Commander Blake

my easiest explanation, although I'm probably totally wrong for the gravity drive, is that it has something to do with magnets...using the magnetic field of somthing to manuver through...almost like a sub through water...although not that simple...anyway thats my $0.04...I added an extra two as a tip, because I havn't had a discussion like this for a while...

I dont think anyone mentioned it, but all of the elite series, I think, I havn't played much of the origional ones, but Frontier 2 and Frontier first encounters both had a GREAT newtonian physics model, and great combat too...manual control in every direction, and even turrets and forward and aft guns in some craft...even when you wanted to pick up cargo pods, you had to match velocity to pick it up...that was a challange...I still play it sometimes, and if you can ignore the good for it's time graphix, then its a great game, although a bit tedious till you get a good ship...(you could buy new ships once you got enough money, it was a bit like privateer, but better...anyway...great game, yadayada yada it's free, yada yada yada, may have some trouble running it...yada yada yada...goto theunderdogs.org I think they have the link...

under turrets, you have 8, but you only described 6...heh...do the math... [ 01-07-2002: Message edited by: Hal-9000 ]

hehe, I have the official? starwars reference guides, most of them anyway, I've got the one on vehicles and ships which is my favorite(i've spent sleepless nights dreaming of owning a cloakshape fighter, with attached hyperdrive) anyway, cool...thats about all i've got to say...

AT&T is terrible, I had their $20 for unlimited dialup for a while, and all of a sudden with NO notice, I started getting HUGE bills, well, I found out about this, turns out they switched it to $20 a month for 150 hours, well, little old me, just leaving it connected all the time, had to go on pb&j for about a month just to pay the bills, I got it switched to the 7/7 offer, which was fine, but when I got my new comp and installed the latest dialup software, I got an ad banner wtf? well, on my old comp, I used the old dialup software with no banner, no prob, but the new stuff was terrible, it messed with ICQ and did things to netscape(I now use IE mostly)..not to mention I couldn't play any multiplayer games, I"m switching today or tomarrow...good riddance, although I havn't had the tech support trouble that you have, but they don't know jack about anything, they're answer to everything is reboot and try again, reboot and try again, ok, well, try reinstalling this, reboot and try again, ok, looks like your gonna have to reinstall windows, reboot and try again...heh, no bloody way i'm going through all of that for 56k connection that usually connects at 22000, and has 1...only 1 access number, no backups, not alternates, just 1...oh, did I mention that since I switched to att, I've been getting triple the spam mail I used to get? oh well, it's late, and I"ve got to meet the relatives tomarrow...bah.

umm, E5, if I"m not mistaken, that sound something like the eclipse from the starwars books(without the superlaser)...of course I'd have get out my starwars reference books though, and theyre packed away in the attic.

ok, sorry to get off topic...but what's a sunflash doing running from an aestrom, unless you just tried to take a station, or ram something big till it went boom, the sunflash can take almost anything(anything I've come up against...) even stormcarriers with full fighter complement deployed, I've taken them, then lead their fighters close to a station, hehehe, of course I coulda taken the fighters too, but it was a waste of my time... oh well, and btw, be sure to land softly, I took my integrety down to 75 trying to land one time, in a CC.

I've actually done that before, "Hal-9000, Commander, 172832348. Name rank and serial number?" ok, so I haven't used serial number, yet, but I have said Hi, I'm commander Hal? who are you? irl, they thought I was crazy oh, and, *hovers his finger over his g/f waiting for tips to appear* oh it doesn't work, OUCH, she just broke my finger! [ 01-03-2002: Message edited by: Hal-9000 ]

I would make a light carrier/super cruiser It'd be alot like the starcarrier super cruiser, but have maybe like 2 fighters. and 15 marines. or even one fighter would be cool, just as a little sports car I could take out on joyrides around insurgent bases while my drones were filling up.

