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It is to Valerius Paullus ~;)Quote:
Originally Posted by econ21
But he posts in the Senate Deliberations thread! Oh, wait - yes, I see, he can't really allude to Battlestar Gallactica, can he? :laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mount Suribachi
It is not fair to me! I've never seen battlestar galactica! I can't tell if I'm being picked on or praised!
And BRADEN! YOU STOLE MY SIGNATURE! :furious3:
:laugh4: :laugh4:
You are really missing out. You must buy, borrow, rent or steal DVDs of the two seasons immediately!Quote:
Originally Posted by Lucjan
OK, to fill you in - Mount was comparing you to Colonel Tighe, a balding old alcoholic with zero charisma, who is bullied by his sluttish, borderline insane wife, and is seemingly incapable of making a right command decision in his life.
I was comparing you to Lt Starbuck, who is an incredibly hot female fight pilot ace who smokes cigars, smacks down men and can hotwire a bleeding cyborg fighter ship.
The truth may be somewhere imbetween[1].
[1]e.g. A hot balding chick with zero charisma who likes cigars and alcohol, is seemingly incapable of making a right command decision...:laugh4:
We could refer to Battlestarus Galacticus :dizzy2:
….*cough* Lucjan, I didn’t notice when you had your signature but I’m pretty sure I had it first but to be honest….it belongs to the man who said it. :idea2:
The analogy to Starbuck is quite good as who else could out fight a Cylon armada single-handed? (i.e. out fight all those Carthage stacks on his own :sweatdrop: )
I could settle for any mixture to be honest, so long as I don't get that nasty "incapable of a correct command decision" trait, that's just not fair.
And I was only busting your chops Braden. :laugh4: I don't care if you have the same siggy, it was just amusing.
Yeah, I realise that but…..
…….now I can’t get the image of you as the new Starbuck out of my head!!
And just so you know what all the fuss is about, I present to you Katee Sackhoff:
https://img218.imageshack.us/img218/...ackhoffde9.jpg
I'm sorry I don't look like that. Kind of sorry my girlfriend doesn't look like that too...
You can visit the real senators thread for my sorry self. lol.
I just have one thing to say.
Vala Mal Doran
https://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a57/ItsLugo/vala.jpg
Are you sure that's not Val?
It's Vala. ~;) :laugh4:
Errm, let's not turn this into the "Babe thread II". But staying way off topic in the interest of gender equity, I confess I find this chap the most watchable thing in BSG:
https://img117.imageshack.us/img117/...seadamazs7.jpg
I read a cute story about a scene he did with Laura Roslin, the cancer-ridden President. Their relationship was strictly professional. But there was a pretty emotional scene between them - I think she may have been dying - and at the end, the actor, Edward James Olmos, spontaneously kissed her on the forehead. The actress, Mary McDonnell, was not expecting this and gave him a genuine stunned look that was caught on camera. It was a nice moment on screen and the backstory is sweet.
Off topic? Who says this is off topic?
Vala is actually my new Carthaginian slave girl, I took her straight from Cartago I did, mmmhmmm. Isn't she pretty? :laugh4:
Oi, I need :help: .
I'm halfway through series 2 on DVD and I haven't seen her yet ~;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Lucjan
Even President Roslin is an attractive older woman.
http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/imag...ast_roslin.jpg
Phsycho Six does nothing for me though, too much of a barbie doll for my liking
http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/imag...t/cast_six.jpg
OK, we got all the chicks from BSG, I'm done now Simon :book:
A barbie doll who snaps babies' necks.~:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mount Suribachi
I agree, she does nothing for me. Except when she was playing Gina, the rape victim Six. I'm not sure if you have seen that one yet, Mount? Totally different look - natural, casual - and utterly irresistable. Apparently, the actress is like that in real life (natural and casual, not baby-neck snapping).
https://img182.imageshack.us/img182/...aheflernq1.jpg
Nice head of hair, nice pair of teeth, as the late John Peel would say.
OK, let's lower the testosterone. I should say I find the Balthazar character the other eminently watchable male character on the show. He's kind of one-part Hugh Grant, one-part Renton from Trainspotting and one-part utter git. Quite mesmerising.
BTW, Lucjan - you wanted to know who was this Colonel Tighe that Mount was likening your Consul to? Well, I've found the perfect pictoral signature for your Consul:
https://img80.imageshack.us/img80/74...siatighva4.jpg
:laugh4:
:dizzy2:
*clicks stopwatch*
Well, things have finally started to get wacky here after...
