[wolfen]

I would gladly DIE for the nation I'm fighting for!! Provided the combat takes place within the confines of the Freespace 2 open game engine...

Awww come on come I can tell you reallife stories that will make you have nightmares
but your comment does give me a good idea, why not have all wars fought by using computer games? single elimination. No re spawn

[Polpolion]

I would gladly DIE for the nation I'm fighting for!! Provided the combat takes place within the confines of the Freespace 2 open game engine...

Awww come on come I can tell you reallife stories that will make you have nightmares
but your comment does give me a good idea, why not have all wars fought by using computer games? single elimination. No re spawn

If my joking were in some way offending anybody, I'm sorry.
But I suppose that would be an interesting prospect. With the current presence of UAVs and perhaps more unmanned vehicles in the near future, it's very possible that an even larger portion of combat will be shifted over to remotely controlled devices. And if the world's population would allow multi-national hostilities to be resolved by video game, I'm think we would have far transcended past the existence of foreign affairs as we know it.

[jr2]

But I suppose that would be an interesting prospect. With the current presence of UAVs and perhaps more unmanned vehicles in the near future, it's very possible that an even larger portion of combat will be shifted over to remotely controlled devices. And if the world's population would allow multi-national hostilities to be resolved by video game, I'm think we would have far transcended past the existence of foreign affairs as we know it.

Here's the problem: the ultimate advantage would be to just actually kill people.  Sure, you're duking it out with remote piloted mechs... but what if they had no pilots?  Ah!  An advantage.  So they bomb the control center compound.  And people die.

[karajorma]

Dude I hate to say this but in the event of a nuclear war I don't think you will be playing FreeSpace

You think Fallout would be more appropriate?

[WMCoolmon]

Here's the problem: the ultimate advantage would be to just actually kill people.  Sure, you're duking it out with remote piloted mechs... but what if they had no pilots?  Ah!  An advantage.  So they bomb the control center compound.  And people die.

Which in turn leads to the remote piloted mechs being programmed to operate autonomously, and being programmed to hunt down and destroy human mech-operators. And in the end you have SkyNet.

I always wondered how robot programming would make the jump from shooting military targets to shooting fleshies.

[karajorma]

Don't arm the machines. Simply have them simulate kills and just get people to report to disintegration chambers.


And shame on anyone who doesn't get the reference.

[Jeff Vader]

Lucky me. That's one of the episodes I actually watched. 

[Snail]

There are 3 little words below your name, look at them...

There is a number under your name, look at them... Wait... Uhh...

[wolfen]

Here's the problem: the ultimate advantage would be to just actually kill people.  Sure, you're duking it out with remote piloted mechs... but what if they had no pilots?  Ah!  An advantage.  So they bomb the control center compound.  And people die.

Which in turn leads to the remote piloted mechs being programmed to operate autonomously, and being programmed to hunt down and destroy human mech-operators. And in the end you have SkyNet.

I always wondered how robot programming would make the jump from shooting military targets to shooting fleshies.

The day that a robot, android whatever name you wish to call it by tell s me know is the day I do what I raised my right hand and swore to God to do. I WILL destroy any automated machine that is capable of independent thought, reason, in fact I WILL destroy anything tries to make me obsolete.

[Polpolion]

But I suppose that would be an interesting prospect. With the current presence of UAVs and perhaps more unmanned vehicles in the near future, it's very possible that an even larger portion of combat will be shifted over to remotely controlled devices. And if the world's population would allow multi-national hostilities to be resolved by video game, I'm think we would have far transcended past the existence of foreign affairs as we know it.

Here's the problem: the ultimate advantage would be to just actually kill people.  Sure, you're duking it out with remote piloted mechs... but what if they had no pilots?  Ah!  An advantage.  So they bomb the control center compound.  And people die.

Less people that would die in actual combat, and less people that have to be in combat, less troops on the front line to have to send supplies too, and less battle fatigue. And there's no garuntee that both sides would have remotely piloted vehicles. And no one said that the entire fighting force would be UCVs. From a strategic standpoint it would be idiotic to enter a war with no actual infantry, and today mechanized support is a must followed by air support and lastly naval.

Seriously, you can get away with replacing certain roles of combat to unmanned vehicles, but for goodness sakes, if there is a country that replaces their entire fighting force with UVs, God help them. They'll need it.

[haloboy100]

wait. why are we talking about robots in a thread thats supposed to be about re-installing XP to fix problems?

[Marcus Vesper]

wait. why are we talking about robots in a thread thats supposed to be about re-installing XP to fix problems?

Because the original topic was boring and you can never have too many discussions about robots?

[colecampbell666]

wait. why are we talking about robots in a thread thats supposed to be about re-installing XP to fix problems?

Because the original topic was boring and you can never have too many discussions about robots?

QFT.

[wolfen]

wait. why are we talking about robots in a thread thats supposed to be about re-installing XP to fix problems?

1) its a robots fault that my copy of vista didn't work right
2) this thread got hijacked

Pick one

[Marcus Vesper]

wait. why are we talking about robots in a thread thats supposed to be about re-installing XP to fix problems?

1) its a robots fault that my copy of vista didn't work right
2) this thread got hijacked

Pick one

It could be both!

[WMCoolmon]

wait. why are we talking about robots in a thread thats supposed to be about re-installing XP to fix problems?

*Obligatory joke about SkyNet running Windows Vista*

[wolfen]

wait. why are we talking about robots in a thread thats supposed to be about re-installing XP to fix problems?

1) its a robots fault that my copy of vista didn't work right
2) this thread got hijacked

Pick one

It could be both!

I'd prefer #2 but #1 would give me a new purpose in life
( must Terminate the Terminator!)