The Boxsters suffer from the same problem as the 996 911: One of the cylinder banks seals will wear away prematurely, and oil and water will mix. This means a complete overhaul of the engine (often the pistons and their housings suffer too), which can cost anywhere upward from 8000€ if done correctly. If you want to…

hmmm, not really true. If you have subscribed to Gold for a longer time, you would have games from the time before they were available on Plus at all, also MS sometimes really surprises you by putting quite new titles into Gold.
Also, all 360 titles are yours to keep even if you cancel the service. Doesn’t seem much,…

What I’m not getting is: What kind of roads do you have over there? I mean yes - most roads here in Germany are kinda littered with repaired patches, but they mostly make sure that the top layer is made out of some kind of porous stuff so that rain can flow away at least partially. (which is also especially important…

Hmmm, I’ve seen the Blu-Ray package go for less over here in Germany. So tell me again why I should pay more for movies that I might not be able to watch if for some reason some company shuts down their streaming service at some point in the future?

Hmmm, I’ve seen the Blu-Ray package go for less over here in Germany. So tell me again why I should pay more for…

So it is basically some kind of precursor to the Archologies of Shadowrun? I hope they don’t experiment on any stuff in there, Renraku didn’t have very good results with that.

Actually, D&W , back then one of the largest companies selling aftermarket products in Germany, had several complete bodykits available for Trabants.
Also, the last production run was sold with VW 4 cylinder 4-stroke engines, giving them some kind of power.
The original top speed of the two-stroke was 100km/h (on a flat…

ah, right - I only thought of assets in terms of objects, textures, landscapes etc...
Hrm, that is a dilemma. They would have to change an awful lot, but would also have the opportunity to create a whole new setup like some custom servers did.
And bring back “Captain Placeholder” :D

I was most disappointed by the crowd though. The moment that Splyce won most of them just got up and left, they didn’t even applaud the victor, though it was a very even match - any team could’ve walked away with the title there.
Seemed like very, VERY bad sportsmanship against the only team who made it a habit to walk…

What assets?
The game assets remain solely on the clients computers, the server only checks movement of characters and keeps track of stuff they did (finished quests etc). There is no asset theft, the server software is an emulation too (they basically look for what the client software sends out as data packets then…

the servers are not using any of those assets though.
The client software on the users computers is, and those come from your original four CDs (or single DVD) of World of Warcraft. As long as they do not provide those they should be good since they do not offer the same service, just a different one. It is kinda…

Good decision. Had one now if it wasn’t for the previous owner, he dressed it up in matte black and really nice wheels for his daughter as a birthday present when she turned 18 and got her drivers license. She turned it down, calling it ugly, and bought herself a new Mini.

apparently some other streamer got a tour of the place just Friday, seems like the devs were the last ones to know that they were about to shut down.

sources were the dev diaries (which were open to then public and are preserved in countless reddit posts) and kickstarter posts during the campaign.

Oh, they said something similar about Sim City, and that thing runs just fine offline. In fact, it doesn’t even run synchronized online and it is shown that zero calculations are done in the cloud.
The universe of Elite could run absolutely fine completely offline. There is enough hidden stuff in Frontier and First…

Since the base game is now most of the time on sale for 18€ it is hard to go wrong. At full price, I wouldn’t have recommended it to anyone though. I would’ve expected the game to be more fleshed out, more “complete” upon release, you could sense that they suddenly had to rush it out of the door for monetary reasons.…

Yes, true. But I still have to be connected to the net. And that is the point, I can still fire up any old Elite and play it whenever I want. (and I do from time to time)
But I cannot do that and probably will never be able to do that with the new Elite. Although it was promised to me all the time through kickstarter…

The R129 Benz SL is not such a good choice. Most of them are eating their electric wiring looms right now since the isolation of the cables is getting more brittle the older they become. The result is often expensive, sometimes catastrophic. No one likes engine fires.

Ah, console player. Did you by any chance play the previous Elite incarnations?
Most fans started with the first one, not all on the BBC micro, but most on C64/Amiga or PC (Elite Plus). All Elite Games (Elite, Elite Plus, Elite II:Frontier, Frontier - First Encounters) came in a nice box with a book containing stories…

It is a bit different than you paint it but yes, they had a load of trouble making the assets produced by different teams work with each other because the standards to which they were made were raised on the fly as money (and expectations) poured in.
It is logical though that a higher quality product takes…

Nowhere, since that up there is a Ford Capri.