Fallout 3 and PC piracy

Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick RemoveThis @nospam.io> writes:

> but it takes somebody with a PIC writer and an SMD soldering station to
> get an equivalent result on an Xbox 360.

I thought all you need is plug the console's DVD drive into a PC and
flash new firmware and you're done. But then it's hard to believe
Microsoft wouldn't block such an obvious hole.
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Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick.TakeThisOut@nospam.io> wrote:
>See, that doesn't work for me. I keep falling back on this hoarding
>instinct, where I don't want to expend resources promoting troops or
>building up cities. Being too worried about running out when I need it
>later, I end up sitting on a big pile of gold and supplies but all my
>cities and heroes are weak and underdeveloped for the turn it is. I need
>to figure out where the sweet spot is between spending and conserving.
>Resource management is not my strong suit.

Think of it as hording unrecuited troops and gold. The basic strategy
is to maximize the number of troops you can recruit at later turns,
and Wolfing explained to do that.

Avoid losing more than a token amount of troops in your battles with
the static units spread around the map. It'll take you a while to learn
which battles you can win like that so save before attacking during your
first couple of games. Use one hero to do all your fighting, an other
hero or two with a small and fast force to explore and grab goodies.

>I'm told HOMM V has a good tutorial system?

I've only played I, II and III so I don't know. The first two games
are harder than the third, so if you aren't able to get the hang of them
try moving on to Heroes of Might and Magic III.

Ross Ridge

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On Oct 10, 9:46 am, Ross Ridge <rri....RemoveThis@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> Kendrick Kerwin Chua  <kendr....RemoveThis@nospam.io> wrote:
>
> >See, that doesn't work for me. I keep falling back on this hoarding
> >instinct, where I don't want to expend resources promoting troops or
> >building up cities. Being too worried about running out when I need it
> >later, I end up sitting on a big pile of gold and supplies but all my
> >cities and heroes are weak and underdeveloped for the turn it is. I need
> >to figure out where the sweet spot is between spending and conserving.
> >Resource management is not my strong suit.
>
> Think of it as hording unrecuited troops and gold.  The basic strategy
> is to maximize the number of troops you can recruit at later turns,
> and Wolfing explained to do that.
>
> Avoid losing more than a token amount of troops in your battles with
> the static units spread around the map.  It'll take you a while to learn
> which battles you can win like that so save before attacking during your
> first couple of games.  Use one hero to do all your fighting, an other
> hero or two with a small and fast force to explore and grab goodies.
>
> >I'm told HOMM V has a good tutorial system?
>
> I've only played I, II and III so I don't know.  The first two games
> are harder than the third, so if you aren't able to get the hang of them
> try moving on to Heroes of Might and Magic III.
>
HoMM 3 is the jewel of them all, the best without a doubt. I also
liked HoMM 5 a lot. 4 pretty much sucked big time.
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Ross Ridge <rridge RemoveThis @csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote in news:gcnmb6$m0t$1
@rumours.uwaterloo.ca:

> Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick RemoveThis @nospam.io> wrote:
>>See, that doesn't work for me. I keep falling back on this hoarding
>>instinct, where I don't want to expend resources promoting troops or
>>building up cities. Being too worried about running out when I need it
>>later, I end up sitting on a big pile of gold and supplies but all my
>>cities and heroes are weak and underdeveloped for the turn it is. I
need
>>to figure out where the sweet spot is between spending and conserving.
>>Resource management is not my strong suit.
>
> Think of it as hording unrecuited troops and gold. The basic strategy
> is to maximize the number of troops you can recruit at later turns,
> and Wolfing explained to do that.
>
> Avoid losing more than a token amount of troops in your battles with
> the static units spread around the map. It'll take you a while to
learn
> which battles you can win like that so save before attacking during
your
> first couple of games. Use one hero to do all your fighting, an other
> hero or two with a small and fast force to explore and grab goodies.
>
>>I'm told HOMM V has a good tutorial system?
>
> I've only played I, II and III so I don't know. The first two games
> are harder than the third, so if you aren't able to get the hang of
them
> try moving on to Heroes of Might and Magic III.
>
> Ross Ridge
>

I was really enjoying HOMM V until I had to get a new system and somehow
my install disc disapeared.
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CoinSpin <coin^spam^spin@comcast.net> writes:

> Ah, but that was part of their credo when creating the Xbox in the
> first place... A gaming console that was really using PC hardware in
> a box, which would (supposedly) make programming and porting games
> between Xbox and PC platforms a snap.

Well, sure. I also thought that since Microsoft had little or no
experience in producing high volume complex electronics, they did the
smart thing with the original Xbox. Fairly low power parts, large
case, easy cooling. Presumably recycled software too for the most
part.

Then they reached a little too far with the 360 and ran into
reliability problems, red ring of death and all that.
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