Badman

Not once for me so far

The whole universe is one big moving piece of art. Screenshots that become wallpaper from any moment "in-game" are worthy of note, and I have taken more within GCESSE that ANY other game ..... EVER. I've found ways of making it "sorta" behave according to my laws .... but only if I behave within it's laws (it's "sorta-ness"). Very AD-LIBITUM & SILENTIUM all in one breath. I'm sure there must be a commonality with the other AI, but I have NO EMOTIONAL BOND with those, so I do not pay attention to or analyse their motivation within the same context. The only exception to this is if they are sitting ducks, in which case I cast assumptions of designer medication or other over-prescribed general left-right hemisphere neural-pet's :-)))))))))))))))))) .... but I digress. I do NOT understand their motivation, and often find it intriguing as to why they do the shit they do ...... EVEN WHEN I ASSUME TO EXTRAPOLATE THE ALGORITHM. (Are not assumptions dangerous!?) There is something "fuzzy" going on here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SC ----- YOUR AI, ............................................ My Wing mates ............................................ are bizarre ...................... BIZARRE M&*TTHEREFFFFUCCC^&^%&*WERRR%^%$S ..... sometimes .... But ....... I LOVE THEM NONE THE LESS ..... DEREK, you are a strange, strange man. P.S. IF ... over the years ....... anyone else has managed to inject into the AI ...... you are also accountable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Someone mentioned IWAR and Freespace SCP ...... got them both ..... Freespace SCP is amazing .... soooo many fan made mods etc. And IWAR .... got it running in 3DFX wrapper and it is one of the best games ever made.

Evochron Legends is a excellent game .... The planet scales are all wrong and it's nowhere near as "Military" (i.e. Microprose-ish) as 3000ad stuff but still an excellent space sim by a solo developer. Highly recommended. But personally, if you don't have Echo Squad SE I would suggest that instead, because now with the DLC2 pack you can free-form till your hearts content ...... amazing.

SC, thought you would like this. It's the new updated version of the 80's jingle "Don't copy that floppy". I'm not sure if these things have that much of an impact, but it certainly can't hurt. http://ve3d.ign.com/videos/55373/PC/Pirate...09-Complete-Cut

Perfect ...... it works. I must say that I think the Vandal looks the best, it's my weapon of choice. I just sit there in space sometimes in F9 just watching the light ripple over the hull, nice. For some reason it does it for me more than X3's graphics. "Grittier" perhaps. Thanks again SC for all the updates and also for your expedited support on all issues, second to none. . . . Now we all have to get some multi-player action going on.

Hi SC & Team, As you may already know from my forum excitement that I have DLC2 up and running AOK. One problem though. Whenever I select any Starlance mission, the game loads then starts in space WITHOUT a cockpit. If I select F1 to cycle through forward views in an attempt to get the cockpit back the game dumps to desktop at the moment when the cockpit would display. **** All other fighters work perfectly **** Have tried completely re-installing GCES-SE (I use revo un-installer so there are no registry items left), then re-installing with and without the first DLC1, same result both ways. Looking through the "assets" folder I noticed that the Starlance files are the originals, but the other 3 are newer. Sorta makes sense but just an observation. I'm happy without the Starlance cos' I've already spend 100+ hours in the puppy but would like it working for "completeness". Regards, Craig (Badman).

Starlord .... for sure, lets do it. I've just got Wing Commander Prophecy running in OpenGL 1600 1200 with the Hi-res movie pack, also the Wing Commander Standoff expansion stuff for Secret Ops. Came back here after a bit of a break from Echo to find the DLC2 with the new cockpits and sandbox ......... I love Derek, I love Derek (metaphorically of course)

Thank you sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much for the DLC2 Derek. You have blown my mind.

Thanks :-))))))

I'm making the universal symbol on METAL right now. Indeed ...... Pulse of the maggotbattlecruiser engines.

I'm new too but and old hand at BC from Version 1 and a gamer since pre-Atari 2600 and Vic 20 / C64 (I'm talking some of the Z80 jobbies and Apple etc). Loved the Amiga scene too, particularly the demo scene. I'm pretty solid in assembler for 6502 and 68000 (so very useful these days), and can cut some nice C. Just a brief bio to show my character type, and probably why I adore 3000AD games so much. Anyway everyone .... HI.

The Nine ... just like Slipknot :-)

How bizarre, and cool, seeing a 3000AD game on Steam. Yay I say, even to merely enlighten the masses via that pretty grey / brown viewer of the mainstream mass game market. I know you have access to the other electronic distribution methods, but Steam somehow feels "inside" your computer. Good call.

I'll play as well .....

Roger. I will and am :-) Just about to buy AAW, and have pulled down AOA (don't even know what it is ... excited).

OK, I'll try that specifically.

Yeah, told them to return to Carrier.

Sorry, I'm an idiot, they are stuck on Centris, Orion is the station.

Got my wing stuck on Orion and they cant leave. I've tried various orders .... even shooting them to get them to chase me, no luck. I was just being a tourist went down to planet surface for some lunch, and they followed me. Could just go back to and old full save I guess, but it's 4 hours old :-(

Supreme Cmdr Sir, did the Cockpit from GCESSE make it in? ... even just for the 1 ship? or would that be a bit disjointed. As I have already mentioned in other posts, I already own most of your stuff, but I so love the graphics in Echo Squad that I will buy this update just for the next engine. In the update docs it mentions "Assets" have come across ...........

AMD Phenom II x4 940 (3ghz), 4gb, ATI Radean 4870gt 512, Vista 32, raid 0 config. Catalyst 9.4. Just saw Derek's reply .... no way to change. I must say that the longer I play the less I notice ....

Well, from my point I view this is a gem. I know it is the culmination of your dream, so glad you got it done and polished. Those of us that REALLY love hardcore and deep simulators have always watched your stuff with such interest. I am so familiar with the BC method of control / execution now that I jumped right in and have not looked back. Have stopped playing everything else. I have a few friends that also love deep simulators, and they will be buying copies over the next few weeks .... I will make them. Again, Thanks. P.S. the engine development that you are evolving now (closer to the ground stuff) will one day hopefully find its way into Battlecruiser XXX, I for one would buy it.

Why do the planet clouds move so fast when viewed from space? Is this a multi-core CPU issue or by design? Can I slow them down to "real"? I know I can turn them off but that just break the immersion even more. They would be ripping the planet (and my ship) to shreds!!