AstroProdigy

Yes the war is on terror and Bin Laden is an important figurehead for the terrorists. Also, taking him out would have meant that the one name of a terrorist that most Americans know would have been gone and when there was talk of going to war on Iraq on the grounds of links to terrorism people would have thought "But wait didn't we already get rid of Osama Bin Laden"? At one point the troops knew exactly where Osama Bin Laden was. It's called the Battle of Tora Bora. Our troops knew he was there, but we left the biggest escape routes open. Hmm.... "Pir Baksh Bardiwal, the intelligence chief for the Eastern Shura, which controls eastern Afghanistan, says he was astounded that Pentagon planners didn't consider the most obvious exit routes and put down light US infantry to block them". ->Link<- Do not be naive thinking it cannot happen. I am not saying only Republicans do it. This is not a partisan argument. As for saying that they love us, that is quite a statement to make. The majority of Iraqi's was glad that we toppled Saddam Hussein. They are attacking us more and more now not because we toppled their dictator; they are attacking us because the administration have planned the aftermath of the Iraq War very poorly. Also, people from other countries admire the opportunity and luxury we have here in the United States, but most of them do not really like us. A lot of people from European countries do not even like us. It's not that we are oppressing them, they just do not like us. Maybe they are jealous or maybe they do not like our policies, but to think everyone likes us is pretty !@#$%^&* naive. As for Saddam Hussein waking up one day and not being an !@#$%^&*, do you believe that Kim Jong II of North Korea is going to wake up one day and decide to not be an !@#$%^&*? Look what he is doing starving his own people and he is even researching nuclear weapons. That is a very big threat to our national security too. That is a much better reason to go to war. Do you think the monarchy of Saudi Arabia is gonna wake up one day and stop being !@#$%^&*es? they have created a system of the very rich and the very poor and only keep their power with American support. Shouldn't we liberate the people of Saudi Arabia? There are real ties to Osama Bin Laden there. Yet these two countries do not offer us what certain members of the administration want. Oil! North Korea does not have oil and Saudi Arabia is already selling us oil in large quan!@#$%^&*ies. Iraq was not selling us any oil at all since we had an embargo on them. Have you ever seen the do!@#$%^&*entary Farenheight 9/11? You should watch it and see what is really going on. Do not say that I am weak on terror either. I have been a proud resident of New York City my whole life. I was affected by 9/11 much more than someone from Arkansas or Montana. Yet the people who support what the President is doing are mostly the people from areas of low risk. Why are the people in the highest risk areas mostly in opposition of what the President is doing? It is because they know what his administration is doing is only putting us more at risk. Us in New York are being put at risk because of this administration's actions not the people of low population areas. Why would terrorists attack areas with the lowest human life loss? It's just not smart to do that. I heard from the 2004 campaign George Bush constantly questioning the strength of John Kerry on the war on terror, but here is a question. Is it better to think twice about what you are doing or to rush in and kill hundreds of thousands of civilians in Iraq because there was a small chance of a link to terrorism and create scores of new terrorists. Is the President trying to liberate the people of Iraq or protect American lives, because in this case it is one or the other. I'm sorry i got a little excited here, but I find these issues very important to me. I do believe letting Osama Bin Laden go free is something most administrations, Democrat or Republican would have done, but i believe the Iraq War is something not any Republican Administration would have done, just the Bush Administration.

Alright I hade not read most of the posts on this topic because there is too much to read. Also, no one has posted on this topic in a long time. I just want to comment about the two arguments in favor of guns. With regards protecting urself against criminals with guns, you have to understand that the legalization of guns is arming both you and the criminal. What does that accomplish? Simply more gun related violence I would say. Regarding the argument that we need guns against the militia; first of all, the people who support the sale of guns to citizens have control of the Executive, Legislative, and basically the Judicial Branch. If anything, Democrats should be supporting guns with this argument. On top of that, do you actually believe that a population with guns can actually defeat the government? You can do guerrilla warfare, but the United States government can simply take control of all of the media and are much better equipped to fight guerrilla warfare now than in Vietnam. If push comes to shove, the military has a huge arsenal of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that it can keep the masses down with. Try shooting a nuclear bomb with whatever you want it still wont make a difference. So that is why I believe the reasons that people claim to support the sale of guns to citizens are just wrong. I believe people really want to have guns because it makes them feel powerful. If you really think about it you will realize that it is a chauvenistic belief.

Word, but when will you be done with the Hyperspace project and did you take into consideration the Subspace Version2 project.

