Gallion

...and Welcome to Our Nightmare Yet another scriptor on the side of right TTFN ------------------ Rear Admiral Gallion ICV-Graf Spee, Spectre (Antis) Executive Officer, Spectre Fleet "You can only love or hate something you truly understand." Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series Leader, Team 1

Bah! Indies = more targets aside from the 'commie slime TTFN ------------------ Rear Admiral Gallion ICV-Graf Spee, Spectre (Antis) Executive Officer, Spectre Fleet "You can only love or hate something you truly understand." Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series Leader, Team 1

A determined BC player aways finds a way Epsilon 5. You have a minor obstacle to overcome. Time to suck up with the folks dont you think ? There are alternative means of payment aside from credit cards that can be used also. Ever heard of a money order? TTFN ------------------ Rear Admiral Gallion ICV-Graf Spee, Spectre (Antis) Executive Officer, Spectre Fleet "You can only love or hate something you truly understand." Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series Leader, Team 1 [This message has been edited by Gallion (edited 03-15-2001).]

Pioneer, Send me and e-mail, I think that I have some GBS docs (very rough draft) stashed on one of my data CD backups somewhere. TTFN ------------------ Rear Admiral Gallion ICV-Graf Spee, Spectre (Antis) Executive Officer, Spectre Fleet "You can only love or hate something you truly understand." Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series Leader, Team 1 [This message has been edited by Gallion (edited 03-14-2001).]

Welcome to our Nightmare Now go tag a 'commie TTFN ------------------ Rear Admiral Gallion ICV-Graf Spee, Spectre (Antis) Executive Officer, Spectre Fleet "You can only love or hate something you truly understand." Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series Leader, Team 1

The tally is in from the VE poll: quote:John Carmack (1518) 23% CliffyB! (978) 15% Gooseman (785) 12% Levelord! (604) 9% Jason Hall (532) 8% John Romero (493) 7% Tim Sweeney (436) 7% Bill Roper (419) 6% Derek Smart (351) 5% G. Broussard (269) 4% Gabe Newell (196) 3% Kenn Hoekstra (93) 1% Total Votes: 6674 Kinda sucks that we couldn't stack the deck so as the the SC would beat Romero. This will change very soon though, evry soon TTFN ------------------ Rear Admiral Gallion ICV-Graf Spee, Spectre (Antis) Executive Officer, Spectre Fleet "You can only love or hate something you truly understand." Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series Leader, Team 1

Hexeditor nor playmod is required to create the ultimate BC3K gaming environment. All one needs is GBS and a semi-coherent cranial cavity. # [dynamic] terran,trader,,contract3,cargo2.3dc,Supply_Pod2 [ai] .contract3,100,100,100,100,100,100,0 START inactive IN plutoz STOP EVENTS 101 !begin_tod1m1 halt on this add_store this,8,196,25,284,200,136,25,306,100,272,100,271,100,270 ENDEVENTS # Find the nearest trading facility and trade away TTFN ------------------ Rear Admiral Gallion ICV-Graf Spee, Spectre (Antis) Executive Officer, Spectre Fleet "You can only love or hate something you truly understand." Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series Leader, Team 1 [This message has been edited by Gallion (edited 03-13-2001).]

Check out the BCM Sales blurb at VE site. In a nut-shell, preorder BCM from Chips-n-Bits will result in the delay of your receipt of BCM. Partial quote from voodooextreme.com post irt this matter: quote:...I did an exclusive deal with EB. Under that deal, BCM will only be available via EB's retail stores and online portal - and nowhere else, for a period of time. I don't have to sell one million units of my game. I just have to sell my game to a dedicated group of niche gamers, with the support of a retailer who is dedicated to the business of selling games, regardless of whether it is a niche game or not, to gamers. Period... TTFN ------------------ Rear Admiral Gallion ICV-Graf Spee, Spectre (Antis) Executive Officer, Spectre Fleet "You can only love or hate something you truly understand." Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series Leader, Team 1

Dont ferget The Turning of a Wraith Hope ye know Morse Code TTFN ------------------ Rear Admiral Gallion ICV-Graf Spee, Spectre (Antis) Executive Officer, Spectre Fleet "You can only love or hate something you truly understand." Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series Leader, Team 1 [This message has been edited by Gallion (edited 03-12-2001).]

Congrats Pugwash You have not sent that e-mail yet Welcome to an incredible nightmare TTFN ------------------ Rear Admiral Gallion ICV-Graf Spee, Spectre (Antis) Executive Officer, Spectre Fleet "You can only love or hate something you truly understand." Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series Leader, Team 1

Come on folks - we cant let Romero beat the SC. TTFN ------------------ Rear Admiral Gallion ICV-Graf Spee, Spectre (Antis) Executive Officer, Spectre Fleet "You can only love or hate something you truly understand." Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series Leader, Team 1 [This message has been edited by Gallion (edited 03-10-2001).]

