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Yeah, but using cloning for breeding the perfect superrace is a lot different than using cloning to populate a planet. In the latter case, you don't care if the replica is a perfect copy of the original, you just need a lot of people fast. Really, it's not cloning which is the important...

Of course, silly me. I was getting confused with that whole side-switching thing. But same difference, either way. :) Modern Marines don't really do shipboard security anymore, as the need to repel a massive boarding attempt is pretty remote. Security is mainly taken care of by the sailors...

The human population is currently doubling every 25 years or so, and the rate is accelerating, despite levels of development worldwide increasing overall. As for population increase rates decreasing, if underdeveloped countries grow faster, then the underdeveloped portions tend to have a higher...

Hey, maybe someone should make a Terrans vs. Kilrathi mod for X-COM, or one of its (spiritual) descendents, like Jagged Alliance or Silent Storm. That'd be kinda cool.

I've known friends who really abuse their CDs and make them look more like scouring pads than mirrors, but my CDs are all almost completely scratchless, even from many years ago. I guess I'm just a freak...

There's also mention of anti-personnel charges dropped by landing craft right before they touch down. Think of a cluster bomb mounted to the bottom of a shuttle craft, and you'd have the general idea. I think they use them to clear landing zones during planetary assaults, but I can't quite...

Or instead of firing them, take my advice from the last X-COM thread and just let them die. Survival of the fittest. The surest way to weed out the panicky types (before you can evaluate their molecular control stats) is to let them get mind controlled and killed. There's also a visceral joy...

The problem with that is that the sword logo appears in a number of non-Victory related areas (I think Tolwyn has one in his office, which I think was on Torgo or Jupiter-1), so it's clearly some sort of Confed logo, although perhaps it could have been a unit patch rather than one for the entire...

Yeah, they probably could have wired up some sort of fancy multiphased shield, or rapid frequency shifting, or a phase-masking system, in some way that would be impractical to put on a capship but might work on a planet. McAuliffe was designed without consideration to defense against...

One difference between Confed's situation and WW2 is that Confed is essentially an "island" nation, with its territory intermixed right into the theater. During WW2, the United States had a secure home base, and was sending people off to go fight in Europe and the Pacific from this secure home...

I don't recall being arrested after blasting some cats. I do recall a cut scene where the CAG gives you a nasty glare because the cats aren't going to help the Confeds, but it's all forgotten or something. Maybe I need to try that path again...

repetition you all lose MINUS ONE BILLION POINTS FROM ALL OF YOU. bwahahaha!

Yes, I'm well aware that Confed didn't have the technology at the time; it's not clear that even the Kilrathi had it before WC3 anyway, especially since it was probably an outgrowth of the cloaking technology dating from the WC2 period. I was mainly just coming up with a hypothetical as to how...

They could have been secondary in the sense that they weren't the main armament of the Victory. That would have been her fighter complement, although that isn't usually referred to as a primary battery. A battery doesn't have to consist of guns (for example, a Patriot missile battery); most...

Actually, if Confed had developed that jump point cloaking technology, they could have just cloaked all the points and maybe the Kilrathi would have never noticed that humanity existed. Although I'm of the opinion that if the Kilrathi didn't invade first, the humans would have done so...

The HCl, incidentally, is the chemical formula for hydrogen chloride, which in aqueous solution becomes hydrochloric acid, one of the strongest acids (pH < 7) there is (in fact, it's a major component of stomach acid). It's also fairly commonly available in chemistry classes, along with its...

First off, about saving and reloading... that's not the way to play the game! The true way to play the game is to have your soldiers dying left and right until you can research appropriate technologies. Not allowing any of your guys to die so that they'll advance to become supersoldiers is...

Mirroring Yeah, I noticed the mirroring thing myself when I was fiddling with the Dralthi model from WCP. There really isn't anything wrong with the mirroring thing, technically, except that it does things differently than almost anything else. :) If it's a carry-over from the WC3/WC4...

Agree with Lars I'm in agreement with Lars... loved CFW, didn't really expect a sequel ever (actually didn't expect Warthog to be still kicking, even in Texas). It does look like there haven't been that many changes, though. Hopefully this means it won't get cancelled, because they can do it...

Actually, the quad-pumping refers to the external bus only, so even after disabling the cache, it's still running at an effective 800 MHz. You're correct that the physical bus is only 200 MHz, but the data rate really is 4x that. It basically works by using 4 voltage levels to encode 00, 01...