I would post it there if i could get GCII TA to quit crashing past the galaxy screen.

Hmm...The last time I saw her, Playjeff was heading out into the desert with her in tow.  In fact, I seem to remember that she had that last bottle of ale with her too.

Yeah, I like the dash cam.  It probably wouldn't work well on an RC car though.  It's physically pretty small, but the wires would get in the way.  There are sport cams that would do great though.  There are also some that go on RC aircraft.  I'd bet one of those would work pretty well.

The one I took the video with is a V1000GS.  It's 1080P at 30 FPS, so it's kinda like being there.  It's supposed to look even better when the sun's out, but oddly, we've had nothing but rain and overcast here.  Not that I'm complaining.  Our drought situation has only been upgraded from "exceptional" to "severe".  

And yeah, I like Motley Crue too.  Classic stuff.   

Yeah i've looked into many other cams, but they are all ridiculously expensive....but then i googled your model and saw it wasn't much different!
You paid $220 or close to?
The ones ive found have decent fps, but don't have good resolution and/or not in HD.

I do some pretty wicked things in my cars and would love a pov video to show them off, plus i think pov on a RC anything is very...very cool!

I may have to bite the bullet and pay around $200.

I wonder how Jeff and Marshal and co are doing. Would be nice to hear from some of the other TOE originals.

Yeah, it was a bit more than I wanted to pay at first, but the cheaper ones had pretty poor resolution, bad reviews and no GPS.  This one has some hidden costs too.  It doesn't come with memory, so you have to get a decent SDHC card.  Even some class 10 cards have done less than adequately, so I got a listed one.  

I also heard about the freezing up problems, so I got an autoranging power conditioner to make sure over and under voltages don't wipe out the electronics.

Still, it was nicely priced for the quality.  It matches the performance of the $400.00+ models for around half the price.

I was considering a cheaper model that looks like it matches the one I bought, except that it has 4 LEDs.  The deal breaker for me was that according to reviews, it only shows speed in KPH and I wanted MPH.  If KHP is ok, that one is $135.00 at

 http://www.aliexpress.com/product-fm/511185394-Car-DVR-Camera-with-GPS-Logger-Ambarella-Chip-Full-HD-1920-1080P-30FPS-H-264-4-wholesalers.html?biz_type=sitePromo_wto_buyer360_clc&url_type=wto_clc_pic&productId=511185394&crm_mtn_tracelog_task_id=6704287&crm_mtn_tracelog_log_id=1151422448

Here's a vid of that one...

Yup KPH is fine for me, i know MPH and all, but anything imperial was phased out here in the 60's.
I thought the above vid was another of yours at first....i was thinking...snow in texas...WTF!!!
LOL

Finished my war game! Not sure where i last updated, so i'll just give a quick review..

I think i was about to wipe out the Korx and the Drath last time i updated, both those fell easily. None of them had upgraded their ships to combat my missile attack and as such i was able to really focus on engines with my ships since i needed very little attack.
I got a few shrinkers from them and did my upgrade, with more engines still. After this upgrade my huge hull had 50sp 250att/650def.

The Klikiss (yor) were next and fell in one turn, my transports were also upgraded to 3k troops and 50sp.
Last of all was the Altarians, who fell in two turns.

I could have really ended the game so much sooner i guess, i just never saw the need to pull the trigger till the last few AI were left, i was happy just rolling over them in a easy fashion. Once i went full mil spending, i built up more transports than i could have used and with 50sp ships it was done and dusted very quick.

Here's the screenie, it scored quite well for a straight up game.

Only thing that wasn't vanilla about the game was my custom, it was an ARC, but for my race mod not for scoremongering, and some of the AI races were custom, but it was only the flavor of the races that were changed.
I had under my SCC any ships that were surplus, which had a small Mil SB array over it, only 6 or so bases and not even fully built out.

I gave up doing anything with my econ once i had payed the leases off. All i made sure was that each planet had a built IS, VR and a Farm III. I was getting just over 300k per turn and ended up with over 2mill in funds by the end...

Next is a TA game, either one where i will let the game dictate to me it's course, or a Terran diplo game....

Good game, Neilo!  Nice score for a normal style too.  250 att/650 def?  That must have taken quite a few shrinkers!  I can't get anywhere near those numbers.  Did the minors also build shrinkers?

 

On the camera front, here's a review of something that might interest you.  This guy does really good reviews of a range of tech goodies.  

http://www.techmoan.com/blog/2012/2/14/the-1080p-jumbo-camera.html

The cam reviewed is just a keyfob cam, but it's 1080p at 30fps.  No speed, but nice resolution.  It's small enough that you should be able to strap or tape it to an RC car.

