CommanderJohnson

The idea that our country should be at "peace" is badly flawed. First, a few notions that need to be addressed: Notion: We are killing innocent civilians in our war on terrorism. Reality: If you study a number of authors, you'll realized that it is maintained that personal freedom is more important than life. During United States slavery, all of the slaves were living in a constructed world, much like the Matrix. The fact that slaveholders let the slaves be free of work for 3 days, and instead let them get so drunk they were miserable, is an example of how the society was constructed to deprive the people of their freedoms, by making life SEEM good. That is what is going on in Afganistan and many of the terrorist harboring countries. Although I truly believe that US citizens are brainwashed to some extent by the media, it is worse in the Middle East. In many Middile Eastern countries, especially Afganistan, people are living in a constructed world. They believe the propoganda fed to them by the terrorists, Taliban, Islamic Extremists, and Osama Bin Laden. They are being completely brainwashed. Notion 2: It is impossible to win the war on Terrorism. Reality: Think logically for a minute. Yes, bombing Afganistan to hell will not end the war on terrorism, neither will bombing Iraq, or any other Middile Eastern Country. That's why we are setting up a new government in Afganistan, and probably will in any other terrorist harboring country. I doubt the United States will make the same mistake twice, in this specific instance. After the terrorist harboring countries' governments are replaced, it will become much harder for terrorist groups to operate. Yes, terrorism won't be eliminated, but it will likely be lower than pre 9/11 levels, because they will be unable to operate in the open because of governments crushing them. Notion 3: We are acting like terrorists by bombing Afganistan. Reality: It's a clash of ideals, they declared war by attacking the WTC, and Afganistan didn't hand them over. That's like saying we acted like Nazis for bombing German cities in WW2. Get out of my country you traitors! Notion 4: We are doing what the terrorists want. Reality: Bin Laden doesn't want his top military and terror advisors dead. That's like Bin Laden saying that he wants us to chop off his hands and legs so he'll be more effective against us. Notion 5: People who oppose the war are not for the Taliban. Reality: Think of an analogy. You steal someone's wallet. They punch you in the face. You don't do anything. They punch you in the face again. Now, common sense would tell you that there are two things you can do. 1. Give the wallet back, and hope they still wont be mad over it. 2. Disable the person's ability to punch you. The terrorists are mad. The only way to make them happy is the destruction of America, and/or the withdrawl of support for Israel (which would cause them to declare their nuclear status and start a Middle Eastern Arms race, not much fun when a bunch of "kill the non-islam fanatics" have nukes) The only option is to disable the person's ability to punch you AKA, destroy terrorists and their supporting countries. Anyone who is "pro-peace, anti-war" is saying, "let them keep punching us". If that's not pro-Taliban, nothing is. The war on Afganistan, and any other terrorist supporting country, is needed. The "innocent" civilians, are totally brainwashed, and will not have any sort of freedom until we save their countries. Their lives aren't worth living if they are mindless drones for the Taliban. The destruction of Terrorist supporting countries will highly limit the capabilities and activities of terrorist groups, and in the end protect American security. Anyone who's going to argue this, please read the entire post, respond to the entire post, and you better have some evidence backing you up because my position is the popular one which almost every reputable news source is basing their reporting on, and it better not be something simple like "civilians shouldn't die". Go fight in a goddamn war (WW2) like my Grandfather did, then you have a right to start complaining about the civilians dying. It's so disheartening, that's the problem with people today. People think "fighting is wrong", and never stop to think about all of the people who have spilt their blood and died fighting for the United States. Never thought about the people who died for what the United States stands for, and realized that the United States stands for democracy, freedom, and the ability to live without fear from terror. If we don't stand up for our country, our freedom, and our nation now, then the last 224 years have been for nothing. If we weaken now, all of the people who have died for this country have lost their lives in vain. Nowhere is it said that our country should value peace above everything else. Our country is based around freedom, and with terrorism in the world, we will never be free.

Drop a OTS weapon on the billboard. That'll teach it.

