Supreme Cmdr

quote: Originally posted by Dredd: When you shut off launch control, why don't intruders just shove your cargo our airlocks then? 1. When I said that personnel use airlocks, did i say ANYTHING about cargo? 2. Have you EVER known a feature in the game that allows intruders to take anything and walk off the ship? Apart from stealing a shuttle, which has cargo capabilities?

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Yeah, right I bet I can rig up a bypass relay linked to an electro-pulse emitter array and then grab the intercepted signals within the Red fields of a spectrum analyzer. Then read those back in to a pair of cheap Radio Shack diode plugs - and then clip each diode plug to each of my nipples, flip a switch and be able to bypass this system! Of course, since this would no doubt be region based, for US encoded CDs or DVDs, you'd clip the plugs to your nipples. For Japan, you'd clip them to each of your testicles. If you happen to be in Russia, then I would suggest clipping the left node to your right nipple and the right node to your left butt cheek. Word of warning, you don't want to be standing to close to a network WiFi access point or you'd just end up getting interference and rendering the CD useless.

Correct. And thats because launch control is only for crafts. Personnel use airlocks.

quote: Originally posted by Spaceghost: To deploy drones use Tacops computer observe the planet zoom in find a suitable area set waypoints for your shuttle with the instruction to deploy drone don`t set anymore waypoints and the shuttle will automatically return to your CC hope this helps. ....or *gasp*, just read the manual or the tutorial html file.

quote: Originally posted by Enigma: actually it heals but it takes a min or two to show up. just goto logistics(or any other screen) look at something there and go back to medibay. the LF should have raised That is correct. And thats because it has to wait for an update tick for it to be refreshed.

quote: Originally posted by Dredd: Well if they were in the bridge when they got kicked out, then the path OUT of the bridge would have had to be inaccessable, right? Something isn't realistic here.... 1. There is no such thing as being kicked out of the bridge or anywhere for that matter. Thats just plain rubbish. Which is why I ignored it - like most of the rubbish I ignore, rather than deleting the post in question. If an NPC was on the bridge and ALL links out of there were destroyed, then they can't get out of there. Period. You think I'm going to take some n00b's word for it that, somehow, automagically, personnel happened to hop out of the bridge - with absolutely no proof whatsoever? OK, which side of your brain is fried? The left side or the right side? Take a look at Enigma's post above for examples of bugs of what I'm talking about. Probably thinks that the going into reverse at warp speed, is a bug. THATS why I can't be bothered to respond to everything that gets posted anymore. Its silly posts like yours, that cause me to bother. You obviously just posted without actually reading what he wrote. Here, I'll save you the trouble. quote: This is odd. My bridge got destroyed along with my bridge viewer anyways I opened perscan to check locations and most of my officers *including me* were now located in the deck 1 corridor anyways I exited the craft and re-enterd it opened perscan and I was located ON the bridge which was STILL destroyed. (read the vcf didt see this in known bugs thought I'd bring it up) Now, tell me this, between the time he noticed what had happened and checked Perscan, who do you know that the crew were actually ONthe bridge prior to extry to Perscan? You don't. They may not have even been on the bridge. And as for the AE having access to the bridge, he does. And like everyone else, has route access. So, before embarking on a guessing spree, why don't you actually exit your craft and get back in? 2. There are several paths across the ship and they are interconnected (look up the word here) in that there may be more than one route. If an NPC doesn't have the AI or the ability to plot a route, he ain't going anywhere. As for Something isn't realistic here. Here's a tip (probably an elusive one) : you're playing a f*cking game, not some military sim! [ 08-24-2002, 07:18 PM: Message edited by: Supreme Cmdr ]