Ok I will tell you another misconception that burns me. Most Americans believe that the Bush administration has been strong against terrorism. One huge contradiction to this is Osama bin Laden. The president sent troops into Afghanistan to get rid of Alqueda and yet Osama bin Laden slipped through them. In fact, there was a point where troops knew where he was and could have gone and killed him. Yet they did not get an order to do so and instead let him slip through. Why was bin Laden let slip through? If he was let through then he would provide for a constant fear in Americans that his followers could strike again. If they were afraid of this then they would support what the administration does in the name of stopping bin Laden. Saddam Hussein was linked to Osama bin Laden as a reason for the Iraq War. Yet there was no real evidence of this. Osama bin Laden was also used for an excuse for the Patriot Acts. We have yet to know the effects of this act or how it limits individual rights. I am not saying that this is only something the Bush administration would do. In fact, I believe any administration would do the same. It has been done throughout American history. The government created a fear of Spain as an excuse for the Spanish-American War. In case you did not know what that was; the Spanish-American War occured at the end of the 19th Century. It resulted in the United States gaining Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines from Spain. Fear of the Mexicans was used to take the northern provinces of Mexico in the Mexican-American War. Fear of Native Americans was used to continually force tribes out of their homelands and eventually into reservations. Fear of Communism was used to extend American influence into the world. The list goes on. What burns me is that people think that the government is taking a righteous fight to end terrorism. There are other reasons why the government does what it does. The people thought the Holocaust was one of the reasons we went to war with Germany. Yet destroying the concentration camps was not a priority until the very end of the war. If it had been, millions of lives would have been saved. Maybe that is what is wrong with our government. It is too good at fooling the American public. Maybe there is something fundamentally wrong with our system. Maybe its human nature that causes this to happen over and over again. This is NOT in opposition of either the Democratic or the Republican Party. This issue is much more fundamental than simply partisan politics. If there is any way to get rid of this issue, it would require Republicans and Democrats to band together and figure out a solution. Of course, there may not be a solution.

Aw cmon. You can post here. Just make sure what you are saying is not just ridiculous.

I still say it would be great to have a 3d continuum. I do not know of any free 3d space ship games, but even if there are a few, a 3d continuum would be a great compe!@#$%^&*ion to them. I am not saying there should only be a 3d continuum. SOS's project should be great as long as it has plenty of new features and options for gameplay rather than just flagging knockoffs, ctf knockoffs, and soccer knockoffs.

Let's get back on the topic of the post and not just talk about the Iraq War.

Actually, white_Omen, the Vietnam War was part of the Cold War. What i wanted to show is that before the Vietnam War, Americans had the fear of Communism and that was used to start the Vietnam War. Unfortunately for the government, the people of Vietnam did not support the American military and this caused the war to drag on for years. Guerrilla warfare was used to ware down American resolve. The media before the war supported the War, but eventually reporters in Vietnam showed that the war was not as simple and just as Americans had thought. I fear that the media now simply parrots the government. People are being killed in Iraq every day and yet reporters are always trying to show their support for the troops and are not criticially inquiring what is actually happening or why this is happening. The fact is, we will be fighting in Iraq for years to come. The violence seems to be as much as ever. Eventually the media might come to their senses and actually report on the truth. Unfortunately, we cannot just pull our troops out of Iraq because that will result in chaos. I believe that not electing John Kerry and electing George W. Bush instead means that it will continue to be an American effort with token support from other countries. The violence will not end and we will be trapped in this situation and be unable to defend ourselves from other countries because most of our troops are in Iraq. Now I am not criticizing other policies of the government as i do not wish to insult some people here, but I believe this administration's handling of the war has been catastrophic and the media is not telling the people of this. I fear that the media will stay simply as a parrot for the government and that can be the end of our democracy. Luckily, the Cold War ended, and Communism can no longer be used to strike fear into the hearts of the American public, but the War on Terror is not simply a war on one nation and its allies; it is a war against an entire religious group and this group happens to be the second largest religion in the world. You cannot defeat Islam; it is a religion and it is like saying you try to defeat Christianity. If anything, the actions this administration is taking is only making things worse and making Islamic nations more and more fundamentalist. If the media never changes, then there are dire consequences ahead.

Well i know a lot of vets would say the same thing, Maverick, but thats the problem. Vets think its going to last forever. However, as gaming technology continues to progress, new people just will not find a point to playing this game. The chat features do not help the new people because they do not know anyone in this game. As for it being 2d, it just cannot compare with 3d games. You may believe that it is, but that is only because you are of an older generation that is used to 2d games. With regards to being unable to compete with other 3d space games the answer is simple; CNL would be free. Finally, for your point that it is customizable, that will not make a difference to new players as they do not know how to customize the gameplay and will not care to learn. As for the existing members, they all will eventually grow up and get their own lives. A few of them still keep playing, but once that well dries up, what will be left? Now, i agree that giving Continuum a better client will help, but this will not be a permanent solution.

