Smidlee

Reply to lack of planets/ habitable planets v1.8 in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] To be clear: We will still be doing more updates, but from here on out, we have to focus on Twilight of the Arnor so additional updates will have to wait. If you think the decision is made out of a moment of pique, reconsider. The rationale to do a 1.8B to satisfy a tiny tiny number of vocal users has no logical rationale. [/quote] I wouldn't post this before since it would seem a little selfish but now you posted it I have to

Reply to lack of planets/ habitable planets v1.8 in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] Calling us whiners is just childish. The reality is most of us were annoyed enough at your "tweaks" we stopped playing. You should be happy we care enough to say hey, that was a stupid tweak. [/quote] Who is "most of us" and "we" you are referring to? (I can easily turn your statement around to say "you should be happy we care enough to say 'hey, that was a stupid complaint.")

Reply to lack of planets/ habitable planets v1.8 in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] I don't know if this is something easy to do or not, but a warning would be sufficient. A popup that says you're about to run out of memory might be easy to program and would pretty much address the issue. Just save and restart the game, problem solved. [/quote] The next best thing is you could just run Process Explorer [link="http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/processexplorer.mspx"]WWW Link[/link] and keep an

Reply to lack of planets/ habitable planets v1.8 in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] People with older weaker computers could use that. People with top of the line machines will turn it off... [/quote] As it been said so many times here it's has nothing to do with max [B]ram[/B] usage or a older weaker PC but the limits of 32bit system in which all PC games are running. There are no PC games today running on 64bit. In fact, As noted before even the majority of people with Vista has the 32bit version and not 64bit. so i

Reply to lack of planets/ habitable planets v1.8 in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]We do them for you because we care about the game and the community and we like doing them.[/quote] There is no doubt you guys have went the extra mile so please don't get discouraged. (Alexman at CFC also took a lot of heat after kindly posting the details of the latest 3.13 BTS patch when it was delayed longer than he expected.) I agree, even though I haven't post it, that 1.8 patch is a big step forward even if there are less planets. (no big deal to me) Can I ask if you got

Reply to lack of planets/ habitable planets v1.8 in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]You do understand that Vista comes with a 64 bit version, don't you? Machines today also support it. I thought I was stating the obvious since this topic concerning 2 gigs and 32-bit operating systems has already been covered in these forums somewhere.[/quote] The game is still runs 32 bit with a 64 bit OP. Still from my understanding you could increase to uses the whole 4gb for the game instead of the 2gb user/2gb windows split while running a 64bit OP. This same problem show up in

Reply to Dark Avatar 1.7 Beta 4 Change log in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

I haven't tried to increase this 2gb limit myself since I don't have a 64Bit OS. (increasing with 32bit sounds risky) It's my understanding that Civ4 BTS does increase this limit to 4GB if it's run on a 64bit OS. If this is correct you may want to added this 4GB flag on "TOFA" for those who running on Vista 64bit.

Reply to Dark Avatar 1.7 Beta 4 Change log in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Here is a [link="http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=224178"]a thread at CFC[/link] to show how you can increase the 2GB limit which it a lot easier to do with 64bit OS since you can increase it to 4Gb as noted in this post: [quote] ... Civ4 is hardcoded to use 32-bit pointers, so the most it can access is 4 GB, regardless of what OS it is using. Still 4 GB is better than 2/3 GB when using 32-bit windows. The reason 32-bit Windows only allows up to 2 GB (or 3 GB wit

Reply to STOP THE HATE!! in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Often it about the desire to be a winner. If it's a game, debates, keeping up with the Jones, making a lot of money, everyone has the desire to be a winner and hate to lose. (here's where the hate often comes from) Just look at billions of dollars put in sports and watch grown men cry when they lose a game. In the end it's just a game. Also As Solomon pointed out in Ecclesiastes everything that man does "under the sun" is vain. For in the end, death makes us all losers. (How does a wise ma

Reply to Guess what? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Thanks for the laugh. What's next? Will someone start a thread protesting against threads that protest against religious threads in "off topic"? Religion and politics are very common topics in any game "off topic" forum. These are subjects that affect people lives including gamers.