*checks watch*
...4 and a half months. Surprised we lasted that long. ~:cheers:
Sorry, it's a sad state of affairs when the moderator goes native...
:focus:
hahaha, econ that siggy pic is incredible.
I would just like to announce that due to dying of boredom with Valerius Paullus, I am switching characters and taking over the vacant (and much more interesting) Oppius Aemilius. He is currently serving with the carthage invasion force, in Hadrumentum on the last save.
I've already had the oppertunity of roleplaying Oppius. Results will soon be made available by the Consul.
To be clear, I did not claim him, so he's yours if you want.
Ah, excellent. The Aemilii will soon rule the world. :evil:
You'll soon see a backstory to Oppius' personality as soon as the Consul deems so.
As a note -
Dutch Guy currently has the latest save. 253-aut-Flavius.
There will be 2, possibly 3 more conflicts following the resolution of this battle, and then this season is finished, midterm consular report comes out along with a report of this mysterious situation between the Aemilii in Afrika, and motions/voting commences as usual.
Okay, the battle is done, an easy win plus a man of the hour event. We now have a new general, view the battle report (posted as soon as possible) for details regarding our new family member.
Here's a link to the post battle save: Clicky
:balloon2:
After writing about 3/4 of my battle report, my system decided to crash. Writing the story and uploading / viewing images must have upset my pc in some strange way. So, all my progress concerning the battle report is lost :sad2:
It seems I'm going to have to write it all again tomorrow, or the day after, as time is hard to find the next two days. Needless to say I'll try to get it finished As soon as possible.
:balloon2:
S'ok, no problem. I've got a question for everybody though.
I've finally gotten around to buying a laptop, and it's got all the fancy necessities for Rome and other gaming goodness.
HP Windows XP Entertainment Center Edition
AMD Turion x2 T-56 processor (1.8ghz, with 512+512 l2 cache and 1600 system bus)
2g ram
120g hard drive
But I'm confused about something regarding the video card.
It's got an Nvidia GeForce Go 6150 card in it, with 256meg speed, but on the sticker it also mentions in parenthesis with up to (128 shared video memory).
I'm unfamiliar with shared video memory, anybody have an idea?
This also means that our typically slow Tuesdays and Thursdays will no longer be that slow, as I'll be able to find internet access at school now too through the school's wifi (which on a test run works well outside the actual campus too).
I believe (and someone more knowledgable please correct me) that it means that 128mb of the gfx card memory is allocated to run the fancy XP EC Edition.
Also, I think you've got twin processors in that so ensure you set Rome to run on only ONE of them everytime you run the game - yes has to be reset each time. Forum records show that Rome will run at DOUBLE TIME if you don't do this..
...Benny Hill romans anyone?
You can't turn this down in-game.
Oh, and watch what drivers you pick for the card. Many newer Nvidia drivers are utterly unstable and you will not be able to run any games.
I dumped a Nvidia 6200 256mb card from this PC at home because of this - now running my very old, but trusty and working 4200MX on much later drivers.
BTW - I'll post my battle report tomorrow night, busy just now and Univercity starts tomorrow.
I don't know how to set Rome to do that. O.o I played a few custom battles and I didn't seem to have any issues with the speed, but it'd be nice to know how to do this anyway.
I've never really had any problems with drivers though..
If you've got a dual core processor, you have to ctrl+alt+del out of the game, click the processes tab, right click the RTW.exe and set the affinity to only one of the cpu's. That'll keep everything normal, otherwise after about 20 minutes or so, things get screwey.
If you start doing stuff like that be careful you do not change the priority of the process to something wierd, or you can really **** ** your machine.
I believe you can safely set the priority to high without any adverse effects, I do this regularly. Can this be confirmed?
High should be okay, be you can also set it to max or something and that will seriously mess up your machine as it will get priority over system processes with potentially disastrous results.
Off Topic, I just wanted to put this out there.