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I have a Xerox M940 (all-in-one) printer/scanner/coffee maker etc etc and after I installed SP3, it would only print garbage. Sometimes it won't print at all. Period. And other times it would just barf up several blank pages. I have been talking with Xerox since the day I installed SP3 (on 08-04) and they're as clueless as anything. No surprise that their SOHO unit has been shutdown and these printers no longer supported etc. They told me that I should uninstall SP3 and go back to SP2 because Xerox will *not* be releasing new drivers for this printer. I bought this printer back in February. Sorry, but I didn't know any better. In the end, I had a brainstorm. Seeing that the print driver interface for winXP isn't that much different (if at all) from win2K, I decided to take a chance and use these drivers. What follows is an adventure in itself, told only by someone with obviously too much time on his hands : [*]I downloaded the winXP drivers for this printer from xerox.com [*]uninstalled the Xerox win2K drivers from control panel. This also uninstalled Pagis and Textbridge. Gee, look!! co-ordination. [*]shutdown, turned the power off (...its the only way to be sure) [*]unplugged the printer's power and unplugged the USB cable from the computer [*]booted up [*]saved registry (as I was about to do obscene things to it) [*]went on a search and destroy mission in my registry for anything with 'xerox', 'pagis', 'textbridge' or 'm940' and deleted all occurences. I used no less than three tools to get the job done, including manual edits. [*]rebooted [*]saved the registry (now devoid of this abomination) [*]installed the winXP drivers for the M940. I was also prompted for the original printer CD-ROM btw. If you've lost yours, you're as screwed as the Taliban. This is where it got tricky. Normally when you install the win2K drivers, after the reboot, you would be prompted to plug in the printer, it will get tested etc etc. This didn't happen. No siree bob, nothing should be that easy. After the reboot from printer install, the only evidence of a printer install that I could see, was the Pagis inbox on the desktop. The control centre wasn't in the tray. So, I simply reached out and plugged in the USB cable. Win2K coughed up something about detecting the printer and auto-magically extracted the drivers - from God only knows where - and copied them over. I was too scared to watch, so I didn't notice where the drivers came from. I suspect that all it did was resume whatever it was the now croaked Xerox printer install was supposed to have been doing after prompting me to plug in the printer (which, of course, it didn't do). Xerox install then pops-up, as if from a slumber, and decided to join the fray by volunteering to run the tests it normally would. Never miind that, at this time, the printer control centre icon in the tray, had a nice slash in it, indicating that it was offline and not communicating with the computer (though it was very much alive and prepped to cough up hairballs on cue). By this time, I was near catatonic because the anticipation had literally frozen the left side of my brain, leaving the right side with only thoughts of what movie I was going to go see tonite. Go figure. All the tests came back with a PASS. At this point, I almost collapsed. Thank God for the fresh cup of coffee I had somehow managed to hang on to through this whole ordeal, without so much as even taking a sip. After staring at the screen in disbelief, not realizing that I had somehow succeeded in taking a sip without burning something, most of all, my ass - I came to the conclusion that the xerox guys were brilliant! Somehow, they managed to communicate telepathically to a printer that, for all intent and purpose, didn't exist as far as Bill Gates and his printer driver cronies were concerned. Oh well. Thank the Lord for small miracles. I finally decided to hit the OK button to reboot - all the while fearfull that the next time I saw my nice win2K desktop, it would be shrouded in a haze of brightly colored blue pixels, nicely woven together to form the infamous BSOD - whose monotony is broken only by the equally lifeless and nerve shattering White text display indicating, of all things, that your ass, as you knew it, was grass. This, in itself, sending a terse message to your seemingly malfunctioning brain : "Got Backup?" or better yet "Got Milk"? (cuz you'd need to suck on a cow's tits to recover from this farce without a backup or ERD). Since cow tits are in short supply where I live, I have a foolproof backup strategy at all times. Worse case scenario, I could restore from yesterday's OS backup. I decided to leave the room. At first, I wanted to go pee. Then I decided that I'd probably only end up peeing all over the seat, considering the state my nerves were in. So, I decide to make a beeline for the coffee machine - nevermind the fact that my cup was still practically full. Any excuse to walk away from the machine was good enough for me. Though I did consider reading my copy of Maximum PC which had just come in. But to do that at my desk, would mean sneaking a peek at the screen and probably shattering my nerves even more. So coffee it was When I came back, the machine was all booted up, control center icon was fine and and and and the printer wasn't coughing up smoke or anything. I decided to go pee after all When I came back, I made a beeline for Win2K control panel, checked the printer properties to make sure this wasn't some horrible joke. Sure enough, it was all there. I check the print processor mode to make sure it was set correctly. It wasn't. It was set to print in RAW format. So I changed it to PMJOURNAL, didn't touch *anything* else and did a test page print. Watching the printer shudder from side to side (if you own one of these, you know what I'm talking about) and making really loud and odd noises (the staple of the Xerox printers), the thought crossed my mind that any minute now, it would choke up an ink jet cartridge or something. So much for hairballs. But, by this time, I had an almost empty coffee cup, just in case an airborne ink jet cart needed a software landing. The test page came out just fine. For good measure, I printed a document from Word. That came ok too. At this point, I had my confidence back and decided to go all out. And tried scanning something, running OCR etc etc. I mean, the works. However, I did resist the urge to scan my butt and fax it Xerox.. By the time I was done, I'd lost the good part of an hour, had a pounding headache and I was just about ready to call up Xerox and cuss the freckles off the first person to pick up the phone. Instead I called them up, gave the guy (Mike) my problem number. At which point, the bastard asked me to go fetch my printer's serial number because as far as he knew, all these printers were out of warranty. This is the part where I was about to either (a) be shafted for money on a support call or ( given a verbal enema about the merits of buying products from a dying or well, dead, company. Nevermind the fact that since the beginning of August when I first reported this problem to Xerox and the lady (Wendy) had been helping me, that there was an entire history (which he was reading from), right there on the screen.. No, he wanted to start from scratch. Such incompetence should be rewarded with a Pink slip, don't you think. Anyway, after I had curtly told him that, not only did I have *no* intentions of going back to that printer (for fear that I'd just upset the poor printer by creating a disturbance in the farce) and that I wanted him to STOP tallking and just LISTEN - I told him that I had found a fix for the win2K SP3 problem with the M940/.950 printers. He listened and informed me that he would pass this info along so that the 'solutions' people could post something online. Midway into his speech, which I had no intentions of listening to. I promptly hung up, went back to my printer and gave it a nice cleaning. That is all. Enjoy your weekend folks! [ 08-23-2002, 09:25 PM: Message edited by: Supreme Cmdr ]

