Serondal

Hrm , I supose I'll just have to mark it up to their low AI And give them exact ordres Thanks for looking into it though!

I had a strange thing happen the other day where I crashed my CC on Earth and it started to skip. I jumped out while I was on the ground and watched it fly up into the air over and over again, only to slam back into the ground face first over and over again. IT was fun to watch until it smashed me.

Towing with your CC isn't wise ,as I found out. They DO shoot at you, (I think) and when you tow you drop your shields. I towed an enemy fighter (I try to get everything I can And the danged thing took advantage and tore me up. Took minor damage to every ship system. Thank god Galcom HQ repaired everything on my ship for free , took about an hour RL time though, then died 5 seconds later.

I'm happy to see it went well !!

A New mission for you insane people out there. Go make planet fall on Earth and then put your CC hovering next to a slanted building. Next land a shuttle with your OC in it and command your OC. See if you can jump your OC off the building so that it lands on your CC. THEN you can have some REAL fun ;P If you can do it send some screen shots my way!

Normally I have a shuttle tow them and you can give them the command to "deliver" then pick a friendly star base. You can also go to a starbase and dock with them and it will ask you if you want to deliver the ship in tow. The only thing I have a problem with is disabling larger ships, they always seem to explode! Does it matter WHERE you shoot them or how MUCH you shoot them? If there any way to order your ships to disable instead of destroy? Several times I've had enemy ships disable then one of my fighters blows it up!

For me when I click the box to take Evac off it will but as soon as I pick a general order it will mark the box again. At least I know I'm not a stupid noob or going even more crazy! Thanks for responding SC. For now I will just give them attack orders, will probably make them more effective any how. Merry Friday before Christmas

I have two ships, one of them is a Battle Cruiser MKII named Soulblade which is the last name of man who took Serondal in as a Child and became his father. He's named his ship the Soulblade for the purpose of remembering him. The second ship belongs to my other AE Charles Bradley (My name, woah ;P) And it is named GVC Louisville which is where I obviously live. I've always liked ships named after Cities and States. That ship is a Nightstar and hasn't at much success. I can't even seem to destroy an enemy figter with it! Any whoo, those are my current ship's names. [ 12-20-2002, 03:32 AM: Message edited by: Serondal ]

Tell me how it works out, if I don't hear from you in a few days I will assume it didn't go so well. Otherwise I'll have to try it myself. For even more fun try putting Resing on the surface and see if you can smash him with the tip of your CC without crashing!

I've treid searching for this across the forum but I've had no luck what so ever in finding. I seem to having a technical problem with my Tacops computer in that after I transport my marines down to the planet I can't give them general orders! I tell them to search and destroy, instead it gives them the halt command and marks them for Evac! (If this is meant to be I'm sorry for posting in the wrong place but I don't see how this could be meant to be) I'm running RC30 with all the previous patchs it requires from a fresh install. To recreate the problem I've done the following. 1. prep 8 marines for combat 2. Send Marines to the transporter room 3. Transport them down to a hostile city or mbase. 4. Zoom in on tacops to all your marines standing there like idiots. 5. Open their command menu and give them the order to search and destroy. Now that SHOULD make them run around blowing up everything correct? Instead it marks them for Evac and they still stand there doing nothing. I don't see how this could be an AI issue because it has nothing to do with the marines, and more to do with the tacops (I think) They work fine if I give them orders to attack a certain building or object but that would become tedious after they split up. For now that is how I am doing it however. Thanks for reading this, sorry I don't know how to post my specs yet. (I Edited the topic to make it match better the info in the file) [ 12-19-2002, 09:24 PM: Message edited by: Serondal ]

I discovered that it is possible to leave your ship and then LATCH yourself onto the hull with your mag boots. (I'm sure many of you know this) For those of you that havn't tried this, latch yourself to the bridge of your ship and then give it orders with your tacops. Don't do anything that would make it go to hyperspace however, as it will leave you floating in the cold void of space where no one can hear you scream! It is really great when you have it fight with someone ,of course if you do this don't stand in front of the pta turrets! I havn't tried to make the ship go into planet fall yet, however I expect that if I were latched to the ship I would become a charred version of my previous AE self. [ 12-19-2002, 09:02 PM: Message edited by: Serondal ]

I would have to admit that I am crazy on some level

A bit of a warning about the X-Box. Someone above said that you never have to worry about it crashing but that simply isn't always the case. When another massive game, similiar to battlecruiser in its scale, was released on the X-Box it lost A LOT. For one when a PC game is released on the X-Box you can't patch it, so any mistakes that are in it when you release are there for good. Morrowind for the X-Box has so many bugs in it that it becomes almost unplayable to a certain point (If you're lucky like me) However it would be really nice to see a BC game on the X-Box because then you would be able to take full advantage of it's systems with out having to worry about it running on every system and every graphic card. What ever happens I believe SC to be wise and I know he will do what is best for his company.