Ben Zwycky

Of course it won't- the more the merrier- and you're definitely up to standard now. We have to get you up to level 4 somehow

Anyone conducting any duels this weekend must remember to 1) have an umpire present and 2) send the chat log to me or to [email protected] You do not have to announce the duel beforehand if you have someone available to act as umpire, they can be arranged on the spot as long as neither participant has already fought two duels this month. I will update the individual score table on Monday

good to hear Anyone else?

OK, you have three members in your team, but it has not been added to the 3000ad ladder. Until it is, you won't be able to give out or accept team challenges. I could do that for you, but I thought you wouldn't want a galcommie messing around with your team . Anyone else in Insurgent ranks wanting to or be ed by galcommies/earthcomies? Join up, there are still two spaces left!

Congratulations, Cruise! Try and negotiate some (regular) help from your families so that your wife/you both can get some rest. A lot of disturbed nights sleep lie ahead, but it's well worth it.

It's the big 3-0 for me today, had a nice lie in thanks to the wife and an enjoyable stress-free day so far. The boys sang Happy birthday in their sweet little voices, and I got a handy little flash disk and a couple of bars of chocolate out of the deal so far. The main celebration will be at the weekend, my brother and sister are coming a thousand miles to visit us, amongst other things. I guess I'm officially no longer trustworthy to the younger generation

Your team still only has two members and has not been added to the ladder. Come on guys, let's have some fun!

OK, the match has been rescheduled to December 4th at 1930 GMT. Who can make it?

Don't I know it We're sort of planning on four eventually, since with three, one will usually get left out. THen again, we don't know whether a fourth will ever come, since all three pregnancies so far were against the odds, according to the doctors.

OK, due to the members of team alpha wing experiencing connection problems, the match will be rescheduled to either next weekend or the weekend after. Two individual duels were successfully conducted, however, and the player scores table and fleet database have been updated accordingly.

We're going to need an umpire, for the team match at 7.30pm GMT (1 hour from this post) at least, ideally for the duel as well (at 7pm GMT, half an hour from this post). Any volunteers?

Using the performance settings instead of quality settings has been known to cause stability problems with ati cards. Can you be a little more specific than ati agp in your profile?

OK, see you then

OK Cloaking or not?

OK, Casey, thanks for letting us know. Anyone want to take up the duelling slot tomorrow (7pm GMT)? You can face either myself or Marc.

Team S.C.I.D. has only two members registered in it, and I know there are more of you who want to get involved in fleet play. Please create an account at http://www.bcfleets.net using the same user name as here and join your team, otherwise you will be unable to take part in fleet league activities. Chaos is coming- answer the call to arms and defend the honour of your fleet!

That wasn't exactly what she was getting at... I see Mordax has joined team Spectre now. He has been added to the individual player stats table. Anyone else wanting to get in on some league action?

you are psting a tech support problem, but don't have your system profile in your signature. here is how to do it. Without a detailed system profile, we have no way of knowing what is causing the problem.

OK, is anyone else going to sign up to team spectre at bcfleets.net besides Eclipse and Chavik? I'm sure you have other people who want to get involved.

And mine.

Two intelligent and positive reviews- there is hope for the reviewing industry yet

no, it's not and never has been possible in any BC/UC game. The Communications computer is for reading reports from your crew and for incoming scripted messages. There's no way to communicate with AI characters other than to give them orders (when you reach a high enough rank). Whether this will ever be implemented in a future release, only SC can tell you that. All we know is that it would take a huge amount of work to implement a worthwhile conversation feature (that's not just choose set responses from a menu, which gets boring quickly) Welcome to the forums and our little galaxy, by the way

OK, duel conducted successfully and individual scores table updated.

OK, Marc is here in the GameCQ lobby ready for his duel with Remo, and Jack is present and ready to act as umpire, but no sign of Remo so far. I'm off to bed, just remember to send me the log afterwards, guys.

I enjoy them every day- I specifically changed profession to one I could do at home (from teaching to translating/proof-reading) to maximise the time I can spend with them. Sometimes it means we're a little short on finances, but it's worth every extra minute, and both the boys are benefitting enormously.