quote: Originally posted by Tyrn: [QB]Well, since the surprise was spoiled by you being destroyed anyway...it was a setup. Just for kicks, try taking a ship into Pluto's atmosphere as see what happens. [/QB ahaha, you cruel b*astard

Congrats $ilk!! You've, uhm, taken several major steps into becoming an adult.

quote: Originally posted by Roberto: I didnt mean it in a bad way. I never thought, nor said that you did. You might want to read what I wrote again. SLOWLY this time. Tyrn: Yep!

quote: Originally posted by Fox__Trot: Ah sorry SC but if my officers are kicked out of the bridge (and arent re-entering) doesnt that mean that the bridge is blown totaly? No. Didn't it occur to you that their path to the bridge could be inaccessible?

I spend my time dive bombing the carrier and destroyer. Sometimes some git moves the carrier, thinking he's hiding it. Then the most stoopid breed of gits - with no ounce of teamplay on their mind - decide to launch a boat from the carrier (which I usually spend 15 mins looking for); thereby giving away its position. So, I do what comes naturally, find the carrier and make a mental note of its grid number. Then I go give the idiots in the Higgins boat a welcome party with two iron bombs, for their stoopidity. Played on an EA server last night and it was a total blast. Don't worry folks, this game is all about research for me because it contains elements of what we're doing in mp (apart from the fact that BC has a larger scope, space, more weapons, vehicles etc etc) and I'd like to follow the KISS for mp so that everyone gets to have a great time without too much fiddling. Things like simplified vehicle handling (WSAD) etc seem to be the standard for all games of this type, so I'm going to be adopting that handling in a BCM patch and going forward. The new physics modeling in BCG, coupled with the new handling, should introduce a whole new brand of mayhem. What I'm not gonna do is dumb down aerodynamics so that it works with WASD. Thats just pure gaming blasphemy I think. Other than that, I consider this game to be well designed and excellently caters to the action crowd. The maps are probably all small (going by the size of Wake Island map) but it doesn't detract from the gaming experience at all. We have fighters will Mach 3 capabilities, so we're certainly going to keep our massive region sizes (thats what DJPs are for). The netcode seems to be ok, if you find a server running with the pre-requisite 10K per player minimum bandwidth. Its a good thing that all twitch based mp games are requiring dedicated servers; its the only way to go these days. btw, I no longer run my BF1942 server

