Sadistic

Heh, that's good, the SC is here right now to clarify for me (see the posting times) [ 11-25-2001: Message edited by: Sadistic ]

Alright, all my questions but one were answered, thank you. The one that was answered is about orbitting. On pg 52 of the manual, second and third paragraphs (not including the cut-off sentence at the very top) it tells you how to orbit. But if you follow those instructions exactly you will planetfall at 150km, not 100km like it says there. (well, more like 149.3km, but whatever) And if you hyperspace to a planet you cannot stop yourself from planetfalling. I actually haven't tried this, but maybe you could then go straight up and out of the planet again and THEN do the things it says (shut off engines etc.) I'll try that, but I need some clarification, can you orbit or not.

There's not a way to get more shuttles and/or fighter ships is there? Also, if one of your ships is stolen/destroyed how can you get a replacement one, or can you?

Alright, I figured it out, I got em to drop off the drones.. but now I got another problem, I dunno where. What I think I can do is just leave the wps, and then later when I wanna pick em up I can tell all my shuttles to resume wps and change all of them to pick up drone instead. Hopefully that'll work. By the way, during the course of doing this, I think that SC should definitely add these things in a patch: 1) The ability to set 1 wp for several units. IE set a wp on a planet for deploy drone for ALL shuttles. Hehehe, ya right Dont hld your breath 2) The ability to see on the planet exactly where certain minerals are located so if you are looking for a certain mineral you can find that on the map and set your wp(s) there. Now, I know this would take a whole shitload of work, and for that reason I in no way expect you to SC, but it would definitely be reaaalllyyy helpful. There is for this. Just collect minerals, unload the drones, sell the minerals at stations, then buy th eminerals you really want. Well, thanks everyone, I think I've got it now. I don't quite have it down to a science just yet, but I can at least do it somewhat now. Also, just now I thought of something that could help alot. Probably most of you already thought of this, but what you could do is first, before you do anything, hyperjump your cc to a jumpgate in the area or (more useful if the planet has a moon) to the moon of the planet and THEN tell your shuttles to go to the planet. Afterwards find your SC's on the planet and set their wps there. [ 11-25-2001: Message edited by: Sadistic ] TTFN [ 11-25-2001: Message edited by: Gallion ]

Okay, I'm pretty pissed off about this. I did what you said and put wps near a city on a planet and it was working fine, but the problem is, it was gonna take em 50 thousand years to get there, and I couldn't even tell how far away they were exactly. So, I decided to just delete the wps and put wps right under em so they would just stop right there and deploy the drone. Well, I did that, but they just returned to the ship after I had sat there for like 2 hrs getting em on the damn planet. I think what I did is didn't put deploy drone for the wp action, so it's my fault, but that reaallyy pisses me off hehe. Anyways, I think I'll be able to do it right next time I try, but is there a way to make em fly faster on the planet, because how can they ever get to wps at cities and stuff if they fly so slow. Also, they sometimes don't hyperspace into the planet and try to just fly in, which needless to say takes way too much time even when i deploy them from like 1200 whatevers away from the planet. I also tried setting wps far out from the planet before the wps on the planet whihc just caused more problems. I guess tacops takes some time to master. BCM is a game the requires thought and intelligence on the part of the player. Try sending those SC to a NAV point, them give them orders to Resume Waypoints TTFN [ 11-25-2001: Message edited by: Sadistic ] [ 11-25-2001: Message edited by: Gallion ]

quote:Originally posted by Gallion: Reread page 44, pay attention to the UP and DOWN Entries. [ 11-24-2001: Message edited by: Gallion ] Well, after playing a little I noticed that after 'Urgent message recieved' it usually has things following after. Is that the urgent message? But see, sometimes there aren't things after it, that's why I'm confused.

quote:Originally posted by Gallion: Sell what you cannot use on your CC - no brainer Well, see that's my point. If there's absolutely no use for Cigarettes and whatnot then why did Mr. Smart even put em in the game? Show some respect when referring to the SC. TTFN [ 11-25-2001: Message edited by: Sadistic ] [ 11-25-2001: Message edited by: Gallion ]

I've read the manual, I'm just clearing up some foggy points in my mind. It says in the book that you can orbit by like flying really close and turning off your engines but it never seems to work.

Okay thanks. I got 2 more questions now. [*]How do you orbit? [*]Can you exit without saving, and if so, how? 1. You can't Orbit. 2. Read page 20 of the manual; Craft Status Control > Systems or press ALT+Q then Y [ 11-24-2001: Message edited by: Gallion ]

2 clueless newbie questions: [*]1) How do you read messages that you recieve. [*]2) What is the usefulness of things like Cigarettes in the misc. items of Tradcom. [*]1) Refer to page 44 of the manual; COMMLINK. [*]2) Refer to page 63 of the manual; Trading [ 11-24-2001: Message edited by: Gallion ]

Okay, thanks.

This is a pretty newbieish question (I am a newbie after all) but how do I get into a fleet and how should I go about choosing which fleet to be in?

Ehm.. yeah..

Does it regen though SC? Just curious.

Hmm, well I filled in the top two. Then submitted. Then filled in the next two. Then submitted. Then it said thank you for registering. Some fields down below I didn't mess with are incorrect. Here, lemme just e-mail my info SC.

SC, I cannot register because my computer won't allow me to fill in any forms that have more than like 2 fields. I'll still try doing it 2 fields at a time, but I doubt it'll work. By the way, does anyone know why my stupid computer does this? I could e-mail you my registration info if you want though.