Sadistic

Can I use this as my avatar? The bigger version is cooler, but too big to use heh. Maybe I should change the bg color. Gray and black don't match the forum colors too good. [ 01-04-2002: Message edited by: Sadistic ]

quote:Originally posted by dnoyeB!: Towing a ship depends on its weight is unrealistic in what respect? [ 12-09-2001: Message edited by: dnoyeB! ] By the way, we're talking mass, not weight here. Weight = mass times the force of gravity. [ 12-11-2001: Message edited by: Sadistic ]

quote:Originally posted by Simparadox: Except that BCM doesn't use a real-world Newtonian physics model!. Realistically, there should be no top speed (up until just under lightspeed) for ANY ship in the game, but there is. So if towing is going to be moved into the more "realistic" direction then the mass (not weight, big difference) obviously has to be a factor. And since the shuttle already has a top speed, that should be lowered as well. Yeah, that's totally true, there should be no top speed. But, it is realistic that towing a ship would slow down the acceleration A LOT. I mean, the CC has to weigh like 1000 tons or something (probly alot more, I dunno how much a ton is exactly) and the boosters on the shuttles are tiny. You should need at least 2 shuttles to drag that big damn ship, adn even then you would accelerate at like 10 m/s/s. It seems like those little tiny shuttle boosters wouldn't be able to move the CC AT ALL, much less at top speed. [ 12-11-2001: Message edited by: Sadistic ]

quote:Originally posted by StarShadow: Would be nice to have a SHORE LEAVE button when docked. This would release everyone from duty instead of going done one by one to do the same thing. Yeah, SC, there really should be a way to select a bunch of personell at a time to order them instead of having to go thru and select every single guy individually.

quote:Originally posted by ooJAYoo: Now we have Age of Empires or CivIII for example all being the highest class of strategic game play yet provide graphics to go ohhhh and ahhhh at. This is true. There are plenty of very involving, fun games that have great graphics, and don't take a super-computer to run, like AOE2 and D2, and War3 coming out soon. Again, they are not nearly as complex as BCM, but just as graphics aren't everything, complexity isn't everything either. There's a lot of good games that aren't very complex, but are still really really fun. Like Super Smash Bros. Melee on the Gamecube. Very very uncomplex, but has really nice graphics, and is very very fun. BCM is the undisputed champion of complexity, but, in a way, it is almost too complex. It completely makes you feel like you are flying a huge ship through space, which for the most part, isn't all that exciting, unless you attack a star station and get a whole ton of ships coming to kill you. Most of the time during BCM you are just sitting waiting for mining drones to collect their minerals, and when not doing that, pretty much all there is to do is attack starstations. You can land on planets, but there's really not much to do on planets. It takes forever to get around a planet, so it's not really worth your while. If planets were as full of hussle and bussle as they really would be, then it would be worth your while. Maybe its just me, but, there's really not all that much to do. When multiplayer comes out, it'll be alot funner, because you can find places on planets to have like races, and sniping battles and stuff, but right now, there's not much to do, and I haven't been playing BCM at all because of this. Also, my comp is crappy and ctd's every 20-30 mins anyways, which is very discouraging, but I just don't feel like playing it. If some of you could give me some ideas of stuff to do to make it more fun, please tell me.

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: 2. Shuttle towing. Later, the shuttle speed will depend on the mass of the object its towing. Have it tow a Stormcarrier, and you'll be there a week trying to leave the region. Good, that was extremely un-realistic, and defeated the purpose of even keeping your CC's engine on hehe.

quote:Originally posted by Badgerius: Ooohh... It's one of those... Nasty. I know exactly how you feel. My advice: Go out, see a movie. These things always seem to come clear after a break, when you're looking at it fresh. It always works for me. Yeah, this holds true for many things, not just programming. Taking a break is the best thing you can do for trying to solve a problem. Sooo many times I have sat and racked my brain for hours on something, and then I get pissed off at it and go do something else for a little while, come back, and it's perfectly clear.

Did you try getting into a fighter plane and shooting it with lasers? I've never tried to capture a star station myself, but that just makes sense.

