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<t>Now see there's a problem with this whole piracy drm issue. The publishers (not the devs mind you, its almost always the publisher doing the whining) cry and moan about people stealing their games etc etc. Now that happens, yes. A lot. But see that itself is the issue. It happens a LOT. Any ...

<r>As you like, we agree to disagree. Most of the scientists and researchers I know are not what I would classify as the adventurous type when it comes to experimentation, that is true enough. Perhaps I've just met the wrong types due to the fields I study and the type of scientist that puts me in ...

<t>@robnCompletely agree. Games definitely need balancing factors and trade offs, it's just that it's hydrogen fueled rockets that bugs me. Actually in a way it doesn't, it fits nicely in a certain way. I like the game's retro charm factors like the BBS. It just grates on other things which is why I ...

<t>Fair warning this is going to go off on a tangent here.The fuel thing has always been a sore point to me. 1000 years of development, the colonization of countless worlds, the perfection of hyperspace jumping (not counting the occasional Thargoid) and yet we're still putting around using rocketry ...

<r>I've been wanting to try I-War 2, but I think I'll be waiting for another really good stick setup first. <E>;)</E> I liked the flight model in the original I-War, took some getting used to but it was worth it for the cool tricks you could pull off.I have Tachyon it is nice but .... it's still ...

<t>Fair enough, fair enough. Should have tacked that on to begin with.ok in no particular order,Darkstar One, I tried to get into this one but when I updated it to allow mods, it refused to play nice with my 8800. tried a bunch of fixes nothing worked, gave up and uninstalled.Battlecruiser (et al ...

<t>I've been playing space sims for a quite a while now (first was elite for the c64) and it seems to me that after a certain point as most things got better the core flying/fighting bits got ignored. So I was wondering if maybe someone here could point me in the right direction, either to a game or ...