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This is REALLY weird... I was cruising around Lennen, when SAS started going off. Intruder alert, apparently. So I checked PERSCAN. 1 Intruder only. No discharges, so no cloaked ships nearby. Good. Already have 4 marines on search. Decided to prep 2 more. Then I went back to PERSCAN. Intruder is down to 62 health. He's hiding in the FITNESS CENTER. (There's a fitness center!?!?!) My marines are wandering ALL OVER the place, but doesn't seem to be coming near the fitness center. The screen updated... The intruder is down to 49 health! Hmmm... What did he do? Knock over some free weights and bashed his legs? Wait a bit more... Marines still haven't located the intruder... Screen updated again. Intruder is down to 24 health... STILL in the FITNESS CENTER. Marines are still wandering the halls, shuttle bay, etc. etc. Screen updated again... Intruder's gone. What did he do? Exercise himself to death? Suicide by jogging? Self-termination by aerobics? You be the judge...

Oh, is THAT where it's hiding... C:Program FilesDreamCatcher3000ADBattlecruiser Millennium Golddocsappendixlbases.html Sorry.

I was wondering about the station "classes"... MN is obviously mineral AG is agricultural AD is probably "advanced" tech HT is... high tech? RO is ?????

quote:Originally posted by Cmdr Chavik: Been discussed before. http://www.3000ad.com/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cg...c;f=25;t=000242 http://www.3000ad.com/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cg...c;f=25;t=000253 It appears someone is not using the search function. The first thread has nothing to do with FINDING drones. It's about how to get more throughput on mining, and turned into "how to make more credits", and optimum deployment pattern of drones. The second one did not come up until the second page when I searched for "mining drone", which is probably why I didn't see it. It's difficult finding the right search words... You'd thought that "mining drone" is specific enough...

Okay, this is going to sound extremely dumb... But I think I misplaced one of my mining drones. I know it's on "Moon-02". However, I tried all the systems I usually visit with a "Moon-02" and I can't locate it with TacOps/Zoomto. I'm pretty sure it's around Lyrius or Lennen, but I'm not absolutely sure. Should I just give tacops "retrieve drone" order to shuttle at each moon and see if the shuttle can find it?

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: And please tell me where you saw the term BRIG being used. I'm curious because I don't remember using any such term in the game. You must have seen BRIDGE.It's BRIG... Here's how you do it. (In fact, I said it once already, but here goes again. Send Resnig to Detention Hold via Tactical/Crew. Wait until he goes there (confirm with Perscan). Go back to BridgeViewer. In CVD, keep hitting L until you get to "crew status display" (CSD). CO's location: BRIG. http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/kschang77/vwp?....nts%26.src=ph%2 6.view=t [ 07-12-2003, 09:26 PM: Message edited by: Kasey Chang ]

quote:Originally posted by Tyrn: SC1 is an abbreviation indication Shuttle Craft 1 and Detention Hold and Brig are NOT equivalent terms. I throw prisoners in the Brig (indicating that they are jailed) whereas I assign marines to the Detention Hold and they are NOT in the the Brig.I'd beg to differ. On the CVD, there's this choice that tracks where the officers are. If you send one of your officers to detention hold, on this CVD screen it shows as BRIG, not DETENTION HOLD. (Well, in case of Resnig, they probably ARE the same).

In the HTML/Appendix Upgrades, the Stormcarrier was referred to as G-Super Carrier. However, under carriers, Stormcarrier is listed simply as "Super Carrier". So... what is a "G-Super Carrier"?

Many times in BCM, multiple terms refer to the same thing. For example, SC1 and SHUTTLE 1 is the same. Another example is DETENTION HOLD, BRIG (and one other term I can't remember at this time) Question: Is there a comprehensive list somewhere on which terms are the same and such? If there isn't, should one be compiled so SC can perhaps unify the terms in a future version?

