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the BC series still regins supreme Hopefully they will do a better job with X2 than they did with X: Beyond the Frontier (urgh!, it was okay with X Gold though!) Pete

w00t! I just pre-ordered UC at http://shop.game.net/ for UK orders! Available 21st Nov! £29.99 + £4.95 (for express delivery!) very exciting! Peter

YES! Fantastic to hear! I want to say i'm quivering with excitement!!!!! (lol!) I'm so glad we get simultaneous releases these days. Glad to hear there is high demand for UC from the Euro retailers! Hopefully i'll bea able to find some people locally who play a BC title! Everybody I know is having a love affair with dull-First-Person-Shooters!! Hehe, glad the localisation got scrapped! I live in England so it's no too much of a problem. Will various Euro translations be coming out in the future or will the non-english speaking countries have to live with the English version? Peter

Hi, just to add, i've been seeing 21-Nov-2003 for the UK availibillity date! this seems to fit nicely with the US release. I would expect a bit of delay for it to come out over here! Peter

Hehe, I had to run to save my own ass! (and the lives of my crew and a very expensive BC Mk3!!) My reactor cooling system was shot you see and bad stuff was going to happen... Still, not much luck with exp points however, i've now got -10850 exp even though i've gone and killed fair number of baddies!

thanks, hehe, I guess I shouldn't have just run from all the nasty combat I encountered...a load of good guys probably got burned! Peter

Hi, TER/MIL ,home base GALCOM, I went mining on ACTIS IV, I mined in the TER/MIL section of that planet. I'm afraid I can't tell you exactly when I went to minus exp points...but it was before any kind of combat. Peter

Hi, just looked over the appendix for EP allocation...after less than an hour in roam mode and not doing anything much other than mining I realise I've got -10000 or so EXP points...I though, prehaps i've destroyed something accidently...but to have -10000 i would have had to have destroyed at least one StarStation and a bit more! I have done nothing like that? Any ideas what happened so I can avoid it in future? Peter

Thank you very much! I've forwarded the requested details! Congrats on a truly amazing game (just finished my first (of many I bet!) 12 hour marathons of BCMG) is there a GPG/PGP public key available for that address because it would have allowed me to encrypt the e-mail (CD key's flying around by e-mail in cleartext over the net could be a bad thing). It would also allow others in the future to send such sensitive details in a secure manner. Cheers, Peter

My CC was hyperspacing to Earth and I accidently pressed Alt+E instead of Alt+Q !!! I left my CC to watch my ship rocket away!! Is there anyway to get it to come back and pick me up? Peter

Hi, just tried to register on-line. I got The serial number you entered is not valid. Please re-enter it. I've tried with and without dashes. I'm wondering that since I bought my copy from a second hand games-Xchange type place, that prehaps the previous owner already registered here? What can I do about this (if anything, as BCMG is rare in the UK) Regards Peter

Thanks, didn't think it could be done... I think docking them to the CC then docking to a station sounds best...

Hi, Can shuttles (non AE controlled) dock with station/starbase etc and sell trade goods? Or do does the AE have to be in control to manage what gets sold etc?

cheers, thanks for the pointers... i've now been trying everything out in the training area for hours...getting to grips with it now!! btw, is there a way to send shuttles on trade routes to automatically sell mined cargo at a station, or can it only be done with me AE (the only way I see so far ) Peter

Hello! I just got BCMG a few days ago and have started to tackle it today! I love this sort of game, thanks to Derek and the team for releasing something like this to the world! Anyway, my on topic reply What do people generally do when starting out a roam campaign? I'm really unsure what to do first...trade? fight? ??? Any ideas would be gladly received! Peter