Cmdr Nova

Man, whatever happened to the forum flunkies before this, sure worked. Heh. I'm wondering what happened, too.

Bah. Gaining EPs back is easy. Just spend a few hours massing a huge profit, and buy some OTS nukes. Easy couple thousand EPs per nuke, if you find the right targets.

Officially, I don't believe they're ranked. They're just... The ranks of the positions they're in. Like their rank would be "Chief Engineer of the GCV-Blah". I guess. Like I said, I don't believe they have official "rank" ranks. But, for RP, IIRC, there is a certain order of succession in the event the commander is unable to remain at his post. Can't really help you with specifics.

Heh. Wal-Mart's got the same kind of restrictions on music. They don't even carry Parental Advisory marked albums; you'll have to settle for edits. I'm a larger music junkie than a gamer nowadays, but I'll still have to say... It's one of those things that they'll just have to boil down to personal preference. Unfortunately, the fact that they hold a 25% share of game sales changes the way a company handles a game makes a difference. And unfortunately, unlike music, you can't have a regular version and an edited/clean/radio version... Unless someone can convince the publisher to actually try shipping two versions, which really wouldn't work. I like the fact that they're trying to keep certain media away from kids. I'm with them on those morals, but still. The focus of the game really should stay the same. It's like art or a book or something. I don't believe it's right to limit the expression of any media. Me? I'd just have it sold somewhere else. Best Buy gets a nice cut of the game market. Electronics Boutique is a great place, too. Publishers get it all wrong. If it's a game built for hardcore action for older gamers, then they really really don't need it to be sold to the mainstream. (Bad example, since I consider that "older gamer" action to be mainstream. ) I'm Catholic, but that doesn't make my morals or decisions for me. Anyway, I think Wal-Mart is actually doing some sort of good with that decision. (Seriously, a kid can still buy "M" games at a whole bunch of places without being hassled aobut age or whatnot, which IIRC, was required by law.) And to re-iterate: people should still have access to the medium in it's original intended form. (Even BMX XXX should've gotten it's chance, in my view.) My two bits. [ 12-03-2002, 08:12 PM: Message edited by: Cmdr Nova ]

quote:Originally posted by Epsilon 5: Or .. this (Tell me if you get it)LOL: quote:Named for it's first known victim - Krannic Wynar, a TRI test pilot from the earliest days of the Beta Intiative -- Wynar's Syndrome produces a peculiar brain-chemical imbalance in those who contract it. Pilots suffering from Wynar's Syndrome (more commonly referred to as "WS") display an aberrant psychology characterized by a chronic and persistent irritability, coupled with an ever-increasing sense of persecution and paranoia. Pilots afflicted with WS typically rail against TRI and their own place in it. [...] Those who have contracted Wynar's Syndrome seem to reserve their greatest hatred for anything released by the Office for the Promotion of Advanced Technological Systems (or the "PATchS Office", as it is known in military parlance).

So true. I'm basically the same music-wise. I usually listen to alternative-styles, which is really popular and when something/someone gets too popular, and starts getting hated, a la Avril Lavigne or Linkin Park, I'll still stick with it. Since what I listen to originates in obscurity, it doesn't bother me that they go back to relative obscurity. "Mainstream" was always a term that, to me, brought around trouble. No matter what the medium, there's always someone who likes it, I guess. What's "alternative" or "popular" for one group may be the opposite for another. The anti-BC people (I didn't say mainstream) just haven't seen the true light of the game, that's all. I figure that smarter gamers, like RPGers or whatnot, that'll find some kind of joy in sci-fi would like the game. That's hte kinda gamer I've ended up being time and time again, and I think an intelligent, open-ended game like BCM would fit to crowds like that.

Somewhere around here, when GBS-II comes out.

...So sweet.......Way too cool.... I need a new rig. My comp would just as soon blow up before running BCG.

Congrats Jag. Being a teenager myself, I'll have to say I'm kinda biased... But... I have to say, we are kinda dreadful if you guys don't handle us right. Seriously--enjoy the childhoodness while it lasts. My parents keep telling me about how much they miss it when I was little. Have fun.

