Thomas Siemens

Yep, that is a standard maneuver (by the book, IIRC): while dog fighting, use the match target speed feature and control distance with boost / retros.

Please check your drivers, too. Strange behaviour often results from bad/old drivers. Especially mouse drivers seem to cause lots of problems. Btw., if the game recognizeds your ATI card, there is no need to use the /v1 option. Try the chipset info tool from the download section. If your ATI is recognized, play the game in native mode, not VESA compatibility mode (i.e. no /v1 flag). With 128mb ram, you should not run into any memory problems at all if you leave the settings at auto. Regards. Thomas (a.k.a. Gudihl) Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series

You mean "collision" as in: hyper jumping right into some ship that happens to arrive at the same time, at the same spot? Well, there is a solution to this: check (with TacOps) before you jump! (Collision has been reactivated by Derek, and I doubt it will get deactivated in the near future. Just be more careful. Play this game like you drive your car - in the rush hours, that is... ) Thomas (a.k.a. Gudihl) Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series

Cmdr. Stephanos, Welcome to Prime Fleet. AFAIK there are some staff positions availabe in the wings, please take a look at the Fleet Structure. Please ask the wing leaders to join their wing, or request assignment at the G1 Personnel Office, Cmdr. Robertson. Regards. ------------------ Fleet Cmdr. Joe Gudihl GCV-Dark Star Prime Fleet Dragon - Order of Jade Dragon "Remember, we are trained professionals... Don't try this at home!" Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series [This message has been edited by Thomas Siemens (edited 07-09-2000).]

[RP] Heh, so that's GALCOM: "heavy-handed", "introverted", "narrow", "ponderous". OMG! Our luck at least one fleet provides "variety, travel, strategy, and freewheeling spirit." (Did I get it right?) "Tac", I suggest sending Cmdr. Liev to the counselor(s), to give him a more PC attitude! [/RP] ------------------ Fleet Cmdr. Joe Gudihl GCV-Dark Star Prime Fleet Dragon - Order of Jade Dragon "Remember, we are trained professionals... Don't try this at home!" Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series [This message has been edited by Thomas Siemens (edited 07-05-2000).]

[RP] quote: [...] and the orders had better d@mn well explain why [...] Excuse my ignorance, but why should orders explain anything? They are given, and are to be followed. That's all, Commander. Dismissed! [/RP] TTFN (as Gallion would say. ) ------------------ Fleet Cmdr. Joe Gudihl GCV-Dark Star Prime Fleet Dragon - Order of Jade Dragon "Remember, we are trained professionals... Don't try this at home!" Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series

Cmdr. WarSong, AFAIK everyone who joins our community is either in no fleet at all (using the UCV designator), or per default assigned to the Prime Fleet (using the GCV designator). Now, if you like to join one of the other fleets, you either defect to the Insurgency (they use the ICV designator), or request transfer to one of the other fleets. (If you happen to be transfered to EarthCom, you will use the ECV designator.) Btw., those other Fleet Commanders (including Insurgent One, "Uncle" Rattler! ) may choose not to take you in! Then you stay in Prime, or maybe even get kicked out and have to use UCV... Conclusion: if you do nothing at all, and start using the GCV designator, you are automatically in Prime. Whatever you decide, you have to work your way up inside a fleet. Regards. ------------------ Fleet Cmdr. Joe Gudihl GCV-Dark Star Prime Fleet Dragon - Order of Jade Dragon "Remember, we are trained professionals... Don't try this at home!" Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series

Welcome to the community, Cmdr. Steele! ------------------ Fleet Cmdr. Joe Gudihl GCV-Dark Star Prime Fleet Dragon - Order of Jade Dragon "Remember, we are trained professionals... Don't try this at home!" Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series

Well, G5 Public Relations is responsible for getting them interested, and send them to G1 Personnel, and G1 Personnel is where they are signing up. So, recruitment is (or should be) team work of Cmdr. Mark Giao (SpcFX), and Cmdr. Robertson. Btw., we have a very nice recruitment poster provided by Cmdr. Badgerius, Commander of the (in)famous Gamma Wing. Regards. ------------------ Fleet Cmdr. Joe Gudihl GCV-Dark Star Prime Fleet Dragon - Order of Jade Dragon "Remember, we are trained professionals... Don't try this at home!" Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series

Gentlemen, If you reread the Structure, you will find the following information: (a) A Wing consists of eight Squadrons. Altogether (up to) 72 ships plus Staff. ( There are some "Support Squadrons" available, each under command of the CO of the starstation they are assigned to. Also, a whole Wing is at reserve, i.e. stationed at one of the three starstations. Therefore, IMO, starstation defense (for roleplaying purposes) should be no problem. OTOH BC:M is something completely different! We will see what tactics work when it is available... Btw., this discussion is developing fine! You guys discuss some patrol schemes, and the Wing Commanders should present the final results to the G3 Tactics office. Remember to divide the zones into four parts, not five. Regards. ------------------ Fleet Cmdr. Joe Gudihl GCV-Dark Star Prime Fleet Dragon - Order of Jade Dragon "Remember, we are trained professionals... Don't try this at home!" Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series [This message has been edited by Thomas Siemens (edited 06-28-2000).]

