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Still broken link on the XBox site, just checked right before this post.

Dude, one word: turrets After coming out of autopilot, start flying away from the escorts. The AI is stupid enough that they'll line up behind you nicely so you can mow them down with your rear turret neutron guns, and thin out their numbers some before they get close enough to engage.

four :) Their numbering system is base 8, for 4 digits on each hand. (Though I think some of the depictions have shown them with a human's count of 5 digits/hand. Kilrathi polydactyls? :) )

Yes, KS removed the copyright protection question. Personally, I thought that was neat. quite unlike more recent attempts at copyright protection. And, please, don't get into specific examples, this isn't the thread for that, nor the right forum.

To be clear, is this about cars users have actually rode in or drove, or just favorites, period?

I have no idea of where my FF copy is, at the moment, but I do have one comment. Not necessarily. The Loop, the historical center of downtown Chicago, is always capitalized, but isn't considered a separate city.

Highball, I specifically asked that people not get into the whole shitting on American mass-brewed beer thing. I have yet to see an online discussion where that happens that doesn't later turn to complete crap. In short, don't make me go Cartman on you.

Yes, the Dragon has anti-cloak optics that let you see an outline of cloaked ships. It's not enough for ITTS targeting assistance, but with that fat back end once you get behind it missing is kinda difficult if you have even passable aim. :p

Obligatory beer link. :D

Yeah, the US gets Guinness in all sorts of varieties. I vaguely recall some beer snob going on about how it's not "real" Guinness, but the way I see it anyone who gets snobby about something like beer isn't worth the air they breathe. :p (And on the subject, tangentially, of the US and beer, I...

What's my favorite beer? One that someone else pays for. :D Seriously, I don't have much of a preference. Given a choice, if I'm on a budget I go for Rolling Rock, and if not so limited in funds Guinness. When in Atlanta, though, I do try to catch at least one Red Brick Ale, a local...

It doesn't have anything to do with seniority. As noted in End Run's first part ("Milk Run"), the commanding officer of a ship is, while aboard his or her ship, the absolute master, and if need be can order around admirals aboard, even if he's only, say, a 2LT. (Though the 2LT had better have a...

Dude, there are other punctuation marks beside the exclamation point, and the . can be used for more than decimals.

Without even looking, I bet somewhere on the internet someone is attributing these freebies to some eeeeeeeevil plot by EA. :p (Granted, predicting someone is being stupid on the internet is like predicting that the sun will rise tomorrow morning...)

Uh, no. Europe's reluctance to stomp out German rearmament, even though by treaty it was an option, had nothing to do with fear of the Soviet Union. Remember what happened the last time Germans went to war with the rest of Europe? You know, losing a rather sizeable chunk of that generation's...

There's a reason coefficients of drag are a concern for automobiles, you know, and it's not because of looks. :p The 1700-ish pounds extra weight on the GC doesn't help any, either.

While true that the US contribution to the war effort in Europe was somewhat limited as far as personnel participation until late in the war, they did supply a lot of the materials needed to carry out the war, and I don't mean those WW1 destroyers given to the UK. It was US hulls mounting...

You seem to be making the common mistake of confusing "don't understand" and "understand but disagree". It's not that the skeptics, detractors, and otherwise "non-believers" don't understand what the project is trying to do, it's that we don't see how the project can end with anything but a lot...

I dunno... Every time I think about the proposal, the old cliche "too many cooks spoil the broth" comes to mind. Doubly so given my time helping test Jumpgate in its various stages, beta and release, when hundreds of people had dozens of ideas, and many of them clashed with one another. And as...