HellToupee

Yes but towns are generally the most strategic points we have, in ww2 the most strategic points were generally towns especially cross road and port towns. A hex is generally not a point needs to be something in them of value, something visual. I dont get what you mean by group spawning. Also i dont really see the point of a lt commander, its entirly symbolic in game, i dont really see what a seperate role brings to the table. The only role i could see is unit allocation to the infantry squads, eg transport. Squad leaders are perfectly capable or coordinating themselfs they just have to be willing. AS i indicated armour and airpower would be under some command of commander because without control over them his role would also be entirly symbolic. You have to be realistic to, there could be alot of organisation in CTI ofp, it is down entirely to the players even with a chain of command in place like battlefield for example it is no gurantee of organisation. Organisation will not prevent scatting of people over the map only limited points of focus will, there is no way to force organisation without reward.

i prefer town locations to hexs, its just simpler hexs would lead to IMO a confusing front line of sorts, no clear idea of what empty peice of land is yours or theirs. If town locations are unbalanced u just adjust the worth of controling such a town based on its location. they still gota spawn somewhere the advantage of the base building approach it gives players the ability to choose where to place their base, not a static location where units reinforce. COmmander instead of some complex auto performance system could just be a vote system, since how well the people under his command like him is generally a measure of his performance :P. All human players should be treated as squad leaders, and ai units should just be assigned by commander, however i think players should have control over their own infantry squad of some size, commander should only deal with powerful units eg tanks, attack helecopters else his role becomes too administrative. The chain of commander in my oponion would revolve around those heavy units, since the commander would have control of them and pretty much everyone would want one , like battlefield it had a chain of command but rarely it meant anything people just wanted to do their own thing, so u need to bribe players with big toys.

actually that was changed not long after the demo, if you lay down in the grass you blended in beyond the grass rendering range, you sorta matched the color of the terrain so it was still very hard to stop u but not completly invisable ither.

im pretty sure manoverability wouldnt matter so much since well the helecoper would just rotate and face it, maybee at point blank range but then how do u close to that range with out copping it.

guess again for what? if hydrogen was so cheap and easy to get we would all be using it, because your conspiracy theroy aside far more governements and people have more to gain from removing their oil dependancy, eg china.

everyone knows how to extract hydrogen from water, it requires alot of energy tho, the problem with it is its uneconomical, oil we have we are so dependant on because its so cheap, u suck it out of the ground you refine it a bit and wulla large quantities of cheap fuel. At the moment most hydrogen is extracted from natural gas. " It has always been possible to replace petrol but the big oil companies spend a lot of money quashing hydrogen fueled vehicles there was even a 1960s hydrogen fueled turbine car. It was cheap to run and no polluting; at the exhaust of turbine but where does the energy to create the hydrogen come from?" Conspiracy theroys, countries including the US and others who have billions to throw at things would love to not be dependant on oil of which the majority comes from the middle east where organisations like opec have control over prices. People are complaining about current oil prices but these alternatives are vastly more costly. What the story was about was someguy who had supposedly found a highly effient way of using electrolysis to extract hydrogen from water.

reminds me of event horizon movie

Uhh.. don't know where you are getting that idea but Buran can lift 30 metric tons of stuff while the space shuttle can do 25 tons. Reading too much pravda lately comrade? heh got its stats mixed up with the rockets that carry the shuttle

they should just borrow the buran it can carry like 10times more than the american shuttle and dosnt even need a crew

Simulations state is still the way its always been, they dont appeal to online gamers and theres no competitive play the individual player no matter how good can still be meat for some newb. And also simulations often simulate somethings that people do not consider enjoyable, eg slient hunter, how much fun inrl would sitting in a tube be for months on end. or lomac where its all about the ability to use the avonics and not fly the plane. Modern sims tend to feel like simulating using a computer, ofp dosnt really simulate the technology to any degree which is probly why its so enjoyable, how would joe solider feel getting hit by bombs from 10k and having gun ships kilometers away playing turkey shoot. Or hiding in a bush from a tank only to find its got infra red and you have no place to hide. The most popular of sims will always be the ww2 flight sims, racing and small scale infantry/swat style. People will always be around to make the less popular ones like sail sims, train sims

simulation style handling is ok but thats less important than dammage model and avonics methinks, realism wise using things in the same way inreal life is more important than them behaving like they do in real life. Real life being hovering miles away behind a hill plinking off targets that cant see you. To be truely realistic mr footsoldier would have a greatly reduced role with machines and their ability to touch you from afar would rule.

the lighting performace wise is upthere with modern fighters, and pilots loved the plane. Its weaknesses were range and payload, but its performace is still impressive almost 50years on. A lighting with modern engines and materials It could also catch U2 spyplanes

i just hate all the training levels you have to do just to play online, sitting through an hour of lecture from the game just to be medic no thanks, crawling through some level time after time with only 1 way to go getting spotted at the same place every time by some invisable enemy and having to repeat from faraway

wasnt into empire earth much, just was sooo difficult to and took so long to win games, friend loved it tho. Empire earth 2 should be out soon tho.

been waiting eagerly for this one, 3d for the greatest rts of all time ooooooooh

My 11g wireless card works fine, its a atheros chipset for which drivers exist called madwifi, not the easyest things to get going but work great. Really depends on what chipset the card is weither it will work or not.

ive been into it quite heavly as of late, im currently level 54 and in an organisation. At first i tried and dropped it after finding it complicated and the ui difficult, but i came back to it and got off noobie island and loved it once i started climbing to higher levels and working with teams.

far cry was very popular but it didnt even slightly resemble ofp, soldner well gfx wise that is even worse than ofp imo, however this game is being made by illusion softworks who have made many very good games, hidden and dangerous 1&2 one of my favs mafia and vietcong. The games looking similar well is probly hard to avoid.

what happened in korea? i seem to rember the chinese sending the UN packing.

nothing beats irc, but i need IM to keep intouch with the non irc ilding friends of mine i use gaim in linux and trillian in windows

just delete everything u dont want off teh partition and the windows folder thats all u need to do. Unless of course u cant mount the partition from the one you wish to keep

they wernt utter crap, they had poorer pixel shader performace yes, and made optimisations in their drivers so does ati. But they still performed well, i have a 5900xt its a very good card for its price and cant really notice any difs to my mates 9800. But i am a bit nvidia biased with there good linux support.

agp 6600gts should be out soon they are a better value for money price performace wise than the 5900xt which i have and the ati 9800s.

Have you ever played with the RO bots? yes as i said its up to the mod team to implement them, and RO havnt really implemented them, they cant even find there way around, where as in ut2k4 onslaught the bots are able to do everything.

Yes.. UT 2004 to be precise. It's pretty nice but the player movement is just crap... It appears as they are standing on ice. The AI is among the worst I've seen but for games with all human players it has some potential. With a few fixes it will easily beat games like BF and CoD. The realism is high. the ai is very good, ut2k4 bots can do all the game modes and still beat most people when set to godlike, its up to the mods to implement them properly, and they usually are very low priorty as they are all, well most focused on multiplayer