Vox Controli Misc. Thread

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Question to skywalker and Dissident-

One of the small shields next to your name, the green and yellow one - says Nation States. What's that all about? I can't find any forum referring to it. Is it a SMAC game?

[Kuciwalker]

It's this weird game. It has a forum now, IIRC.

[Dis]

It has a forum now above the other games section.

It's web game. It isnt' that big of a game. But you run your own country and you approve or disapprove of issues that come before you. Like taxes and such. There is now war, but some people role play that stuff.

http://www.nationstates.net

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Diss - can you provide directios on how to produce screen shots? Thanks.

[Dis]

OK. Let's see.

I can do them within the game without having to reload the game etc. It just involves minimizing the civ3 window and bringing up your graphics program.

First I center the world map on the area I want the shot of. I then hit the Print Screen button on the top of my keyboard (to the right of my F12 key on my keyboard). This will save the screen shot in windows memory.

Then to paste that screen shot I open a graphics program like Microsoft Paint which is pretty standard with most windows installs I'm sure. I then go to the edit menu at the top then use the drop down and go to paste. And whalaa! I then save the file as a bitmap. Microsoft Paint saves all files as bitmaps I think. So if you use this you will probably have to use something to convert files to a jpg to make it smaller to send via e-mail.

I also can use Adobe PhotoDeluxe to paste these files I noticed. PhotoDeluxe came pre-bundled with my printer I think. It is pre-bundled with other stuff as well like scanners. There I open up a new file by going to New and file on the drop down menu. Then I can go to edit then paste on the drop down menu. Then I can go to File and then go to Save As on the drop down menu to convert it to a jpg file to send.

Once you save it you can bring civ3 back up and reposition the screen and repeat the process.

That's pretty detailed, some of this you probably know how to do, but I like to be thorough .

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Thanks! Will try it first with an old non-ptwdemo save.

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Any idea when you move up from Prince? I am only a handful away from 1000? Is it is 1000?

[Wittlich]

It's 1001.

-Settler 1-30
-Chieftain 31-100
-Warlord 101-300
-Prince 301-1000
-King 1001-3000
-Emperor 3001-10000
-Deity 10001+

*Stolen from the archives of the Community Forum*

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Thanks Witt - then it is countdown time. This being post 999 or 998. Not sure which. Bring on the party!!!!

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And the countdown continues - I hope you guys appreciate that when it gets right down to it, I would rather share this special moment with you!!!!!

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YEE HAW!!!! THE KING OF DOGS!!!! THIS IS BETTER THAN NEW YEARS!!

"May old acquaintence be forgot....."

[Wittlich]

Congrats on assending your thrown Beta!

[Dis]

I must report this spam

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Thanks guys. Reality now sets in. 2000 more posts to Emperor. Hey - get involved in a few more pbem games - type 'sent' enough times, and you are there.

Man, Dissident, how did you manage to get there without the pbem threads. That's a lot of OT!!

[Eli]

That's a lot of OT!!

A lot more than you think. Most of us Emperors got the titles back when OT posts counted. Since then, i'm sure there are at least couple thousand of my posts that simply didnt count and the same is true for most of the other OTers.