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Don't sell the Spanish short. They were the power for a reason and remember that you're looking in 1588 you're looking at the army that had brought Swiss military supremacy down only a generation before. Then don't forget to add in that if the English Navy had been defeated, and the Spanish...

Not to mention a healthy dose of "luck". If it weren't for one little storm in 1588 the official language of England would likely be Spanish. OTB

Actually there is an advantage to using Sniper Rifles over Laser Rifles for sniping. I usually have one of my snipers ignore energy weapons and just keep putting points into Small Guns. Someone who is pushing 200% in Small Guns will score critical hits like no one's business, even w/o having a...

I recall reading the the original song that was supposed to be used for the intro of FO was I Don't Want to Set the World On Fire, but the devs ran into licensing problems with it and opted for Maybe instead. While I have to say that their original choice of music would have made FO's intro...

Before anyone goes firing off long lists of intro songs I would like to make a suggestion: Stick to what made the FO intro the best of the three. I say that the FO intro was the best because: The song actually had some connection w/the story, i.e. it foreshadowed the ending. Yes...

Buddhism is actually pretty hard to classify, especially since there are so many sects that have wildly differing beliefs, far more so than even the often mutually exclusive gamut of Christian sects. Using strict definitions, Buddhism -- as it originally was -- was technically a form of...

I'm w/lilfyffedawg on this one. The FO manual even pointed this out, but the FO2 manual omitted it. IIRC every hex the range increases means that youre enemies are 4% less likely to hit you, whereas every point of AC is only 1%. Then there's always the issue of range limitations, which is...

That's not such a bad idea. A level of abstraction would go a long way in taking some of the headaches out of trying to come up w/convincing unarmed systems. Some people really don't want eastern-style martial arts in the game, while for others that's the raison d'etre of their characters...

There are four endings: PC or member of his/her squad donates brain; PC has positive Rep. PC or member of his/her squad donates brain; has 0 or negative Rep. Barnaky donates brain. (Talk to him twice after the countdown has started. PC kills Calculator. Once the...

Don't worry, so do I. :lol: (YW) OTB

Sorry, but the US abandoned the Gold Standard in '71. The US was the last power to do it, and the world came to rely completely on "floating currency" which is the idea that money has nothing backing it, except the promise of an institution that it will be honored. ("This note is legal tender...

If you're looking to map/mod FoT you just need to dl the English v1.27 patch. The Campaign, Level, and Entity Editors as well as the PNG to ZAR converter are included with it. After that all you need is a text editing program like MS NotePad (anything that can save file in TXT format) and...

Something that always kills me is the "haX0r duel" in some movies (e.g. Golden Eye) where two people are sitting at different computers furiously stroking their keyboards, as though they were coding on the fly or something... OTB

I would agree w/the plunger, but I think that some sort of light club woud work better, simply because it could represent a large class of light sticks, toilet plungers, etc., that collectively form a class. Lumping these myriads of weapons into a single class seems to be more in the interest...

You know, MCA never did answer my question about Ananias in the Den and whether he was supposed to be a reference to the biblical character struck dead for lying... I s'pose w/MCA at OE now the FoB is a thing of the past. OTB

While the large number of cars that may/may not exist in the FO universe might look as though it would mean that there would undoubtedly have to be at least a few in working condition or salvageable the problem is that cars contain a large number of parts that are rather vulnerable to...

That's usually what I do. Basically, unless you're running a squad w/less than 6 members the APC's the way to go. The previous responses w/the "Canadian Invasion" SRE are correct. However, if you've had the encounter you should be able to go back and loot the corpse w/the Super Soaker...

Have fun you drunken/lusty Norseman! Be careful not to cause too much retinal damage w/that untanned Scandinavian flesh of yours! ;) OTB

Yes, the damage rating for a weapon when firing in burst mode is per round fired. There are three ways to determine how many rounds a weapon will fire in burst mode: Check on a FO fan site that has data for the weapons. They usually list the Rate of Fire (RoF) of the weapon. Be aware...

First off, let me qualify my argument so I don't get lynched here. (Besides, DU would rather lynch me for the number of buttons on my mouse anyway... ;) ) I've had some things to say in the argument about what ammo types but I have to qualify my argument with "if we are going to see them...