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I have been listening to the NASA podcasts a while and I really do find some of what they have going very interesting. Other parts, so so. The thing that gets me has to be the really cheesy music they have running in the background. Hideous!!

But yesterday I listened to an edition which had a segment going on about a Moonbase Alpha game, a 3D moon base with a problem that needs to be fixed. I downloaded the game off from Steam and it seemed like a bit of fun. But there really isn’t much there. Fix up the base in 30 minutes and then you get bored!

Saying that, I would like to hear some other peoples thoughts on the game.

http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/national/ltp/games/moonbasealpha/mbalpha-landing-collection1-overview.html

http://www.looki.com/gaming/empire_universe_2_s75.html

Here we have another Java based game via the browser. O how it can look good from those screenshots, but yet again looks can be deceiving.

Gameplay starts with building, just like you build on evony, basic building which is based on the Age of Empires style of gaming. However this is as far it goes for building your city on your planets, boring, as you have to wait on time just like on evony! Once you get your space port up and running you can build ships. How much research do you want to do also depends on how much better a ship you want to build.

Yep, I said research, this is endless, and clearly not worth waiting for, all you do is research, build buildings, build ships, mine astroids, colonise other planets and finally explore space.

The idea sounds great, shame it is more boring than daytime tv and far more boring than any other game in existence.

I really can’t rate this game. That’s how bad it is!

I start playing this dam game again, what made me stop again?

It must of been the fact that after two weeks of gameplay I got raped and destroyed. Not only did it destroy my heart but it destroyed everything I felt I had accomplished in the game! I found it hard to get into the alliance I wanted, then some guy with the nickname Ridout in the 129 server just for no reason raped my city to the ground, took everything in it, destroyed all the fortifications and wiped my army out in one blow.

So I tried to rebuild, got back up a bit, sent him an in game mail, for what reason did you destroy me. “Lakes and wrong answer” was all I got back along with him destroying everything, taking my city and made me feel sick.

Clearly the problem isn’t me, the problem is people must spend their own life playing a game to get so dam good, they can destroy you in that game with a few number of clicks. It makes it so uninviting to new players.

My suggestion to all, firewall block the game so you can never get near it again!

http://www.evony.com

Formally called Civony this browser based game brings you a very basic medieval game in which you create your city and expand your empire. This is really a cross between Age of Empire and a Sim City type game.

You start with following the basic quests given to you which is a tutorial that lasts for seven days building up your city, from cottages to barracks, town hall, farms and works. Each building is time each upgrade is time, hence the meaning running in real-time. I have to say I do get rather bored by this game, there doesn’t seem too much depth to it.

A direct copy of Age of Empire’s is the farming system, collecting food, wood, stone and metal. The same again when building your army.

The landscape is repetitive all over the place. There is no continuity, structure or beauty to this game, the graphics look okay but there is no glamour. There are level changes in the map structure and this doesn’t really happen in reality and shouldn’t happen here. It looks wrong and seems wrong.

A feature of the game is the shopping which is very expensive and isn’t worth spending any of your money on. I don’t want to increase boredom by descressing boredom.

Game score:
1.5 out of 5

I decided to play Star Trek Armada 2 again on my new PC and decided to go visit GameWinners.com forum. In 2001 the site was very popular and there was a lot of activity. Loads of different forums and lots of informative people.

I was looking for the Star Trek folder of the forum, but alas they had deleted it. Even still they had deleted the Star Wars folder.

I was simply told this is down to the popularity if there isn’t enough people interested then they delete them. I have always been against deleting informative posts or information.

For a website to hold it’s populace and popularity you shouldn’t force people out to other sites. Even if this is a the fringe, they can come back to a website if they remember it being good. But the fringe people on the web don’t count for the whole, but they certainly help to drive the content and awareness of a website up.

And just to confirm of which I am theorising here, alexa.com/siteinfo/gamewinners.com

I don’t know how many other people have tried to enter the McCoy’s comp and failed. But for me I have tried with Google Chrome, Firefox and IE. Well my cookies are enabled on all those browsers. I just seem to have the most success with IE.

Still it does take a long time to enter, considering when the barcode is exactly the same on the back on the packet for the specific flavour! I don’t know if there is success for different flavours or not.  But it does save you having to buy a pack every day, I guess this means I can enter the comp every day with out buying.

That is definitely a floor in the promotion on the packets, at least it saves me getting fat!

How much spam is out there on the internet today? Do you ask where it comes from, it’s advantages and effects on all systems. Spam comes in two forms; the first is the destructive, loaded with viruses and destructive software to try and destroy your machine. The second is for commercial gain, but isn’t the second also an economic effect?

How devastating can this economic spam attack affect people and companies? No one truly knows but between terrorists and criminal gangs how much money do you think they have acquired through these actions?

Now the process of attack can come from spam email and bots. A bot is an automated software which runs it’s actions over the internet. Companies like Google and Microsoft use bots to scan websites for a series of information to help build their search engines.

A terrorist could use a bot to attack banking websites to try and either knock down that system or exploit it for gain. And I theorise that they are using these types of bot software to attack systems already.

I am also theorising that governments and agencies are behind the times. They haven’t got any bots in play when they could easily make them to help combat, track down malicious websites, online terrorist groups and other activities that are bad.

Internet bots waging war on each other. Trust me, that could easily happen next week if not next year.

On MySpace the interface is left to be desired, you have the ability to modify it how you wish. But the way the site takes ages to load and when it has, it’s all out of shape extending to a huge size which simply can’t fit into your browser.

There is something said for a simple design and MySpace doesn’t really have that. Although it has the features like uploading your images, movies, creating a blog and messaging your friends. There is this added disease that you have to collect friends and establish online relationships. It continues to extend the page down which takes even longer to load and even longer to read and even longer yo get to the end of the page.

The tradition of simple emails, legitimate forums seem to pass into an era of been there done that. All these features which everyone have, still work and will always work.

But with other factors such as facebook.com hitting MySpace there has been a 2 million drop in it’s user count. A year ago MySpace was getting 8 million visitors but now today it has 6 million. Are they migrating to facebook which is by far a better system to manage all those functions. The fact that facebook has better servers and getting a user load of 14 million and rising could the migration hit MySpace even harder?

I see facebook winning this war, although the battle is not yet over it has the ability to adapt which MySpace lost long ago. There is still the problem of people addicted to the internet addicted to social networking websites. Alas not much the world can do about this.

Everyone has a choice and the numbers certainly show that these websites are certainly a big part of the internet. Along with the gaming front, it seems to me the masses have spoken and facebook will be victorious.

I have no idea why this Russian website continues to register user accounts on my site. But very ofter maybe once or twice a month a username will register it’self on my site with an email of address ending in @komatoz.net

Now I am assuming is all to do with spam, trying to get it’s name across the internet to get it’s numbers up. So I believe they must be running a bot. Or someone is running a bot for them. I don’t know if it is just targetting me or is infact targetting others. But what I do know it is targetting wordpress which is what I am running.

So beware people, the komatoz.net is spamming.