CommanderJohnson

Yeah, I agree. Why don't we get the ability to turn on/off ships attacking you. Maybe on/off for laser fire causing damage. How about an on/off for flux fields ending in black holes. Danger and surprise is a large part of BCM, go play "Barney goes to Africa" if you want a nice safe and loving game.

It is highly possible that your ship class is unable to use the special Shield and Reactor upgrades. I know for a fact that Firestorms, Stormcarriers, and Aestroms can NOT use them. I think the rest of the carriers can though, and I dont think any cruisers or smaller can either. Buy something smaller.

Let me take a guess how you learned it. You did it, then your ship smashed into the ground and wouldn't move?

Just wondering, why should a space force marine be dead just because he was beamed down to a planet?

Planetfall to area your deploying the shuttles to deploy the drones via a waypoint there, and THEN launch the shuttles.

Resnig was probably in on the plot! That traitor! Everyone shoot him! He's a traitor to the cause! He LET the intruders get to the bridge! [ 11-25-2001: Message edited by: Captain Dread ]

ROFLMAO!!!!!! That is the best. Those intruders must have been geniuses if they got past ALL the marines, and managed to kill you when every officer on the bridge has a gun. Did the commlink just pop up and say you died or did you see them shoot you. Training them yourself...not a bad idea. I think i'm going to go get a firestorm, put all my marines on Earth, and order them to all shoot each other tournament style. 1v1 X 20 and see who wins. Then keep doing it over and over until I have a ship full of battle-hardened marines! Ill post the story after i'm done.

I'm playing the ACM scenario as Terran/Earthcom. I'm betting I can nuke planets now without Earthcom hunting me down. Just gotta get the 100 AI....(starts screaming at his bridge crew: "GET SMARTER YOU IDIOTS, SMARTER, OR ILL SHOOT YOU LIKE I DID THOSE INFECTED MARINES!!!!" [ 11-25-2001: Message edited by: Captain Dread ]

Ok, THIS is the ONLY way to improve Marine AI, and it's shown by a story. I send down 10 marines to Earth from my nice new Megaron to scout out the area where i'm about to deploy a drone. Two get "infected". I'm thinking how did that happen! So I go to tacops, and evac via teleport, all 8 of the non-infected marines, then I beam down myself. I look around, then shoot both marines through the head, then beam back up to the ship. That'll teach em to get infected.

Just got a Megaron after patch wiped by Firestorm saved games. I'll post later if it's any good. Seems good so far, a lot easier to manage with less people and fighters.

I'm not saying that mods are bad, just that the day after it comes out seems a little too soon. I agree totally though, a B5 mod would rock for this game. Be interesting if someone could create a hyperspace type area for whenever you travel that's hard to navigate, can get lost forever in, etc.

Hey, when you do try it and find out, tell us if it's actually possible to get off in a court-martial, or if your better off just killing every Earthcom ship that comes after you.

Make sure chargers are on, the CC isn't damaged in the fighter bay/chargers, and the FC isnt horrible damaged either. Never had that problem, but that's what i'm guessing.

I just attempted a very well planned attack on a Ter/Rai base in my new Megaron. 4 shuttles drop off 2 HAVs and 2 LAVs (then deploy drones on a safe area of the planet), while 4 FCs (1 which im flying with Nightwing as co pilot) do strafing runs, and 10 marines in the transporter ready to be called down. I establish planetfall first, get locked on to by about 10 SAM cites. I (being the genius pilot I am), activate my EMD jammers. I put it on autopilot and activate tacops, ready to call in the marines and find out where the other FCs are. I hear "armor has been breached". I switch back and land the FC somewhere relatively safe (with 40% int). I go back to the tacops and the support had arrived....well, half of it. Two of the shuttles were destroyed, along with their OCs. I beam in the marines next to a SAM site and they....dance?!?!? That's right ladies and gentlemen, they start to dance in front of a SAM site, all standing next to each other. I turn off tacops in disgust and notice i've been strafed multiple times by aircraft and hull is at 20%. I attempt to take off, almost not making it, but i manage to fly back to my cruiser in orbit. I turn back on perscan and notice that 70% of my marine complement is dead, 3 marines are registered as "on planet", my FCs are getting torn apart, and Nightwing is almost dead. I get back to the bridge and do the unthinkable, I fly down to the planet. After destroying most of the base with my guns, I decide to take on the 15 fighters scrambled after me. Well, to make a long story short. Shields are up....shields are up....shields are up.....ship explodes. BOOOM. Guess they had better weapons than I thought. Back to the drawing board..... (Planetary Assaults are hard)

None of my saved games seem to work anymore. I load em but then the game crashes in under 3 minutes. Time to get used to a Megaron.

