Tyrn

Update on the shuttles doing a deathdance in the debris fields. Very easy to duplicate, but there's a catch: Center BC in DF. Lauch all shuttles to collect different cargo pods. Target any distance (requiring HyperJump) object in the BC. Order shuttles to RTB. Initiate BC HyperJump. Watch shuttles vanish. Now the catch. The cause of this problem is not the DF collapsing as I had thought (newbie commander at the time). It's the fact that all four shuttles are jumping from very closely located start points (they're already converging on the BC so their start points are obiviously ever closer) and that they are all jumpin to the same target. You are almost guaranteed that two of them will jump right into each other if not all four. Bug or bad commanding? I want to say the former because it's easier to blame the developer but I'm more inclined to lay the burden of this one on myself. ------------------ Commander Tyrn Marcel GCV Falcon, Wraith HQ (Lyrius) Wing Leader - Wraith Fleet/S.O.G. Fast, Furious... FIRST!" Official BCM Beta Tester [This message has been edited by Tyrn (edited 10-16-2000).]

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: Yep. And there's nothing that I can do about it. Besides, there is no difference in AI processing between FF and ACM anyway. So, ACM may well be a learning experience And a painful one at that. Right now Jo can't find her way back to the research lab from medibay (it's just down the hall dear) and two of those #$%@@! pilots refuse to exit their interceptor. Probably has to do with all systems being at 100% and yet tacops shows the Falcon at 96% integrity. I wonder if it's related to the problems I've had with JAC earlier? Have to experiment with that. quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: One of the things that I have been planning on doing, but which I have not done yet, is the ability to allow you to play any scenario, with the same profile. So, you could play Roam (was FF in BC3K) until your crew gains enough experience and then go play ACM. I haven't done it yet because it requires some dangerous architectural changes. I may look into it toward the end of the development cycle, sometime in the Dec/Jan timeframe. Eyes shine brightly..."Star light, star bright, I wish I may, I wish I might. . . ." ------------------ Commander Tyrn Marcel GCV Falcon, Wraith HQ (Lyrius) Wing Leader - Wraith Fleet/S.O.G. Fast, Furious... FIRST!" Official BCM Beta Tester [This message has been edited by Tyrn (edited 10-14-2000).]

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: Tyrn, thats happening because, yes, I am collapsing the debris field when you are no longer in scope. However, if its destroying the shuttles that shouldn't happen and I was not aware of it. It happened twice quite some time ago, as I learned real quick like that such things were somewhat unhealthy for the pilots quote:Originally posted by Rattler: Tyrn, email me and tell me how you get it to happen. I'd like to personally investigate this one as well. Will do as soon as my friendly ISP gets their fingers out of their noses and fix their mailserver (12 hours of non-delivery at this point...argh). ------------------ Commander Tyrn Marcel GCV Falcon, Wraith HQ (Lyrius) Wing Leader - Wraith Fleet/S.O.G. Fast, Furious... FIRST!" Official BCM Beta Tester

quote:Originally posted by Tac: Will post some pics on the wraith site, in my quarters once I manage to get them off my digital camera and into the net. Check your [email protected] address for info on the fleet site. ------------------ Commander Tyrn Marcel GCV Falcon, Wraith HQ (Lyrius) Wing Leader - Wraith Fleet/S.O.G. Fast, Furious... FIRST!" Official BCM Beta Tester [This message has been edited by Tyrn (edited 10-14-2000).]

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: I think either the manual or the version control file lists which minerals are certain to cause and explosion or radiation if you either have too much quantity or a certain mix. Not explicitly, it does note that Jo "can also detect unsafe levels of dangerous and high volatile minerals such as Kryptonium, Uranium, Strontium, etc." quote: Of course Jo is a dumb as a fruit salad for quite sometime and God help you if you've be stashing minerals before she realizes that she has to check those levels periodically. "Dumb as a fruit salad," that's good. Speaking of fruit salad: Once again I have finished the TOD's with a crew of vegetables and this time I left them on duty until they dropped. I think the "problem" may well be that the TOD's happen too quickly for the crew to actually learn much more than where the extra underwear is stashed for the Salamanda hunt. quote:Bill Cosby And why are mothers always concerned about the condition of your underwear?...First you say it, then you do it! ------------------ Commander Tyrn Marcel GCV Falcon, Wraith HQ (Lyrius) Wing Leader - Wraith Fleet/S.O.G. Fast, Furious... FIRST!" Official BCM Beta Tester [This message has been edited by Tyrn (edited 10-14-2000).]

