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Perhaps because there is a tradition in English speaking navies to name their ships after Greek mythologic and historical personalities and Agamemnon seems to be quite popular at that wheter its one of the 4 HMS Agamemnons or the USS Agamemnon. And as Wing Commander draws most of its naming...

I dont know wheter its just me or did storytelling in certain genres go downhill the past 2 decades? I dont know wheter its overstated childhood memories, but rewatching certain shows and movies from 2 decades ago I feel they had a more serious aproach to them, even when they were aimed at teens...

The spacefighter genre seems to be a bit dead both in video games, series and on the big screen. Even the new incarnation of BSG had hardly any spacefighter action compared to the original - and with no sound and the general dim tone of that series no big emotions were involved with those few...

Its meant to be a fairytale/mythologic introduction. Star Wars has no whatsoever connection to our timeline or galaxy (even though in some of the EU books there were some out of place references to Earth). The backstory for Darklighter was that he and other young officers staged a mutiny on a...

While it is mainly a plot device to explain the dire situation out of which Confed uses WMDs to bring down the Kilrathi, it realy differs there from WW2. Both the temblor bomb and Behemoth more or less are deus ex machina solutions to win the war while the US/Allies had clearly won the pacific...

I experienced it with my nephew and little cousins a few times. But honestly, if you play a game and kids are with you, the success in the game is secondary. They will very much apreciate it though if you involve them. Let them control the shield controls, let them be your copilot. If you...

Be happy about it. They are interested in what their dad does and want to get involved. Dont hush them away, they sooner or later will get bored with what you do anyways. At least until then you can have some nice time with them playing your favorite game.

Id say Budweiser (Budvar). The story is long but its definitly not the same as US Budweiser. The story is long and may bore some but here goes. The beer was first created when todays Budvar was still known as Budweis beeing part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. It continued after WW1 and WW2 and...

I guess we are talking about two different things here. My reference was not to WW1 either, my reference was to the development of nationalism and national chauvinism as well to concepts of race, social darwinism etc.. that are at the core of Nazi ideology but are neither exclusive to it nor is...

Firstly I am not German. Secondly Id root the reasons for why the continent went down the drain far earlier than the 1930ties. Germany has its very own road in this direction, and clearly holds its very big share of responsibility for what happened and for what part of its population did during...

As somebody whose grandfathers fought for the other side and actually were shot at by American soldiers I still have to say some thing to those guys that boarded ships to fight a war on the other side of the big pond. Thank you, thank you very much. Not only did you get rid of a regime that had...

Finally bought a HDMI cable. Actually had to buy two. First one caused flickering images after some minutes and the screen started to blank out for several seconds after some time. So I brought back the cheap 10 Euro cable and got the other cable that they had in stock for 32 Euros, which works...

Ah well I cant find it on the PS Network and I dont own a CRT, Ill probably pass then. @AD Thanks for the advice, probably will get one for 4 - 5 Euros then if I can find one.

Hello there. Maybe somebody around these forums can help me out with a bit of advice. I recently got a PS3 as my christmas/birthday present from my wife. I could chose, and the main buying incentive was the blu ray capacity of the PS3 - so we could decomission our old DVD player and use...

Only if those metals have any special value at all at that time. The price of gold in the end is also determined through the market and is as much dependent on the trust put into its value as paper money. In the case of an economy with the technical means of the federation and the vast expanses...

The more likely outcome would probably have been that the Behemoth would have had the time to be completed and been the vessel it should have been. With Behemoth finished and deployed to the frontlines it would have been an even graver danger to the Kilrathi than it had been in the OTL. Wheter...

I concurr. Though having something along the lines of a dynamic persistent multiplayer WC universe, that assigns missions to the players depending on where they are when they log in would be an interesting add-on to a single player game. If two players happen to be online at the same time and be...

Thats one post full of horrorfull things for a full WC release. If it does not feature decent Joystick support and keeps with some Space Sim conventions of "realism" its not deserving the name IMHO. If it goes down the arcardey trail ill just skip it. And if it is a traditional WC game of...

Are those who have impressions of WC1 and 2 even a relevant group to market a game to? Considering that those people are today somewhere between their early 40ties and late 20ties how many of those who played WC back then realy care about it today? Even those who still regularly play games today...

I didnt say there was no development going on. Actually I wanted to start a discussion on how the future of Space Sim development (and other genres that didnt see much light in the recent past) will look like. If you look through your own links section, if you deduct the classics, the amount of...