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hehehe Ok, now a legitiment GBS-II question. Will it be possible to make sort of a Star Trek style science mission, go to so and so system, beam down so and so to surface loc xxx,xxx, gather info, Learn something your not supposed to know, 4 Stormcarriers enter system, fight like a fool or run for your life...

quote:Originally posted by Epsilon 5: I once destroyed a type 1 station with my pta guns only in a sunflash. I did that as a test. Maybe the sunflash is too good? Took a while thougt, and shields never got under 50%Epsilon, the Sunflash Heavy Cruiser is probably the most powerful ship in the game. Try taking a station on without PTAs and missles, gets a little harder eh? With 12 turrets it can take on just about anything with the PTAs. Not to say that I don't like the Sunflash, sometimes I just think that its too powerful in the hands of a living, breathing, commander.

Heh, its on fp Something to add to my 200meg collection of trailers and funny videos

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: Its easy to say that isn't it? What if the stations, say, GHQ had an armor+shield rating that are 5x the current value? Then someone would be b*tching about how hard it is to take out stations and how impossible it is to capture one. Its all about gameplay balancing and there is a fine line between realism and FUN.Well said SC. Unfortunately, you make one group of people happy, the others b*tch, and if you even the score, well, then both b*tch. They may be easy to beat for some of us, but they arn't for others, my friend is an example of that. Last night he was playing BCM on my computer and he attempted to destroy a station. I told him to wait for the ODS to get on the other side of the planet. He waited, then attacked, he was torn to shreds. This changed my outlook a bit on the stations. He's gotten pretty good at the game, can do a ground attack amazingly well, but he doesn't seem to be to hot in the space combat field. Maybe soon he'll actually buy the game, rather than use my frickin computer to play it... What I'm trying to say, is, that some people have different tactics, some work, others don't, and us who use one tactic might be able to take out a station, but people who use other equally good tactics, may have a harder time... Think of it from a commanders sense people...

Alright, another BCM fan! And um... I've got a little addiction.... Uh, could you help me, its everquest.... am I a lost hope or what?

quote:Originally posted by Epsilon 5: Most people must have came here when tey bought BCM and tought "EEEEWWWWWW a moderated clean non-l33t forum! yuk yuk yuk!" Good thing... Less n00bs

quote:Originally Posted By: Simparadox Both are wrong. First of all, in most distros you can set Linux up with xfree86 using a graphical interface that was better than the M$ setup program andmore user friendlyup until the XP installer which is fairly user friendly. I just got finished installing SuSE on my laptop (I like trying out different distros and my laptop always end up as a guinea pig) and after about a half hour I was done. Booted it up, brought to a nice graphical log-in shell, and a second later I was in GNOME. Without any other setup work I was playing around with some of the apps that came with the distro. It wasn't any more difficult or time consuming than when I upgraded to XP on this computer. It goes without the saying that, other than on boot-up, I didn't see the bash shell once and I never had to mess with. Nor would I have to if I only intended to use it as my home computer. The thing is most users shouldn't have to do this. I love linux, I really do, but now days for most people leisure time is something not to waste.(And I'm saying this in the BCM forum, heh ) One of the reasons I feel windows is popular is that you DON'T have to do this, and even now, unless you have a almost BRAND new computer, versions of most of your drivers are in XP. I agree that using xfree86 to set up Linux is very user friendly, most average home users would probably feel that it is a headache, more so than Windows. [ 02-12-2002, 07:52: Message edited by: Cmdr. WeeGee ]

Is it just me, or has the forum traffic begun to slow down recently. It seems less and less people are posting. Either that, or I'm loosing it(again ).

{Sinister Laugh} I just tried the bombing run thing, I didn't have a target but none the less, it worked. I launched a leech mine and seconds after it hit the ground it detonated. I like this, this is very very cool. Now to try it on a building or two.

quote:Originally posted by Greg Miller: There is no such thing as the bargin bin, when Micro$oft is concerned. Win98se, as well as WinME cost the same at most places, and 98se costs more than ME at some others. I've seen it in bargin bins before, if you look hard enough you'll find one or two places that have it. Otherwise, (Some of my friends are gonna kill me for this, but its already becoming more and more popular) PriceWatch. This is the internets bargin bin. EDIT: I just looked at pricewatch and saw 98 for $18. [ 02-11-2002, 16:13: Message edited by: Cmdr. WeeGee ]

LOL This is great. quote:Its only phenomenal on the XBox primarily because its the only fp shooter so far, thats been fun on a console.SC, have you forgotten GoldenEye. At the time that it came out I personally felt this was better than MANY computer FP Shooters. And I have a feeling that because of the fact that the X-Box is like a little computer in itself, it should hit it pretty big in the PC industry.

