I am having an ongoing PM discussion with Solver

[TCO]

Originally posted by Nikolai


Yeah. I didn't even realize those guys still were active after all these years.

Nothing is being accomplished. They'll never get there.

[TCO]

Originally posted by snoopy369
I have to say that TCO is perhaps the most clever advertising device I've seen in a long time ... Congrats, Vel, free advertising should never be turned down

Advertising. How about accomplishment? Actually the thing doesn't even have active hype. It's a shell.

[Jon Miller]

Is anything done yet? Like is there is alpha model of the game?

JM

[LordShiva]

[TCO]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
Is anything done yet? Like is there is alpha model of the game?

JM

It's only been 6 years. gotta work on the real estate and novels and theme park first. this thing will be BIG man. Just don't ask for an estimated completion. THey lack the sac to give a date since they know the project is going nowhere.

[Jon Miller]

Honestly, a decent alpha should be complete within the first year. Even games that took 6 years to come out had an alpha version in the first year.

JM

[TCO]

Actually they had some sort of a build several years ago. I really don't know that much about it. I just know the places where they are silly (business model) and evasive (progress).

[Wezil]

Originally posted by Wezil
Besides we all know that in the currency wars the US is now Canada's b!tch.

We hit $1.07 yesterday. Let us know when it gets embarrassing.

Up to $1.10 this morning.

[The Mad Monk]

Originally posted by Wezil


Yes the ability of your military to pacify a nation is quite impressive. We have about an equal population as Iraq and a better terrain to operate from.

Besides, we've already started mobilizing the forces to retake the Horseshoe Falls which your evil nation has laid claim to.

You know, he might go faster if he ditched the motor and just fired the gun toward the stern.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Serb

Really? As I see, your currency goes down, down and one more time down.

The Chinese and several other major Asian and Latin American trading partners of the US peg their currency to the dollar as a way of maintaining price parity. The alternatives would be to watch their export economies die or to return to the days of competitive devaluations. By pegging their currencies to the dollar they all maintain competitive pricing at their primary over sea's market plus it helps to maintain trust since everyone knows the other pegged countries won't devalue their currency in order to gain commercial advantage.

Oh, that and competition in most sectors of the US economy is so tight that companies (manufacturers, distributors, and retailers) all pretty much feel they don't have a position competitive enough to raise prices. So for now they're eating the currency fluctuations.