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Confed: Excalibur/Confederation, Kilrah: Jalthi/Fralthi or Ralatha (toss up as to which Kilrathi Capship, they were both pretty cool designs) I remember getting toasted so many times in my first days of WC by Jalthi that I have a soft spot for it- when I go back to playing the original WC, I...

Out of curiousity, has anyone ever modelled a Hha'ifra?

I picked this up the other day, and I notice that C&C (the original) freezes up every once in a while. Anyone else having problems with it?

Isn't the Black Lance still around in the Privateer 3 script as a seperate faction?

Whoa, you're right- Microsoft doesn't seem to make joysticks anymore. If you can go on E-bay, you can find some pretty good deals on sidewinders or precision pro's though. I've never been able to play WC games well with a mouse- and the Sidewinder's built in rudder and throttle is key.

Hey, out of curiousity, did the patch change anything in the last mission of Ep. 3's losing branch? I just replayed the last mission, and the Firekka seems to be blowing up spontaneously for no reason I can figure out- I didn't see the Ralatha launch torps, and the Gothri are killed before they...

Oh, and didn't Privateer come out before WC3? I hear timelinewise it's *supposed* to occur in the same year- However, it doesn't necessarily conflict with my statement that you don't see any previous craft from WC3 on, provided WC3 occurs later in the same year then Privateer. And I know...

The ships in WCP are aesthetically similar to ships from WC3/4, not WC 1 and 2. The Midway and fighters have similar paint schemes and design conventions to WC3-4 ships. But if you compare WC3-P Confed ships with WC 1 and 2, you could never tell that they were built by the same faction. So if...

I dunno, I don't mind old ships in WC3, I just don't like how they've seemingly replaced "new" ships in every game thereafter (look at the all the fleet massing cut scenes in WC3 and 4 where all we see are WC3 era ships) or that Origin was too lazy to bother trying to include *any* pre WC3 era...

That sounds more like a free rider problem as opposed to tragedy of the commons- free riding being when one party invests the resources to attain a benefit that others thereafter can use for free. Tragedy of the Commons is when there is a finite resource that a group of individuals all use...

The only complaints I have about wingmen AI on Prophecy are true in all WC games- The Friendly Fire Scenario- You're in deep **** if you get between them and whatever they are shooting at because they don't stop firing after they hit the first or second time, they just keep unloading...

How does technology suffer the tradgedy of the commons? It's not a scarce resource (subject to being exhausted)- if it was, intellectual property law (like patent, copyright, or trade secret) wouldn't be necessary. The tradgedy of the commons, as I understand it, only applies to finite...

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I dunno, even though T2 and I, Robot featured "evil" AIs, they both also had benevolent AI's- (Ahhhnold and whomever Will Smith's CG robot sidekick was). The AI in Stealth also wound up sacrificing itself for a human being- though (as was the case in I, Robot), it involved an AI that initially...

Hey Cargoman- I'm interested, where is the source of your info? I have a lot of close friends (and myself as well) who would like to know about how loan grants have increased despite the cuts- because they haven't seen any improvements in student loan rates or availability. Oh, and I'm not...

Billions of dollars wasted on B-2's alone (let alone other pointless Black Ops projects) may be a "drop in the well" compared against the overall US economy. However, that's not the issue. The issue is wasteful government spending on ineffective weapons. If any of you are depending on student...

Hey, I was impressed by the last mission on Ep. 2's losing path- I didn't know it was possible for capships to damage each other in the vision engine!

I said the technology for UAV's wasn't there yet; give it another couple years. On another note, pilots stationed in the US are using UAV's now for military combat ops. http://usmilitary.about.com/od/afweapons/a/predatorcontrol.htm The rise of another WWII type scenario in this day and age...

Oh, last but not least- and I know this is a double post- I think some of the crazier ideas make for great sci-fi or videogaming (I mean, where would games like C&C or Wing Commander be without crazy government Black Ops projects?)- but when it comes to the real world, I'm more interested in...

The problem with an ICBM shield is that it's stupid- it's easily circumvented by simply smuggling nukes onto shore and setting them off by remote (which happens to be far easier then developing the easily detected rocketry facilities needed for ICBMs), and for the few countries that do have ICBM...