Guess what's back? Back again? I've written up a post to ITF (lol, first in 8 months), adding a bit of action, hoping to draw out at least some posting of some sort to it again. Maybe, just maybe, we can revive this thing. For now, I'm just hoping someone decides to post to it and not leave me hanging. Into The Fire, on the BCC Forum. (I was bored, and I felt like writing something. And I was playing BCM earlier this week, so I decided (spur-of-the-moment) to RP on Into The Fire. Hehe.) [ 11-28-2002, 10:12 PM: Message edited by: Cmdr Nova ]

That's why my brother and I dragged ourselves out to the mall in the middle of the week to watch a movie.

Did a quick cross-reference, and yes, Live and Let Die was Moore's first movie. (1973, opposed to TSWLM's 1977 release.) [ 11-27-2002, 08:53 PM: Message edited by: Cmdr Nova ]

Oh yeah. 7/10, considering it's a Disney movie. I expected it to be a bit more toned-down feeling, so that was a bit okay. THe pace still got to me, but anyway. It's okay. The kids will laugh through parts of it, adults would laugh through other parts of it, but the movie won't really go "kid-obsessive" or become a "classic", in my opinion. [ 11-27-2002, 08:30 PM: Message edited by: Cmdr Nova ]

I kinda liked it. Had some damn great animation. The plot... Was okay. Kinda the combination of sci-fi and old-school/fantasy. Seeing the old-style ships in space thing felt like..... Final Fantasy 9. With the airships and crowded airspace in the middle-ages environment stuff. The pace of the plot was a bit uneasy, and there wasn't anything that really stuck with me. Then again, I did read Treasure Island a couple times a while back. My little sister described it as a "cute" movie. I didn't really think much of it as a movie on it's own, but it's a great crossover feeling story. I still can't get over how much the animation was SOOO nice and how it reminded me of Titan AE.

I have a good 4 days off. I might try it later this week.

quote:Discs using Flexplay's technology were used in a recent James Bond promotion sent to reporters. The disc contained scenes from the pre-release film. Once the DVDs were removed from their packaging, the DVD would effectively self-destruct in 36 hours.Sounds like the problem with pre-release music leaks. Some companies have turned to an alternative of sending a superglued Walkman to the journalists recieving the CD, which would have to be returned, with the CD inside, and checked for damages. It'd deter some pirates, and in a worst-case scenario, they'd also probably hardwire the headphones to the player, too. My opinion of htis is that it's good for pre-release things going out to the newsmedia. Pirating costs consumers a ton, and that's at least a little effort that they're putting into protection. With that aside, there isn't much of any good mainstream practical use I see at the moment.

Let me direct your attention to Exhibit A and Exhibit B for some old-school discussion on this. I don't know where I got Supremacy from. I guess I made it up on the fly, because it sounded cool, and wasn't taken by someone else at the time. (Cross referenced the Fleet DB back then.) I mean, I've had to change ship names a couple of times. (Started with Outlaw Star, which was unregistered because I registered multiple ships back then when multi-AEs weren't allowed. Moved on to Dark Outlaw as a second choice. Converted to Police, and used the White Eagle. Recruited to Orion Fleet, commanding the ever-vigilant GCV-Supremacy.)

Anyway, excuse my stuff farther up above. Being 15, and having school right on top of me, you can't blame me for having to spread the feelings of teenage angst. It's been so an internet fad recently. But it makes for quite some interesting discussion. I'll want to check in and see what you all have to say. Later. [ 11-25-2002, 10:02 PM: Message edited by: Cmdr Nova ]

Saw it just earlier tonite. Thought it was really good. That little underground place, where Q had all the old gadgets still stored... The knife boot things, the jetpack. Lol. That was kinda cool. The movie seems to hold it's own against XXX, which I think was part of their goal. (Seriously. This movie was sooooooo action-based.) --- Connery and Moore both had their own different trends. IMO, it was a different Bond for a different era sorta effect. Sean Connery played the "Cold War spy" game very well. While Moore did good as the next generation style person. (Well, "next generation" back then.) And then there's Pierce, who plays the modern gadget-wielding spy quite well. I'm partial to Roger Moore and Moonraker, though.

