As for the showing off your ranking; the image above is my own "report", which clearly shows I have...nothing to show off :-) Not true. That image clearly shows IE being used. What's up with that? Oh for Pete's sake... Look, he's using Windows. Look, he's using Windows XP. Look, he's allo...

The 1.2 beta had a command line (i.e. for shortcuts - '"steam.exe" -beta2') that you could use to beta test on steam - can't find the original post, though. However, if IV want people to test on Steam, they'll provide such a command line. I just told the patch to install over the top of t...

Yeah, I've heard of aim bots and stuff from Battlefield 2 but I thought the only way to cheat in Defcon was to communicate with a spectator via IM or phone or something. Yeah, and that involves precisely zero technical knowledge. And can be prevented from happening by disabling spectators - please ...

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BrianBlessed wrote:Ahhhh Tom Clancy, an author whose books can be summed up with the phrase "LOOK OUT, COMMIES!"

Actually, it's "LOOK OUT!!!! ARAB TERRORISTS!!!!!!!!"

And here was me thinking that was just US foreign policy...

This doesn't happen very often when I'm playing but when spectating, sometimes I get high latency problems. I don't know why the network issues are different for players or spectators. Has anyone else noticed that? Also, I've found that when I get the latency warning, if I zoom in to anyplace on th...

I'm not keen on Diplomacy and tend to avoid it if I can. It seems to me that with players getting better and more tactically aware this mode is pointless. In the last game I played Europe did nothing...for the whole game. Don't get me wrong they played a good game...their units were very well posit...

Why would you use both?? :?: :?: Seriously, learn how to follow a conversation. :roll: The only justification for using both I've heard so far in this conversation is to cheat. Why else would you use both? wwarnick Because you've got a machine at home and a laptop ? If your machine at home was logg...

In an attempt to repeat the above problem, I tried the sequence again. The main difference in my actions this time was that I attempted to connect to one server, it never connected after 6 attempts so I gave up waiting then I tried a different one. The result was different too. Instead of coming up ...

Right, here's what I thought I'd do. Test out that the auto-downgrade works properly. It doesn't always - I've had it work before but not this time (a moment ago). I'm guessing this must be a rare thing, because nobody else has commented on such a failure. Here's the sequence I performed: 1. Start D...

I have an idea as to why the nukes might slowly reduce over time, even though they're not actually available - I have no idea if it's right. I've just checked whilst playing the game and it's not correct. Oh well, it was just an idea. My understanding is that the nukes in the scorebox are all of th...

I have an idea as to why the nukes might slowly reduce over time, even though they're not actually available - I have no idea if it's right. I've just checked whilst playing the game and it's not correct. Oh well, it was just an idea. My understanding is that the nukes in the scorebox are all of th...

gerph wrote:I have an idea as to why the nukes might slowly reduce over time, even though they're not actually available - I have no idea if it's right.

I've just checked whilst playing the game and it's not correct. Oh well, it was just an idea.

most of the mod problems were cus that map was namtih's cold war minimod and only had 3 of the 6 countries being playable instead my full 6-player polar mod (they're both good for different games) I've just played a full game on the non-cold war one, and the random territories were fine. The calcul...

Here's my feedback. Well, I tried it with Steam using the instructions given and it seems to work ok. The way I did it was to copy the desktop shortcut and paste it elsewhere on the desktop, select 'properties' from the new item's menu, and add the '-beta defcon1204' to the end of the command to run...

How could you Forget Threads?! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIWbFT25vdE And Yes, Rainbow Six was a Good Book, That and Red Storm Rising are my Favorite Clancy Novels :D I was going to mention Threads, but it still gives me nightmares, so I really try not to think about it. Not something to watch ...