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Originally written by Andraste:

I love abandonware. I've been trying to beat System's Twilight for years, but I get stuck in the workshop.

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My perspective is more grounded in the practical real world concern of engineering things for a specific purpose. You don't want a bridge to fall apart after the first truck drives over it, or an airplane to explode after coming out of the air onto the runway for a landing. If you wanted to build machines (flesh and blood or metal and oil) for some specific task, then YOU have a specific design objective that for reasons perhaps beyon your control, you are under deadline, contract, and obligation to fulfill. How would you explain to your contractors "Umm....Well I built that unit you wanted, but after I made it, it designed it would rather be a ballerina, so I let it join a dance troupe."

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Originally written by Randomizer:

Someday Jeff is going to add this

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Originally written by Retlaw May:

Look, MOST SERVILES ARE DUMB AND THEY LIKE (NAY EVEN LOVE) SERVING THEIR MASTERS AND DOING THEIR JOBS. These serviles don't care that the others are happy, they shove everything down the throat of others. Remember that in G3 there were 2 occasions where the intellegent serviles ruined the lives of 2 perfectly happy and loyal serviles who just became angry and confused in the meeting that occured between them.

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Originally written by Savage Ed Walcott:

How is that really any different than building androids to do mining or hazardous waste disposal and programming them so they never think about or question the tasks they perform? And, if one day, significant numbers of them DO become self-aware and realize how much they hate the jobs that humans hate to do, what would be our responsibilites as their designers? disassemble them and build new, less intelligent and more agreeable machines? Or allow thme to go free and found their own society of robots?

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Originally written by Shuan Wuan:

I recently found a game called, Star Control 2.It's complex ,but when you figure it out it's addictive.

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Originally written by MagmaDragoon:

I'm looking for abandonware too in these days. I found the demo of Hexen, Space Cab and the two Warcraft; then the freeware versions of System's Twilight and Dungeon Master II.

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Originally written by Lt. Sullust:

Why not just set a flag when the party enters the region of terrain they can dig in? Then it's just a matter of checking the flag...

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Originally written by Lt. Sullust:

Why not just set a flag when the party enters the region of terrain they can dig in? Then it's just a matter of checking the flag...

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Originally written by Anarhiztok:

EDIT: Isn't guardian claymore better??

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Originally written by Lazarus.:

Well if they start out at a higher level than your regular PC's then they would gain less exp, even if it was just because of their higher level, not the fact that they were the recruited type and joined you later in the game. I guess eventually your regular PC's would catch up in level, and then everyone would gain exp at the same rate.

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Originally written by Mc 'mini' Thralni:

That's what surprised me with Apple's "mighty mouse." It actually has two buttons, and not the standard one button. I wondered: is it somehting Apple did because they knew Windows would run on Macs?

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Originally written by Rufus Rothgard:

Ash, if you're trying to make a "Sim Isle/Smile" pun-joke, it's so hamhanded that nobody's going to both get it AND laugh.

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Originally written by --and yet so far.:

Randomized three dimensional mazes would be neat!

—Alorael, who would hate to see all the "Help I can't get through this maze" questions that could only be answered with "Good luck."

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Originally written by Student of Trinity:

I know what Runescape is, of course, but I have practically no idea what it's like. I have to say it's not sounding worthwhile, so far, to try it myself to find out.

What the heck kind of game has you mining for a week? Could someone fill me in on just why this is even a candidate for being considered fun?

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