Here let me start it off. I accidently wrote a lot. Bear with me. It really burns me that people call the media "left wing". If you have watched the television stations since September 11 the media is anything but "left wing". Of course I am only discussing the television media, but this is what grabs the majority of people's attention the most. When the Bush administration was calling for war with Iraq on the grounds of weapons of m!@#$%^&* destruction and ties with alquita, the television media embraced these ideas. Even though the evidence for this was obviously very weak. The television stations chose to parrot what the government was saying rather than question it. Isn't that what the media is meant for? Isn't it supposed to keep the government in line. I think its better that the media question the government critically on every issue rather than parrot the government. If there was no media, the government would inevitably become corrupt and undemocratic and no one would know about it. That may be why people call the media "left wing", because of its former tendencies to question what the government is doing. After all, right wing has always been pro rich and left wing has always been pro poor, even from before the civil war. Frankly, the only channel that questioned the validity of the government's claims is CBS because it is not controlled as much by the thirst for ratings. Other stations chose to show what was popular among the people because that would provide for greater ratings. After September 11, everyone in America has seen the real threat of terrorism and could be played on that fear for a profit. It sounds bad, but that is the rules of business. Its also startling that local reporting has dramatically gone down. The reporting has turned to the giant stations. These stations need to make a profit just like any other business or corporation. There should be more local reporting so there will be a greater diversity of opinions so that the American public can have a diverse library of information to process. If everyone agrees theyre either all right or all wrong. If theres a diversity of opinions, the opinion closest to the truth should naturally end up the widely accepted opinion. I'm not being ignorant about terrorism either. I have lived in New York City my whole life and have seen what terrorism can do. I've also seen how well people can come together to help each other. When I watched the television broadcasts about the "proof" of the weapons of m!@#$%^&* destruction and the ties to alquita that Saddam Hussein "had", I thought this is quite a stretch and i noticed how the administration used the fear of terrorism to fool the masses. The television stations even parroted the sound bytes that the government put forward for the people to remember such as what they called the war; Operation Iraqi Freedom. President George Walker Bush even said years after the war in Iraq had started that there is no evidence that Saddam Hussein had weapons of m!@#$%^&* destruction but claimed "intent" to make them. Yet a large percentage of Americans STILL believe that Saddam Hussein had weapons of m!@#$%^&* destruction. Why is that? Is it stupidity? No, i don't believe Americans are as stupid as other countries make them out to be. I think that after all the television coverage stating that Saddam Hussein had weapons of m!@#$%^&* destruction, that is what people naturally believed. Briefly mentioning that they didn't have weapons of m!@#$%^&* destruction was not enough to change the public's minds back to the truth. It also might be that people don't want to believe that the reasons why the United States went to war with Iraq was false. That doesn't sit well with us. There are much similarities with the media coverage with the Vietnam War. Maybe the Iraq War is another Vietnam War. There is no sign that the bloodshed in Iraq is diminishing. If anything its staying strong while the will of the American public continues to drop. Maybe after the American public already opposes the war in a large majority, then the media will become "left wing". Maybe there's a new generation of hippies to come. By the way, i think the way MonteZuma presents his opinions is very elequent and even though i don't agree with all of his opinions, he's a pretty convincing character if you keep an open mind.

I have not seen MillenniumMan post any news regarding Continuum Next Level in a quite a while so I assume he is no longer working on the project. I believe that either Continuum Next Level will be finished and replace Continuum or the future of Continuum is death. As computer technology continues to grow, continuum will become more backwards. Eventually, even the fact that Continuum is free will not be enough to get new players. The current players will slowly stop playing and then Continuum will be a thing of the past. If it survives at all, its only as a simple game such as simple computer tennis is to our generation. That is why I believe it is imperative that Continuum goes 3d. Subspace Version 2 will help to prolong Continuum's Death, this is still not enough. 2D game play just cannot compete with 3D game play. If you are still working on Continuum Next Level, MillenniumMan, please respond to this post so that the players of Continuum will still know that the project is still alive and can have something to hope for. The future of Subspace is in your hands.

Incase they havent already said this....the ability to have directions for bullets and bombs. That means you can create missiles that arent just balls but actual missiles that point at u. This can also mean the ability to use lasers. Lasers would really liven up the game id say. The problem with lasers currently is if u make them go fast as lasers the best u can do with them is dots that are far apart. If u stretch the gfx itl look like a laser for only one direction. all the other directions itl look like lines parallel to each other. So yeah that.

I'm just a random noob here who can't code, but if your going to continue with this project and have not already thought of doing so, you should make sure to make settings where you can choose the number of ships in a zone, the map size, the number of bombs and bullets, etc. That way subspace2 won't be so limited the way continuum is. Also, you can't possibly perfect it on the first patch so you should consider updating it from time to time so its not stagnant the way continuum is.