ROFL!!!! Thats great Grayfox. quote:Originally posted by Cmdr Nova: Maybe it does... Just that the AI isn't smart enough to use it yet. In that case I need to send a ship-wide message to RTFM. If you're so stupid as to not press a button when intruders are on board you shouldn't be on a starship. [ 02-11-2002, 07:12: Message edited by: Cmdr. WeeGee ]

I like the sound of that bombing run thing, maybe I'll try it.

So far the only really good use I've found of mines is selling them at the start so I can get an engine upgrade right away. But what has everyone else used them for so far? I've thought about setting them in front of a Jump Gate, but the fear of a friendly ship coming through and detonating them is something that is pretty strong inside of me.

lol! But what about your Kendrick

Cool, can you give us a rough estimate on when that might be? I'm guessing another week or so.

quote:Originally posted by xierxior: engineering is usely secure to ever watch startrek voyager had a blast door which could close, maybe kendrick is to stupid to use his pistol?Doubt it, he's my smartest guy (until I have to clone him of course). The blast door thing, I would think that intruders would carry explosives on them to breach doors like that(sort of like the modern C2 breaching charge, able to blast through just about any wooden door, strong enough to take down a small metal door with ease.)

I have another idea, what about having stations, instead of just dispatching fighters, dispatch CCs? This could make stations more of a threat. You could also make it so when you enter a region of hostile space they dispatch a mil or pol ship to intercept you.

Kendrick's station is in engineering last I checked.

Ok, I've been boarded a couple times and had a few officers die. It seems whenever I'm boarded and have an officer or officers die Kendrick is the first. If you ask me Kendrick is the sole most important thing on my ship, I always manage to get myself a little damaged. Another thing, is the SC going with a popular movie theme? The black guy always dies first, or is this just freaky coincidence. (NOTE: This is in no way anti-racial or anything) Why can't Resnig die, he's the most annoying, he's the one who forgets to tell me that I've got intruders on board in the first place. If it is going with that movie theme then its kinda funny, I had wondered when a game would have this kind of theme that's just stupid. Is anyone else having this wierd incident? EDIT: P.S. I wasn't sure whether to put this post in BCM Fun stuff, or General Discussion, so if an Admin feels it belongs in Fun Stuff feel free to move it. [ 02-10-2002, 16:17: Message edited by: Cmdr. WeeGee ]

So far just about all I've seen with the fleets are military fleets. I haven't really seen any UCV fleets (mainly raider fleets). In my opinion the raider caste is, for me, the most profitable. Between illegal item trade and destroying and disabling transports(easy as pie), I can earn a buttload of money:D. So this is to all raiders and assassins out there, lets get a guild going.

quote:Originally posted by Stormshadow: Gentlemen, I think you miss the point. Anytime gamers are deprived of a choice on the method and medium in which they game,It is a sad day for us all. I'm not saying that linux is crap, I personally like linux. But xierxior is right, linux was not created for gaming, it was created for business. If a gamer wants linux installed on his computer he can do a dual boot system (although I think a Linux/Windows Dual Boot may require 2 HD). Personally, I'd like to see a good competitor come out of the rubble that Microsoft has created of other buisinesses through the years and beat the pants off of Windows, which I'm sure can be done. To all linux gamers out there, if you really want to play games then go get a copy of Windows 98se, because it is the current gaming industry standard OS and I know for sure that it is compatible in a Linux/Windows dual boot system. (God that was one helluv'a runon sentence ) It really is a pity that loki closed down, really, but in a market that is based on Windows its kind of hard to compete.

Netshaman, before the SC bans you for not having your system profile info, read the post here.

You're kidding right... Sierra is making another adventure game, much less a Space Quest game. Wow, all I can say is wow. Quite frankly this seems to be a low point in gaming history for adventure games.

Go get a copy of 98se out of the bargin bin. Or, if you have the money to spend, WinXP Pro if your system can handle it, otherwise Win2k Pro.