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GoaSkin, I've not been able to keep up with everything going on the last week or so and I don't know what happened, but I for one will be sad to see you (or anyone for that matter) going in this way. You've been here a while and done a lot, so good luck wherever you wind up.

I reckon this is all sounding great and I certainly wish I was clever enough to be involved. However this goes, I'd just love to see it open ended in the way it could be fully modified in the future. If it goes 2.5D now (as it is starting to sound having read all this), the ability for it to go 3D in the future when we all have computers with dual 12 core 128bit CPUs with integrated quadcore graphics (and know how to make our coffee in the morning) without losing all the previous content would be something that should be considered in the developmental stages. I just don't want to see tons of work go into something like this to come out at the other end and think "I wish we had done this..." and someone else not be able to modify it to suit.

I've spent the last 2 days reading all this and I'm getting all excited at the prospect of it all, but I have a couple of things I'd like considered. This project will take years to develop so all this talk of computers being taxed with different graphics and such, by the time this is completed to a point where something is available to the general community, the best of of today's computers will by then be considered old and slow. My computer at home was custom made to be speedy to improve the game play for SC4 and it's now pretty average and it's not even 2 years old! I also think that there is no point trying to make new engines from scratch if perfectly usable ones exist out there, especially open source if we're trying to make this an open source game, and they'd be legally easier to modify if needed. No point making this any harder than it needs to be. I also like the earlier suggestion of putting out a vanilla version and then making it modifiable later. By having mod's it'd be much easier to keep everyone happy, as well as interest maintained during development since the each step would be smaller, with an actual playable game easier to acheive, AND THEN improve. Also remember to not immediately start throwing ideas out as 'too hard' right away (such as weather) since the whole idea of this concept was to acheive the game we ALL wanted. If it isn't worth doing properly, we may as well just go back to SC4 and stop complaining about EA games, since that's exacly what we (the community) are already doing by giving in. I'll be the first to say that I can do nothing for this project as I lack any usable skills in this area, but I'll happily donate 10 bucks if asked to do so. Oh! and send out lots of good vibes!

Goldfish4029, isn't it obvious. Carbon has been locked up for millenia in the form of coal, oil and forests. We are now diging up the coal and oil for fuel, and clearing the forests for housing and farmland (and to a lesser extent fuel in 3rd world countries) so all this carbon that has been locked up since the time of the dinosaurs is now being released back into the atmosphere, and causing the rise in CO2 levels.

I'd like to know the credentials of the 'scientists' that appeared on this program, and where they get their money from. Many of the most outspoken 'experts' that argue against global warming have been shown to be on the payroll of the large oil and power companies before the papertrails were covered up. Many of them also were on the tobacco companys' payrolls back in the 70's and spoke out against the links of smoking causing cancer. Look how laughable that concept is today, and yet for years the tobacco companies ran exactly the same confusion campaign that the petroleum companies run today - using many of the same 'experts' and PR companies that the tobacco companies used. Don't believe the hype. There is just far too much evidence for global warming, from independent research, and belief from virtually all the real experts in the field, to ignore it. Besides, why are we still using technology (internal combustion, coal power stations) that's a hundred years old? We should have flying cars by now!