Vixef

In Norway we have mandatory enlistment. Some benefits from this are: 1.Since everyone have to serve, you meet a lot of different persons that you otherwise would not meet. 2.Because of the above you learn how to deal with different persons that you otherwise would despise and “hate”. 2.You get an army where you have people from every class in society and where nobody is better than the next. 3.Everyone is taught how to handle a weapon and gain respect as to how powerful a gun is. Norwegian soldiers are in my opinion not professional enough and not as trained as for example American or British troops. This comes to surface when Norwegian troops join in some international crisis where NATO are involved. But when this is said, I have been in exercises where American and British special forces have gotten their “asses kicked” by Norwegian soldiers. This may come from: 1.These exercises have been in winter time, and some of the regions in Norway can be extremely cold. Norwegian soldiers are used to it, and have equipment which is made for such conditions. 2.Those exercises have been in Norway. We know our country best (or so I hope). 3.Survival of a war has a lot to do (at least when you are a private) with luck. What I mean by this is that you can practically stand on top of someone in camouflage without seeing him. Someone can shoot you from over 1 km away, and because of the above you wouldn’t have a chance of seeing it in advance. Lately though, the government has cut down on the military budget. This has resulted in less people serving in the army. VERY scary if you ask me. When it comes to guns, I am VERY happy that we are not allowed to carry a gun here. Even the police don’t carry a gun. They have it locked down in their car (I think), and must have permition from someone (can’t remember who) to carry a gun or to get it from their car. But there are practically no policemen injured because of guns, or for that sake, there a almost no shooting accidents or murders with guns. AND before you ask. YES, there are a lot of people who have guns in their homes, and even assault rifles. Usually these guns are hunting rifles, or guns used in competion. In the latter case those guns belong to the army, and those people are part of a branch who is a kind of a leftover from WWII’s freedom fighters in Norway. There are a lot of people in this branch, and you are basically placed there after a couple of years after you’ve served in the army. There are very strict rules for just owning a gun, and personally I believe that the less people carrying weapons the less uncontrollable violence you’ll get. P.S. Before you tell me to fix my sig. My sys.profile are extreme minimum requirements.

Tow the fighter with your CC

WHOHA!!! Manual, keycard, poster and music.... Awesome!!! First thing I did was to try one of the supercarriers. While I was in the middle of a jump to Gazer1, a raider shows up. The raider jumps to Gazer1, passes my ship, and while I am in transit, Gazer1 transforms the raider into tiny particles. Really cool how much faster a small ship is compared to a huge.

26. of November, in year 1 ABCM, Vixef's life changed. He lost his friends, family and job, but didn't care..... He was lost indefenitely in the world of the BC-universe.... Forever happy and content...... YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!

BTW does anyone know approximately how long it'll take for the game to arrive (from shipping date)?

LOL I got confirmation that my BCM order was shipped on Tuesday 20th.

It’s almost as bad in Norway too. What really freaks me out (in addition to the above) is how they (the news here) sometimes seem to give news based on presumptions. For example lets say somebody is gunned down. On the news a couple of hours later, they are actually reconstructing the event (with actors or some computer animations) – based on what? Rumors? How the **** do they know what happened when the investigators (or anyone else for that matter) don’t? I guess it all boils down to selling news.

I believe mechs as in Mechwarrior will never be a reality. The main reason being that it would be near impossible to overcome the physics involved. But if you could, it would be a natural target for everyone (either for fun or because it’s a threat). And if this happened you would have to put enough firepower and armor on the thingy to survive. If you don’t, you would have to compensate with an escort. If you had something/someone escorting it, why build it in the first place. If you had enough weapons and armour on the mech, well…… yes it would be cool. Just not probable If you're going to have mechs, they will have to be man size. That would probably mean something like either an armor you could put on, with different weapons attached to it, muscle enhancements, etc. OR maybe some kind of a robot. Not controlled from some room, but actually operating on its own. BUT it would probably have more than two legs. When it comes to ideas just being fiction, I believe that science is inspired by art and art is inspired by science. An artist is often freer in his thinking than a scientist/engineer. That’s probably why there are very few people doing both design (as in design made for selling) and engineering at the same time. Also artists tend to come up with ideas that at the moment seems to be impossible (and/or silly), but when the scientists/engineers set their mind to it, they manage to find a solution. An example of this is architects that want to build something weird, and the engineer finding a way to do this. Often an engineer would say: “This is stupid. Why build this when we can build it simpler and therefore a LOT cheaper” – and to be honest this is true. On the other hand, this is one of the ways we gain new knowledge and technology. [ 11-13-2001: Message edited by: Vixef ]

Actually this is in the beginning of the game the time is 17:02. At 17:11 the message Terrans-Vesperons=passive (or something like that) pops up. [ 11-08-2001: Message edited by: Vixef ]

I started playing Free flight for the first time a couple of days ago (I've only tried ACM), and suddenly a Vesperon military fleet came and attacked me and GalComHQ. I turned on the debug-mode, and just started looking around and yes.... all the Vesperon stations were "marked" as enemies. Aren't they supposed to be friendly, or have I missed something? Has anyone experienced the same thing? Is it beacause some commander couldn't handle the first missions? Well anyways.... it was a surprise, and any such surprise, is a good surprise.

This tip is probably something that most of the players around knows about. Let's say you are trading between Earth and Pluto. You have bought some goodies at GalcomHQ, then you jump to Pluto. Instead of actually flying to Gazer1, you target it and hit ALT+D. Voila!!! You are docked.