Mindglow

Damn, you know, destroying a city can get expensive like that.

Well, I got kinda antsy and decided to take out a INS city/base on Earth, come to find out all those pretty weapons I have on my ship and all my powerful fighters can't put a scratch on a ground target.. neither can my ground troops! Besides OTS weapons and ATS missles, what else can damage a ground unit? My ship loves to fires it's PTA system at those buildings but to no effect. Is this supposed to happen?

How does one set the altitude of the way point? The instruction book does not address this.

But the way point should still show in TacOps, just turn on the autopilot and resume waypoints .. BTW, I hadn't tried it myself, I usually fly the shuttle myself. I'll go try it and verify.

I noticed that when your AE lands the shuttle and lets the marines out, you can get them back in via the personel icon on the right, or you can transfer control to another team, I havn't gotten to transporting just yet so I think your troops can only go back by transporter but I'll see if you can assign them to a shuttles away team and then the shuttle can pick them up. BTW, I'm just learning this game too .. I finally got the vehicles to deploy as well as troops, it just takes a long time for the pilot to figure out how to land. Guess I shouldn't send a marine to do a pilots job huh?

I think I found a bug, It's on Planet EORI, Coordinates 23 North 36 West (approximatly) There is a starbase that is under the ground there. Also, I can't remember where the thread is, but that guy that is trying to deploy his troops on the ground (FLAT ground) and it's not working, well I can reproduce it too. I can get marines to deploy but vehicles do not (and yes there is a marine in the vehicle and the vehicle is a ground unit) Also, when you deploy from space, as soon as the shuttle hits the atmosphere it just returns back to the CC with out going to any other waypoints. I suppose we can't deploy from space huh? BTW that issue with the guy who's machine locks up on close only after playing BCM, it's your video driver still using resources in the system and the system can't shut the driver down until it clears them, either the driver needs to be rewritten, or BCM has to be rewrote. I'd go check out nvidia's drivers and use thier reference drivers, you might have more luck with those. I'm using them with my MX-400 by Gainward and it's running more smoothly than before.

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quote:Originally posted by Captain Dread: 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... Because the SC developed the frame for every game we ever wanted, everyone wants to fill in thier own gaps instead of leaving it so wide open ... plus you won't have to worry about copy right infringement. :')

Face it, it really doesn't orbit. If you want you can set the speed to 1 and manually turn it, then you'll be in orbit .. but there is not auto orbit, besides ... how would it help?? You can do the same thing sitting in one place like a duck, paddling like hell. quote:Originally posted by Sadistic: Alright, all my questions but one were answered, thank you. The one that was answered is about orbitting. On pg 52 of the manual, second and third paragraphs (not including the cut-off sentence at the very top) it tells you how to orbit. But if you follow those instructions exactly you will planetfall at 150km, not 100km like it says there. (well, more like 149.3km, but whatever) And if you hyperspace to a planet you cannot stop yourself from planetfalling. I actually haven't tried this, but maybe you could then go straight up and out of the planet again and THEN do the things it says (shut off engines etc.) I'll try that, but I need some clarification, can you orbit or not.