Mike FitzPatrick

Hi SC I concur, piracy in the IT industry has gone on far too long. Why have they waited this long to act? These rings of pirates have been operating for years, why now and not 3-5 years ago. This has cost ALL developers millions of dollars. As an aside. I have noticed that there seems to be an inordinate number of programs, cracks and hacks on certain Russian and other East European sites. When will these be targeted? Also China appears to be copying anything and everything these days. I have found you get what you pay for in life. If it is free it is neither valued or enjoyed. Cheers Mike

Hi SC, Thanks for the tips You are up early or is it late in the US of A. When I finish this one I will buy UC and the others. Cheers, Mike

Hi SC I was just the way the mission is set out. The crew discuss tractoring the reingard and the HSD so I have assumed that this was the artifact and that it was on the ship. However, I did not find it on the Reingard when I collected the cargo. I thought that as I hadn't got it then, it was probably because I had already got it. Damn it isn't floating around in space is it????? Or You haven't done something sneeky and put it on the Reingard's shuttle, have you? Damn it is too far to LV105 in my ship and I would run out of time for the scenario. Man it is a great game. I haven't had this much fun since BC3000AD over 10 years ago. Still it can be frustrating when you screw up and have to start over again (we only learn from our mistakes). Still that is what we do every day in real life too, so I shouldn't complain. I only get to play for a couple of hours each night after work. Cheers Mike

Hi Maybe someone can help me on this. In the Commander career I have just noticed with the latest patch the HSD is the first artifact to be found (first mission) TOD1. However, in the 2nd TOD last mission, finding the Reingard again the artifact is allegedly the HSD. Is this correct? Or should one of these be the ENM or a different artifact? Or is SC giving us 2 bites at the cherry. Mike