Where's Calgary? Isn't it near Puerto Rico? TTFN ------------------ Rear Admiral Gallion ICV-Graf Spee, Spectre (Antis) Executive Officer, Spectre Fleet "You can only love or hate something you truly understand." Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series Leader, Team 1

Yes to all questions. TTFN ------------------ Rear Admiral Gallion ICV-Graf Spee, Spectre (Antis) Executive Officer, Spectre Fleet "You can only love or hate something you truly understand." Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series Leader, Team 1

Look at the BCM screen shots that the SC posted elsewhere on this website. What you see them is what you get TTFN ------------------ Rear Admiral Gallion ICV-Graf Spee, Spectre (Antis) Executive Officer, Spectre Fleet "You can only love or hate something you truly understand." Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series Leader, Team 1

As Dreada so eloquently put it - Welcome to our Nightmare Commanders TTFN ------------------ Rear Admiral Gallion ICV-Graf Spee, Spectre (Antis) Executive Officer, Spectre Fleet "You can only love or hate something you truly understand." Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series Leader, Team 1

#2 - Probes work as advertised - they only jump-at nav points - no planetary orbit options #3 - dont worry about it #4 - how do you know this? I have played the ACM from beginning to end several times and every NPC activated on cue. Check the script sorce files. #5 - try a fresh patch download (all) and reinstall. #6 - BC3K starbase docking was never implemented. Non-issue, waut for BCM TTFN ------------------ Rear Admiral Gallion ICV-Graf Spee, Spectre (Antis) Executive Officer, Spectre Fleet "You can only love or hate something you truly understand." Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series Leader, Team 1

My congrats go out to you Pugwash The first script is the hardest, at least in my experience. Now comes the real challenge for a sciptor - playtesting by other BC players Post the link and I'll have a go at you script. BTW - keep those scripting skills honed, they may/will come in handy when BCM hits the street TTFN ------------------ Rear Admiral Gallion ICV-Graf Spee, Spectre (Antis) Executive Officer, Spectre Fleet "You can only love or hate something you truly understand." Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series Leader, Team 1

It'll be ready when its ready....and now it aint ready or words to that effect Patience is a virtue easily spoken but ever so few actual master. The wait is well worth it folks. TTFN ------------------ Rear Admiral Gallion ICV-Graf Spee, Spectre (Antis) Executive Officer, Spectre Fleet "You can only love or hate something you truly understand." Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series Leader, Team 1

Finally worked the bugs outta winbloz. massive system fubar for the past week. IOW I am back TTFN ------------------ Rear Admiral Gallion ICV-Graf Spee, Spectre (Antis) Executive Officer, Spectre Fleet "You can only love or hate something you truly understand." Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series Leader, Team 1

quote:BTW, Galactic Command is going to support indoor environments and water/underwater units which BC:M won't. Why is this? If you first write an indoor engine for GC, would it be very hard to use this in BC:M? Read the Dev Diary pages. The story is there - go find it. TTFN ------------------ Rear Admiral Gallion ICV-Graf Spee, Spectre (Antis) Executive Officer, Spectre Fleet "You can only love or hate something you truly understand." Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series Leader, Team 1

Remember the primary rule - K.I.S.S The more you script, the more the BC3K engine has to do. The more NPC entities and regions (scripted or BC3K autogenerated) that are active, the more AI and CPU overhead. You do not have to script each and every encounter - only what you as a scriptor want to happen. BC3K autogeneration will take care of random and add a good murphy factor into your script. Another thing, just because a script successfully parses does not mean that there are not any syntax script errors. I recall one in particuliar where you had ... (I am typing this off the top of my head and most likely my sytax is inaccurate, but hopefully you understand what I and getting at)... quote:!arrive syganz capture sygan_ods or words to that effect, for each system that your convoy enters/arrives. Is this correct script syntax? Yes when parsing a script is concerned but No when it comes to actual gameplay. Remember what you can do and can not do in the game - ods platforms cannot be captured - they can only be destroyed In the future either post a link to your script or copy/paste the porions that you are having difficulties with. TTFN ------------------ Rear Admiral Gallion ICV-Graf Spee, Spectre (Antis) Executive Officer, Spectre Fleet "You can only love or hate something you truly understand." Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series Leader, Team 1 [This message has been edited by Gallion (edited 02-28-2001).]

Take out starbase launch pads, along with SAMs and SALs first. TTFN ------------------ Rear Admiral Gallion ICV-Graf Spee, Spectre (Antis) Executive Officer, Spectre Fleet "You can only love or hate something you truly understand." Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series Leader, Team 1

quote:And the sad part, it appears that some areas of the world haven't made it to the lightbulb yet. Think, the vast majority of the dark spots are uninhabitted anyway. Just look at the western US, most of it is dark compared to east of the MS River. Food for thought and to stir the pot some TTFN ------------------ Rear Admiral Gallion ICV-Graf Spee, Spectre (Antis) Executive Officer, Spectre Fleet "You can only love or hate something you truly understand." Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series Leader, Team 1

LOL - yep ye be right on that one Ohso. cant even reach the link now Did a search on "q209354" at MS resulted in zero results. Moral of this story - first impressions can be deceptive. Good lesson to remember fer the future. Dont think that I will fall for that one again Think I'll leave my previous post alone. Ya, I feel fer it. TTFN ------------------ Rear Admiral Gallion ICV-Graf Spee, Spectre (Antis) Executive Officer, Spectre Fleet "You can only love or hate something you truly understand." Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series Leader, Team 1 [This message has been edited by Gallion (edited 02-24-2001).]

Yep, that page is hacked. The query is when did this happen? Recently or is this a left over from the MS site woes earlier. As huge as MS's website(s) are, I would surmize that this is a left over. But it also makes me wonder what other easter-eggs are lurking in the shadows at various MS sites. TTFN ------------------ Rear Admiral Gallion ICV-Graf Spee, Spectre (Antis) Executive Officer Spectre Fleet "You can only love or hate something you truly understand." Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series Leader, Team 1 [This message has been edited by Gallion (edited 02-24-2001).]