i'm in a similar situation to pinback - i used to play a lot a while back, then i spent a year playing bf2 until getting sick of the hackers and jet whores... :evil: so i came back to defcon last week, and the server browser seems just a bit quieter than it used to be, but not by a great deal, imho....

i really didn't mean to get personal in any way forrest, hell i'm a big alex fan myself :twisted: , ...twas just a suggestion also thanks bert for pointing out that i had a broken browser - i didn't realise that the avatar(s?) look fine in proper browsers :o (it's a good thing that bert the turtle i...

*yawns and moves on*

are you telling me that i can't post in a thread after a certain period of time? and what exactly is the time limit? so long as i am not being offensive or totally irrelevant, i don't see what's wrong with posting as soon as the thread comes to my notice. just because you don't like my few posts so ...

going back to the time period the game is set in, it's obvious: COLD WAR! look at the maps and country boundaries...but of course it's 'just' a game, and certain liberties were taken... also, battleships have gone out of fashion these days, no navy uses them any more - various classes of much smalle...

NeoThermic wrote:If a nuke hits a forest, and there's trees around, do they also get damaged? (and does that make a sound? )

NeoThermic

whilst on a koan tip (sorry i dont read these forums often!),

what is the sound of one neutron chain-reacting?

yeah, in retrospect, you're probably right, and i hereby withdraw the waypoint suggestion :wink: i guess nothing beats good old paying attention and micro-ing every single unit - waypoints and timers are just for lazy losers i guess :D @Why?: what did u mean about timers on bases and ships - do you ...

but will Forrest or wu.j learn how to shrink their avatars?

crikey - they got to be 25 years old! have you ever tried loading Elite from one of those big floppy disks? (they were floppy then lol )

surely mobile phones are more powerful than beebs nowadays (though not so programable i guess...)

Rkiver wrote:Norton AV is a bloated pile of rubbish that does not detect certain viruses on purpose.

this sounds intriguing - please elaborate... (i don't mean the bloated bit!)

got to agree with xander here...

...mostly...

....BUT some type of waypoint system for directing bombers would be handy sometimes

it's sort of queueing orders, but not really timers - move here, then more here, thus avoiding enemy radar, battleships etc

i'm forty - a mature gamer - i used to sneak into the school computer lab to play Elite on BBC computers! :D who remembers Elite here?? - quite possibly the best computer game of all time... 8) who remembers BBC computers?...aah, nostalgia ain't what it used to be... :lol: but next year i won't have...

my two cents: i used to use norton until about four years ago, when i noticed it was a system hog and a real bitch to uninstall - maybe it has changed since then... i am now a firm kaspersky fan - i use their integrated internet security suite which does the lot, although i disable the firewall (i a...

Pater wrote:Is that Greenland you are bombing? From Canada?

maybe global cooling has taken place - freezing hence shrinking the oceans - coupled with accelerated continental drift, and he's bombing spain from brazil?

Forums are most useful when there aren't many, many topics that all say the same thing. This makes searches more effective. Posting the same strategies that have been posted before over and over again does nothing to reduce the signal to noise ratio. xander listen to the man... if only more people ...