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I almost forgot - I launched a sr probe while sitting on earth. It was great. It took off and flew around...then it stopped and crashed. It layed there in the dirt for a while...then it jumped up and flew just above the ground to the top of a mountain where it launched itself. It kept gaining altitude slowly....at 50K feet it nosed over and rocketed back towards the ground. I jumped in a SC, flew to it to tractor it and pull it up to orbit but the tractor beam blew the probe to smithereens. (ok, I'm a BC:M billionaire...I can afford to waste a probe for my amusement.)


It was falling under gravity

Yep, tractoring certain units from planet to space and vice versa, will cause them to be destroyed.

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In 3011 AD, the UFN declared "Tractor Tossing" as an Olympic Sport.

Participants must race from planetary orbit, enter atmosphere, locate enemy ATV's, powerdive, tractor the ATV and fling the shuttle upwards, releasing the tractor beam before reaching 10,000ft. Gold goes to the shuttle that flings the ATV highest. Current record is 25,000 ft.

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In 3011 AD, the UFN declared "Tractor Tossing" as an Olympic Sport.

Participants must race from planetary orbit, enter atmosphere, locate enemy ATV's, powerdive, tractor the ATV and fling the shuttle upwards, releasing the tractor beam before reaching 10,000ft. Gold goes to the shuttle that flings the ATV highest. Current record is 25,000 ft.

LOL I've been doing another type of competition for myself.. as a commander, I took my jetpack and flew to around 78k altitude Beat that!

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Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr:

whoa!! thats high man.

Note to self : remember to reduce LF and increase FF based on player's jetpack altitude. And cap altitude to 2000m

ARGH, the next person who gives SC the idea to remove/cap/adjust/ something in BCM will have a bullseye painted on their back/front/left/right/up/down sides of their ship and back/belly/head on their AE.

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I made Strategic Commander last night. I was sitting in orbit around earth nuking Insurgent Bases.

After nuking four of their bases, they sent a Firestorm after me. It didn't put up much of a fight. I hit them with multiple Ralix and Vagrants.

They HJ away and when they came out they were pretty much dead in space. I sent a shuttle to tow them in and they self-destructed! Ha! Those Insurgents are a bunch of wimps.

They didn't even scratch my MK3. I then took the Heavy Hammer 23 back to orbit and took out more Insurgent facilities. I lost points though when I got carried away and destroyed something that took 20K EPs away.

I wasted a Bugnor. All in all, it was fun but cost me around $100 million.

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Originally posted by Captain X:

I wasted a Bugnor. All in all, it was fun but cost me around $100 million.

hehe, who ever said that war was cheap?


It sure ain't cheap. I've spent hundreds of millions in my campaign to remove all traces of Insurgent and Raider bases from my....err....our Moon (Luna).

Now, I'm clearing out my next best property: Lyrius. Perhaps I'll do Earth next...if I can figure out where to make the money.

Idaho

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Originally posted by CedricB:

Wait a minute... Captain X doesn't have his sys profile posted!!! Tsk tsk tsk.... Get it done or you'll end up in purgatory!

I don't have a clue what your talking about yet...

[ 03-12-2002, 16:12: Message edited by: Captain X ]

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Oh... you seem to have it now... never mind. all is well.

Hehehe... I found out the other day that although a station is nearly out of shields that does not mean that it has taken any real damage in anyway... I ended up jumping to my doom... oh well... live and learn.

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Hmm I was making a routine trip to Lyrius, when some insurgents try to make off with my breakfast... anywho.. all five of them end up killing one of my marines (may good 'ole Freddy rest in peace) and, needless to say, my marines exact vengence by splattering 3 of them all over the walls [Doesn't this firestorm come with Janitors??].

Anywho, two of them get thrown into the detention hold, all bloodied up. And One of my Medics, who probably felt sorry for the bums, was in the process of treating one of them when he suddle get's beat up [his LF went down to 80%, and I get a "Prisoner escaped" alert!!

Well, needless to say, FC8 now has a little picture of an intruder painted on it

Cheers!

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I reloaded my saved game position last night. Sitting on earth, just a regular Commander making 75 G's a day.

Went to orbit and nuked the Insurgent Starbase. I nuked and nuked till I ran out of Insurgent military bases (I refused to nuke the cities).

Bought more Skyflashes and nuked Insurgent Naval assets. Made Strategic Commander and ordered 5 carriers and 2 cruisers to escort the Heavy Hammer.

I had to go to the moon to find more Insurgent bases to nuke. Finally, three hours later, I made Supreme Commander.

What is really scary is the whole time I am sitting in space doing all this OTS bombing, not one enemy, not one intruder showed up.

I figured they must have seen my fleet flying around and word is out.

I also noticed this morning while watching TV that there was some static and my immediate thought was that something was out there. Intruders??

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Lets see, I went through 27 Skyflashes and 20 Bugnors.

I made the money (1 Billion +) from 1 PM to Midnight (game time) mining and driving a shuttle back and forth between Galcom HQ and Aleri at Tramis. Aleri was running a 30% inflation rate at the time and I was making 60 million per run selling Bugnors.

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Originally posted by Duncan Idaho:

You do realize sharing that means it will likely be altered in the next patch?

Good luck making the same run then!

Idaho

No biggie. After I saved the game and reloaded, I flew back to Aleri to check and they were at 9%.

The point being, explore and exploit. Once I realized that the inflation rate would change when I saved, I sat there for HOURS clicking the same freakin thing over and over to get the billion dollars.

Thats the cost and I paid the price AND I got the moola. I like the BC:M universe that we get to play in. Derek can change whatever he wants.

I saw the opportunity and took it.

(BTW - I was EXCITED the first time I unloaded four full drones and made 3 million. I even went and got my wife to show her how cool this game was.)

and now, I make a half a million a day doing nothing but being at Supreme Commander...oh yeah!!

[ 03-13-2002, 09:54: Message edited by: Captain X ]

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Originally posted by Captain X:

The point being, explore and exploit. Once I realized that the inflation rate would change when I saved, I sat there for HOURS clicking the same freakin thing over and over to get the billion dollars.


huh? please explain. That sounds like a bug. Saving the game should have NO effect on the inflation rate of any region.

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I am using patch 1.0.06. (I know, but with patch 1.0.07 I could not get my crew to follow my orders to go off station)

anyway...

I just loaded up with Cloning Modules at Genesis and my finances were at 49 Million. I was afraid I would lose all that hard work so I saved.

After resuming, I went to Aleri and their inflation rate was -1%. I didn't want to take the 7 million negative hit to my finances so...

I reloaded a save game where my finances were at 30 million and Aleri was still 30%. I just played from that point on till I had the billion.

Then I saved. The next time I reloaded, Aleri was at 9%.

[ 03-13-2002, 10:40: Message edited by: Captain X ]

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