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If you want to manage your own marines. Send Resnig somplace other then operations.

Look at the plans for the ships. It is pretty much a straight corridor to whatever. Makes sense too, you build a ship around a central passage, makes it easy to build and easy to have acess to systems. It is not a dungeon, it is a battleship.

Yeah, I guess that's reasonable. Wouldn't it be cool if you could see some blown up parts of capital ships floating around for a minute or two and you could also see sparks going through them. Then you could salvage them. I would love that.

Why is that? Why can an autopilot fly faster then your maximum throttle setting?

It can't be all vaporized. There's always something left. Even a little bit, some fuses, metals, any kind of spare parts. Just gotta be.

Yeah baby, just pre-ordered. This is great, can't wait.

If I join the fleet, do I get some sort of a GI bill equivalent?

I am gonna tell you a few things. While Derek might be rough and doesn't put up with all the bullshit (why should he), he DOES support his products and delivers what he promised, ALWAYS. He gives out tons of freebies, and fixes any bugs that might be found in his games. I am going to make an example. After I bought TROPICO, it had some bugs, I went on their official website, E-mailed them, you know what I got in response to my questions? NOTHING. That's right. A week later a patch came out, and it still didn't fix all the problems, I E-mailed them again, you know what I got in response a second time. NOTHING. And guess what. ALL, and I mean ALL the games that I have purchased and later e-mail their developers with some question, I got either some crapy answer that doesn't really mean anything or nothing at all. So before you go around talking crap about Derek, think about the way he will help you when you will run into some kind of problems with his game. Yes, he might tell you to shut up or something to that effect, but only if your comment or question deserves that. Final words. This is the only developer I know that will stand by his product, help (and I mean REALLY HELP) his fans with any problems they might have and be involved in the forum, and I would rather have that + some rude comments when people deserve them, then nothing at all. If you don't like it here, then don't come here to read and post, and don't buy Derek's games, who cares, go and buy games from some other developers and see how far they will go to fix any problems you might run into with their product, it's your loss.

Not all the destroyed craft drop cargo pods. You can argue that there is nothing salvageable left, but there's got to be at least some repair minerals from the hull or something.

After you load your ship with Radine, use either "CTRL+R" or "ALT+R" to restart the reactor, it's one of those.

I would like to dock at the station and be able to have my engineers escorted by my marines so that they can strip parts from other ships that are docked at the station too, and if anyone objects I want my marines to shoot them. But what seriously would be cool is if there was wreckage left over after each kill so that you could send your shuttle out and search that wreckage for parts and cargo. Now that would just rock.

SC, you have made a smart decission by telling EB world "NO RETURNS", and if they still accept returns then I assume you will get paid the original price for the game and they will be stuck with the used one right?

LOL "WASD?! Thats just ludicrous." SC, even the newbies know you.

LOL. I just love the way SC puts everyone in their place. This thread is priceless. LOL. And this: "I'll let someone else translate my post for you, since I must have missed something in my Swahili to English translation." That just got me rolling all over again. LOL. SC, don't loose your sense of humor and I just hope that you are not actually upset when you have to straighten things out, because stress is bad for health.

Desolator is right, BC3000AD does not have a steep learning curve, it's just that some people are lazy and don't read instructions and then when it takes them a few hours to figure out on their own how things work, or they can't figure that out on their own they start saying, "That game is too complicated". I know for a fact because I got my copy of BC3000AD from my buddy just because he didn't want to play anymore saying that he doesnt know how to do stuff(he hates reading the manual, never does). I am so happy though, if not for him, I would never even know that such a game even existed.

Oh man that looks cool, this whole idea is just too much to handle. Have a capital ship, everything is so realistic and cool as it is, and NOW, it might even be possible to walk inside your BC. If that add on comes out for BCM, I can guarantee you that everyone who has BCM will buy it.

I haven't preordered yet, because I don't like to pay for something I don't get right away, but what SC said right there got me really thinking. Guess I will be visiting EB this weekend.

I don't know where you got the idea that we are getting space station levels (maybe I just missed something). It would take an enormous ammount of work to design them, but if you are right then that's great. The way I see it is SC is hiring people to design screens like bridge view, views for different space station departments and interiors for buildings.

I mean bridge view instead of HUD.

LOL, Unique HUD display and station trade and engineering screens anyone? Don't you people get it?

Gotta add though, they way the ship repairs were handled bugged me a lot. I mean there is no way a ship can be repaired so fast and also with what materials and personel? That was just stupid.

I-War is great, if you have a good 3d card you can even see the thrusters firing when you turn your ship, and the flight engine is just fantastic.

I liked the Wing Commander movie, I hope they make more. The scene where they hid in that crater and the enemy ship was bombing them was great.

Ok, I just called them up and asked to talk to the manager. He told me that they are just for display purposes. Last time I was there I asked the guy behind the counter and he said that they were selling them. So I guess it's just display, but it's weird because there's like 20 of them on the shelf and it really looked like they were selling.