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I envy those with half terms... I don't get them here at UKC. Instead of a half term I'll be enjoying what is termed as: Essay week. I'll leave it to you to work out what that's for. It isn't gaming. It's going to be difficult to finding time to play EAW in between studies. Still, better to release in February than during the May-June exam period.

He will be missed.

I think it works both ways. I'm pretty sure my attempts at any American accent would be appalling. Same for an Auzzy accent...

Hi. *Imagine same sentiment as the above two posts. Apply additional words as needed*.

I don't really know enough about it to discuss it in any detail. maybe once one of my housemates gets around to showing it to me I'll be able to participate in a B&W2 discussion more... I wouldn't hold your breath though. Oh, and the lucasarts forums are a mess. Of all the EAW ones they're one of the worst, wheras here with the PFF we do stand out above the mediocre...

Melt? Were they all living in volcanoes or something? Bones are carbon based and hence tend to be quite resilient to decay over time, dinosaurs being the obvious example. You'd be surprised just how many ideas are truely un-original, spawning themselves in many places yet being very similar. Silence is nothing. People had means of communication before speech, and as long as communication happens there will always be room for ideas to spread. Not that I believe they heard it from elsewhere, like I say, similar ideas and concepts are likely to occur naturally since the world as we see around us is essentially the same wherever we are. Dragons being based on what we see of creatures around us, birds, lizards...etc

From my experience everything that dies leaves a corpse (how long this corpse remains is dependant upon the creature's anatomy). A dragon would undoubtedly have bones. That's the way in which mammals, birds, lizards, fish all eveolved. Whatever area you believe a dragon could have evolved from, bones are going to be part of a corpse... and bone decays very slowly. There would be some trace other than one 'suspicious' corpse. As for magic, modern magic is quite simply a lie, people/magicians claiming to do it are little more than tricksters and frauds. Some are bettter than others, but the truth remains that magic is more about reading individuals by intricate, unnoticable behaviors, and then using it in conjunction with illusion. There is nothing to prove magic exists... it is merely works of fantasy which evoloved and were passed down over the ages... like dragons in that respect.

I was just thinking that on some planets the local populace is... well, ewoks... or jawas... or there isn't one. It's hard for there to be a rebellion at your settlement when there is no local population other than your garrison. I mean, it could always be the jawas and ewoks and so on, but I think that the empire would have no problem eradicating them easily if they showed the slightest signs of trouble. It may be possible if there is pretty much no-one stationed there. 1 platoon of stormies will probably not be enough to control a planet The last alternative I can think of is that it becomes your enemy's base/planet, but this seems a bit unfair like I said before. Imagine you're on the defensive and suddenly your most powerful planet instantly defects to your enemy giving them a great support. For some reason this just makes less sense gameplay wise than neutral planets.

For Queen and country... What's that you say? She's a he? And he's an emperor? Well dash it all. That's just not cricket... what have they been doing to our fair empire? Oh well, I suppose an emperor is better than a monkey president... or a gungan... or both...

Petroglyph are probably mindful of rebellion, but I wouldn't expect them to take many elements from it. The planets leanings are cool, but I also wouldn't have thought it would have been inspired by Rebellion all that much. There are bound to be major discrepancies... most likely for the best. We already know from screenshots planets could be neutral, but if your planet rebels, what would be the neutral force to take over? For Tatooine is this going to be the Jawa population that helps in the videos? Or is it going to be a split band of your own troops? So for example your planet rebels against the Empire. You send in more troops face to face with what used to be your own stormies, now the neutral player against you.

I'm an English student... 1337 is no more a real language than pig latin is. Why people use it is a little beyond me. I side only with the language of the true elite... Real English (I of course indorse and include other real languages, like French, Spanish, German...etc)

This has been confirmed just recently in the interview by SWGB Heaven of associate producer at LucasArts, David Silverstein. A link can be found in one of the announcements in General discussion with a similar name. I think one death star is all I really need. It makes no real sense to have more than one at a time... and that kind of power probably causes balance issues between the two sides.

When planets rebel I think they'd just go neutral. Seems like the logical way considering gameplay. Seems unfair to have a planet rebel only to turn to your enemy's side for no reason other than you used to own it.

Reservations at shops at online generally are estimated quite badly. It doesn't take a lot of effort for most games to find a date, but for some reason most places do estimate early. On the other hand some places can get it earlier than others. These do tend to be online orders though. If I was you I wouldn't expect it to come on the 2nd, but the possibility is there.

Problem with that is owning Naboo might give you a 'mighty' (yeah right) Gungan army to defend... Is it really worth that price to get your hands on some Naboo starfighters? "Mesa an Imperial" "Yousa an Imperial?" "Wesa all Imperial now" "Whysa de Gungan army not got Stormtrooper armour then?" "Theysa not trusting us with armours. Wesa clumsy" "No Jar, Jar... yousa clumsy..." "Nuh uh..." I think on this thought Naboo might be one of the last places I'll take. Even an ewok army can't be that bad.

