Emmett.hendrick

I love that story for no other reason than I can empathise with the techie. Some users really are that thick. It pushes you to your limits sometimes not to yell at them and call them stupid and hang up on them.

Sorry to revive this old thread. Got an invite to join the EVE beta program - Fate is a cruel mistress it would seem as I have no net access on my home pc at the moment. ARGH

quote:Originally posted by Tac: u rather he throw me? sheesh, the nerve! Yes of course you are right For the good of the fleet I'll be in the airlock! *Salutes and heads towards the airlock

quote:Originally posted by Tac: For roleplaying sakes ill give them a denomination, if the SC dissaproves he can throw Emmet outta the airlock *g*.Hey What did I do to deserve getting vacumed!

Well here are my results Based on your answers, you are most like Gandalf You were also very much like Frodo Samwise

missed that one Thanks for that EP_5

538 on second try. Gave up after that. nice game though

Very sweet SC. I love the light cast on the hull from the internal/ship lighting and the new con trails are very sweet. But a question. Have a look at: BC MkIII Does the bridge/cockpit look slightly of line to the rest of the ship in this shot(and some of the others) or do I need to change my glasses?

quote:Originally posted by Epsilon 5: quote:Originally posted by Emmett.hendrick: quote:Originally posted by Enigma: btw SC, were does the fluxfield drop u? is it random, a set point or to the region u were last at? Fluxfields has set drop out points but there maybe a number of points some of which drop you to a black hole. So one time you go through a flux field you may emerge somewhere safe and sound the next time you get blown to bits. he's talking about the one in nullspace - that one brings you back to your previous location Ooops sorry my mistake, I've never successfully been through a flux field so I was just echoing what I know/read here on the forums

not bad give it a try someday I suppose. But I like games that take hours to play

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quote:Originally posted by Enigma: btw SC, were does the fluxfield drop u? is it random, a set point or to the region u were last at? Fluxfields has set drop out points but there maybe a number of points some of which drop you to a black hole. So one time you go through a flux field you may emerge somewhere safe and sound the next time you get blown to bits.

quote:Originally posted by Commander Elio Jason: don't forget about Genesis which is on the Moon. i think Iss, Orion, and Wraith all have marine battalions as well. i'm not sure how active they are though. Player wise I think we have one active marine. not sure about marine dispersement though

I have to say I enjoy ground pounding with my marines on a planet. Plus I get great satisfaction from watching a well co-ordinated ground assault from tacops before joining the fray myself. Watching the fighters scream in while the sc's drop the OC's and the marines race round the base taking out the SAM's its great fun. Sorry off topic my bad

SC the MFB looks great. Really enjoying the shots of BCG everyone raises the anticipation level for the game by one step more. LOL my wife thought I never shut up waiting on BCM. She has already banned me from talking about it in front of her!

I've pretty much had my engineers rebuild my CC from scratch a few times. It takes a while to get used to combat in something as big as a Nightstar. But What I hate is when I loose a support unit. At a couple of million a piece they can really slow down my ground assaults when I loose one or two during an assault and have to replace them.

quote:Originally posted by Serondal: quote: But the maneuvor(sp?) worked once I returned to space the ships that had been attacking me had left/dispersed and I was able to limp to galcom for repairs. I would imagine you had to leave your ship at Galcom HQ for several real time hours to get those sort of repairs done No, not really. The ship was spaceworthy(ish) so I just docked and got the parts I needed. Then launched and landed on Earth and let my engineers do the work while I did some mining and insurgent crushing!!!

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: Well there goes the neighborhood! Anyone remember the days when you could buy a vinyl album and make a cassette tape to play in your car, steroe etc without fear of the death penalty? If I remember right you are allowed make one "backup" copy of music you buy, not sure about software(I assume that rule don't count) in anyway I would always buy a cd and then make a copy onto a mini disk, as I have a mini disk player in my car which is infinately more reliable than CD's(they skip to much on Irish roads). I have paid the money for the song/album and I think I should have the option to listen to said album anywhere I would like to (including my car!!!)

I once took my CC into Jupiter to escape a pounding I was getting for a number of hostile ships. My CC was fairly pasted by the time I made planet fall but by the time I managed to get out the other side she looked like something you scoop up on the road. But the maneuvor(sp?) worked once I returned to space the ships that had been attacking me had left/dispersed and I was able to limp to galcom for repairs.

Thanks for the advice guys. I'm using the heatsink/fan combo that came with the chip. I bought a coolermaster fan/heatsink but because of the case it will not fit on the cpu the psu is in the way. So I am sourcing a new case tonight aswell as two case fans. But I have another problem anyway I turned the pc on last night and there was no display. so after reseating everything I enabled the bios speech reporter to hear "System failed memory check!" So I have to bring back the memory tonight and get it replaced, so watch were you buy parts(I won't mention were I bought mine just in case) it can be more hasstle than its worth.

quote:Originally posted by Gallion: Glad you got you system running Emmett. BTW, ASUS is notorious for slipping/shipping mobos with bogus BIOS TTFN TTFN Yea I noticed that from their support site alright. I flashed the board with the new bios in order to try sort the hard disk problem and will download/flash the latest one tonight. Still need to get the heat problem sorted though so going looking for a new case tonight aswell. My brother in law got a nice one so I may get one of those.

All my bits listed cost about 1200 euro all told, but I was able to use my crrent monitor, keyboad, DVD and CDRW but I replaced pretty much everything else. You need to be carefull with were you buy, were I went, even after explaining what I was looking for the sales person tried to sell me everything for a PC even though I told him the bits I was going to hold on to. I find if your a gamer though the best way to get a really good system is to build your own. The big problem with premade machines (Dell, Gateway, ETC) is they cut back on certain parts to make them cheaper to produce or OEM their parts and take out some features that the general (read non gaming) publin would not use. That being said my pc is still not what I would call my "Dream" PC I'd love to have a dual processor pc with all the Best bells and whistles for gaming but money constraints force comprimises. PS: SC I will update my hardware profile as soon as I can!

Thanks guys I found the latest update for the bios and replace the HDD cable and that sorted it out. Greg: The CPU idles at about 55/56 degrees once pc is booting and such it goes up to about 60/61 degrees. The CPU fan is on the correct way, but I do know what the problem is. I got a cheap case and its too small the cpu/fan sits right under the 425W powersupply and there are no other fans in the case(nor is there room for anymore) so I am getting a new better case over the next couple of days. But thanks for you help guys, I booted up BCM last night and played it on 1280*864 with all the details on full and it looks soooooooooo sweet. And it means I can now play BCG when it comes out so I am happy. Once again thanks for your help guys. [ 01-03-2003, 03:27 AM: Message edited by: Emmett.hendrick ]

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My thoughs on multiplayer. I have a lot of time to sit and contemplate this one. What with the release of Star Wars Galaxies coming up and talk of MP here on the forums for BC I have had to give it some serious thought. Multiplayer for me is a daunting prospect between slow dial up connections and the fact of being stuck in the A**hole of Europe connections to game servers can be a painfull prospect. I have experimented with online games a little and while fun they are little more than a blast o rama(in most cases), however that aside I find games like Everquest, Ultima online and others offer more appeal and I would be more likely to make the "budget" stretch to play one of them regularly instead of what is currently proposed for BC MP. I am however extremely interested and in fact looking forward to BCO. This has basically been a long winded way for me to put forward an opinion which agrees with most people here. SC if MP for BCM would be too much of a headache(to devolop and support) then don't and concentrate on the MP for BCMG/BCG your fans will support you in what ever you choose. We are behind you all the way SC.