MadKat

Oops, didn't even notice that. I used to command a raider cruiser but I changed it a while back. Thanks for pointing that out.

My ship name has a weird history behind it. I got it from a series of 7 books I read a while back. The background of this series is that in the not too distant future(sometime after WW3 brings an end to technology and a rise of magic and medival thought again), there were two powerful races at war(the only 2 races that can use Rune magic, the magic of probabilities). One race(the Sartan) destroyed earth and turned it into four separate worlds of each element(Air, Fire, Stone and Water). They then cast the other demigod race into a Labyrnth prison world in order to teach them a lesson. In the end, the people(known as Patryns) only learned hate and anger, for the Labyrnth became a death trap full of hideous creatures all wanting to kill, instead of a 'classroom'. Their time in the prison gave them hightened instinct and a combined strength and loyalty unknown to them before the world was destroyed. I like to think that my ship holds the collective power of a crew that has the strength to keep fighting and an unending loyalty to one another. The sheer size and power of my Stormcarrier represents the strength burning deep inside every one of my crew members. [ 05-28-2003, 02:34 AM: Message edited by: Cmdr Dowding ]

quote:Originally posted by Cmdr. WeeGee: This is typical of CS gamers though. Well, I wouldn't say its typical of CS gamers. I play a lot of CS myself....but I will admit that there are many MANY players out there that act like a bunch of 1337 h@xx0rs. But hey, they just give the rest of us more entertainment. Sorry, this is a little off topic, but I had to defend the few sane CS players out there.

I guess you could say I've somewhat been there since BC3K. I remember going to my friend's house and he'd loaded up the demo from the latest gaming magazine he subscribed to. As soon as he showed it to me, I was hooked. Whenever I went over, I'd wanna try it out again. But it wasnt until about a year before BCM's release that I actually got back to the game again. Let me tell you, that was a very long year for me. But I will have you know, shortly before BCM came out, I was able to find a lone copy of the original BC3K in a nearby CompUSA store.

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: The music files are MP3. If you have problems with that, then you need to ensure that the latest version of Windows media player is installed. Of course, this is all documented in the FAQ Ya, it IS in the FAQ, but I don't believe it is a problem with Windows Media Player...which I have the latest version of, I think it is something to do with my sound card being a SB Live! and my motherboard having VIA. Either way, it runs really stable right now.

I usually close everything and leave my Sound Controls as the only thing in my Start-up tray. But, the game seems to be working fine now, it is the music that is causing problems, so as long as I leave the music off, it runs fine except for the occasional freeze-up, probably caused by low memory. No worries though, I already am planning on buying another 256MB DDR ram chip.

Heh, dangit, now it's freezing again. But this time, it doesn't restart my comp, it just freezes and the sound goes funky. I don't have anything else to try now. Anymore ideas?

Looks like I got it all squared away. And to re-enable sound, I downloaded the Sound Lag Latency patch thing and the game runs fine now. Now I just need to remember to close Winamp and any other stuff running before playing. [ 07-01-2002, 07:09 PM: Message edited by: Cmdr Dowding ]

Hello, I would just like to post a little problem I am having with BCM. First of all, I couldn't get the game to run for a long time, but I was able to fix it. For some reason, Direct3D wasn't working correctly and I just disabled then re-enabled it and the game, and many other games, started working. But now, I have a new issue. The game freezes every 5 or so minutes and I have to restart my comp. It does not freeze in any particular occasion, just every 5 or so minutes, doesn't matter what is happening, it will freeze. Hopefully you can help me with this. Thanks! [ 07-01-2002, 03:49 PM: Message edited by: Cmdr Dowding ]

Even in my MK3, it brought me down to about 480 when I was towing a Aestrom. Took me a while to get it back to a station, but I did make it....eventually.

Ya, just recently, I pissed off a bunch of raiders by blowing their Sentry up in Pluto orbit. After I figured Pluto region was safe, I headed over to Mars. Nothing happening. Then a bunch of raider cruisers and carriers pop in the system and before I know it there's raiders EVERYWHERE. It was an intense battle, expecially when the raiders sent a nice, brand-new Firestorm after my MKIII. Let me tell you, after that battle, I had the Mars Starstation engineers cleaning Space Marine parts off of every nook and cranny in my ship. I musta hit like a dozen of them during that battle. It reminded me of when me and my family would go on long road-trips through some old countryside in the middle of summer and every two seconds you'd hear a crack on the windshield and see a nice, green splotch there....yeah...it was kinda like that. [ 12-06-2001: Message edited by: Cmdr Dowding ]

That just happened to me today. I was attacking a raider starstation with my own MKII and was dodging some fighters when I realize I've had a raider MKII on my arse for some time, didn't even realize it....they are VERY sneaky!

I only wish my Garid could use more artifacts. *sigh* [ 12-04-2001: Message edited by: Cmdr Dowding ]

I'd have to go with: 1)Carrier: Battlecruiser MK II Got a nice, stealthy look to it.(All the BC's look nice, though) 2)Cruiser: Garid It Looks cool, its fast and it has good firepower.