I have an absolute weakness for physics games, and while Civiballs isn't the strongest physics-based game, what it lacks in the physics department it makes up for a few times over in style and fun.
In Civiballs, you are presented with a few colored balls, and your goal is to get those balls into the same-colored urn on the level. The "civi" part of Civiballs is that there are 3 sets of levels to play, each representing a different civilization. While the civilization doesn't affect gameplay, the artwork for each level is beautifully themed to it's appropriate era.
To play the game, you are given only one tool - a sword with which to cut the chains that are holding the balls. The puzzle part of the game is in figuring out what order, and with what timing to cut each chain. Do it right, and all the right balls end up in the right urns, with no stray balls entering an urn (a no-no). Do it wrong, and you get to start over again.
Civiballs is not terribly deep on gameplay; the entire game can be completed in about 15 minutes. But if you enjoy this type of game, it will be a very enjoyable 15 minutes.
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SDreamer said 7:39AM on 2-11-2008
Sounds like a great plugin. Just tried it out, doesn't work I think if you're using IE7Pro's download manager.
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Inspector.Gadget said 7:42AM on 2-11-2008
Why would you want to set this per-browser or even per-computer when it is easily set once and forgotten in the QoS options in your router? If anything, you'll want to give your browser MORE bandwidth when running concurrently with something like bittorrent.
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hometoast said 8:50AM on 3-12-2008
Lots of reasons to use this:
If your employer would complain about network usage.
If you want to change it on the fly -- QoS requires router reset.
Other reasons that neither you not I have thought of.
Mike said 8:54AM on 3-19-2008
It's a pity that it can't throttle localhost :-(
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