Simplest reply to the topic: Don't be unarmed.

The idea that our country should be at "peace" is badly flawed. First, a few notions that need to be addressed: Notion: We are killing innocent civilians in our war on terrorism. Reality: If you study a number of authors, you'll realized that it is maintained that personal freedom is more important than life. During United States slavery, all of the slaves were living in a constructed world, much like the Matrix. The fact that slaveholders let the slaves be free of work for 3 days, and instead let them get so drunk they were miserable, is an example of how the society was constructed to deprive the people of their freedoms, by making life SEEM good. That is what is going on in Afganistan and many of the terrorist harboring countries. Although I truly believe that US citizens are brainwashed to some extent by the media, it is worse in the Middle East. In many Middile Eastern countries, especially Afganistan, people are living in a constructed world. They believe the propoganda fed to them by the terrorists, Taliban, Islamic Extremists, and Osama Bin Laden. They are being completely brainwashed. Notion 2: It is impossible to win the war on Terrorism. Reality: Think logically for a minute. Yes, bombing Afganistan to hell will not end the war on terrorism, neither will bombing Iraq, or any other Middile Eastern Country. That's why we are setting up a new government in Afganistan, and probably will in any other terrorist harboring country. I doubt the United States will make the same mistake twice, in this specific instance. After the terrorist harboring countries' governments are replaced, it will become much harder for terrorist groups to operate. Yes, terrorism won't be eliminated, but it will likely be lower than pre 9/11 levels, because they will be unable to operate in the open because of governments crushing them. Notion 3: We are acting like terrorists by bombing Afganistan. Reality: It's a clash of ideals, they declared war by attacking the WTC, and Afganistan didn't hand them over. That's like saying we acted like Nazis for bombing German cities in WW2. Get out of my country you traitors! Notion 4: We are doing what the terrorists want. Reality: Bin Laden doesn't want his top military and terror advisors dead. That's like Bin Laden saying that he wants us to chop off his hands and legs so he'll be more effective against us. Notion 5: People who oppose the war are not for the Taliban. Reality: Think of an analogy. You steal someone's wallet. They punch you in the face. You don't do anything. They punch you in the face again. Now, common sense would tell you that there are two things you can do. 1. Give the wallet back, and hope they still wont be mad over it. 2. Disable the person's ability to punch you. The terrorists are mad. The only way to make them happy is the destruction of America, and/or the withdrawl of support for Israel (which would cause them to declare their nuclear status and start a Middle Eastern Arms race, not much fun when a bunch of "kill the non-islam fanatics" have nukes) The only option is to disable the person's ability to punch you AKA, destroy terrorists and their supporting countries. Anyone who is "pro-peace, anti-war" is saying, "let them keep punching us". If that's not pro-Taliban, nothing is. The war on Afganistan, and any other terrorist supporting country, is needed. The "innocent" civilians, are totally brainwashed, and will not have any sort of freedom until we save their countries. Their lives aren't worth living if they are mindless drones for the Taliban. The destruction of Terrorist supporting countries will highly limit the capabilities and activities of terrorist groups, and in the end protect American security. Anyone who's going to argue this, please read the entire post, respond to the entire post, and you better have some evidence backing you up because my position is the popular one which almost every reputable news source is basing their reporting on, and it better not be something simple like "civilians shouldn't die". Go fight in a goddamn war (WW2) like my Grandfather did, then you have a right to start complaining about the civilians dying. It's so disheartening, that's the problem with people today. People think "fighting is wrong", and never stop to think about all of the people who have spilt their blood and died fighting for the United States. Never thought about the people who died for what the United States stands for, and realized that the United States stands for democracy, freedom, and the ability to live without fear from terror. If we don't stand up for our country, our freedom, and our nation now, then the last 224 years have been for nothing. If we weaken now, all of the people who have died for this country have lost their lives in vain. Nowhere is it said that our country should value peace above everything else. Our country is based around freedom, and with terrorism in the world, we will never be free. [ 12-05-2001: Message edited by: Captain Dread ]

I think im just going to leave my game running for a week or two just to use RANDOM. Of course i'll be so used to easy AI that a Zenstar will single handedly destroy my megaron. Oh well.

