Supreme Cmdr

quote: They took a somewhat complex simulation and turned into an arcade game. While thats not necessarily a bad thing, who didn't see that one coming?

There is no DOS Glide wrapper in existence. As such, you'll never get a Glide wrapper to work with the BC3K software renderer used by non-Glide cards.

There's nothing confusing about anything I wrote. You just have to actually, *gasp*, read and understand what I wrote. Anyway, I'm too tired to explain. I'll leave that up to those who actualy get it

heh, you didn't know about that one?!?

Told you so. The marketing box you see, is just the over-sized version of the actual box, which goes into production this week, once the manual itself is finished. Everything is done at a single location (box, manual, duplication etc), so, all materials have to be sent out at the same time. The box art, layout etc, were done several months ago and nothing on it wil change. Which is why you see those oversized marketing boxes in all EB stores. Anyway, there is a $10 rebate if you purchase or pre-order the game. As I've said before, there is definitely going to be a production shortage in the first week or so, due to the number of units I'm going to be manufacturing as a first run. So, if you don't already have a pre-order in by now, or at least within the next week or so, there is a very good chance that you won't be able to get the game until the second production run - which will take place about 2-3 weeks after the first run. I can't manufacture extra units, until I get paid on the first lot. With publisher backing, anyone can manufacture 100K units sitting in a warehouse. I can't afford that. [ 08-13-2001: Message edited by: Supreme Cmdr ]

I like IW almost as much as I liked Freespace. IW2, for all the hype, is just plain disappointing. It would make a good console game though. In fact, it feels like one. So, i won't be surprised if it shows up on the PSX2 or GC. Definitely not the XBox, since MS doesn't allow (at least thats the current song and dance) direct PC->XBox game ports.

Just to quickly put you guys out of your misery.... Aramike is correct on all points. I don't have time to elaborate. Look at the time! As far as corps go, they won't be like fleets - at all. And they won't have access to any armed crafts. For one thing, when you log on to a BCM server, you have to choose your race, caste and then fleet/corp/none etc. Which then determine which crafts you have access to. Mercs are not a government and while they are basically, similar to bounty hunters, nothing is stopping a group of players from co-operating on their own. The game, nor the system or the BC universe, will recognize them as anything other than indie mercs. quote: Correct me if I'm wrong but I beleive Derek mentioned that cargo (for sure) and creds (possibly) could be put into a cargo pod and dropped off as payment. That is correct. Even BCM multiplayer will have player-to-player cargo/galcred exchange but no npc transactions (thats for GCO). Once two ships open up communications, a transaction window will open up and thats how cargo/money are handled. The transporter is used for sending cargo across. And you can also use a cargo pod...assuming the idiot at the other end of the phone, trusts you enough.

Again, you are refering to the promo materails. And they're not selling it. Probably taking pre-orders. Thats normal. If they ARE selling it, I'd like to know about it. [ 08-12-2001: Message edited by: Supreme Cmdr ]

If you can't get your SB16 DOS emulation to work right, or work at all under WIN98/ME, you may want to try this boot disk I came across earlier today, while researching a problem with SBLive! and WIN2K.

quote: If I pre order it at a EB Games World I'll still get it when its released or does EB's site take priority and i might have to wait? No site takes priority. You can only order from EB if you are in North America. And you can only order from BMT Micro if you are outside North America. quote: I saw a CD box at EB which had "Battlecruiser Millennium" written on it and they had that on sale. Now if I buy that CD box does it guarantee me that I will get the game when it ships and in the original box, or will I have to wait for the second batch? Rubbish. The BCM box hasn't even gone into production yet.

They shouldn't have charged your card, to begin with. Probably an e-commerce glitch.

If you viewed the map from the side, after clicking on the waypoint to pick it up, you can raise it alt by moving the mouse up.

Pugwash, all those scripts, including the full GBS, are included in the free download. If they actually read the text file, they'd see the listing.

SpotSD, didn't I warn you in another thread, about that ludicrous sig? Do you want me to kill your profile?

quote: Hey SC I don't know if you know this (little redundant isn't it) but I can draw the best damn "stick" figures you ever seen. The secret is making a perfectly round head and the spacing the eyes apart to add a more "realistic" touch to them. I can also draw varrying heights to my creation but they all have the same width (about the size of a #2 pencil). So what do you think should I send in my resume? LOL!!. If you can animate the stick figure, sure, why not?

Read this thread on how to fix it.

*best Q3A voice* Impressive! Anyway, Luc, you and your friend may want to send Lisa over at [email protected], a resume - which also includes your skiils, tools used etc. We're currently hiring level designers for the creation of interiors for all capital ships, starbases and stations, for GCO and quite possibly a stand-alone add-on for BCM. Who knows, you might just get hired.

Gentlemen, thanks for taking this thread off-topic. OK, everyone clear out of this thread, unless you are posting on topic.

There are two separate engines running, so the external camera transition is used to seamlessly bridge the two, when you go from one to the other. It is pointless and a waste of memory to have both running in the same memory space. Lets forget about the fact that it would require at least 512MB RAM footprint to even do that. Most game machines barely have 128MB, most of which is used by the OS itself. Comparing the engines in BCM to those in Elite, is, well, laughable.

Thinking what to type.....

EXACTLY!! Thanks Soback

Read the Tacops section in the manual. You first have to mark the personnel for evac.

If you're going to create new threads, learn how to frigging spell. Normally, I just deleted threads with ludicrous spellings. But, I've corrected this one. Next time it happens, here's what I'll do Delete the thread Revoke the person's posting rights. If you can't frigging spell, at least in the thread subject, you have no business posting.And I don't want to hear any nonsense about English not being a first language either. Buy a dictionary with English translations. Or, don't post.

quote: This is acceptable right SC? No. There is a reason why everyone with a BC website, uses the same format. Use it or you won't be allowed to carry any BC material on your site. Period.

Its the HSD. And only appears if (a) you are playing in debug mode ( you have actually found the HSD artifact If you won't want it, stop running the game in debug mode.