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Lah

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  1. Ok I see the point of BF not wanting to pay high server fees. The torrent idea sounds good to me, from what I can understand of it.

    I can understand people saying simply back up the software when you download but in real life that doesn't always happen. Who's ever been guilty of being 1000x more keen to get playing the game than backing up your 'just downloaded' software. Then later forget that you haven't backed it up!

  2. Is there any good reason that the downloads for games that have been purchased have a download expiry date?

    It's just that I thought I would get back into playing some of the old strategic command games. I've lost my backups and now find I'm not entitled to download them again after the 365 days since purchase. What's the point in an expiry date?

    So that blows my strategic command 2, Patten drives East and Pacific theater games .

    Correction: I do have the Patten drives East disc but it is useless without SC2 !

  3. No, the numbers were not visible when editing the elevation but appeared when the map screen got refreshed, by switiching to the place terrain editor.

    But it is back to normal now so all's ok. Very odd as I had tried re-starts including leaving it turned off for a while. Just hope it stays that way, I managed to get all my maps finished smile.gif

    Thanks for trying to help.

  4. Up until yesterday all was ok. But now I cannot see the height numbers in the editor when I am making a map. It is ok when I switch from height to place terrain, the numbers that I have just placed appear but that is no good as I need to see what I am doing when editing the height.

    A couple other problems are that when switching to edit the parameters all the text can just dissapear and this can happen when exiting too. The whole lot can go whacky! :confused:

    I am starting to wonder if it is virus related but cannot see any other affect on my computer.

  5. Originally posted by Moon:

    Lah, no, we are not doing this ourselves, thank God. We have two warehouses with staff that is handling this for us.

    The problem is that there is more to it than just finishing CDs... we have printed manuals that need to go with the set, and everything has to be packaged and labelled and made ready for mailing... and then there is the whole infrastructure to distribute the goods across the two warehouses in the US and Europe.

    Martin

    Yep I forgot how long those DVD cases take just to insert the covers, my above numbers were thinking CD cases. It is all the little things that add up to a lot of time, just think the one or two little stickers on the case being stuck on 1000's of times is a long process when you have to make space moving the cases along too. And then there is always one part that is not ready, waiting for the printers to deliver, such as a little a sticker that holds up the whole packing process! Good luck, I'm very glad not be in that work anymore smile.gif
  6. Originally posted by Moon:

    Yogi, the game is being assembled and prepared for shipment

    Martin

    I can just see you guys surrounded by 20,000 CD's and packaging in a garage somewhere smile.gif

    I used to work making CD's, a medium size factory can bang out 40,000+ finished overnight but I am guessing you guys are doing the assemby yourselves. A tedious job that but it shouldn't take a team of 4 people more than a week tongue.gif

  7. Yes, we are on our 4th game together.

    I think it might be his computer now as he said that he is on his limit of his hard drive but CM did not complain when he saved. We tried the autosave he had from the above files and that worked ok.

    Waiting to hear from him now but I'll get back if we still have problems.

  8. I've a PBEM game using an imported map I made with 3k forces each.

    We have just setup and making our first move turn but when I try to run the movie file it makes a delayed blip, does not load and locks up.

    We tried it where my opponent did not move his forces, that worked fine. And also another test where he plotted his forces again which did not work for the second time.

    The file that he did not move was 1.18MB

    The file that he did move was 0.98MB

    This is odd in that the latter should be bigger.

    So it seems to be something to do with the movement, a bug? Any suggestions welcome as we are very keep to play out our battle.

    Another problem is this forum always says I am not logged in even though I am, I cannot update my profile to the correct email address.

    [ April 20, 2006, 02:51 PM: Message edited by: Lah ]

  9. I'm looking for the name of a scenario that was used in the last Rugged defence knockout competition.

    It was an attack by Germans (I think) against Soviets on 3 small hills in snow, mostly infantry, I think the attacker had a couple tanks.

    I would ask on the still active email ring but have lost that email address, one of those guys will know. Else if someone has Edwin's (Cyberfox) email he should be able to help.

  10. I have a problem with Noel Williamson my long standing SC PBEM opponent. If anyone knows him can you please direct him here.

    It seems he cannot get my emails as they keep bouncing back but he is emailing me asking if I got his last turn. I'm not sure what this can be due to.

    We are in the middle of a couple very interesting games, I don't want him to think I have lost interest!

    So if anyone can help it would be much appreciated smile.gif

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