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Reply to Global warming hoax!?! - UPDATED - in Everything Else Sins Forums

I actually have been concerned about climate change--as well as other things for years--but concerned in the sense that it not be negelected for real study and scientific examination. No doubt humans push the scale but so do cow farts, marshes and swamps and volcanic eruptions and disturbed sea and lake beds. Wanting to take action is fine but its the scale of "global" warming that makes this need more than "good vibrations" and new earth slogans to attack. Tryi

Reply to [Fixed Next Build]Super over powered pirate fleets and ships? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I wouldn't be a fan of "infinite building" for them but I like uberpirates--simply turn the pirats active option off if they are too much? I do like the idea of a "weak pirate" option--we could call it the "wimp setting" ;)

Reply to go Colts!!!! in Everything Else Sins Forums

The Colts are gone. Saints rule (finally).

Reply to Looking for Roleplay/Long game/Big maps in Multiplayer Organizer Sins Forums

SINs would work as a "background creator" for a roleplay world. Resolve diplomacy, expansion and combat in-game and THEN roleplay--somewhere else--based on the results. The game flow doesn't really accomodate much more RP than "Die Vasari scum!" and the like. Kind of like RPing a game of checkers. "Crown me varet knave and yield your kingdom to me as I have swept over your troops and reached the farthest boundaries of they kingdom and demand the return of my

Reply to Political Carneval in Everything Else Sins Forums

Oh wow--what a great tradition. It's like a national SNL. ;) Would be awesome in the US to have one week a year where they aired nothing but coverage of this sort of thing on the national and local news. A man can dream.

Reply to Deniers and skeptics. in Everything Else Sins Forums

I know there are a lot of rationales and a lot of varying context for things scientific--not always as intuitive or black and white as things seem. My point is that scientests are humans too. People of like strengths and weaknesses, biases and foolishness as well as wisdom. Many of these scientific issues are also social issues and it is important for science not to confuse the two as the same; i.e., science does not direct social issues and social issues should not dir

Reply to Deniers and skeptics. in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote who="zigzag" reply="330" id="2527193"] Can't comment on specific cases, but to be fair to climate scientists, politicians don't understand scientific notions of error and uncertainty. What seems like a misrepresentation of the facts is actually an accurate assessment, while what seems like an accurate representation is grist for political spin. [/quote] This was a particular paper warning of drastic acceleration of temperatures and melting ice in the very ne

Reply to Deniers and skeptics. in Everything Else Sins Forums

Lol--I am speechless. You make a good point. I am going to digest myself and with my last breath throw myself on a compost pile as I hug a tree...then perhaps I will earn some redemption.

Reply to "I would give you karma, but. . ." Game in Everything Else Sins Forums

I would give you karma but I am really looking forward to you being a cockroach in your next life. [pure win]

Reply to "I would give you karma, but. . ." Game in Everything Else Sins Forums

I would give you karma but am really looking forward to being a cockroach in my next life.

Reply to The iPad is Here, Will You Get One? in Personal Computing Sins Forums

No--no wireless net connectivity--bad choice and Mac only software finishes it off. If it had been a netbook with that design but all the features of a netbook (along with the ability to control the program interface with handwriting, I'd have snapped one up in a sec. I could use a portable, easy to carry and use and VERSATILE portable. Rooting for Mac but it isn't for me.

Reply to Deniers and skeptics. in Everything Else Sins Forums

"All will join the Unity" I was being tongue in cheek there (though I have actually heard people say these things in RL) but what prompted it was three interviews I heard with different scientests after "Climategate" occured who went on the defense of the scientests who falsified data and downplayed it as not significant. Global warming science aside--since when do scientests falsify data and publish with peer approval? Just a few weeks ago the IPC submitted a repor

Reply to Template Issues in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I got it--thank you sir. The pasted galaxy file contents are for a two star, two world map to serve as a proof-of-concept and test bed. If someone can get it to function properly, I would love to see it. Still no luck here getting it to work. It appears you can't overide a HW template?

Reply to Deniers and skeptics. in Everything Else Sins Forums

Oh this is an easy one to be politically correct with--let me try! Of course global warming is happening. It doesn't matter if the science can prove it or not. What matters is that we humans are a parasitical infection on this earth consuming its living beings and poisoning the planet with our technological waste. Our refusal to stop eating meat and making synthetic food and goods condemns us as murderers and polluters and the best outcome is that those of us wh

Reply to Template Issues in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I like messing with the files some too--but while its been fun with this its not been reeeal fun ;) Let me try two more variations real fast and I will send it. Thanks!