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: quote:Originally posted by Kasey Chang: One more question... Does setting shields to a lower level (less than "full") reduce plutonium consumption? Check the manual and appendix data Uh... I guess it's a LITTLE ambiguous, but I think I found the passage. The answer to my question is YES, since the manual stated that "the higher the protection level, the more plutonium required". However, at the time I thought it was referring to shield generator upgrades.

Follow-up... When you Quit out of the game with ALT-Q, is the game saved separately from one of the 10 saved games? (So in essence, an 11th savegame?)

Maybe, but WHY the heck did this guy did what he did? In front of THOUSANDS of people? Doesn't he know he's committing assault in front of TENS of THOUSANDS of witnesses? Makes you question his sanity. I've heard of "messing with mascot", but bopping one on the head with a bat? That's just ridiculous.

One more question... Does setting shields to a lower level (less than "full") reduce plutonium consumption?

I guess what I'm REALLY looking for is some justification or explanation between cost of OC ASSET vs. the actual ground vehicles. I mean... OC ASSET's base price is 1.25M, while a CAV's base price is 150K. That is a pretty big difference, even if you go to a planet that specializes in that sort of stuff. Or SC can simply say "That's the way it works. You can think of it as a shuttle/vehicle packed in crates, untested, blank shell, vs. a vehicle that's tested, charged and ready to go."

Did something similar recently... Was towing a disabled fighter off to a base. Was approaching the gate when some enemy fighters popped out behind me. BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! CE just keep reciting damage reports... Everything's dead so I can't even reallocate power or conduct repairs. Only recourse is to reload from earlier saved game...

I know what each ship uses... My question is... why the HUGE difference in price, or is that just for "bookkeeping" purposes, everybody pays this "unified" price, no matter what vehicle they use?

If I lost an OC or SC, I need to buy OC ASSET or SHUTTLE ASSET to replace it. But I know I have a CAV, and GSV-CAV is like, 1/9th the price of OC ASSET (150K vs. 1.25M) So what is the difference between OC ASSET (for a Warmonger, a CAV) and GSV-CAV?

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: I'll probably add the date/time stamp for saved games, to the Restore display in BCG. [/QB]Hmmm... Would be fun to get either/both the real file date/time, or the ingame date/time, or maybe the current location (quadrant/system/planet) And *please*, SC, auto-save when you dock?

New piece of info... I just ran Norton Diagnostics, and it claims that one of my memory locations has failed. Single bit error in 384 megs of RAM... Darn.

I dunno about this review. He spent half of the article describing how he did not play BC... until now.

From as far as I can tell... Restore means pick one of commander's 10 slots and load it. Resume means load the most recently saved game. (I don't use Quicksave, never got it to work any way). Q1: As there is no display of in-game time/date or actual save file time/date... Is there any way to know which is first and which is last, besides naming each savegame in sequence? Q2: Is there some sort of auto-save? Like whenever you dock to a star station you get an auto-save in a special slot?

I know, SC... However, it's rather consistent. I remember watching the other AI ships get pummelled, then POOF! I'm back at desktop. It's happened enough times that I'm a bit suspicious. Which sorta brings up a related question... Is there an auto-save option somewhere? Like... every time you dock, or something like that?

Here's an odd experience while in the Syrion quadrant... I was trying the trade route suggested (Sarien to Majora). Successfully did one run, and was going back to Sarien when a bunch of enemies jumped into the system, mostly light stuff. Then a raider jumped in with a BC MK2, only 400 km away. I turned around to engage. Then it got pounded by defending ships already there. Shields went down in a hurry, then hull started dropping... BLAM! I've back at desktop, no error message at all. It's as if I never ran BCMG. So I restart the computer, then resume the game, tried the same thing again. This time I ran the route twice, then I ran into some enemies in Majoris. Again, an enemy BC jumped in, and got nailed. When it dies, again, I got CTD (crash to desktop). I haven't saved (my fault) so this just wiped out about 2 hours of progress.

Which brings up a related question... When docked at a star station, they obviously have a TON more spare parts than a ship does, and repairs and such can use parts that are not present on a ship. Do those parts get charged to the ship? Or are they "gratis"?

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