For a future PBeM, I think it would be cool to do a WotS style PBeM using BI (with goth's mod if you like :2thumbsup: ) and Mydraal's multiplayer script. I thought we could have two different senates, one for the Eastern Empire and one for the Western Empire. I know that Mydraal's script is not flawless. If the west attacked the east whoever was attacking would have a huge advantage, since the Defender would be controlled by the AI. So maybe you could record what units were in each army, then arrange for a multiplayer battle between the Generals involved? Then you could use the consol (I think) to auto determine the outcome of the battle. The casualties would not be the same, but the a victory is a victory. I know we don't have room for this now, nor do I want to host it, I just want to write it down in here in case someone else is interested in hosting it.
I believe autoresolves are the thing when playing human V human.
There's also the Romano-British KA style one in the throne room.
I.O.U. (the will of the senate PBeM) – 1 x battle report.
First day of University lasted until 18:30hrs and needless to say that after I’d got home, eaten, showered etc I was in no mind to sit and write a report on my latest stunning victory.
(solving problems using the Bernoulli equation is a real pain in the……:furious3: .)
I will try to do this tomorrow now. Can’t guarantee I’ll be in the relevant frame of mind tonight either but if there’s a battle to be had…….well, kill’n stuff is a different matter……
My priority options are Normal, Above Average, High, and Real Time. O.o
If someone can guarantee me that High won't destroy my comp via horrid instability, I'll do it. I wish I knew before I bought the dual core laptop that Rome didn't run well on a dualy, but, on the upside, Medieval 2 is supposed to run great on duals right?
Yes, from what I've read it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lucjan
Lucky you ! :2thumbsup:
:balloon2:
Oh? What have you guys heard about this exactly? That's awesome if it's true. And Rome runs fine on dual core, no worries, you just have to set the affinity as mentioned. As far as High priority, as I said that's how I've been running all my games and no problems that I know of. I've seen many other people on the boards do the same. EB even comes standard with a shortcut that automatically sets it at High priority.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lucjan
For the second time in a row I'm having trouble uploading my pictures to imageshack.us
It always seems to accept my first screenshot, but then basically gives a vague reason for not allowing my other shots. It seems to think my ''file format'' is not supported, which is strange since BMP is supported by imageshack and all the files are 1.400 Kb max. Which is smaller than 1.5 MB. So, I can upload some images, and others imageshack just doesn't host. At random.
Does anyone have a clue as to what is causing this - very irritating - problem ?
The story is here, the only thing that needs to be done concerning the battle report is adding the screenshots.
:balloon2:
Why don't you covert them to jpeg? Much smaller files, faster load times for everyone who'll be viewing them, faster upload for you, and not too much image degradation. I've never had a problem uploading jpeg on imageshack.
*edit*
Muahahaha!
Dutch_guy, you could try uploading your screenshots as jpg - I think that's more compact format and so it might upload better (I save my tga's as jpg in Irfanview).
EDIT: Wonderland beat me to it!
Well, I managed to upload all but one picture in my post - I if all goes well, the post 'll be up soon.
Thanks for all the suggestions, and I'll be sure to convert them all to jpegs in the future. Come to think of it, this is the first time I've used the BMP format - and probably the last, as jpegs have given me a way less problems.
One last question, Is there a way to convert a whole batch of bpm's to jpegs in one move, could one use Irfanview for such a thing ? I'm asking because It would save me some time, plus I already have Irfanview installed on my pc.
Thanks again
:balloon2:
I guess I should check this out. I'm interested in seeing if Rome will actually run well on a single 1.8 turion core. O.o
EDIT - Geez..I'm starting to get sorely disappointed with this laptop. I've managed to cut my start up process down to 35, but I'd like to get it down to the same as my pc, 20. And No matter what I do, only one cpu and on high priority and what not, I can't seem to manage to get Rome to run nicely. It works just fine, until I try to zoom in, then it gets glitchy, slow and difficult to control. I was under the impression that this would be a good gaming laptop. It has a heck of a lot of ram, the same quality video card as my pc, and the dual core 1.8's, which, to my understanding, was equivilant to a 3.6 single processor, which is .8 better than my 2.8 on the cpu. But, no matter what I do, the cpu runs the game sooo much better.
Grrr..somebody help me get this goofy laptop to work well, I mean heck, it's a brand new machine and it can't run a, what, 6 year old game well? That's ridiculous.
Darn-it! now I.O.U.......TWO battle reports!
Lucjan, are you comparing a laptop against a tower/desk system?
Laptop powersaving software often make them perform below what they should be - its a trade off between portability and battery life mate. :embarassed:
I have the damned thing plugged into the wall right now, and it still glitches out and runs like crap when I zoom in.
