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Hello, fellow flight-simers!

>This is true, but to be honest, the former 'owner' of Origin, Richard
>Gariott, AKA Lord British, sold Origin to EA. They gave him a dump truck
>full of money and a VP position and equivilent value EA stock, from 
>what I understand. He made out like a bandit. Face it, he sold out. He's
>lost touch with the public. He wasn't even at the last big Game Developer's
>conference, from what I understand. He was at another convention pushing 3DO!
>You can see the trend. As he became more and more of an executive a couple of
>years ago, the quality of Origin's games has gone down. I hear he's turned most
>of the control over U9 to someone else. Wouldn't suprise me a bit!

Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha! Hey, I had the exact same thought several years ago! In 
fact, I nearly sent my letter in to Origin complaining about this! :D 
Luckily, I came to my senses and decided that all my charges had no valid 
foundation! Take it easy my friend, and think it over.

>True enough. CDs are easier to mass produce and more efficient as far as
>installation goes. The only problem is after a while, games will need to
>be PLAYED off the CD ROM and thats just too slow for me! :) 
>(Hey, multimedia clips are fine off the CD, but game data? No Way!)

I understand why people complain about upgrading their computers (CPU and 
motherboard) but I really can't understand why people have problems with 
spending $100 or so getting a decent 2x-speed CD-ROM drive.

>I want to see how they did it before I make any judgements....

I am pending my judgement too. :) I truly hope it will be good though.

>It does have an excellent multiplayer mode. Its the one player mode that stinks!
>The artificial intelligence (or lack thereof) is easy to beat for a long time
>Wing Commander jockey, such as myself. The strategic game is completely hindered
>by this (Make a couple bases, produce heavy fighters and bombers, and go system
>by system hunting for the enemy carrier. This 'strategy' has worked for me
>everytime so far. There's no fun in that!)

No fun is right. Oh well, Armada was designed to be a multi-player game 
anyway, just like Dark Legions and Archon Ultra.

>The only thing Origin did right is that Armada WILL work on a 386/40, just fine.
>(Ignore that 486/DX2 50 Recommended garbage on the box!)

Well, it works well when you are in an one-on-one scenario, but the game's 
performance decreases exponentially when you have to deal with more than 
one enemy ship at once.

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