Nah. Try FreeLancer with VictorMod MkII, Total War. Much more engaging. Should be coming out in the next month or so.

<r>Ayuh...you're not THAT lame. I've been known to fire up MOO or X-Com when I've got that nostalgia thing goin on. Counter-Strike is what, maybe three years old?? <E>:)</E><br/> <br/> And I won't even begin to mention that my c-64 is still alive and kicking, either. Mail Order Monsters, anyone??</r>

Can't disagree with you at all...and I've now got v2.1 crashing pretty regularly (way more conditions than just the ship tow one).

Oh well, I guess I can go back to FreeLancer for a few months, until HalfLife2 shows up (the legit version, that is).

<t>OK, I hadn't planned to use THIS tactic, but here goes:<br/> <br/> I have been considering purchasing several other titles in the Matrix lineup (I'm an old-school wargamer) but I am concerned at the lack of support Matrix appears to be giving this game.<br/> <br/> Andrew indicates that the patch ...

<r>Heheh...most of the bugs you identify as non-hardware bugs can very well be hardware bugs. However, your ID of the comm "bug" in SUDG is in reality a poorly thought out UI issue. Poorly thought out UI is a big problem in PC games and console games alike, not to mention general computer applicatio...

See? I told you he had that time machine thing down! (no, I'm not picking on you, Andrew!!!)

Time to go after the rest of the gang at Matrix!

Yup--once you learn to do it yourself, you NEVER go back!

<r>Oh boy...<br/> <br/> <br/> I run this on two machines:<br/> <br/> (1) dell laptop, PIII-1Ghz, 256MB of ram, ati radeon video. Don't know much more about it--I didn't build it. <E>:)</E><br/> <br/> (2) custom build athlon tbird 1200/266, 512MB ram, geforce 3ti, abit kt7a mb.<br/> <br/> I doubt it'...

<t>The Pentium 60s were a joke. My custom 486DX-120 mopped the floor with the Pentiums right up until the P100s with MMX started showing up.<br/> <br/> Scary thing is...I didn't trade in my 120 until 2000....and then built an Athlon 600....which morphed into the current machine, a T-bird 1200.<br/> ...

Packard Bell? You should join a support group!

<t>I've rescued a fair number of my ships in these games. While the feature occasionally breaks down (seen ships get dropped off in non-base systems) or is a little strange (stranded ship needs to be told to dock with base???), it hasn't gone bye-bye on me yet. Could just be a matter of time, though...

Come now, this is a SCI-FI game. He'll just orbit the sun a couple of times at warp 8 and presto, you'll have the fix three months ago.

Btw...I haven't yet gotten it to crash to the desktop under 2.1, but then again I've only played a handful of games on v2.1.

Mine too...and I run 1280x1024 most of the time, so going back to 800x600 is like using my (very) old Z-286....all 8MHz of it!

<t>Glad to help with SUDG--it's a great game even with its shortcomings.<br/> <br/> You're right about bug volumes on consoles--they are much less than on the PC, for a two main reasons:<br/> <br/> (1) you can't patch a console game (for all intents and purposes), and the PC dev teams have gotten ad...

Oh, and the ****-out words were not as bad as you might think. They must have a GENEROUS filter on this forum.

<r>Here's the way I see it work on my system. Try it on yours:<br/> <br/> 1. Communication comes in from my wimpy neighbors to the south.<br/> 2. Them: "We have bad things to say to you, matey."<br/> 3. Them: "You give us $1000, you not fear our ships."<br/> 4. Me: "Go to hell." Technically, the con...

<r>You're not much into micromanagement, are you? <E>:)</E><br/> <br/> Yep, notification of certain events like you mention would be nice...at first. But it gets very old when you have 20+ planets. Still, it would be a nice option for certain players.<br/> <br/> The "loop" you describe regarding com...

<r>Hello out there....there....there....there....<br/> <br/> Man, what an echo!<br/> <br/> Played the 3.0 version ApeZone published...for about 20 minutes. Then the interface freaked me out and I went back to version 2.0. Yep, that's right--too lazy to find and/or develop the no-cd crack for 2.1. No...

Don't know much about graphics (I'm a lame-o server-side Java / C++ programmer) but it would be sooooo coooool if this game could run in 1024x760, 1280x1024, and up. 800x600 is soooo smallllll.

<r>Easy to take them over....remember, these are resource worlds, not colonies. Watch your screen VERY carefully...don't bother to send ships. After a RANDOM amount of time, the system will turn WHITE. When it does, PAUSE THE GAME.<br/> <br/> Now, build a freighter route to that planet. Bingo, you'r...