Reply to Why do religious threads always cause such heated arguments? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Stanley: Smidlee: Even scientist sees those who disagree with their view as idiots. perhaps scientist are especially prone to this, because they usually have experimental data to back themselves up. it also requires a fair amount of expert knowledge to be scientist, which further widens the gap to the general audience. I was reminded of a reporter who interviewed

Reply to Why do religious threads always cause such heated arguments? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

But the atheist have logic on their side. THere is no evidence for any deity so the default position is atheism. This is exactly why these threads cause heated arguments. Posts like these. A simple statement with absolutely no effort of explanation. Basically implying you are just an idiot if you don't accept my view without any explanation or civil debate. That's pretty much

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Sounds good but... If this is just a "more everything" (with exception unique techs) i don't know if it's worth buying. Especially when price's bit high for the ex-pak. Game prices are ridiclous these days though . Thanks for the laugh. I remember paying 40-50 do

Reply to A matter of time , or why god is nonsense in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

"I", if you mean the conception of a "self", it is indeed a construct of the brain. construct != illusion You know "I" the near kin of "me" and "myself". Simple say " it's a construct of the brain" doesn't say very much. Might as well say "self" is voltage or the brain is a black hole thinking it's a brain. This "self" say to itself that itself is just the firing of neurons which realize this by firing of neurons that s

Reply to A matter of time , or why god is nonsense in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Prove gods existance! Prove He doesn't exist! formally, ShadowWorrior is right. it is the positive claim that bears the burden of proof. no more freebies for the religious folks! i can prove the existence of atoms, using particle accelerators or similar machines. therefore, this claim is validated. as for the existence

Reply to A matter of time , or why god is nonsense in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

The New Testament (Paul) itself(himself) gives a glide line of which a NT teachings should be accepted or not for he mentions strange doctrine even in the beginning of the church.

Reply to A matter of time , or why god is nonsense in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

ShadowWorrior: no justifications needed! the bible is such a random assortment of texts, and was assembled only in 325 at the council of nicea, when a bunch of guys voted on which texts to include and which to leave out. and they left out some pretty interesting ones at that! like the gospel of judas. yep, that's right! judas has his own version of the story, and it goes much like in "the last temptation of christ"(1988),

Reply to A matter of time , or why god is nonsense in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

I was wondering what book are you preaching out of? I must have missed reading the Gospel of Pmutzu.

Reply to A matter of time , or why god is nonsense in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Warning!!! When using Occam's razor be careful not to cut off your head.

Reply to God gave us thought in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

The greatest trick that Man has ever pulled is making others believe in God Or the greatest trick that man has pulled is to trick people into believing that the greatest trick ever pulled was making others believe in God. Another in the top ten of great tricks would be to trick people in believing nature is it's own creator; thus abiogenesis.

Reply to How can we all be athiests in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Even on forums, you can clearly see the emotions fly in this kind of debate.

Reply to How can we all be athiests in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Well, read my last post about a page ago: These are good examples of selecting traits from an existing gene pool. The are not, however, good examples of creating new traits. Neither are they good examples of single cell animals becoming humans over a period of millions of years. We see bacteria evolving new traits by mutation constantly, both in the lab and in nature. All that hoo-ha a few weeks ago about

Reply to How can we all be athiests in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

This is the source of modern religious conflict. Essentially, in the eyes of the religions, there is only one "correct religion" and thier respective religion is the "correct religion" and the other relgions must be converted. This source of modern day conflict is based on "what is truth?", wealth, and pride. So this doesn't leave those who replace religion (church,God,etc.) with science(the Almighty Dollar,etc.) as they can be

Reply to How can we all be athiests in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

And how do you think domesticated animals got here in the first place? You answered your own question; Man. Man does create and can influence nature in powerful ways. When the last time you saw an ape riding a horse excluding the "Planet of the Apes" films. Man have also learn to make hybrid species (selective breeding) but I believe this is called "artificial selection" not natural selection.

Reply to How can we all be athiests in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Are we really just mindless robots (hyper advanced robots, but robots notheless)??? Robots who are slaves to our DNA ultimately? Yes. We are, in effect, enormously complicated robots. This is what I thought. (someone else here have the same train of thought) So You believe in the "Star Trek Data" theory. The idea that a robot can actually be a part of the world mentally. So far comp