the correct size ship (i.e. no small HIMS for small ships on an ISD). One size does not fit all. It would cost a small fortune to outfit your entire fleet, but to add this just to your most important ships could save them if there was an unfortunate ambush. Interesting. I hadn't seen that before, but one thing that has always bothered me about the 'gravity well' concept in the first place, is (whilst it's obviously included to conclude game play) it doesn't actually make that much sense! Why not have them on planets to prevent ships entering orbit escaping? The Death Stars were large enough and easily capable of having them, but I seem to know why they don't during gameplay (that would be a seriously grim fate for an arriving Alliance fleet with a DS protected by a shield! ) Rather than gravity wells, I would have preferred some game play option where perhaps depending on the Admiral's leadership attribute, you can jump into a system more or less on top of the ships in orbit, based upon navigational skill; ie: with the potential to wipe out a few ships before they have the chance to flee. This would enable large fleets to still potentially flee, would prevent the enevitable hoarding of ships into super massive fleets experienced in gameplay (given they have a chance of survival protecting individual worlds) and further the need for Palpatine to remain on Coruscant for that Imperial leadership bonus.

Our chief programmer has vanished, I got bored with this about three years ago, given development was kept pointlessly 'secret' not enabling others to contribute on it; but there you go And none of the final release worked for me on my PC

Weird thing just happened to me earlier. The AI was doing it's usual illogical thing in the Corellian Sector, and randomly blockading systems with two unarmed heavy transports here and their; so I sent off an Interdictor on it's own to intercept these two annoying, illogical rascals; only to find once I obviously let the computer handle the out come of the battle, given it's rather bloody obvious conclusion, one of them was destroyed but one escaped! Excuse me? They are completely unarmed! Funniest of of all, my Interdictor sustained damage! Must of been rammed I guess Christ the guys who made this game seriously didn't give a fucking toss did they. Hack this engine to shreads

Did I ever express my laughter, btw, when I received an email from my dad who lives in Ontario in Canada, ranting about the price of petrol? I think it was when I used to be a chauffeur controller in charge of the various S-class Mercedes models in the late nineties before I signed up to this site; and had to do stuff like juggle sending some of them out on jobs on account of their fuel intake and how much was made on each job. Off the top of my head we only had two S-class 600's on the fleet that were more or less tied up with the Spice Girls, which I didn't have to concern myself with to much; but a couple of S-class 500's I did have to sending them anywhere in the City of London; given they were liable to get stuck in traffic, burning money; even if it was for a director of Chase Manhattan or Deutsche Bank being driven only as far as City of London Airport. Tricky times. The laughter set in, after such a day juggling these fuel consuming beasts, when he revealed he drove a 7.2 litre four by four. Class dad! It was soon reduced to a frown, however when I looked at the pictures of his car, and house in the snow; (with my little bro, aged about ten ) and I understood. Such vehicles have a purpose; just not in the centre of cities, logic would dictate.

I suspect he puts on his wings for a serious work out after the pub!

Hehe, elements of Galactic Battlegrounds slipping in here.. but woo, your final paragraph makes what is perhaps possibly realistic; i'm simply up for a huger galaxy, more characters (with some defection salsa, perhaps), tons more resources, and perhaps the element of experience for units; perhaps even including ships and ground batteries, which is something I think I remember bumping into with a Red Alert 2 mod a few years ago. You would certainly look after these precious elite units, and do stuff like make the effort to repair damaged elite fighter squadrons at ship yards, and try and and cause uprisings on enemy worlds where elite LNR's or Gen Cons are present; as to capture them and their experience. Also perhaps a new random event, controlling these dudes, like they have passed on their experience to some random 'unit' somewhere; be it Gen Cons, an infantry unit, capital ship, or fighter squadron..