Think radioactive and not explosive. Had to treat a huge number of crew members for radiation when Jo - in a flash of brilliance - realized that we had dangerously high concentrations of certain minerals on board. Thinking along those lines, if the amount were too too high then they might reach critical mass and light up your BC like a firecracker (speculation on that last bit of course). ------------------ Commander Tyrn Marcel GCV Falcon, Wraith HQ (Lyrius) Wing Leader - Wraith Fleet/S.O.G. Fast, Furious... FIRST!" Official BCM Beta Tester

quote:Originally posted by DREADA: Tyrn, where about on the fleet's site will you be placing all the wing links? That one has me concerned. Tac has them linking back to the FleetOps area but there is no link from FleetOps to the Wing page. As FleetOps is actually a flash I can't just edit the page. I'm still waiting for a reshipment on my Macromedia software "What? You mean your PC doesn't run Mac software?" Even then I'm not sure if I can fix the problem as I only have access to the .swf (compiled flash?) files and not the .fla (source) files. I'll probably end up recreating the FleetOps area as an image map so I can link the Wings from there as Tac intended. More on that when I have another free brain cell. ------------------ Commander Tyrn Marcel GCV Falcon, Wraith HQ (Lyrius) Wing Leader - Wraith Fleet/S.O.G. Fast, Furious... FIRST!" Official BCM Beta Tester [This message has been edited by Tyrn (edited 10-13-2000).]

sigh...Cadets As soon as you know you have an intruder aboard, turn off launch control until the situation is secure. No power to launch control = no possibility of ships being stolen. BTW, I can guarantee that you lost more than a shuttle and your marines but you also lost a goodly amount of cargo. Intruders always load cargo onto a shuttle when they board it. ------------------ Commander Tyrn Marcel GCV Falcon, Wraith HQ (Lyrius) Wing Leader - Wraith Fleet/S.O.G. Fast, Furious... FIRST!" Official BCM Beta Tester [This message has been edited by Tyrn (edited 10-13-2000).]

That reminds me of another thing I like to not do: While cargo sweeping in a DF, I park my BC in the center and let the four shuttles fight over the cargo pods and any intruding trade/com ships. Occasionally I forget to recall the shuttles before I jump to the resident starstation to dock. I always enjoy hearing "Shuttle One has been destroyed, Shuttle Two has been destroyed, Shuttle Three has been destroyed, Shuttle Four has been destroyed," when I do that. Presumably they were slammed into A) the asteroids, the mines, C) each other as the debris field objects "collapsed". ------------------ Commander Tyrn Marcel GCV Falcon, Wraith HQ (Lyrius) Wing Leader - Wraith Fleet/S.O.G. Fast, Furious... FIRST!" Official BCM Beta Tester [This message has been edited by Tyrn (edited 10-13-2000).]

Thanks for the effort Hidama regardless of the outcome. Right now the total size for the fleet sight is ~2.2MB and the SOG site is 136KB but expected to expand to about 1.5MB. Keep your eyes open people. I'm hoping to use www.redrival.com but have to wait for them to open registration again. They do not use banners and have a good reputation among their current user base. Even with that in mind, the more options we have the better ------------------ Commander Tyrn Marcel GCV Falcon, Wraith HQ (Lyrius) Wing Leader - Wraith Fleet/S.O.G. Fast, Furious... FIRST!" Official BCM Beta Tester [This message has been edited by Tyrn (edited 10-13-2000).]