rp Hi jeffery, don't feel bad, the sunflash is such a powerful ship, it's addicting, just try not to use it. I myself, am terribly damaged in a megaron, and I feel great, because I"m not using a sunflash. Next game, I will try to use a super cruiser, they seem cool... /rp [ 01-01-2002: Message edited by: Hal-9000 ]

right on...woo....power to the AE's....and all other things... I think the future of BC will be good, with more and more newbies, some good, some bad, and some ugly, more xp's, and a few challanges we will all have to pull together to get over. I wish people here a happy new, 365 days, 52 weeks, 12 months 4 seasons, or year, whatever you wanna call it, hope everyone has a great time, and To SC, most of all, please, please, for the love of Galcom, take a moment from your comp, to have a glass of champagne, and kiss your wife, and let your kids know you still acknowledge their existance. I swear, it'll only take a few seconds. Cya Gamcomers, insurgents, raiders, earthcomers, policers, traders, diplomats, commercials, explorers, and anything else I've missed, of every species, race, religious preference, color, or anything else, to say it more simply bye everybody, or nobody if thats your case. I'll see ya in the next year.

yes, I too had the same problem, rp *stands up* Hi, my name is blake, and I have been off the sunflash for 2 days. *everyone else* Hi blake. *sits down* /rp yes, just get yourself psyched up about having fighters and more marines to command, and go with a megaron, it's almost as good as a sunflash and has fighters. then, slowly, transition on to larger, slower ships, till you get to a stormcarrier,(which I havn't even tried yet, although I have destroyed a few) [ 01-01-2002: Message edited by: Hal-9000 ]

What about Jingle Klaxons, and Deck the corridors with raider entrails? Oh, I know, Deck the corridors with raider entrails, fa la la la la la la you're dead. Tis the time to be happy, fa la la la la la la you're dead. Don we now our vacuum suit apparel, fa la la la la la la you're dead...well, it pretty much goes on and on like that... just a suggestion... not as good as your night before christmas

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: Yeah!! I wanna know too yea...umm...ditto...heh...if I had more than one computer that was above 100mhz...I could dco this too...but right now...nope..maybe in a few years...

yea, why wont the moons follow me home?...I like them...I"ll feed them!..really I will!...hmm...dont think I'll wash them though...all that moon dust...ick...

hmm, maybe he is telling the truth...maybe the AI is smarter than we all think...they stay away from reviewers...just to PO SC....this is kinda a scary thought...but they are rebelling against their maker..hehe...which defys all logic...but anywho...I feel that while horribly flawed...the reviewer does have a right to an opinion, as anyone on here...I personally love the game, along with everyone else on here, thats great...but he doesn't like it...or not as much as we do...thats fine too...he doesn't have to play the game... anyway....I'm gonna go contiue repairing...

Terran Raider, launched from Lennis(sp?)...pixan(sp?) station... sunflash class heavy cruiser the UCV-Katie Sweet(dont ask...it's my g/f...hehe) I run around tractoring defenceless cargo ships into the station...get a tidy profit...I manage to do that till a mk3 comes along...I've taken them...so I hj over to it...it sends out a couple of fighters...big deal...I make the bc go boom... and take out the fighters with my pta...I order my shuttle to do a cargosweep... just then...those terrible words..."Somethings out there"...I run around franticly trying to find something...then, a firestorm uncloaks...bah...big deal, I"ve taken these before too...I rush over to it...and let loose some PTA/IOD fire...kablooy!...I took a bit of damage...but not much...I run to pixan...but seeing a few more ships have jumped in(enough to destry pixan itself)I just buy the spare parts and make a break for the planet...I run down to my previously deployed drones, and get them up...I transfer all the cargo to one shuttle along with a few choice members of my crew...and myself...I decide to let the CE have the ship to repair while I do a little trading...At this point it's getting late and I decide I've had enough so I save and quit for the night...maybe some more to this tomarrow...oh, and I too my first ride in a CAB...love it...although dont know how it would hold up in a fight...I drove it under the arch my CC made while landed...what I sight... [ 12-14-2001: Message edited by: Commander Blake ]

ummm, does this mean that there will never be manual docking?...*sniff*...sorry to be off topic..I don't have any pics...