Hey, i'm a morally devioid serial killer and a evil genius who is bent on taking over the world in my spare time! "No! All movies are bad! Your making fun of all evil geniuses and morally devioid serial killers when the "good" guy wins! That's discriminatory. If it was black people and not morally devoid evil geniuses and serial killers, society wouldn't stand for it." What a bunch of loonies. Their brains must have been turned into fat.

It seems sort of sad to me. BCM *just* came out, and people are already trying to change it from the excllence it is into something else. Why didn't people just make all these games themselves while many of us were waiting a long time for the real BCM to come out. Just my 2 cents...

The #10 easy steps to pestering the crew as a Terran/Insurgent commander. 1. Put your AE in a fighter, fly in front of the bridge with shields off, and blast it about 25 times with max powered guns. Then launch a missile. 2. Dock and take whatever bridge crew is left, and tell them your going to evacuate them to the surface. 3. Beam them down to the planet.....in the middle of a Terran/Military base. 4. For the very, very, very few members of the bridge crew that escaped, comm them and tell them you made a mistake. 5. While they are cursing your name for all of eternity, load a OTS missile and fire it on their head. 6. Laugh at that corpses, then try to figure out how your going to get back to base with a wrecked bridge. 7. Realizing it's hopeless, put the rest of your crew into shuttles, then order your fighter pilots to destroy the shuttles. 8. Let the fighters dock, then beam the pilots down to the planet and OTS them. 9. Send the BC into planetfall, set it on a collision course for the ground, get into a FC, and fly away for the rest of eternity. 10. Get shot by your CO while your flying away cause you just lost a $10000000000 piece of military hardware. [ 11-24-2001: Message edited by: Captain Dread ]

What do all of you think about them? Have you yet attempted to fly down shuttles loaded with ATVs and Marines to blow up a base while FCs bombed the base to bits overhead? Have you fought alongside your fellow troops and had a sniper shoot your head off? Post here....

Hey, when your time is up and you have to retire, will there be an option to start a new game in the same world you retired from? That way all of your hard work capturing enemy starstations and making them your own won't be wasted.

I only said drop em near a city so you have some general clue where they are. Also, i'm not sure, but i'm assuming if you drop them near hostile forces, they'll destroy em. Im not 100% sure, but i'm not going to put my drones near a terran insurgent base to find out.

Do your marines get additional AI if you beam down prisoners to a planet, then the marines (or an OC), then order the OC to kill the prisoners? (I know, i'm a sick bastard, but my marines want the intruders dead, and I dont want a mutiny by 40 gun toting marines) (Now you know who NOT to be captured by when BCO comes out) [ 11-24-2001: Message edited by: Captain Dread ]

Ok, the way to use, find, and effectively control mining drones: Go to tacops, observe a planet with bases on it, select a mission zone, then zoom in next to a city (remember the city name or something) Open up waypoints, select SC1, add waypoint, put it next to the base, tell shuttle to deploy drone. Repeat for SC2-SC4. Launch the 4 shuttles. You can see their progress by highlighting them on the bridge via the shuttle icon and the #. It should be saying ENTER ATMOSPHERE, then after they are deployed, it'll say COLLIDE. Wait for the shuttles to dock with you, then leave and do something exciting (go attack Gammula1, drop the RANDOM weapon on the planet or something). Go to tactical, loadout, SC1-SC4, select drone. The % full will display. When it reaches 100, go back to planet. Select near the city referred to and zoom in. If you can't see the drones, double check the city name, if your sure it's the right one and you cant see the drones, create the waypoints like last time but select collect drone instead. The shuttles will likely find the drones and get them for you anyway (well, it worked for me). Then wait like last time for them to dock. Unload the drones via tactical interface, go to a station, and enjoy the money. Oh yeah, you can't tell what minerals the planet has ahead of time. [ 11-24-2001: Message edited by: Captain Dread ]

Yeah, there are too many SF marines, but they are also too stupid. I saw two opposing factions in one game fighting over a station (fighter craft were attacking each other), but the marines weren't anywhere near the station, and they weren't killing each other... It seems they also need some more intelligence. [ 11-24-2001: Message edited by: Captain Dread ]

Tac? Tac who? I dont remember any Tac.