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rri...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ross Ridge) looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

>X2: The Threat
>
>Finally, the third game I played last month was X2: The Threat.
>This a sequel to X: Beyond the Frontier and is a fairly standard space
>combat/trading simulator, like Privateer or Freelancer, though with
>less emphasis on combat than trading.  I've played the original X game,
>and decide to skip its expansion X-Tension.  The graphics are noticably
>improved in X2 and the game interface has had big improvement, though
>remapping keys still is pretty much non-existant.

I do hope that your copy is legit and is fully recognized as such.

X2 had a very sneaky anti-piracy routine I read about back in the day
(you had to register for their website in order to download apps for the
game (in game routines for automation etc) and people would get caught
out for having pirated copies by their complaints.)

You see instead of simply disabling a pirated copy, they were cruel,
they let the people play, get invested, build up their manufacturing
empire, but after a certain amount of time the game economy would go
horribly and irretrievably wrong and since the only way to get anywhere
in the game is by building and manufacture ...

You want that great gun, you have to build it, and the factory to build
it and the mines to get the materials to make the factories to make the
parts to make the ...

Unfortunately if you have a legit copy but had used any kind of crack or
cheat program you tended to trigger this and as I recall (maybe
incorrectly) once it's triggered that save game is well and truly
fucked.

Xocyll
-- 
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