Available already on play.com?

I've just ordered Aftershock from play.com - I was expecting it to say "Due for release on 21/10/2005, pre-order now" but it actually says "In stock, usually dispatched within 24 hours."

Anyone else seen this and ordered?

X-COM Wiki

I put the idea forward in the thread about Earliest Base Attacks, and today I've taken a small amount of time to set up an X-COM based Wiki.

It is now available at http://www.ufopaedia.org

I'm quite new to this Wiki lark so I'm still learning about how to use it (the software used is MediaWiki, the same as the excellent Wikipedia). Over the next few days I'll be adding as many articles as possible relating to items in the UFOpaedia itself. I've already put some general info. on some of the crafts in it.

If anyone would like to add a page to the Wiki about a topic of their choice, please do so. To do this, go to http://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php/Topic_Title, where Topic_Title is the name of your topic. It must start with a capital letter and spaces must be changed to underscores(e.g. Heavy_Plasma)

You don't need to create an account to add pages, but if you do create one it will be much easier for both myself and you to manage your contributions.

I'll shortly be posting this over at the XCOMUFO forum, and then I'm out on the beer with my brothers whilst they are all in town

//EDIT: Fixed URLs now that the domain name has sorted itself out.

Earliest Base Attack?

What is the earliest time that you have had one of your bases attacked?

I started a new game last night (on Experienced level) and played as usual. Took down a couple of small UFOs and recovered the artifacts.

Then, out of the blue - on January 11th, the "Your base is under attack" screen pops up. WTF, I think?

I've just sacked four soldiers for low stats and am awaiting their replacements, so I've only got four soldiers to defend the base. Because its so early I don't even have laser weapons.

Two soldiers got killed early on, after taking down 2 sectoids a piece. A third soldier was rendered useless because of repeated psi-attacks. I disarmed him first opportunity I got and just let the aliens use him as a play-thing.

Which left this one heroic soldier with only one and a half rifle clips left. Don't ask me how, but she managed to clear out the rest of the aliens. The last alien was seemingly just loitering in the access lift psi-ing my other soldier (how do they do that if they can't see them?!) and had his back to her.

I just couldn't believe how quickly they found my base and attacked!

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Oh, and has anyone ever thought about setting up an X-COM wiki? I've been toying with the idea for a while. Creating an online UFOpaedia has been done, but you could put the UFOpaedia into a wiki and then have other topics for hints and tips. I see NKF talking about the Base Commander Handbook in a recent thread - that could fit in well with a wiki?

Would anyone be interested if I set one up?

Cyberdisc explosions and civilians.

On terror missions, if I take down a Cyberdisc and a couple of civilians get killed in the resulting explosion, who gets the blame?

Is it classed as an alien kill or an X-COM kill?

Enemy Unknown Speed issues.

This never used to happen on this computer, but after re-installing Enemy Unknown (Collector's Edition) I've found that it runs far too quickly. Even setting the scroll speed down to 1 doesn't help in the Battlescape, and the Geoscape runs too quickly too.

I'm using f0dder's loaders, but I've also tried running X-COMUtil and that doesn't help either.

My system is an Athlon 2200+ with XP, but the strange thing is that my laptop which is actually faster (2600+) runs the game excellently!

Can anyone suggest any options for getting it running at the right speed?