Yea, sorry, the noobs are great...(as some people consider me one, so I"m great too!...hehe...j/k) anyway, I can handle a good chewing out, unless i've had just a bad day, you would probably get a fairly rude reply, which I would probably edit 5 mins later, and apologize for the next hour, and be really sorry for the next day...(since I'd probably be banned..heh) anyway, great noobs, great game, great vets, lets play....

I consider my self a pre-vet, look at when I reged...I do not post too much, but I have been posting more now that bcm has come out, before this year, I would get on here maybe once a week and read for a few hours all the posts that I"ve missed...it was fun...now I"m checking everyday, not many people know me, and I know some people consider me a newb, just for my lack of posts, but I am really not a newb...

I get in my truck and think its a shuttle, nothing like towing somthing behind you, or dropping of a mining drone(mom at the grocery store) for some well needed supplies. And manual docking...(in the garage)Sweet!...hehe...I have a good time, especially dodging the laser fire on emptey spaceways(dodging bugs on country roads)...oh and watch out for the mines(potholes)...god, I have too much fun driving my truck...I did actually try to fire at the car in front of me, using the cruise control buttons on the steering wheel...hehe... Blake, Out!

quote:Originally posted by Tyrn: who isn't "guilty" of using it? I can claim, I have NEVER towed my cc with a shuttle, well, once, but my engine was destroyed and I didn't have enough parts to fix it up to where i could hyper, anyway, great job SC...We love you!!! *notices his girlfriend standing behind him*, umm...but not as much as you honey...heh...no, wait, come back...awww...oh well...at least I still have my faithful crew... anyway, in case you couldn't tell, this was all a joke...I do have a g/f though...and I have forgotten to call her once...but she was ok...she understands my addiction to games...heh... anyway, I think the shuttle towing thing is a great idea, but I always thought the mining drones mined a little slow???...oh well, I'm not complaining... again THANK YOU SC!!!

I have a MS sidewinder FF 2, I love it, but it just doesn't seem right to be flying a BC with a joystick...I like the startrek type setup, no joystick, just a bunch of buttons, so my joystick is my keyboard...it just feels more natural...if I ever get up enough courage to fly an interceptor into battle, then I might use it, but only then...but for most other games, the MS ff2 is GREAT...especially MS games(I wonder why?)...

ok, I"m reviving this thread, its a good one and needs to continue, so, heres a story for me, that shows that some commanders have good ideas, but don't carry them out well...AI commanders mostly... I had just gotten through killing a transport as a raider in a sunflash, The ole ICV-Shock Wave, and I were cleaning up any valuables out of the wreckage, I sent out my shuttle on a cargo sweep mission while I recharged the little bit of damage done to my shields...(was down to about 70%) by their escort...when all of a sudden I'm being fired upon, I didn't realize what was happening, so I hit full thrusters and just started manuvering wildly looking for a target, I scanned through and found a Bc mk3!!!!...whoa...talk about a supprise, he must have cloaked and snuck up behind me, I was already heavily damaged I swung around powered up my IOD and PTA systems,and let them loose. My now terrified NO in the shuttle was running around scared...I called him back to the ship, and he mangaged to dock in all this...I managed to get onto his tail, but he hit my engines good and outran me, I fired a couple of vagrants at him, disabled, and then BOOM!...I killed a bc mk3 who sprised me in a sunflash, wow...I check my logisix, heh...I'm damaged terribly, I repair my shuttle bay and get a shuttle out to tow me, as I don't have enough parts to reapir my engine so I can jump...I make it back to the station where the shuttle docks and I limp twards it at a snails pace of 100(whatever unit SC uses to measure speed) I am jumped by an interceptor, one of the bc mk3's interceptors, I fatal a couple of missiles and make short work of him...I managed to get to the station where I am currently waiting repairs to complete...I thank SC that my reactor didn't breach.. ok...I gotta go, but thats pretty much the story...bye all...

This game is undefined, it is not a strategy game, not an action game, not an rpg, but a mix of all of them...SC is not trying to copy off of a game, homeworld, that in my opinion is MUCH worse than this...although I did have fun the 20 minutes it took me to get bored with it... [ 11-28-2001: Message edited by: Commander Blake ]