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: OK, I'll add it to the very bottom of the pile - right down there with Tac's request for 3D dice for his BridgeViewer. That was back in '97. Haha, hell yes, 3D dice should be #1 on your 'to do' list.

quote:Originally posted by Zuul: I've been using the 22.80 drivers ever since SC told me to switch to them last week. They have been a hundred times more stable with BCM then the 2183 drivers could ever hope to be (havent crashed once yet with them as opposed to crashing every 10 mins with the 2183 drivers). And they work great with every other game too. Not only that, SC clearly states that he himself even uses the 2280 drivers! If your having problems with the 2183 drivers, use the 2280 drivers. Even if you dont have problems I would use the 2280 drivers anyways.... Well, I just installed the 2280 drivers. I constantly crash and get kicked to the desktop in games. Let's see if this puts a stop to it.

quote:Originally posted by Cmdr Nova: You uninstalled and re-installed the game before you tried to do the patches again, right? And you did run it from the game's directory? And remember. If you uninstall the game to try to do a re-install, backup the save folder (if you have game saves you want to keep), and wipe the whole folder (that means delete the entire Battlecruiser Millennium folder) before you re-install. The patch works for me, so I have no idea what could be your holdup. Yeah, I did that each time. I guess it just decided to be cooperative this time.

Okay, well I did the exact same thing again, and it seems to be working now. It even crashed as usual once, but it let me re-load my game. I musta been doing something wrong before hmm... Well, thanks.

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: I have no problems with 1.0.01 final saved games. Nor do the dozens of testers back here. Or anyone else for that matter. So, I dunno what to tell you. I'm stumped. You might want to re-download the patch. If you haven't read my announcement for today, then you won't know that you no longer need the navdata patch. Just kill whatever patch you have and re-download it. Uninstall, re-install. Patch and go from there. Okay.. I re-d/led the patch 3 out of the 5 times I reinstalled but it's worth another shot.

I uninstalled and killed the folder each time, and just backed up the save game in case I could use it later. I started a brand new game and it worked for a little while and then crashed, and when I tried to load a save of the game it crashed after the loading. [ 11-27-2001: Message edited by: Sadistic ]

quote:Originally posted by $iLk: Yes Ive tried the patch and I have to say thanks on the FP mode Now this game moves sooo smooth just cant wait for you too tackle the straff then ill just burst into joydom hehe Oh btw is it poss to remap the zoom to the mouse whheel And I love the way youve mapped the FP controls so far its the best ive seen in any game to date period. Ehm, that's the third one from the end, I/m guessing you meant this one, 4th from the end: quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr.: OK. Listen up! If you downloaded the BCM 1.0.01 patch between yesterday and today, you need to download the Navdata update file from the downloads page. These files were missing in the final patch. Simply unzip it into the folder where BCM is installed, making sure that you unzip with folders and overwrite existing files when prompted. If you downloaded the Navdata update file before 4pm EST today, you need to download it again because I think my first upload was corrupt. If you had previously applied the 1.0.01 Beta patch, when you install the final patch, all the Beta saved games should have been deleted by the patch. If not, before or after applying the final version, delete all the files in the SAVE folder where BCM is installed. The patches are NOT incremental. They just replace files. This means that (a) you do not need the Beta patch in order to apply the final ( you can apply the patch on top of itself without ANY consequences. No need to re-install the game. I repackaged and uploaded the 1.0.01 final patch to include the files from the Navdata update. So, if you want to have everything in one package, for keeps sake, just go ahead and download the final patch again. The upcoming 1.0.02 patch due out tomorrow, fixes some more issues and will include all fixes from 1.0.01. Have fun! If so, yes, I completely wiped out the game, reinstalled it, and patched it 5 or so times. It works if I do a new game, but not if I backup my saved game and play it, and it stops working after a while of playing (no certain amount of time and at no certain point in the game) [ 11-27-2001: Message edited by: Sadistic ]

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: If you had actually READ the VCF, you would have known before hand that this would be the case. Now siddown I didn't mean any offense or anything, I was joking around...