Omg, so true. *picks up a metal chair* CAN YOU SMELL WHAT THE NOVA'S COOKIN? Sorry, I just couldn't resist.

quote:Originally posted by IceCold: The point of a "game," is that someone must win, and in order for someone to win SOMEONE HAS TO LOOSE. Thus the 'game' of life.Indeed. But, in some cases, there are people that simply never win. Never get close. Never have the opportunity. They may have skills, knowledge, and talent underneath, but haven't had the chance to actually realize they've had it. Let me run a quick example. Say there's a school, and during recess, you have to play one thing, say (I hate to do this, Gray :rolleyes) dodgeball. New kid. You've got no reputation. YOu're not very bright, you suck at dodgeball. Simply, you suck, in your eyes and in the eyes of everyone else. I mean, seeing this happen firsthand, I know that since some of these people don't have really anyone else to support them (sometimes family, but sitll), and nothing else going for them, and that'll create problems later. You've heard about school crap going on in the news, so I won't bore you with examples. For real. I think I'd actually end up like one of those people, if my family weren't so supportive of me and such. That, and my intellectual gift help me overcome my own downfalls by observing other people go through their own downfalls.

quote:Towards a Non-Violent Society, the booklet produced by the Forum on Children and Violence, argues that musical chairs only rewards the "strongest and fastest". ... Instead it says that the booklet "merely advises that teachers might think of less confrontational alternatives". Well, the overall point of it.....Maybe, just maybe, I'll agree with that much. Being in a public high school right now, and being one of those people who's seemed to get so much negative feedback and let-downs from others (not being fast, strong, or simply cool), sure I'll agree about how much I think that kids should at least be taught right enough, so they don't get the impression that they're inferior. BUT FOR CHIRST'S SAKE, MUSICAL CHAIRS. You've probably had an extremely insecure life if you're trying to convince people of this. I feel just as sorry to the person who wrote the booklet, compared to the people she's convincing. (Post 1400. Sw00t.) [ 11-25-2002, 05:21 PM: Message edited by: Cmdr Nova ]

I chose against being a raider, for the fact that they have a horrible amount of cash to start with, and because just about everyone's your enemy. As a raider, you WILL get just about every military on your back, not to mention police, mercenaries out for bounty, etc.

quote:Originally posted by Cmdr_ Laracuente: Cap ships should be a lot more powerful in terms of protection.That's why there's upgrades and artifacts. Another thing. If you have a squad of fighters to get in there, use them. TIme it so they get there first, and take the fire from the station, if you really need them to. Every last diversion helps.

quote:Originally posted by Cruis.In: 25 ships isnt a big fleet. try 75. 25 almost got it destroyed. I dont remember losing ships on the way in...it wasn't pixan..it was Sygan...so probably less weapons? different type station? but come on its a starstation ... probably 100 times the size of your ship..if it only takes 25 ships to take out one...players will sweep across the galaxy easily multiplayer wise.Yeah, but non-Fleet servers will only be able to handle a really really low amount of players. Fleet servers will be invite-only, unless that's been changed recently. I don't expect many, if any, strikes consisting of more than 10 player controlled capital ships. You may think stations aren't powerful enough. But I think they're pretty good where they stand, for multiplayer. About your Sygan issue, it's because of a different model starstation, with the lasers just happening to be on a bad arc to the hyperjump exit point from the nav point, if that makes any sense. Some stations have really bad firepower if you're coming completely from the horizontal. Some stations have nice blind spots from above or below. It's all part of a larger strategic picture; if you KNOW that the station you want to assault can't defend itself from horizontal attacks, and the jump gate you're at is at a bad angle, you can jump to a moon and then to the station, if the angle is right. And etc.