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Venezuela to seize golf courses A golfer and caddy at Caracas Country Club Venezuela's golf courses are seen as havens for the rich The mayor of Venezuela's capital Caracas says he plans to expropriate two exclusive golf courses and use the land for homes for the city's poor. Mayor Juan Barreto has said playing golf on lavish courses within sight of the city's slums is "shameful". Mr Barreto, an ally of President Hugo Chavez, has been trying to address a dramatic housing shortage in Caracas. But critics say property rights are being eroded in Venezuela, where farms and ranches have also been seized. Three years ago Mr Chavez's left-wing government started redistributing agricultural land that it said was underused to help landless peasants. But this is the first time officials have announced plans to expropriate privately-owned urban land to make way for public housing, says the BBC's Greg Morsbach in Caracas. Affluent suburbs Mr Barreto had ordered the "forced acquisition" of the golf courses, city attorney Juan Manuel Vadell told the Associated Press. He said compensation would be paid, at a level decided by an appraisal commission. The golf courses - the Country Club and Valle Arriba club - are in the city's most affluent suburbs, home to millionaires, foreign diplomats and celebrities, and are seen by some as a haven for the rich. Venezuelan farm Venezuela has seized "idle" farm land for redistribution They are also in districts run by the opposition. Mr Chavez has not yet said whether he supports the move. But opposition city council member Carlos Ciordia called the plans "electoral demagoguery" by Mr Chavez, who is hoping for re-election in December. Fernando Zozaya, president of the Caracas Country Club, said "this has created great concern" among his club's members. But Mr Barreto said: "It's shameful to see people playing golf and just right there in front of them is a shantytown." "We are following the policies laid out by President Chavez... to give a new social direction to the city, so the city can be enjoyed by everyone," he said in a television interview. Mr Barreto has said 5,000 people could be housed in the space taken up by a single golf course. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5297246.stm I think its a good idea. Poor people shouldn't live in rat infested, boxed in buildings just because some millionares decided to built a golf course for their entertainment, taking all the space. Entertainment for the rich shouldn't come as an expense for social living condition, no matter how rich the person is. I wish more countries will do this. In the US, they are doing this by conserving space, and not allowing people to built anywhere. But in most 3rd world countries, if you have the money you can buy whatever you want, and the hell with the consequences. I think that needs to change. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5297246.stm

Although BF2 looks like a great game with nice graphics and large maps, it has its bad points. It can be obviously be concluded that the game was rushed, and I will point that out later in this post. Myth ONE: Battlefield 2 is said to feature 100 players on a server at one time. Too bad that out of the maps that they showed it, none feature more than 64 players. Suspicious isn't it? Source: http://www.totalbf2.com/game/maps/ So the question is: How many maps will feature 100 players if any? Im pretty sure the game won't be released with 30+ maps, so if out of 12 none feature 100 players, what is the possibility of 100 player maps. It seems in the latest interview, the developer kept on bragging about the "100 players on a server". We haven't seen anything YET, so time will tell. Im pretty sure you will see 100 players on a server in BF2 when pigs fly. BF2 is the last game you would want to buy if your aiming for realism action. As it was said by the developers, BF2 will feature a "rock-paper-sissors" system. Now lets not go into all the things they did get wrong, like inaccurate weapons, etc. Now, whats up with the medic. For those of you with "half a brain", you would know the defibrillator is used in hospitals to release people from heart blockout. Usually when somebody has a heart attack. It shocks the muscles and gives the heart another start. Thats the best solution DICE found to give to medics for their medic pack. :rolleyes: You will see the defibrillator in action on a real battlefields when pigs fly. Unless all the soldiers are 60 year old known to have heart attacks... :laugh: Ok, so whats up with the armor system. To my knowledge, soldiers carry the same flak jacket regardless of rank or what their role is. Ex: machinegunner, soldier, medic, etc. Except for the sniper which might carry different uniform and body armor. Why isn't that in BF2? Why does the assult guy take more damage than a medic? Not to mention that DICE didn't even bother to record realistic sounds for weapons, or find their value of penetration to implement in games. Even counter strike source has that! The vehicles will all be balanced and the M1 will equal the T90 and so forth. Im also expecting to shoot 3 times at a tank to blow it up. :laugh: Uhm well thats not really true in real life and even for a game its stupid if you ask me. This game is said to feature "modern" equipment. Well the AH64 is newer than the "Cobra" yet added the cobra is added instead. Now to prove that the game was rushed: There is no COOP feature in it, no campaign, and in the skirmish single player, there are only 16 bots to go against. The question is: Is this the best DICE can do? Altough more than half of the community wants COOP support, there is none. So what would you be playing? Same old, repeating and predictive conquest. In conclusion, do not just rush and waste 50$ on this game. Play the demo, and if you like it, by all means buy it. Don't waste your money like that. All your doing is making EA/DICE rich for a job thats probably lamely done

You do realize BIS is one of the main founders of IDEA. Regardless of who's fault it is, it doesn't matter. What matters is that this game needs fixing, staying quiet while blaming other people won't fix anything. Even if is a Publisher issues, its BIS who made the deal with the publisher. Its BIS's responsability to find a good publisher. After all, its their product that will suffer.