Urgh, I'm having the same problem again, and yes I checked the VCF and around the forum and haven't seen anything even similar to my problem, at least not in the most recent posts, but I'm not gonna go look in the archives and stuff, I doubt I'd find anything... anyways: The problem is that it jumps back to the desktop with no error messages or anything when it's finished loading everything. If I reinstall completely and start all over (I can't use my saved game even if I backed it up) it'll work for awhile, but eventually (and at no certain point in the game or in time) it kicks to the desktop and if I try and go back in it does it when it's done loading and if I reboot, still does it, and if I ScanDisk and Defragment, still does it. I sincierely apoligize if this has already been covered, but I swear to God I spent an hour and a half searching the latest threads and whatnot. Specs: win98 SE P3 733 Mhz nVIDIA Geforce2 MX w/ latest drivers SB Live! sound card 256mb RAM DX8.1 [ 11-27-2001: Message edited by: Sadistic ]

quote:Originally posted by Gallion: Better yet, read the middle of page 38 of the manual. Sadistic, you should RTFM TTFN [ 11-25-2001: Message edited by: Gallion ] I did read the fine manual, it's not my fault my memory is lacking. RTFM: Means to Read the Fine Manual; nothing more, nothing less. Choose different language when posting. Use of profanity is not tolerated. TTFN [ 11-26-2001: Message edited by: Gallion ]

quote:Originally posted by Ancharon: Look in the Spare Parts category... A fighter is listed as "Fighter Asset" and a shuttle as "Shuttle Asset." ... and an OC is an "OC Asset" TTFN [ 11-25-2001: Message edited by: Ancharon ] [ 11-25-2001: Message edited by: Gallion ] Oh, ok. Thank you.

When I press N for the prompt, nothing happens, at least the 1 time I tried it. I'll try it again when I go play in just a minute to make sure. Thanks.

I got a question. How do you know when your mission is truly over, because I did the first mission (escorting the diplomats or whatever) and it said mission completed +250 exp points. I then decided to mine some minerals and whatnot and a little later it said one of the diplomats was destroyed and I lost the 250 exp. Maybe I just need to pay more attention to my Commlink, but it is really unclear what to in a mission to me. Like, for the diplomat one, I just saw on the Commlink that Diplomat 1 was launching from Galcom or whatever, so I decided to follow him just for kicks. I followed him to Majoris, and then all the stuff I said happened. Also, there were like 8 or so diplomats and they were all going to different places, and I have no idea where they were and where they were going, and a couple of em got destroyed and I lost all the exp I got, and it was just really frustrating. In other words, is there some way to get detailed info on what the heck is going on? Basically all Commlink tells you (at least what I caught) is like when they are leaving/arriving at starstations etc. This is probably all I needed to say in this message but.. how the hell do you use Miscon. I go into it and it has this message like welcome to Galcom blah blah. I tried just randomly clicking around and it closed the message and it had three messages. One was like 'THE FUTURE IS NOW, REDUX' or something, another was 'REDEMPTION' and I can't remember what the other one was. When i clicked on one of those (which weren't highlighted. The one I can't remember was highlighted) it just broguht the welcome to Galcom blah blah message up. Maybe I'm just stupid, maybe my game is bugged, but Miscon is extremely confusing for me. Please help me with it. (Wow that message turned out a hell of alot longer than I planned for...) [ 11-26-2001: Message edited by: Sadistic ]

Thank you Cmdr Nova, that fixed the problem. I guess I'll just escort those damn diplomats AGAIN. But this time I won't run out of radine a little bit after getting to Majoris because I actually know how to use Logistix now .

Aww man, you mean I have to start over AGAIN? Please tell me we won't have to start over for every new patch... I doubt we will, but crap, I was doing really good, I finally got a good feel for the game, and got some mining drones going and stuff. Alright, well, I'll try completely deleting it and reinstalling it and installing the new patch.

Firstly, why can't I post a new topic? Secondly, I got a bad problem: It was working absolutely fine yesterday, I didn't change anything on my computer whatsoever. Now when I try and resume my game it freezes at the GAME LOADED OK screen. I can hear my ship sounds (I think that's what they are) or some kinds of sounds that sound like the ship. Here's my specs: win98 SE P3 733 Mhz nVIDIA Geforce2 MX w/ latest drivers SB Live! sound card 256mb RAM DX8.1 Also, I did ScanDisk and defragmented, with no results. I had a similar problem yesterday, and doing that fixed it. I just have the 1.0 version, the 1.0.01 patch doesn't work at all, gives me some weird error like .NAV something something at the GAME LOADED OK screen, can't remember. I couldn't find a better place to post this, since I can't make a new thread for some reason Please help... [ 11-25-2001: Message edited by: Sadistic ]

Where do you buy em. Maybe I just need to look harder, but I can't find em at Space Stations.