Hmm, Derek will surely kill me for this: [hint] Take a look at the unsupported demo v2.09 to be found in the download section... [/hint] Thomas (a.k.a. Gudihl) Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series

Korono, when editing files, be sure to remove the last two lines "This messages has been edited..."! Regards. Thomas (a.k.a. Gudihl) Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series

OT: Well, those sigs really grow longer and longer. Uncle Rattler's one is 13 lines now. Hmm, I remember a time when all our sigs were about 4 to 6 lines...

quote: Could someone educate me on how to educate them? Their intelligence raise over time when they are not off-duty. You can even raise your guests intelligence. All you have to do is play, and keep your guests (for ex. Karl Reines) on-station. ------------------ Fleet Cmdr. Joe Gudihl GCV-Dark Star Prime Fleet Dragon - Order of Jade Dragon "Remember, we are trained professionals... Don't try this at home!" Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series

Congratulations! Now, that's a proud father, isn't he? ------------------ Fleet Cmdr. Joe Gudihl GCV-Dark Star Prime Fleet Dragon - Order of Jade Dragon "Remember, we are trained professionals... Don't try this at home!" Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series

Crongratulations! ------------------ Fleet Cmdr. Joe Gudihl GCV-Dark Star Prime Fleet Dragon - Order of Jade Dragon "Remember, we are trained professionals... Don't try this at home!" Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series

This has been discussed here, and is (still) under investigation... Hint: do not use playmod, and try to keep your Battlecruiser undamaged. If nothing else works, use evacuate. (Be sure to take those artifacts with you! ) Regards. Thomas (a.k.a. Gudihl) Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series [This message has been edited by Thomas Siemens (edited 06-03-2000).]

One one hand, GBS is much too complex to be put in an easy-to-use GUI, on the other hand it is not that hard to learn if you have some good example scripts at hand. And now... ... guess who provided some outstanding example scripts just for our pleasure in the download section of this site? (Hint: you can read one of his posts right above.) Well, okay, they are not exactly "example" scripts, but they should fulfill this role very well. You may want to click here to get them. Thomas (a.k.a. Gudihl) Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series

quote: TTFN and remember - cheaters always prosper Heh, dunno. I still get the impression that playmod does bad things to saved games, causing problems I have yet to experience without using playmod. Well, OTOH it (playmod) is kinda unsupported, isn't it? Thomas (a.k.a. Gudihl) Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series

That's bad news! Anyone remember Terra Nova from them? It was one of my favorites... Thomas (a.k.a. Gudihl) Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series

Sorry, but I know nothing official, so I would suggest waiting for the 1st of June, when Derek wanted to post all the (new) beta testers. Regards. Thomas (a.k.a. Gudihl) Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series [This message has been edited by Thomas Siemens (edited 05-24-2000).]

Happy Birthday, Alun! ------------------ Fleet Cmdr. Joe Gudihl GCV-Dark Star Prime Fleet Dragon - Order of Jade Dragon "Remember, we are trained professionals... Don't try this at home!" Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series

Gentlemen, our Supreme Commander is looking for beta testers for the upcoming Battlecruiser: Millenium (BC:M). You may want to take a look here! Regards. ------------------ Fleet Cmdr. Joe Gudihl GCV-Dark Star Prime Fleet Dragon - Order of Jade Dragon "Remember, we are trained professionals... Don't try this at home!" Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series

Yep, heheh. I like Don Knuth's quote!

I ran into this too last time I played FF with playmod cheats 1, and 6. Dunno if playmod is responsible for the stuck pilots, I could not yet reproduce it in a fresh new FF game without those playmod cheats, no matter how much I trash my Battlecruiser. Oh, I have a quick 'n' dirty modified FF script which provides all the artifacts in one easy-to-hunt-down ship near Galcom HQ (in fact, I just "borrowed" the UCV-Zerovna from TOD1, and "stuffed" it with all artifacts... ), so if anyone of you guys is interested in this spoiler-FF-script, just drop me a note. It does not modify any saved games, and therefore should be clean... Nevertheless, I continue trying to reproduce the problem with this configuration - too lazy to play through all TODs. Regards. Thomas (a.k.a. Gudihl) Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series