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Star Wars Discussion / Re: The Million Dollar First Order question.
« on: September 13, 2017, 02:36:19 PM »
The new canon explains how they kinda came about. They had a lot of support and also were part of the NR senate. The overall story between the episodes is actually pretty interesting. I will admit the execution was poor. I also think the NR was significantly smaller than the empire and the republic.

Edit: To each their own though

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Star Wars Discussion / Re: Disney Star Wars cannon? Or EU (Legends)
« on: September 13, 2017, 12:48:01 AM »
Not really, in fact Lucas collaborated with many authors and added in much of the EU elements to his films as he updated them. He didn't keep them separate.
We had this discussion on Discord this morning he did.


I don’t read that stuff. I haven’t read any of the novels. I don’t know anything about that world. That’s a different world than my world. But I do try to keep it consistent. The way I do it now is they have a Star Wars Encyclopedia. So if I come up with a name or something else, I look it up and see if it has already been used. When I said [other people] could make their own Star Wars stories, we decided that, like Star Trek, we would have two universes: My universe and then this other one. They try to make their universe as consistent with mine as possible, but obviously they get enthusiastic and want to go off in other directions.” – George Lucas, from an interview in Starlog #337

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Star Wars Discussion / Re: Disney Star Wars cannon? Or EU (Legends)
« on: September 12, 2017, 03:21:36 PM »
Dunno if that isn't only due to Dave Filoni and Co. and we owe them big time for having them included - at all.
Lucas kept them separate and not acknowledged. I think Filoni and Kennedy included them and said they can exist, and they have huge respect for it

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Discussion, Suggestions & Feedback / Re: ICW Daily Screenshots Thread
« on: September 12, 2017, 03:14:12 PM »


Trying out new explosions

It might be time to post my collection of screen shots as well.

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Star Wars Discussion / Re: Disney Star Wars cannon? Or EU (Legends)
« on: September 12, 2017, 03:09:33 PM »
Legends, since I partially grew up with or liked too much the stories of Wraith Squadron, Isard, Thrawn, the Black Fleet and Kyle Katarn and Dash Rendar, which all seem to be forgotten and put in the trash. Granted, there were some weird and contradicting stories, but nothing as disrespectful as Disney did... well, I just dunno about the new canon, guess I have to see them finish the new trilogy first, though I liked the new Thrawn and Tarkin books.
Lucas made them non canon long before Disney did so they were forgotten long before Disney brought them back to life.

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The Lounge / Re: Marxism, Socalism, and Communism.
« on: September 11, 2017, 11:42:18 PM »
*Writes down this for future Honors History class*
Unless you are covering Russian history, not many courses are going to cover something like that.Especially in American High School. But its good to keep for college.

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Imperial Civil War Community Mods / Re: Submod announcement: GCW in TR
« on: September 11, 2017, 10:29:11 PM »
Well I'll cross that bridge when I get there I suppose, if not I'll just keep TR ships

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Imperial Civil War Community Mods / Re: Submod announcement: GCW in TR
« on: September 11, 2017, 09:43:04 PM »
Have you found a copy of 3dmax 6,7, or 8?  Those versions are REQUIRED for being able to export to the alamo format that FOC uses.
Not yet, but I think it shouldn't be too difficult to get. However that is for wayyyyy down the line so I'm not going to worry about it at the moment

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Welcome to the Boards / Re: All about me
« on: September 11, 2017, 09:14:46 PM »
Welcome to the forums! The CCVSD is a pretty cool ship.

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Imperial Civil War Community Mods / Re: Submod announcement: GCW in TR
« on: September 11, 2017, 09:13:47 PM »
A quick update:
Life came at me real fast so I have been lacking in the mod development. However I have been playing around with TR files and figuring them out. Once I have figured out how to build a GC I'll start with that first. I am also attempting to learn how to 3D model so I can either; put in models for ships that are not included that I would like to see, or eventually phase out TR's models with my own.

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Imperial Civil War Community Mods / Re: More Imperialized Empire of the Hand
« on: September 11, 2017, 09:10:43 PM »
That brings up a good question.  Is it possible to upload a mod that requires another mod in the steam workshop?


Not meaning can you upload it, but can you upload it so that it will actually WORK?
I don't think so, unless you required people to combine the files. There is the rule that you cannot upload the whole TR mod with the submod attached.

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The Lounge / Re: Marxism, Socalism, and Communism.
« on: September 11, 2017, 06:18:21 PM »
Close but not quite. To put them fairly simply:

1. Marxism: A political theory, which aims to be explanatory and predictive of how society functions, not to be confused directly with communism. So, before Marx there was a lot of other kinds of political thought and theories, but Marx was arguably most concerned with a guy named Hegel who you'll primarily hear talked about with the idea of a historical dialectic, which basically means the idea that two opposing idea come together (called the thesis and antithesis) to form a new idea, the synthesis, or the problem, the reaction to the problem, and then the solution. What Marx did was take the idea of the historical dialectic and apply it to material things, because he believed that Hegel was too abstract. He wanted to deal with the actual material world, not just ideas. He was also reacting to very common belief in a teleological process of society developing- that society ended up how it was because it was always heading towards this way, and whatever happens is unavoidable. Instead it was a series of reactions against the previous models, resulting in conflicts and new systems, which got people to where they are now (or, where they were in the 1800s). Marx then contextualized society and human history within the ideas of the means of production, and who controls them. Essentially, how does each kind of society organize itself in order to interact with and distribute material goods? When people think of Marx, they like to focus on the idea of communist revolution, which is certainly a large part of his broader philosophy, but a lot of his work was about talking about what is capitalism, and how did humans get to it, which you can separate and find value in even without buying into the idea that society should or must be moving towards communism, which is a different kind of thing.