Hey, how exactly can you repair hull integrity? I can repair every system on my ship at a starbase, but the integrity is still low.

The Aestrom is horrible compared to the Firestorm. The Firestorm: 1. Looks better 2. Has more turrets

Members aren't being rated. There is a member rating box to the left of posts, but no one is using it. People, rate each other, rate me. Power to the people!

The Megaron DOES look Klingon. Love that ship.

I have a 64 MB Raedon (AGP?) card from about a year ago, and it always worked great for me. Only needed to download the updated drivers for BCM to work. Never had a problem with it otherwise.

Are you OUT OF YOUR MIND? The background graphics in BCM rock. It actually looks like your IN SPACE. If you play any older, or even newer space sim games, most of the time it won't look like your in space. Even think of some relatively new space sim games (Freespace 2, Starlancer, Wing Commander Prophecy), their idea of a nebula is to give your screen a purple tint, cut your shields, and say "fight". In BCM, even flying to the first ACM mission in the first TOD, you notice the greatness of the immersion factor via graphics.

Yes, I agree, BCM RULES!!!!

Vacation? Vacation! Your thinking about a vacation?!?!? We're flying around blowing up Warmongers and capturing space stations, and you wanna vacation. Tsk, tsk. Do some work why dont you!!!!!

TA shield only works on heavy carriers. Crossrefernce items with assets.

The assets folder has the different ship names in the first line of each section. The RUpgrade, SUpgrade, etc have numbers next to them. If you crossreference the numbers with the upgrades in the ITEMS file, you'll know which numbers the ship can upgrade to. AKA, if the last number next to SUpgrade is 357, and that's the Linear IV shield (or whatever it's called), and the shield artifact number is 700, and 700 isnt next to SUpgrade under the ship, you can only upgrade to the linear, and not the artifact one.

Woah, that was close. I almost posted something covered explicity in the manual, and now I just read this.

I guess those 4 explanations work. Thanks!

The SC already posted to find out what ships use which upgrades, look in the assets file in data.

It was always there as far as I know until BCM.

What's even funnier is they actually take the time to register on the website in order to post questions that we tell them the answer is in the manual for. I know I haven't been here long, but at least when I registered I did it cause I wanted to share a War Story and not to ask any of the following: 1. How do I use Tacops? 2. Why won't any of my craft launch? I had an intruder warning 15 minutes ago, and now none of my craft will work. 3. Why after a battle are all my screens saying "Malfunction"? 4. Why is it that if I beam into a Terran/Insurgent base, I die? 5. How do I fly a fighter? 6. How do I fly a shuttle? 7. How do I trade? 8. This game sucks! The jumpgate is 200000 away, and I move too slow! 9. How do I use mining drones? 10. How do I use shields? Please, people, continue adding on to this. Or maybe we should start a new thread: "The Stupidest Newbie Questions"

But that's like saying a person in a space suit should die if they are walking on the surface of Earth. Or that someone in scuba gear will die on the ground because someone without one will die underwater. It doesn't really make sense...no offense.

Nope, too big and they'd be too powerful then. Get a Megaron.

Yeah, RE analysis only applies to the really good stuff like the RANDOM weapon, and the nav/insta jump stuff. Celestial ORB and the JAC work fine without a RE too.

Ok, here's a bug you may want to look into. I think I read somewhere it was supposed to be addressed in the last patch, but it didnt seem to work. Do the following: Get your BC hull down really low, and turn off shields. Make sure it's heavily damaged. Then go into space in FP. Stay at max range with your gun and keep shooting the BC, get back on it, reload, repeat. Keep doing it till you destroy the BC. You should 1. Be able to hit F1 and get the bridge view again 2. Be able to access roster, and notice everyone on the ship was dead, and you arent. 3. Try to leave the ship again with alt+e, but end up freezing the game.