Well 18 can be classified as playable. Just think of the huge island your playing on. You should be glad its 18 and not 10. I don't want to bring back the HD issue, but I have to add something new to it. I sometiems get horrible lag in towns for about 30 seconds or so where it drops to 2 fps. At that point, the HD light is on... After about 30 seconds, or a minute, it settles and everything becomes playable again. That happens sometimes randomly. I know its not a background program because this only happens to OFP, and I play other games too. I also noticed that compared to other games like Gothic 3, ARMA uses way less memory. Also, I doubt its an 8800 isue for those having 8800 cards. Check to see how other games are playing, and if its only ARMA causing issues, then its not a card problem.

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You want military experience? Go join the army and fight in Iraq, how about that for a military experience. This is a fricking game after all, people need to realize that. You will never get real military experience from your game monitor, controling a soldier with your keyboard.

Campaign sucks too. And no, I'm not being negative, theres a whole thread about it in the single player forum. So unless the single the single player demo comes with the editor, there's no point to it.

Well, the single player is screwed. Campaign sucks big time, no offence to BIS. The multiplayer is not in a better state either, but it has potential I guess.

Pasworded, and private servers won't keep the game alive people. And its fair to assume there won't be an admin 24/7. And because of JIP, cheating will increase. Also, on dedicated servers, anyone has any idea how to go back to the missions screen once you play a mission. Or how to vote? It seems all the # commands are gone I haven't played much, so many its just me not knowing

I don't think you will see anything like "Slash's RPG", "Nogova Virus", "Skye Virus", "Crime City" or "Nogvile" for ARMA till BIS fixes lots of issues. First of all the lag the maps will produce will make them unplayable. If CTI's lag this bad, you can imagine the lag on these maps. So proof of that = CTI maps in ARMA. Second, they need to fix their movement bugs and maybe even tweak them a little.

I don't think the CTI being unfinished is a bug. I don't know about you guys, but I get no more than 20 FPS with just me on the map. So no point in playing CTI because of the lag. They should focus on the performance problem first. Since even if they fix the CTI and leave the performance as it is, no more than 20% of the people with the game will play it.

Its currently impossible to have any dogfights, even against the AI. I have no idea why they even included a camel dogfight MP mission with the game. Did they even bother to test it? I hope they fix it, but I have low hopes, especially after the chopper fix

Moderators have to be fair, not biased. You call that trolling or whatever, I call that the truth. And if it makes you feel any better, I barely post here, so don't say I'm trolling.

Good luck in the future

I agree, its easy to put it in the game. But making it good becomes the hard part. Thats why it sucks so much in ARMA, because the inertia is done half assed. About the vertical take off, whats so hard about it? Mods did it in OFP.

So you're all telling me BIS tried to simulate inertia when they can't even simulate the harrier taking off like it's suppote to. Nice try

Theres you problem, 256 mb. You really need 512 to play it on high.

This is a hardcore simulator blackdog, don't you know that? If you want to fly like rambo, go back to BF2. No seriously nice video. I agree with you, but its sad to see this "simulator" turning into a joke.

Because back then it was known as OFP2. Flashpoint2.com anyone? The point is they anounced a prequel (OFP2 or whatever you want to call it) back in 2004. Just because they changed the name doesn't matter.

Why don't you just say mid 2006, or heck just a few months ago. Nobody really knows the exact date when ARMA started and who cares either way? The point is that a statement was released by BIS in about 2004 that a prequel is coming up. Thats all that matters.

Demo is 1.03 I was testing the netcode yesterday and it seems for a private host (non dedicated server), the netcode is just as bad as OFP. With more than 8 people, it would become unplayable. Thats what my system could handle. In OFP it was well over 12 people. For the guy who doesn't want to make a video because he doesn't want to prove me wrong, then shut up about it and move on.

Looking forward to the video. Did you try compressing it? Or is it super long?

Those videos are nice even though unrealistic. But now there is heavy restriction on aiming, and thats what bugs most people.