2. Communism: A political ideology, ie a set of beliefs how the world should be organized. The core tenets of communism is that the means of production are owned by society, and not for the accumulation of wealth for one class or set of individuals through the exploitation of another, because there'd be no such thing as class- each person contributes what they're best at, and society gives everyone what it can. An important distinction between this and other types of socialism is the role of the state- communism, in its end form, involves the abolition of the state. Many Marxist communists would argue that a state like the Soviet Union, for example, would be called on the very extreme end of "state capitalists," because instead of the society and the means of production (machinery and industry) being owned by and for the people as a whole, it was owned and run by the state, though within Marxist Communism, state capitalism was seen as a sort of a temporary measure between capitalism and communism. Really though, if you're looking at the Soviet Union, you're not really looking at anything that theoretical communism would have really been about so it can sometimes skew people's perceptions of it- there's also the idea that an attempt for communist state would necessarily become what Stalinism or Marxism-Leninism ended up being in the Soviet Union, even if it's not what anyone but the Party wanted.

3. Socialism: Another grouping of political ideology. Communism is socialism, but not all socialism is communism. Communism is basically socialism taken to one far end of the spectrum. Socialism, at its most basic, involves some level of services being provided to all people with as close to possible as equal access. At one end, you could look at something like how health care in Canada works, and on the other you could look at communism- both are technically different types of socialism. There are softer forms of socialism where most market forces are still in play, but you have the social safety net of things like universal health care, or universal education, or whatever else, typically owned and operated by the state and funded with taxes. This is essentially what you'd see in most European countries and Canada. Every country has some level of it though, it's just a question of how far it goes and when you wanna start calling something socialist- American Medicare is a somewhat socialist aspect to your medical system, save that it only applies after a certain age.



tl;dr

Marxism: Political theory. An explanatory framework based on material analysis of history.

Communism: A political ideology, which can be seen as a subset of socialism. Several forms, including Marxism-Leninism, but mostly a bit more concisely defined than socialism.

Socialism: A broader spectrum of political ideologies, which can involve anything from specific ideas on specific topics (ie health care, education, etc) to democratic socialism to communism.

writing this down to use this semester

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The Lounge / Re: Marxism, Socalism, and Communism.
« on: September 10, 2017, 05:40:24 PM »
Quote
I was only asking because I wanted to know since I was reading about them.

So Communism is just a extreme form of Marxism which is a form of socialism?

simply put yes,  but its a lot deeper than that. I would keep reading on that. Since I don't know the detailed differences between all of them.

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The Lounge / Re: Marxism, Socalism, and Communism.
« on: September 10, 2017, 12:20:20 AM »
Very simple overview I think we have the no politics rule here as well

Marxism came before communism, its based teachings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

Socialism is the public and collective ownership of production and so on. Its based on equality. it started a little bit earlier than the rest.

Communism comes from the followers of Marxism. Its where the worker takes over and all property is owned publicly and everyone is paid according to their needs and ability.

USSR was based on Communism, however it was not a true communist nation.  It was Leninist and Stalinist.

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Mandators are SSDs, and the team have basically all but stated they don't want any new SSDs, they take too much work. 

TBH, I'd be surprised if even any new battlecruisers get added. Fractalsponge's new Procurator is ridiculously detailed and probably wouldn't add anything to FotR beyond being a proto-praetor.

There will be one more new SSD but the mandator will not be added in unless its something else entirely.

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Multiplayer / Re: For those who are NOT playing trough Steam
« on: September 07, 2017, 01:45:51 AM »
There might be players who have the game as the original disc version, and not trough Steam(or downloaded it via torrent or something...YOU NEVER RED THAT!!!), and I want to make a thread for them too.
Well, for those who want to play it in Multiplayer, there is a software called Hamachi (or LogMeIn Hamachi) what makes the PCs connected trough it believe they are connected trough LAN.
This way we could still play with each other.
If you want to have some fun, then comment here, and we will surely find some time to play together.  ;)

I already created a network for that.
Name:
Star Wars Ascendancy
Password:
Thrawn's Revenge


hmmmmmmmmmmmm
Ill pretend I didn't see that first bit XD

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I do have a question.

Is it possible to jinx something that's already fated to happen?
I don't think so lol. I think its stating the obvious at that point.

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inb4 people start posting here with requests to become testers.

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Discussion, Suggestions & Feedback / Re: ICW Daily Screenshots Thread
« on: September 01, 2017, 12:59:03 AM »
is there a way to prevent losing Kaine, similar to how you can advance to era 3 with Thrawn if he survives

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Ascendancy Discussion / Re: Capturing capitals with the MC-80
« on: August 29, 2017, 06:54:56 PM »
The reason why it was removed was because people were capturing SSD heroes since they counted as capital ships. That is way overpowered and not really fun.

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