Though I've never used it, I know Irfanview has a Batch Conversion option (look under the File menu). You may check that out. I know Photoshop can do this sort of thing, but that probably won't help you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dutch_guy
All I want it to do is make use of the components it says it has. :furious3: The correct way, and run nicely, otherwise I would have been better off buying a dirt cheap laptop and upgrading the motherboard and processor on my tower at home.
Lucjan,
You could try the power management software http://www.diefer.de/speedswitchxp/ not sure if it has a version for your processor but its worth a try.
I’m asking a tech friend about the laptop for other suggestions.
Do NOT run it on Real Time unless you like to see your laptop commit hara-kiri. Run it on high. Laptops are handy things, but they will always suck at games that require heavy image processing. You might try turning down the visuals or lowering your refresh rate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lucjan
Just had a conflab with my mate in IT and he said:
“Ahh Shared memory bad….. Essentially instead of the card having access to its own dimms it uses the standard on board memory. So the cpu sends out instructions to the gfx card to draw some gfx, the gfx card then allocates itself some memory from the standard system memory to store its information. Now the cpu will be also loading the system memory with its own data. What do you think would happen on applications or games that become a little demanding on data?”
So, basically NOT what I thought at first. This does mean that the Graphics on that Laptop are…..*cough* sorry to say…..pretty poor. As your running XP ECE then this will hog a good chunk of graphic RAM meaning you’ve perhaps…..if you’re lucky got about 32 or so left for the Games.
Which would explain why its “choppy”.
Sorry..:no:
To be honest I’m not a big fan of Laptops but the have their place but the one I’ve got (but don’t use for games) has a dedicated Graphics card rather than just a chip-set which is what your’s has.
Then again, it did cost me near £2k GBP which will be like $4k USD!....and I STILL don’t use it for games!
This is why I never bothered with laptops before...but now I know at least I have a very fancy looking, very expensive music/dvd playing machine that can go online anywhere and play some of the still fun but older and outdated games...Knights of Honor, Europa Universalis anyone? lol
Ah, thanks for pointing that out Tamur!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tamur
:balloon2:
OOOOOHHH OOH OH OOOH OOH!
I think I may have found an incredible and silly solution to my whole problem. I don't understand why this would have such a horrendous effect on the fps of the game but lets see if it works...
EDIT -
IT WORKS IT WORKS!
Ok, I don't know why this had such an enormous effect on the game, but grass. It was the grass. (I never play with character shadows, they bother me, so that had nothing to do with it) The moment I set grass to "none", the game ran beautifully. I actually had the game running better on the laptop than it does on my pc! And solely by turning off the grass. That's so weird.
Edit 2 - Now I need to figure out why my pc will run oblivion and the laptop won't. What stupid, silly, miniscule thing do I need to turn off in oblivion. *Runs off on another sidequest*.
Quit whining about your laptops. My wifes (work) laptop is a P2 600Mhz machine! It can barely run Panzer General 2!!! I tried STW, but even on lowest settings I only got a few FPS ~:( Shame, cos it would be conventient to be able to play STW any time anywhere ~:)
But I'm not whining anymore, now I'm rejoicing. :2thumbsup:
My GOD!
I have some incredible news for everybody. The Medieval 2 demo alone has from this moment on consumed my soul.
I'm running a 2.8gig single cell pentium 4, 2 gigs of ram and a 256mb ati x1300 pro, with the following settings.
https://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a5...go/hadto-1.jpg
Can you count all those "Highest"s? I can't even do that with ROME!
Just, just look at these screenshots from my battles! *Squeels in glee.*
https://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a5...weetindeed.jpg
https://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a5.../heavytoll.jpg
https://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a5...spikefield.jpg
https://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a5...einthehole.jpg
Unforetunatly they're both scripted scenarios with triggers, so I can't provide very much info about the ai, but the demo is incredible, I can't wait for the game.
Now, I haven’t been that impressed with the screenshots on the main thread but your’s are sweeeettttt!!!!
Just goes to show doesn’t it.
BTW – favourite bit, apart from the glints on the armour is BLOOD!! There’s blood! Finally.
Hey and its good to know these settings are achievable on that PC as the one I've got earmarked for Christmas is:
AMD64 3800+
2gig RAM
and a Radeon x1600 Pro 256Mb card.