No they didn't, and i traded them the req'd tech. And yes i think every AI had a shrinker, so 10 in all, perhaps 9, i don't recall the Arceans having one, i did hit them very early. I make sure to trade the req'd min tech to the AI as soon as i get it, since the extra bonus in the hands of the AI, is no threat, but the bonus or you when you get it is all cheese!!!

As for the score, i was quite surprised, i have no idea what type of scores folks were getting on straight up suicidal games, or if they were even played. I'd guess Purge would have an idea of what scores he was getting before he went down the diplo route....In any case, thought i could care less, it was a pleasant surprise to see a good score for the game time i put in....

Very compact, but may lack the HD quality i want to go for.  Size is no real issue...the cars are quite large, but something smaller, and more to my needs...lighter, will allow me to adjust the weight distribution better. I load ballast on board for some of the larger jumps i do, when your 30ft in the air, landing perfectly is essential!!!!

I have had some luck getting minor rages to build Shrinkers by gifting them high-class, terraformed planets at the same time I give/sell them the Expert Miniaturization tech. It is still low percentage, but can pay off if 2 of the 8 minors take the bait.

I recall a bug once with building the shrinkers, that if you cued up your shrinker and then gifted that planted to a minor, the shrinker would still be in your build cue since it hadn't completed, and of course the minor doesn't destroy it, so..voila 8 more shrinkers.

Pretty sure that was patched out though....

 I know it went away by ToA v 2.02, but I am not sure when.  If I can get through my 2.04 game without the frakker freezing up, I'll try the minor race tactic again and let you know how many cooperate.

It's really an apples to oranges comparison comparing DL galaxies with 350 planets versus DA galaxies with 750 planets. Also the later standalone versions of DL (specifically v1.31 and v1.4x) were significantly different than any of the v1.5 and later versions of DL incorporated into DA which basically allowed you to research, produce and upgrade while bankrupt, none of which you could do in DL 1.4x.

Anyway with that caveat emptor and the knowledge that there has *always* existed at least some minimal form of score "milking", I would say the closest thing that existed to a "straight up suicidal game" were the 300K games played by both Magnumaniac and Syrrus K. Interestingly enough I don't think Purge ever got much more than 500K using his "peace for planets" strategy nor do I think he ever achieved much more than 100K without using it.

Both Magnumaniac's and Syrrus K's strategy depended on early outperformance of the suicidal AI colonization, in general doubling the colonization of a single AI and that was pretty much it.

It really wasn't until I combined Purge's initial development strategy with the 24 MSBA, always getting an Economic Boom on Oct 1st, 2226 and a bankrupting game ending massive upgrade, all of which other than Purge's usage of Diplomacy were of my own invention, that anyone began to come close to the 1 million mark.

It's because of my first hand knowledge of Magnumaniac's game that I always considered him the best colonizer in the game. However I would be loath to mention Magnumaniac's colonization ability without also giving credit to the one person that I believe to be a better colonizer than Mag and that is Sole Soul.

 

I didn't remember DL's planet count being quite so low, so I started a game and did a headcount; got almost 500.  However, since DL's lower class planets are of much more limited usefulness, it's perhaps fair to say that only ~400 of those are worthwhile.  It's also possible that planet count in DL has gone up somewhat since 1.4.

But as DL's pop growth is quite a bit slower, even before accounting for Breeder, and pop determines economy which determines just about everything else, it's clear that DL is a slower game, score-wise.

To my knowledge (which is extensive), that's not actually entirely true-while you can use that bug to have research capabilities generate social or military production via focus while bankrupt, you can't use anything to generate research production while bankrupt, although research treaties, pathetic as they are, will continue to function.

Thanks.  Practice makes perfect!  

True, I misspoke somewhat. Initially you could do everything *but* research which included social and military production through research focus, ship upgrade, building rush buy *and* ship rush buy all while bankrupt. They did close the ship rush buy loophole while bankrupt but given you can still produce hulls via research focus and upgrade while bankrupt the point is somewhat moot. The only thing that can't be done in bankruptcy these days is research.

Thanks for the info mumble. Considering that this game was the most cheesless game ever played, (i traded tech for planets on March 1 (AI was set to friendly) getting about 3-5 planets per AI then declared war on everyone) and tied with the fact i only colonized about 5-7 planets myself, i'll hold that game in esteemed company.

I do think i recall though Purges high score being about 850K, though i don't recall if that was DA or DL.