Pre-PC: Secret of Monkey Island - Damn fine, funny game. Every young kid should play this. Lure of the Temptress - Spent hours upon hours playing this. I regret not being able to find it for the PC. N64: Mario 64 - The first game I ever saw in full 3d. It was the only reason I bought a N64. Goldeneye - You have to enjoy a game to get good at it. You have to love it to master it. Probably my favourite game that came out on the console. Ocarina of Time - How could I have forgotten this gem. You know what I said just above about favourite game on the N64... I think it's a tie... PC: Monkey Island 2 - Ok, so this was a long time back on my dad's first computer. Same reasons as the first game, but the truth of the matter was they managed to get the series funnier. Warcrafts 1-3 - What can I say. Great series, deserves it's reputation. I wasn't appealed by the graphics of the 3rd one at fist, but the cartoony look grows on you. Diablo 2 & exp - I used to play a lot before the expansion, and even more so upon getting it. I have a high level paladin somewhere on the hell difficulty... he keeps getting thrashed by the ancients. I didn't have an internet connection, so he's mainly SP adventuring or with friends on the network here. Galactic Battlegrounds & exp - Mainly spent time with the level editor. Shared levels with friends. Made some very humorous ones. I even made the whole of JK in it with all the JK sounds. Star trek Armada 1 - Only because I modded the whole thing to stupid proportions. Where there used to be 6 ships for each race in total, my personal mods increased it to a whopping 24 per race. I adapted the AI so you'd have huge CPU armadas prowling the map and really putting the pressure on. It had multiple hero ships per race, all with accurate captain sounds, custom weaponry, the works. It truely wa a personal massterpiece. I spent at least a year on the whole thing and somehow still managed to do well at school at the same time. It all got erased quite recently when my hard drive died... The Sims 1 - One damn fine idea which they made work so well. The success of the franchise proves how popular it was. I customised this to stupidly large extents too. Went the same way as my Armada modifications. I'll add more if I think of them.

Link has a sword... Oh wait, and BOMBS. He's encourages terrorism! Anything can be seen in negative light as long as you're looking hard enough. I don't think I even have the urge to kill anyone other than in game. It's like films. You enjoy it because....it's not real. Just because I watched a film doesn't mean I believe it happened/is happening. Same for computer games. I mean that's the real draw of games and film/tv, it's enjoyable escapism. You don't then come back after playing a game/watching a film for two hours or so thinking 'I could do these things in real life'. If anything it relieves stress, not builds it to the point of murder etc.

In the most recent gamecube mario game he has a 'fludd'... that's like a water pistol. Pistol... guns. I hope you see the connection here, he's encouraging street crime. Pah. All this talk of VGs being the cause of violence is a load of rubbish. Sure, I'm shy and not so social in real life, but I was like that before I got into gaming. If someone's shy and enjoy games I hardly see how they become violent? I'm generally quite passive. I have a temper like everyone... but that's more inherited than from anything existencial.

Doh. Do I now have to draw an airfoil? The reason planes fly is completely different to how a bird would. It's basically to do with the shape of the wing for planes shifting air density to cause an upward push for planes. For birds their body weight is in proportion to the upward pull created by 'flapping' their wings. Unless you expect a dragon to have airfoil wings and glide very much like a plane, it isn't going to fly unless their weight is balanced with the physics of the wings flapping. To counteract a great weight similar to an aeroplane by 'flapping' wings, those are going to have to be some very stupidly large wings... Dragonflies are insects. Other than thir name, they bear little resemblance to the accepted dragon concepts.

I hope the Q&A we put together is back before the live chat. It would be a shame if we get all those questions answered in the chat, only to have the Q&A come back with the same answers... kind of defeats the point of it.

It's a name. Names can often be decieving. Look at it, it's a big lizard. The dragonfly. Is that a dragon? No. The name means nothing. The name was probably thought up long ago when people thought they could be dragons, before the more modern idea of them became founded in the public consciousness. That doesn't make then dragons though. If we are to examine it, we would find the internal workings of it are very similar to smaller lizards. The internal wokings of a dragon however would have to be considerably different. Lightwight for the ability to fly, well protected since it is capable of producing fire from it's breath... probably due to the sheer size of it, warm blooded... A dragon would be probably closer in terms of physiology to mammals/birds than to lizards. Think rhino-vulture... probably something close to that.

classic lizard... No wings. 'nuff said

Whoa, those look really cool. I can see someone is putting a lot of work into those models.

I must admit, the thought did cross my mind when I saw that. However, it isn't all that hard to find the same things humorous as your siblings given upbringing etc. There are plenty of things my brother has shown me that I then like so much I pass on to others (and vice-versa). Until Hadoken revels himself to be a problem - either through being part of a split personality, or becoming more like his brother in terms of posts - there isn't much we can do but trust him. After all, he's done nothing wrong really. Fobdo is a different matter though. My concern is by banning him he'll simply create a new account and begin to do it again under another name. It seems like the logical thing he'd do.

You're left with an empty galaxy to rule. It might work. Thing is, this only works if the Rebels can destroy planets With any luck there might be some sort of assasinate the hero game. I don't know how this might be applied with so many game heroes, but I always find this mode one of the most fun in RTS'.