I've had the same debris field problems and I've found that it almost always involved a similar situation to what you've described: SCX in DF with second SC headed to distant lands and bang I'm dead. I have also had this happen, on rare occasion, without being in a DF. I guess, and it is only a guess, that the sudden jump in objects (mines, asteroids and cargo pods) plus the activation of multiple areas due to the second shuttle gives BC and/or my PC a belly ache. The rare occasions are usually SC on planet surface + heavy firefight in orbit + SC headed again to distant lands. My advice: Don't do that. BTW, these and a couple of other little "quirks" are on my personal "let's see if this breaks it" list for BCM. ------------------ Commander Tyrn Marcel GCV Falcon, Wraith HQ (Lyrius) Wing Leader - Wraith Fleet/S.O.G. Fast, Furious... FIRST!" Official BCM Beta Tester

quote:Originally posted by Jochen: I've installed it to C:bc3000ad but that doesn't make a difference because if it was in another folder the patch adapts automatically; at least it did when once installed the game to D:bc3000ad The directions say very explicitly that the patch must be copied to the install directory or it will not work. Copy the patch to the install directory and then run it. ------------------ Commander Tyrn Marcel GCV Falcon, Wraith HQ (Lyrius) Wing Leader - Wraith Fleet/S.O.G. Fast, Furious... FIRST!" Official BCM Beta Tester

I have links for SOG (go figure ), Corsair and Fighter Command. Still need links for HammerHead, Marauders, SIN, HellHounds, and the Marine Corps (assuming we actually have someone sign-up in that capacity). ------------------ Commander Tyrn Marcel GCV Falcon, Wraith HQ (Lyrius) Wing Leader - Wraith Fleet/S.O.G. Fast, Furious... FIRST!" Official BCM Beta Tester

I've seen the same thing as Keeling reports, consider it a happily little accident ------------------ Commander Tyrn Marcel GCV Falcon, Wraith HQ (Lyrius) Wing Leader - Wraith Fleet/S.O.G. Fast, Furious... FIRST!" Official BCM Beta Tester

Email url's for any new Wraith Fleet related sites to [email protected] and I will add them to the Wraith Fleet site. I will be updating links to existing Wing sites tonight. I will list the Wings for which I have no url later tonight. ------------------ Commander Tyrn Marcel GCV Falcon, Wraith HQ (Lyrius) Wing Leader - Wraith Fleet/S.O.G. "Hard, Fast, Furious... FIRST!" Wraith S.O.G. Home Official BCM Beta Tester

quote:Originally posted by J.Smith: I'm back. Had alot of trouble with my service provider.. Please, just to be safe forward all e-mail to [email protected]. That's all. Good to see you Smith, if you haven't already you need to read this then this. ------------------ Commander Tyrn Marcel GCV Falcon, Wraith HQ (Lyrius) Wing Leader - Wraith Fleet/S.O.G. "Hard, Fast, Furious... FIRST!" Wraith S.O.G. Home Official BCM Beta Tester [This message has been edited by Tyrn (edited 10-11-2000).]

I'm number three. Who's number four? ------------------ Commander Tyrn Marcel GCV Falcon, Wraith HQ (Lyrius) Wing Leader - Wraith Fleet/S.O.G. "Hard, Fast, Furious... FIRST!" Wraith S.O.G. Home Official BCM Beta Tester [This message has been edited by Tyrn (edited 10-09-2000).]

