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That's really cool. I'm gonna show this to the wife, she'll enjoy it.

If we could only ship our wives to India once a month.....

Ever wondered what some of the place names really meant? Here you go http://www.kalimedia.com/Atlas_of_True_Names.html

Didn't watch it yet, but I'm going out on a limb here and say there are plenty of 'splosions, slow-mo closeup shots on the stars, and 4th grade humor, all with a smattering of lens flare. (watching now)

Oh, if we only had an updated X-Wing game.....

lol that's awesome. What were they all doing?

LoL I love it. *right click - save*

I was thinking this would give all the bunny-hoppers a place to do their thing, and leave us alone? Yeah, that's it....

Hey that looks pretty cool.

Germans........

It's been a while, but I don't think I've seen a more buggy game than this one. From buildings not rendering, to random glitches where labels don't show up, to gifting, to what I'm enduring right now, which is everything is in turtle speed, no matter what setting you put it on. Geeze.

lol that reminds me, I need to stock up on popcorn.

I go through about a TB per 2-2.5yrs. I could probably draw it out to 3 if I deleted unnecessary files. And yes, it's important that I have reliable backup. I wouldn't mind something that lasted me 5-6yrs or more, so if I got something that could hold 4 drives, that would work well. (I've never liked using more than 1 or 2tb due to reliability concerns)

Man, wealth of information here, I'll have to comb through it over the weekend, haha. Hopefully I'll have more questions. I really like the idea of adding drives as affordability permits, but $400-500 seems a little steep for a box just to hold hard drives that I still have to buy.

Thanks bud. Are there options for if I just want to use it as a storage box, meaning I don't need to access it via any network except for a direct link to my computer? Would I still need a NAS or something else?

Hi all, It's come time where my standard tower just isn't cutting it and I need a new system to store files. My main concern is just storage and retrieval. I don't need to run any OS off of it, just need a place to store my massive image files and get to them whenever. I've heard about DROBO, but it seems a bit $teep for a box that holds a bunch of hard drives. I'm sure it does more than that, but I was hoping somebody could educate me on all of this and point me in the right direction? Please? lol.

LMAO I have to laugh so I wouldn't punch my monitor. Funny how I couldn't get into my city in Sim City just now because the damn server was down for maintenance, therefore denying me the option to play. Did anyone else laugh when they opened up their Origin account and the popup for pre-ordering BF4 came up?

Dang his bodyguard doesn't like fans, huh?

I don't have much of a problem with origin, but now that I bought this game, I can say that EA, or whoever is running Maxis, has created a beautiful game.... ...and has killed the franchise in the process. The cities are a fraction of the size they used to be, which makes for barely any room to have fun placing stuff. They have said the reason is because our processors won't run the game with cities the normal size, but we all know that they are lying and will release DLC in a couple months with the large sizes for a high price, no doubt. (See Sims3) . People may be playing this in a couple months, but I highly doubt it's one of those games that lasts in the public consciousness.

Is it just me or does gifting not work? I just lost 100k. Or does it get shipped over in increments?

See, that's just bragging right there

Here's an interesting commentary based on that... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZxXEidtxHk

Looks like Maxis is trying to make it right because of their big screw up with the first few days of servers being down and are giving away an old game for free. http://www.simcity.com/en_US/blog/article/for-our-patient-and-amazing-mayors-a-free-pc-download-from-origin I'd rather see them provide an option to play offline, but from their other blog posts that ain't gonna happen since it's apparently the core component of their game. I give it 3mo.

Read this http://www.simcity.com/en_US/blog/article/building-for-the-future REQUIRING players to be online at ALL TIMEs, in my opinion, is probably the dumbest move I've ever seen a developer make. People pay $60, and many paid $80!!! for a game, and couldn't play it right away, or even days because the servers were down. They are so damned afraid of piracy that they are ruining the experience of everybody and will destroy the franchise. This quote from the comments sums it up for me.... "I want the developers to be able to make a living as much as anybody, but under no circumstance do you make stopping pirates a priority over providing a quality product to paying customers."