Thanks for this (and to everyone who commented the same thing). It’s something that should be made clearer in the game.

I knew I kept all that stuff for a reason - my dog has his own wardrobe in my main base... :-)

I see a lot of people are complaining about the engine, but to be honest, for me I was pleasantly surprised when I started the game on my middling system (AMD Phenom II, 12Gb RAM and an ATI R9 290) and it defaulted to the highest setting and runs sweet as a nut.

Here in the UK the insurance companies all share their data with the DVLA, so when you go to tax the car, they already know if you’re insured or not.

I’ve been playing for about six hours and have barely even left the starter area yet - too busy making stuff.

I just read this whole thing with this expression on my face. Seems to happen a lot with these religious nutjobs...

You are my hero :-)

As an aside, this is why police and security guards usually wear clip on ties...

I’m not sure this counts as bad luck or not, but the second time I got taken off my bike was “fun”. This happened sometime in 1989 (I think). I had only just started riding again after my first accident when I was T-boned by a woman pulling out of a side road without looking. That left me with a written off bike and a…

I’ve heard of “lock up your daughters” but this is just nuts.

Back in the day when I used to play Medal of Honour: Allied Assault competitively (not professionally - there were no paid leagues), the clan I was in would insist everyone did all their practice using either the Lee Enfield, the Springfield or the KAR98; basically only use bolt action rifles.

Genuine question - would it not have been easier to spray the cap with WD40? That’s one of the things it was invented for - displacing water.

That’s the one, thanks :-)

As I’ve mentioned before, I spent ten years at EA and, despite what you may think you know about EA, I can tell you now that the vast majority of people there want nothing more than to make great games that are fun, ship on time and work properly.

When I was having car lessons, my instructor was the best in the area - a really, really great instructor, except for the fact he would spend every lunchtime in the local pub drinking “orange juice” and would be absolutely blotto in the afternoon.

I had a Mercedes C class that did the same thing. I took it to Mercs - they told me it was a fault in the throttle system and reset it.

While I fully agree there’s no way you should ever act in this fashion, I would also argue that there is no justification for the bike overtaking on the double yellows.

There was a really old RTS that allowed the player to take control of individual units in first person, but I can’t for the life of me remember the name of it.

Wow. I never knew Banished was a one man band job.

Europe was built on the back of the Church

You can’t beat the old Dagenham Dustcart.