A nice read; the game against the ai is certainly very different to that against other people

When you really get down to it, australia would be US territory (yes, i live there too ) as would Japan, and europe would be about 2/3rds of the size to account for the USSR. But maybe i'm off on a tangent

I'm running the latest nvidia drivers and i still get this error occasionally, so i'm not so sure they're the problem...

Quintessinalised

I think you should have some words to the host - methinks he wanted to have you nuke each other when you weren't looking

Get 2 copies and join the same game, one on each alliance

You'd have all the locations of radar, silos, etc and would be able to nuke with impunity

A few games ago, europe decided to betray me and let lose a massive firestorm of nukes from the north sea while i was launching that would have won them the game had it been on default scoring settings. Unfortunately for them, it was on survivor mode. I quickly redirected my nukes and they ended up ...

Same error here - doesn't it strike everyone as just slightly coincidental that valve's support page stops working at the same time as a major problem?