The last mission of TOD3 will also bring your machine to it's knees. The trick is to start killing off fighters (and I do mean killing, don't leave any SOS stragglers) as quickly as possible. You can quickly bring the number of NPC's down to the point that the AI processing is not quite so heavy. ------------------ Commander Tyrn Marcel GCV Falcon, Wraith HQ (Lyrius) S.O.G. Wing Leader - Wraith Fleet "Hard, Fast, Furious... FIRST!" Wraith S.O.G. Home Official BCM Beta Tester

I would also suggest actually deleting the directory where BC was installed (usually c:BC3000AD) and also make sure that the Bc3k.ini file is deleted from your windows directory. Uninstall should clean-up for you but since you're already having odd trouble you should take the extra precautions. ------------------ Commander Tyrn Marcel GCV Falcon, Wraith HQ (Lyrius) S.O.G. Wing Leader - Wraith Fleet "Hard, Fast, Furious... FIRST!" Wraith S.O.G. Home Official BCM Beta Tester

quote:Originally posted by Rattler: Several of us up here are running WinMe and It's a good upgrade! I have no problems with it but I surely didn't forget that I have 98SE sitting here just in case! My real beef with WinME is that it is not an essential upgrade in that it doesn't provide any substantial fixes to Win98SE. If you're getting a new machine, get WinME. If you're just wanting a stable machine don't spend the $49 to upgrade unless your machine isn't stable and then realize that the upgrade probably won't be a silver bullet. ------------------ Commander Tyrn Marcel GCV Falcon, Wraith HQ (Lyrius) S.O.G. Wing Leader - Wraith Fleet "Hard, Fast, Furious... FIRST!" Wraith S.O.G. Home BCM Beta Tester

Will do, got the files from Tac today and will be doing a quick correction on the pages for Netscape users and a few other minor things like that starting tomorrow. I'll also edit the mailto links and so forth so I can keep track of requests made via the site. ------------------ Commander Tyrn Marcel GCV Falcon, Wraith HQ (Lyrius) S.O.G. Wing Leader - Wraith Fleet "Hard, Fast, Furious... FIRST!" Wraith S.O.G. Home BCM Beta Tester

quote:Originally posted by Eclipse: I've been thinking about upgrading to WinME, but don't want another mess like Win2k was. I've not really heard much about ME and I was wondering what your opinions were of it. If you are already running Win98SE, there is no reason to upgrade unless you really need the included image editing software. ME is mainly a "feature patch" and does extremely little to actually upgrade the OS. ------------------ Commander Tyrn Marcel GCV Falcon, Wraith HQ (Lyrius) S.O.G. Wing Leader - Wraith Fleet "Hard, Fast, Furious... FIRST!" Wraith S.O.G. Home BCM Beta Tester

quote:Originally posted by cmdr Keeling: is there anything i can do to give it more ships and or missles to replace the ones i killed so that it can protect itself from attacks without me baby sitting it. There is another option: Ignore the fighters until you have captured the station and then finish off the offensive fighters after leaving the newly captured station. Most of the fighters and all of the cap ships will then still be intact AND be available for station defense. ------------------ Commander Tyrn Marcel GCV Falcon, Wraith HQ (Lyrius) S.O.G. Wing Leader - Wraith Fleet "Hard, Fast, Furious... FIRST!" Wraith S.O.G. Home

quote:Originally posted by j.w.pepper: I have a celeron 600 mhz processor 32 mb TNT video card 64 mb of memory Windows Millennium Bc3k version 2.08 patched to v 2.09. And still when a lot happens on the sreen, the game runs jurky and slow.How fast must my system be to play this game? This simply appears to be a fact of life for those of us playing with non-Glide (no 3DFX) cards. All of the objects must be rendered using software only which is a huge drain on the processor. PIII 500 with 128MB RAM here and I too get slow downs, rendering + AI + large numbers of either = slow down. ------------------ Commander Tyrn Marcel GCV Falcon, Wraith HQ (Lyrius) S.O.G. Wing Leader - Wraith Fleet "Hard, Fast, Furious... FIRST!" Wraith S.O.G. Home

quote:Originally posted by Aleksey Kichigin: in the Russia talking - "to regret about accomplished mistake - much better, then about missing attemt". IOW, "It is better to try and fail than to not try." ------------------ Commander Tyrn Marcel GCV Falcon, Wraith HQ (Lyrius) S.O.G. Wing Leader - Wraith Fleet "Hard, Fast, Furious... FIRST!" Wraith S.O.G. Home [This message has been edited by Tyrn (edited 10-06-2000).]