- all for £397.00 :2thumbsup:
Nice screenies!
Blood and progressively dirtier men during the fight; I didn't think it'd make much difference (I'm not much of a blood-for-blood's-sake sort of player), but it's absolutely great to see the variation this gives to a unit plus you're able to see just how beat up your unit is instead of guessing.
Yes, I was pleasantly surprised by the M2TW demo - it's streets ahead of those for RTW or for BI.
Lucjan: how are we doing in terms of the timing of the mid-term session? I'd like to get it all wrapped up in a week's time as I'm out of the country from 20th Oct. to 6th Nov.
Lucjan is, I believe, waiting on me I'm sorry to say.
He's passed me a save (with 2 battles on it) to play through but its my wife's birthday today so I'm pretty sure I won't be able to complete them tonight.
(she'll what to do stuff "together" or some other "girly" options)
There's been SO many battles this session!
There have been an inordinate number of battles this season, but I'm trying to accomplish everything I can by the end of this season. So far we've had, if I'm not mistaken.
Three battles in the west, four in the east (waiting on braden's last two), one near thrace, and a whole heck of a lot of micromanaging as far as moving everybody about, taking care of individual concerns, maintaining order in our conquered lands without breaking the bank, giving ourselves weak spots and still advancing our infrastructure. Plus there have been some IC projects I've been trying to put together to release at the end of this season, right before the motions open.
EDIT - Wish your wife a happy birthday from the senators too Braden!
FOUR!!!
*cough* if I include the two pending I have now that’ll be NINE battles my consular army have had in less than two years!
Nine battles and SIX settlements taken.
Four indeed…well I’ve never been..…(huff) :laugh4:
- and thanks, will pass on the Birthday wishes.
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showp...8&postcount=83
A couple of M2TW screenshots I posted at the TWC. Oh god, so beautiful, so wonderful. I can't wait until the game comes out. Movement speeds, so good, animations, graphics, landscapes, everything! My soul too has been consumed...... not good, yet so wonderful.
I really, really, really can't wait. I'll turn Poland into the greatest nation ever to exist!
Just worked out our current in-game year on the old Republican calendar as:
500 Ab Urbe Condita (AUC)
Can I get a confirmation of that from someone else?
Edit - actually, I find it odd that RTR (or rather the 4tpy mod) doesn't change the date to be displayed as the Republican calender. I mean, how can you have a year down as BC when you dont know its before anything.....
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Oh no, not AdminTest! Not the one who shows up in forums and three days later all the forum members find that someone has nicked all their socks! Heavens preserve us!
Last time he only took one of each pair!! That’s worse I tell ya…
*gasp* Not admintest!
Wait, what's admintest?
Ah-ha! two battles completed:
http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/pbm/253-Adana.zip
battle report to follow....tomorrow perhaps
Edit: actually I would do the report now BUT Word isn't working on this PC (needs a new Windows install really) but suffice to say - how does 56 Roman deaths against 965 Seleucid deaths sound?
AdminTest is TosaInu's test account with which he tries things out and makes sure that changes work correctly. Very mysterious that he's showing up in a PBM thread, maybe AdminTest is going to join us? ~:)
*Removed joke as it wasn't all that funny*
Well done Braden, looking forward to the report :2thumbsup:
Everything I require to end this season and proceed with midterm motions is in. Econ, feel free to open them at any time. Hopefully we can finish everything before you become unavailable on the 20th.
I'll post a full consular report, 2 personal reports (new idea I came up with, thanks for the help of those who participated), and some other interesting tidbits today, in fact, I'm working on them now.
EDIT - Midterm Consular Report Posted. 1st Personal Report posted, second will be posted later, significant post made in the deliberations too.
Very nice stuff. :2thumbsup: Congratulations to you and to those who helped with the personal report.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lucjan
Thanks. :2thumbsup:
Well, apart from the stabbing and the blood an' all.Quote:
Originally Posted by econ21
~:joker:
You have to admit though, it was a very welcome first action upon Servius's return.
I've updated the FAQ table of our characters. I did it in a bit of rush, so let me know if you spot an error with your character. (I think activity still needs updating).
I noticed that Wonderland still has the double experience bug, as does Silver Rusher. Please can you edit this, Lucjan, as per the instructions in the FAQ? If there is a problem, post here and someone else may be able to help. Also, how did Servius become a former legate with only seven years experience? :inquisitive: