Supreme Cmdr

quote: Originally posted by Badgerius: Well, here's my response.I will not be buying the game right away. Simply can't afford it along with a new vid-card. I hope to have the vid-card by Nov, and then it's Christmas, which means I'm broke. It'll be after Christmas most likely. I may decide to buy the game first, and the vid-card later, based on this decision, but who knows. At any rate, I agree with the SC, there is other way to keep outsiders out. I'm going to miss the posturing in the Fleet forums, but I'll be back, eventually. I already said that those who have been here longer and who are known in the community, will be allowed to re-register regardless of owning the game or not. Did you not see that?

wow! cool!! ....now whatever stunt you pulled, be sure to try it in BCM

quote: Originally posted by rhett: Do US orders come in a box? No, why would I want to use a box when I can just use tin cans? btw, Paddy, I've instructed BMT to create a separate option for the boxed version, just to avoid confusion. Since nobody has been billed, if you have already ordered and you want the boxed version, just send them email with your details and they will bill you at ship time. If you have already pre-ordered, Do NOT re-order or you will be billed for TWO full orders.

All fleet leaders need to send out an advisory to all members. If you don't hear from someone within, say, a week, delete them from the Roster. And the issue of transfering members from fleet to fleet, should be a co-operative effort between both FCs. If there is a conflict, I'll step in and bang some heads.

I think the best thing to do is just wipe out everyone's records and have everyone re-register again. Then, once someone re-registers, if you have also not registered your copy of BCM, you won't get approved to enter the forum. I'll try this first, before completely changing the forum software. The reason I brought this up to begin with, is that there ARE still outsiders in this forum (yes, I see the Usenet postings) who have somehow gotten in back when I had CAT also handling registeration approvals and prior to when approval was not required. Since I dunno who they are, I can't delete their records. Which is one of the reasons I wanted to switch the software. But now that I think about it, and in conjunction with some of the feedback here, I think thats probably too drastic. The end result is, IF you are NOT invited here or DON'T have the game, you're not allowed in here. PERIOD. UBB does not support the use of just setting a forum to read only. So, I can't set, say the demo discussion forum to give access to all, while leaving the others restricted. The only way to do prevent forum access is to either require registration or password protect the forum. And we know that using a password where the public is concerned, is ludicrous because some will just pass it around, regardless.

quote: Originally posted by Fendi: Oh yeah......who's the cute chick in the picture? Dunno. She's a model Take2 used for the BC3K ad campaign.

OK, FEDEX just dropped off my 7500 and 8500 units. Will install later this week and let you guys know what I find.

quote: Originally posted by Rico Jansen: Urza: There's a tga picture in it. You'll have to find a viewer for it. As it's not a very commonly used format. [ 09-30-2001: Message edited by: Rico Jansen ] You must be kidding. TGA is the most widely used graphics format. You must mean that its not widely used in browsers, unlike GIF and JPG. Anyway, I have converted the files to JPEG and uploaded it as a 800K zip file. Of course, due to compression schemes, the JPEG files will be blurry - which is why I used TGA files to begin with.

I'm not going to disband ISS Just have some Prime (the largeest fleet) transfer some member to ISS. By my directive, it is so ordered. How many are transfered, is up to the FCs.

whew!! where do I start? quote: So with 2 wings (Alpha, Beta) assigned to GalcomHQ, 1 wing (Gamma) to Genesis, and 2 (Delta, Epsilon) to Starpath, Epsilon seemed the best choice to move to Velari. (Epsilon, BTW, is among the more active of our wings, with 2 commanders OK. Epsilon is off to Velari then. That settles that. quote: Uhmmm, aahh SC IÔÇÖm a little confused here, does your statement only mean established military fleets or all fleets, UCV and the organisation Riga and myself are pushing for and SpuzzumÔÇÖs Terran Core Police? UCVs and organizations are included. While they are not fleets, they fit the profile of being on those dedicated servers. quote: 1) Will there be scripts for UCVÔÇÖs? 2) If there are will our Corporation be included when it is approved? 3) Are the scripts strictly reserved for authorship by yourself and others you appoint or can anyone of us script our own epics/missions into the server? See above. There are no race/caste dedicated scenarios. If you log on to a server running a scenario, you can play if you have access. UCVs are not important enough in the general scheme of things to warrant the attention of doing scenarios revolving around them. Unless of course a UCV entity is a target. So, if the scenario that is running, is focused on Ter/Mil vs Ter/Ins engagement and a UCV enters, then its up to you to do what you want. Of course, the server is not going to allow UCVs to login when the allowed fleet positions are not filled. e.g. a 32 player server with 30 human fleet players online, won't allow any UCV login. The fact is, as UCV, you won't be able to login to dedicated fleet servers because I'm not going to allow it. I may allow maybe 4 non-fleet slots, but no more. I will have a free-for-all server running a roam scenario. On those servers, anyone can login - fleet or not. Nobody will be allowed to upload scripts to my servers. Are you kidding me? And IF I allow Internet servers (which is highly unlikely at this point), then anyone running their server can do what the heck they like on it. The same way they can on their internal LAN. quote: This is why I think all the AWOL or MIA members of Prime Fleet should be removed from the DB. If there not active in the forum they shouldn't be in a fleet. I agree. FCs, go do it. quote: Did not want to cause any stress... No worries. Blame Epsilon 5. Had he not incorrectly posted that Velari was captured, I wouldn't have remembered.

Yeah, if you tell me what medal you got, I'll check the code. Yep. He's right. I just checked the code. I added that sometime between 2.07 and 2.09. You get medals if you capture a station, in addition to EPs. That code is also in BCM, btw. So, this must be in the VCF for BC3K I suspect. [ 10-01-2001: Message edited by: Supreme Cmdr ]

Paddy, if you checked the BMT link, you will see that you can get a boxed unit. Its $5 more. If you have already placed your order, just sent them email at [email protected] and tell them. They'll just bill you the additional charge. The units aren't shipping yet, so its not late. I had them sent shrink wrapped and some boxed units. [ 10-01-2001: Message edited by: Supreme Cmdr ]

Paddy, thats what the general discussion forum is for.

I just downloaded and unRar'ed it just fine with WinRar 2.90 Beta 2

Blades, you, especially, were the VERY LAST person on my mind, when I wrote that. For crying out loud, I wasn't accusing ANYONE of ANYTHING. I was just saying that I would fire any and all useless fleet leaders. Thanks for making me regret posting that guys. Bastards, but am not retracting it because what I post was self-explanatory. Obviously I won't be firing any, since the general consensus is that there aren't any. But hey, the warning did wake you guys up, didn't it? Cripes, do you guys think that Justin works for free? Do you realize that I actually PAY for all this stuff? database, web site, bandwidth, etc etc etc? Would I be making those expenses if you ladies weren't pulling your weight? C'mon, SURELY you know me better than that? ....ok, I swear I'm going to have a nap now. [ 09-30-2001: Message edited by: Supreme Cmdr ]

Dark Summit??? wtf?!! How come I haven't heard of it? Or are you trying to trick me? I have my Xbox and about 5 games on ice at EB Games.

wow!, I guess I won't be getting it then As for uninstalling it, just kill the folder and hunt down the registry keys as you said. Then use one one of the programs which sniff out dead reg keys and kills 'em. You can find those over at www.tweakfiles.com

quote: Originally posted by Jukka T. Paajanen: But don't you think that it's a good idea for developer to maintain a public discussion place for a released demo, even if the demo is unsupported? On a public forum gamers can help each other with known but perhaps still undocumented issues as well as provide feedback. It might be just me though, anything that reduces the amount of redundant incoming email is OK in my book I suppose so. So, that is probably be one of the old UBB forums (which would still need registration) which I will leave open.

I have uploaded the finals, so I thought some of you might want to stare at them while you wait. BCM box front BCM box back BCM box bottom And the article from the April 2000 CGW which I've been meaning to scan for sometime now. [ 09-30-2001: Message edited by: Supreme Cmdr ] [ 10-01-2001: Message edited by: Supreme Cmdr ]

Yeah, I saw that on the Orion forums Nova btw, it wasn't E5's comment that set me off. It was the fact that I passed along that information, thinking that it would have been shared by now, but it wasn't. If it had, E5 (who is usually in the know), wouldn't have posted what he did (the different between capturing a station and buying it, ARE different). So, I simply sequed into the issue about the fleets etc. It has NOTHING to do with E5's post. In fact, I started a brand NEW paragraph to talk about my fleet concerns. I simply addressed E5's misinformation in the one above. Yes, it might seem trivial, but when people go off kilter, EVERYTHING, regardless of how trivial it may seem, is IMPORTANT. ...and of course, along the same lines of you thinking that I went on a rampage (hey wait!! shouldn't you be court-martialed for that? ), thats the same mindset that E5 and others used in thinking that I was refering to all fleet leaders as being useless - when in fact, I wasn't. ps: The idea of scripting mp scenarios is not a new one. I've had the tech built-in since March 2000 (yes, I just checked my design docs and code CVS) because I didn't want mp to be much different from sp. [ 09-30-2001: Message edited by: Supreme Cmdr ]

LOL!! Man, this is just as bad as that Gone Gold thread. So far, my top pick is STILL, Multi Environment Combat Simulator, MECS I smell an autographed boxed copy and wall poster map in Luc's future....unless of course someone tops that one. I'll pick a winner on 10/15 oh, and Joel gets a free autographed copy for keeping track of these nonsensical listings. [ 09-30-2001: Message edited by: Supreme Cmdr ]

quote: Originally posted by Epsilon 5: If prime stick his nose out of Sol that's a good thing. they are too many people in there, and prime should think about defending a larger area. Exactly quote: Just to let people know, Orion is taking the Alpha Centauri and Tau Ceti system as our defense grid (I am myself parked in permanent patrol in Eori) I think there will be plenty of time for that when mp Beta goes live. I'm going to open it to official testers and some fleet members before taking it final to the public. The fact is that on fleet servers, there is no such thing as free-for-all. Members in a fleet will be expected to follow orders from fleet leaders (if online) and be able to continue on their orders if the FL is not online. Heck, people visit this forum a lot, and since the fleet exclusive servers will be persistent and have an ingame and external chat lobby, I don't see why the same frequency can't be adapted. The games I am goin to script are not going to be primarily free-for-all deathmatches (though they will be available). The idea is to create involving story based scripts which people play their role in. And since the server is persistent, you die, you're outta there until the script terminates etc All fleet related scripts will encompass space and planetary scenarios with varying goals, rewards and resolution phases. e.g. From simple... Ter/Mil are tasked with taking out a Ter/Ins probe. Well, first you've gotta find it. And no doubt the Ter/Ins guys are protecting it. To complex... Ter/Ins decided they're going to try an capture GHQ. How they plan on getting to Sol, and go past Prime, is anyone's guess. To the insane... Ter/Mil decides to take out New America. heh As I've said over and over and over - anyone who expects mp to be some run-of-the-mill garbage, is in for a shock. The game itself is not even close to being run-of-the-mill and I have no intentions of throwing together mp so that I can say it has it. If I wanted to do that, I would've done it. [ 09-30-2001: Message edited by: Supreme Cmdr ]

Did you try playing it directly, using the player.exe program? Did you download and properly apply the fix for it?

Here is the excerpt from my email correspondence with Gudihl of 9-27-01 in which he was inquiring about Velari being changed and Epsilon Wing requesting to move in. Well, Polaris is declared mixed, neutral, and in BC3K, Velari used to be mul/tra. Now, in BC:M, you have set it to ter/mil. That is correct Now they think, because of this, Velari is GALCOM, and want to move in. I denied that request until further notice. I figured sooner or later someone would want to move in What happened to Velari? Why is it ter/mil now? Just a typo, or some outpost of GALCOM? Or something completely different? I am confused. If you recall from your BC3K history, that region is heavily contested and the Vesperons and Empirians are still fighting over it. Jump 10 yrs into the future, and the war caused the trading factions to go bankrupt - the VES/EMP war didn't help either. So, trading there suffered. As a result, the traders who owned it, sold it to the Terrans - who then turned it into a military outpost. The intent? Neither the Vesperons nor the Empirians can own it - as such, neither one has their goals for that region, satisfied. By making it a military outpost, the Terrans (who are still stuck in the middle of the Vesperon/Empirian conflict) can better maintain the peace in that region and ensure that those VES bastards don't finally find a way to link Polaris-2 to Frellis - thereby destabilizing the region and giving the Insurgents who have setup shop in Midae, a backdoor into Sol - ESPECIALLY - since they already have a launch point in Sygan (a pain in ass for GALCOM). Thats the new history, which I have yet to flesh out - but will do so sometime soon before multiplayer is out. Pass it on. Btw., I have attached the request, and my answer. If you want Epsilon Wing to move in there, thats fine (RPG or not). They can go ahead. Besides, thats how it will be in the multiplayer patch anyway. Might as well have a wing/fleet move in. HOWEVER, if they are going to roleplay this particular instance, they have to stick with the history as indicated above. They can work the E Wing move into that station, post-Terran takeover. No problem there. My only concern is that, I don't particularly want a wing assigned to a station, when in fact, usually, fleets (which consist of wings) are the designated assignees to stations. See my point? btw, fleets don't have to wait for GCO to RPG their stories in the game. I already said that I would be setting up fleet specific servers which the public won't have access to. I plan on doing just that. In fact, only *active* members of registered fleets will have access to the Beta servers (in addition to the official Beta testers of course) until the mp patch is final and released to the public. [ 09-30-2001: Message edited by: Supreme Cmdr ]

Continuing from this thread in which Epsilon 5 said quote: Galcom captured the trader station in polaris-2, just the other of side of Sirius. And I said... uhm, who told you that? They bought it.Frankly, I don't have a frigging clue why Gudihl even wasted my time explaining it to him (re: Valari), yet, I don't see any word of it posted in any of the fleet forums. And people wonder why I just ignore such emails. But just wait, the first thing I'm going to do when the Beta multiplayer servers go online, is fire EACH and EVERY one of the useless fleet leaders - NO EXCEPTIONS - and hire green newbies in their place. You heard it here first. I just wasn't going to say anything - I was just going to do it. And followed up with: You're right. Its a stupid question. If you consider yourself to be a useless fleet leader, then you're one of the ones I'm speaking of.You guys just get it, do you? I read EACH and EVERY forum here. I see recruits, wing leaders etc all posting trying to find where their leaders are etc. I see newbies getting even more organized in some quarters. Its as if some of the vets have some just become complacent. I have said this once, and I'll say it again - when I take the Beta mp fleet only servers live, they will all be password protected. And NOBODY, and I do mean NOBODY is logging on there if you are not in a fleet. In fact, there is a VERY good chance (as I've said before) that I'm not even going to allow users to setup servers, for the same reason I maintain security on this forum. If I do go that route, there will be free servers and fleet servers. I promised multiplayer, and that means I can enable LAN play but not allow anyone to play on my Internet servers - WHICH I GOING TO BE PAYING THE BANDWIDTH FOR -. So, don't say you weren't warned. I've said this going back almost a year (do a search for 'multiplayer' and you'll see) and the game has Gone Gold and work on multiplayer resumes in full swing in about two weeks, once I get all the servers up and running.