Reply to Template Issues in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I have tried it with one field or both fields and get the same result. Originally it had the quick and normal start values in it but I still got the empty spawns. I did not however try normal start as the only option. I am wondering about complete template functionality outside of entity file references myself now. I'll email you the file if you like and you can try to execute it on your end and I will do so here. If it doesn't work for ei

Reply to "I'd rather be a really good one-term president than"... in Everything Else Sins Forums

Gee, I thought I was a racist Nazi who wanted sick people to crawl in holes and die if I disagreed with him. I must have been sleeping when that wind of change blew through. We had a former president who was openly contemptuous of dissent and had his party back him to the hilt and now we have one who is politely contemptuous of dissent and has his party back him to the hilt. It's deja vu again. Vote C'thulu in 2012--at least you know what you are getting and i

Reply to Template Issues in Sins Modding Sins Forums

OK...I have gutted the file, gone back to the original, customized it with several other player's templates and never can get the spawns I specify. So I have taken Voruk's Labyrinth and chopped it down to use as an experimental setup. No lane connecions or wormholes and only one HW planet per player. I have put my emulation of one of the Voruk's Labyrinth templates (the things I want to spawn) and have changed one other parameter: In the orig

Reply to Obama just cut off funding to NASA??? in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote who="Whiskey144" reply="125" id="2524654"]@Sparda- very true. With heavy, 20-meter (I believe that's telephone-pole-length) high-density metal rods, a nuclear weapon is only useful for spreading wide-range devastation. For a precision strike, a metal rod from orbit (specifically 1 made of Tungsten)- will lose ~3% of its mass from reenty stress (re: negligible quantity of mass), and will end up with a terminal velocity of 11 km/s. ELEVEN KILOMETERS PER SECOND!! There's no way

Reply to Template Issues in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I had read some of the old posts and it might be worth a try. I use the most recent forge release for quick star and planet placement (I'n not a non-gui purist) ;) but I like going in and ordering the fine detail in notepad--a good thing since GF apparently doesn't quite do every detail right. I can get it by email or whatever works for you--let me know. So you have done templates with no prob? The only conclusion I can draw is there is some field somewhere that I

Reply to SP vs MP? in Strategy Sins Forums

I started years ago playing an open source game called BZFlag. It had a total playerbase of about 200 and most were developers and contributors to the project--it was pretty much unknown to the "gaming world". There were two private servers set up and the developers who liked playing as much as developing all beta tested and played there. Everyone knew everyone and it was "by invitation only" to get to these servers--which did not show on th global list. I stumbled a

Reply to Template Issues in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="harpo99999" reply="25" id="2524546"] randomizeStartingPositions TRUE if this is set to FALSE then each player starts in the same position each time, if it is TRUE the ech time the players can start in different starts. [/quote] That's funny--I was actually going to ask what that did. The force is strong in this one! I also am hopingn someone else out there might get something ot of this thread. I'm certainly taking th

Reply to Template Issues in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Thanks--it's pretty obvious that SINs is "sensitive"--that's part of the problem. Slight changes in values and the mix on the forum of old and new syntax--sometimes working together ok and others not. On one map I simply changed the Galaxy Forge version number at the top of the map from "2" to "3" and the entire game crashed on startup. I haven't been able to work on it since I last posted but in a few hours will be back at it. I have been intentionally al

Reply to Obama just cut off funding to NASA??? in Everything Else Sins Forums

Same reason you need people to work in factories or mines or auto shops. Exploration a lot can be done with remote machines but development of space needs people. Exploration is a great way to start gaining skills to develop. it's like training--and that sort of experience makes the difernce between a mechanic who knows a manual compared to the one who actually fixes cars.

Reply to Template Issues in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I swear I am not making this up or hallucinating. I just went back in to hand edit and had opened and saved the map (though I did no editing). here is what Galaxy Forge appeared to have inserted as a result: planet designName "Planet55" inGameName "THREE" type "DeadAsteroid" pos [ 176 , 539 ] owner "NewPlayer2" isHomePlanet TRUE normalStartUpgradeLevelForP