JustasJ

I wonder if its possible to stack Xenonauts' files into file-like folders, that would act like ".jar" format does? It would make them easy to correct and modify but would look like a single file to applications like Steam and Desura.

I played around with the demo a bit and found that it's extremely difficult to build a ship according to specifications of the contractor. For example, to supply the ship with everything crucial and then service everything takes more people than the design specifies.

The problem was not that it got paraded around, but that it got so much attention, both from the media and the muslims. Were they not so sensitive about the issue, it would have never been one. I wouldn't be. My personal experience is that governments seldom fix the problems, they usually makes things worse. I wouldn't be comfortable either, but at least you know what their views are and what kinds of people they are really representing. And they probably didnät break any laws, either. We recently had a parliamentary election where the party that bought most votes also won the most seats. Also, the leader of that party is known for faking his university diploma, tax evasion and shady accounting. It's a bad English-to-Swedish translation of "Swedes". Apparently, it needed no "ä". or "-na". Svenska är så svårt!

That's not really just a problem of a society, but of people in general. In the middle east, it seems like as if you can say anything that does not insult Islam. In the west, the problem is that many people think that a right to free speech means the right to be heard. On the contrary, a person has the right to express his views but people have the right not to listen and the owners of the medium in which the speaker expresses his views has the right to refuse him the right of expression. For example, if someone came here and started writing hate speech, the moderators and owners could remove the said person from the board without infringing on his/her freedom of speech. A healthy bit of nationalism wouldn't hurt you, Svenskärna, allowing everybody into your country often causes a lot of problems and your tolerance for the intolerable is a part of national character that can be easily exploited by people with bad intend. However, I can agree that Europe's current nationalistic trend is a bit scary. Some people are forecasting Islamic Europe by 2050 while others speak about a possibility of death camps reopening all across Europe. Personally, I find both forecasts both extreme and terrible.

"Atlas Shrugged" is a pretty nice book once you throw away any political bias you get from the popular culture.

A lot of what has been said in this thread is very smart and I have to agree with most of everybody here said, but I have a couple more things to add. What seems bad to me about such laws is that there is either no possible means to enforce them or if they are enforced, other, far more severe crimes are overlooked. Murderers, rapists, thieves, drug dealers and thugs get away with what they do because the law enforcement has officers trying to catch a troll or two. In any country, there are laws that are too expensive and/or too pointless to properly enforce and just add to the government bureaucracy and waste more taxpayer money. Another thing is about why such laws exist in the first place. I would think they exist not to stop people from offending other people or to somehow make them better. No, the laws themselves do not govern how people act. The real reason is to make people afraid of the government and to scare them into submission. A person who never did any crime is much more difficult to control than the same person made guilty by some things he does being a crime.

So we will keep all the current UFO missions the way they are, including the corvette? Good.

Well yes. "Jagged Alliance: Back in Action" happened. That's why Goldhawk could make a decent, moddable reimagining for that one.

I think the best game for Goldhawk to make would be a reimagining of Jagged Alliance. It would probably be called "Mercenauts" and use some of refurbished Xenonauts art, AI and a lot of the code. It would give a nice, 2D, turn-based alternative to the shitty JA re-makes available.

What about the bugs in the previous release, like medipacs causing damage, an alien dying during its turn and stopping the game, or no civilians being on the ground combat missions? Are these fixed too?

This happens simply because antivirus programs treat every .exe file with suspicion, especially one that is not digitally signed. I can recall making simple C++ programs for my programming classes and even a simple AVG Free antivirus software would warn me about the program for something as simple as rewriting a text file. So no need to worry about AV tantrums.