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Hooorah!!!

I too, pledge not to copy or distribute.

I agree with Steve's previous post about finding the right "height" in copy protection/ piracy discouragement. One only has to look so far as Edensofts demise after releasing Red Thunder with an abysmal key system. It was a real pain as you had to get a new key everytime you installed, or moved the program from computer to computer. I personally keep several old games around from back when I had a 7.44 Mhz Commodore Colt, so the prospect of not being able to fire up an old game on my most recent computer really put me off on purchasing the program. For what its worth, I really appreciate "complete" manuals that don't have to be printed, especially for wargames. Sierra did that to me when they released the first earth siege tactical war game (for the life of me, I can't remember the title) the tables alone on that game covered about 12 pages of data. Extremely frustrating Brian

-29 Math teacher, wife, 2 cats and no kids (yet). Wife says we can't have any until I grow up so I guess no kids for a long time Brian Fowler

Remember that if you make a position hard to get into, it is also hard to get out of.

Ex Airforce load toad, now an inner city Middle school math teacher. Sometimes I wonder if 2000lb bombs were safer to work with than 13 year old gang-bangers Brian Fowler "Now sit down class and let me tell you what your homework is. Go home tonight and when your parents are asleep play a recording that tells your parents to give Mr. Fowler a raise. If I get my raise you all get A's

I imagine that the war stories will fly fast and furious. My first time out as the US defending against the Germans ended in a stunning victory. However I must point out that a Hellcat knocked out the Tiger at long range with one shot to the front turret!, I had to replay that one several times. The opening of the battle saw several squads reduced to pudding by the relentless barrage of Tiger shells and machine gun fire, but when the TD's were knocked out blocking the road and my reinforcements arrived it was payback time. Anyway I LOVE THIS GAME, if the demo is this awseome then imagine what the full version will be. The game is easy to play, and great to look at. I know it sounds redundant, but great job BTS. Brian

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Anyone ever been part of a focus group? I was cornered into giving feedback on a new type of gum flavor. Pretty much Beta testing for gum, anyway Never once did I feel like I had a stake in the Gum. Not even when the gum tasted like cardboard did I think that I had anymore than an obligation to say what it tasted like. The point is that this phenomena seems to exist only in the computer gaming world. You never see anyone tell an engineer how to build a car, or tell a baker what ingredients he/she should add to the current kids cereal just because you think that tail fins are great or that a little more sugar is necessary. Why is it that in computer games people think that just because they were asked what they thought of it, they now own a piece of (or at least have intellectual rights) it? Piracy is inexcusable in any case and trying to justify it by claiming that you were treated badly as a tester is just as nonsensical as saying you burned down the theatre just because the movie you just saw really stunk (WWW comes to mind) Brian

Couldn't agree more. I'd rather complain about adherance to dress code than whether or not it is realistic for a shot up infantry squad to take out a Panzer in an open field just because the computer damage model says it's possible (civ players should remember things like this happening) Not that I would really complain too loudly about such niggling little details when the computerized lead starts flying Brian