quote: Originally posted by Roberto: To be honest, this is the first time Ive heard that a NPC can take a SC and land it on a planet. Normaly, for me, it gets destroyed! So I dont go looking for it. To be honest, I thought that if the shuttle left the region, it was destroyed automaticly. Quick question.. Were in the same region of pluto when it was stolen? There's nothing odd about it. If there is no friendly or neutral (to them) station or ship in the area, they will head for a planet. And why is it strange that you are five jumps from Pluto and your SC is stolen? What'd I miss? Surely you realize that whoever stole it, flew it there? Or maybe you don't. [ 08-21-2002, 06:27 PM: Message edited by: Supreme Cmdr ]

quote: Originally posted by Fox__Trot: This is odd. My bridge got destroyed along with my bridge viewer anyways I opened perscan to check locations and most of my officers *including me* were now located in the deck 1 corridor anyways I exited the craft and re-enterd it opened perscan and I was located ON the bridge which was STILL destroyed. (read the vcf didt see this in known bugs thought I'd bring it up) ....and this is a bug because? The bridge is only destroyed if its 100% blown. Even a small percent of non-damage allows your CC access.

Whoever stole it, ditched it on Pluto If you can find it, good luck. Just buy a new one Thats why its showing Red, since you no longer have it. And if its on Pluto, how is your crew going to get to it....from being on board the CC?

Fool

quote: Originally posted by $iLk: I just downloaded the latest DET drivers that came out last week. They are on Nvidia's site. Didn't have to screw with my refresh rate or anything... Yes, apparently with the latest drivers, there is no need for Refresh Lock.

quote: Originally posted by Paddy Gregory: Hey $ilk, how did you get around he refresh rate thing? Or didn't you have to fiddle with it? I'm using the same det drivers as you, but I'd d/led the refresh rate fix utility and now I can't get the game to work, even if my adaptor says it's set at 60Hz. Try RefreshLock with the latest 30.82 drivers and just have it override your refresh rates. That worked fine for me. The BF server has a massive memory leak which causes it to crash. Anyway, I've restarted it now Also, if you guys can find out into on how to get the dedicated server to use the serversettings.con file, let me know. This is where all the server config is stored, but you have to enter that info each time the server is started. Its a frigging pain.

quote: Originally posted by Papi: After that you'll know that it is not capable to do above mentioned, sorry. Actually he can do both in BCM*, quite easily - IF he knows how to do it. Its just a matter of modifying the parameters in the OBJDEFS.SCR file. That file is called OBJECTS.SCR in BC3K btw *in BC3K you can only modify the shields, since the individual HJ timer/transaction only first appeared in BCM. [ 08-20-2002, 12:46 PM: Message edited by: Supreme Cmdr ]

quote: Originally posted by Cruis.In: I see on the map that S10 is the flux leading "from" Obsidia...which might mean S for Stargazer...or Supernova. Whatever it is it leads to Stargazer planet. S10 is Supernova #10 and is the only one listed on the map. This signifies importance, since the other nine are not listed on the map. If you know how to read the map, you'll notice that this means you can get to S10 from Obsidia. The same way that you see that fluxfield F15 links Alteris and Obsidia.

Calm down folks, the deploy/extract in BCM is not on my top priority list. If you are reading my posts and VCF, you will see that I ported over the new method from BCG - but BCM had those restrictions relaxed (BCG doesn't). Which is why these quirks are happenining. Since its not a crash, but just something I need to investigate and fine tune for how BCM works, its not my top priority (its not like you can't deploy/extract). I'm going to be looking at it sometime today. I've already fixed the issue with losing your ammo when going in/out of vehicles in fp mode. Apparently, nobody noticed that this was broken before; fixed in 1.0.02 RC11 for TA, but not IA or a full game. heh. Any time you enter a vehicle and exit, your defaults are restored. This overwrites what the script or SNG was set to give you when the scenario starts.

LOL!!! Only one tiny problem. You still have to come up with the 45mil seeding money.

BF1942 had crashed by the time I woke up this morning. I've restarted it [ 08-19-2002, 11:28 AM: Message edited by: Supreme Cmdr ]