cdrhardboot Posted June 8, 2004 Report Share Posted June 8, 2004 Hey all, ive been playing UC for a couple months, read the manual/appendices/tutorial a billion and 5 times, spent hours on this board.. but im kinda stupid, so if i step on toes or rehash old stuff, my apologizes. First off, i love this game, FINALY something besides a spaziod twitch shooter to play!(ya ya.bc, i didnt know!). The depth and openness is great, blah blah, just insert general butt kissing here . Love it. Ok, here are something that im hopeing i am missing or misunderstanding or just dont like or think would be nice. Why? Becuase im hopeing this game keeps going, keeps getting better. AI- Why is it that everyone(marines, captians, pilots)are so bloody suicidal! Now it makes sense to me that a commander of a carrier, cruiser,etc would have the freedom to make thier own decisions, even if its a stupid one. Although it does realy get on my nerves that if i jump into a system with an enemy base i am garuteed to lose a ship, becuase one of them will HJ to the base before i can issue him the 'defend/escort me' cmnd. And for my marines or pilots to disobey orders to run halfway across the galaxy/planet to attack something.. well, its just not right. A simple system of an "engage range" would do the trick, or "engage only if attacked" type of thing. Planets- While i love that they are huge, the terrain textures for bases/citys are.. strange. They look great from up high, but in close its.. erm.. ugly. The bases themselves are extremely spread out(building to building, not base to base). While i think i understand why trees dont have collision detection, it would be nice if they did. Cargo- I dont like it! I should be able to store what i want where i want! Luanch Bay - Why is it i cant capture enemy fighters and fill an empty luanch bay? Is it something with how they dock? different systems for different ships? Brig - How can an unarmed prisoner escape from a cell? Ive been in jail, and there is no way of getting out.. unles you are part of the Fantastic Four. Im just guessing that by 3030 the prison cells are even more secure. It would also be nice to have a 'Prison' button in tactical(like the medibay one), to be able to quickly monitor it and assign marines, etc. Done. Some of this may be trivial, but the better it gets the more people playing the more money the better it get the more money and some private servers to keep the community alive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capeachy Posted June 8, 2004 Report Share Posted June 8, 2004 1. Your marines and pilots are the few, the proud and the brave to the point that they will throw their lives at your mercy so you can order them to do just about anything. Personally this is much more gratifying than trying to train Resnig to do anything right. Commander: You there! hand to hand fighting with that intruder! Marine: Yes sir! Commander: And if you die, the next one can do the same thing, if you're the last one, then you can shoot him! Marines: Sir yes sir! Three bags full sir! 2. Graphics are pretty damn good already for a game of this scale. Get out of the mud and back into the com chair 3. Capturing ships - this one I think is for a couple of reasons. One for balancing the ships. Two, I don't think you can really do this in real life. Your engineers are trained to work on your crafts only. You can't imagine the Russian stealing an American fighter and start flying it the next day into combat. It just doesn't work that way. What you can do, is let your secret Area 51 base strip it to pieces to look for improvements but that's a little beyond the scope of this game. 4. Brigs - something to give your diehard marines to do and for your AE and engineers to scurry underneath their chairs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdrhardboot Posted June 8, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2004 ah, #3 makes sense, thats the logic i needed, thanks! and i think i fixed my sys info now edit-- the reason some of the info is missing is i kinda forgot my admin pass to my bios... im lookin for the backdoor. lol [ 06-08-2004, 05:05 PM: Message edited by: cdrhardboot ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ENS2018 Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 quote: the reason some of the info is missing is i kinda forgot my admin pass to my bios... im lookin for the backdoor.When I went looking for my BIOS information, I found it using the DXDiag tool. It lists most of the information you need right on the first page. Hope it helps. Oh, by the way; this is my first post, but I've been reading for a while. Great game, I can't get enough... I'm not worthy of it Later, ENS2018 a.k.a. Tony [i'll post my ship name after I figure out a good one] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ditto00 Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 quote:edit-- the reason some of the info is missing is i kinda forgot my admin pass to my bios... im lookin for the backdoor. lolThe backdoor is inside of your computer. Look for a jumper that has a setting PW or password or reset. Your computer or motherboard manual should have info on it. Switch the jumper to that setting, turn on your computer, wait till the reset message, them put it back the way it was. That will reset the bios to factory configuration. Some jumpers dont have a PW setting, so you have to just remove it (strongly advise you contact the factory for this one, this cuts power to your bios, and if the capacitors run out of power, your bios will die, then you have to configure it COMPLETELY, ranging from the bus speed to the ram type) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Siemens Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 Wait, WAIT, WAIT! On certain mainboards, you MUST NOT turn on your computer while this jumper has been switched. In that case, turn the power plug, and set the jumper for just a few seconds. Read your manual if in any doubt! Otherwise, you risk seriously damahing you mainboard. Best regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
street228 Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 hummm.... just a few(3 or 4) years ago, I took the batteries off the motherboards, and shorted the positive to negative battery terminals together(on the unplugged motherboards.), to drain the caps and wipe the bios passwords. Setting them up..was never that difficult....all one had to do, was put most of the hard drive settings to auto, and tell it how much memory it had...the rest was pretty simple.....I would only advise it, if you know what you are doing, or don't mind learning through trial and error. we had some of our engineers, set their own passwords on their old machines and then the company upgraded the computers. ALL the Pentiums and pentium2 ,machines were given to my department. We always get the low end machines, for our tech's, test benches. The Engineers get all the NEW stuff. I cant wait till they all get a new P4, and I get some more P3's in here!! UC at LUNCH!!!! [ 06-22-2004, 06:22 PM: Message edited by: street ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reanor Posted June 23, 2004 Report Share Posted June 23, 2004 quote:Originally posted by cdrhardboot: Hey all, ive been playing UC for a couple months, read the manual/appendices/tutorial a billion and 5 times, spent hours on this board.. but im kinda stupid... You are not far from the truth... quote:Originally posted by cdrhardboot: First off, i love this game, FINALY something besides a spaziod twitch shooter to play!(ya ya.bc, i didnt know!). The depth and openness is great, blah blah, just insert general butt kissing here . Love it.Why don't you just drop this BS? quote:Originally posted by cdrhardboot: Ok, here are something that im hopeing i am missing or misunderstanding or just dont like or think would be nice. Why? Becuase im hopeing this game keeps going, keeps getting better. .I don't think it will get much better for you. You played all of them and for you they all look the same. I think next sequel E2E won't be much different for you. So don't bother. quote:Originally posted by cdrhardboot: AI- Why is it that everyone(marines, captians, pilots)are so bloody suicidal! Now it makes sense to me that a commander of a carrier, cruiser,etc would have the freedom to make thier own decisions, even if its a stupid one. Although it does realy get on my nerves that if i jump into a system with an enemy base i am garuteed to lose a ship, becuase one of them will HJ to the base before i can issue him the 'defend/escort me' cmnd. And for my marines or pilots to disobey orders to run halfway across the galaxy/planet to attack something.. well, its just not right. A simple system of an "engage range" would do the trick, or "engage only if attacked" type of thing. Hmmm, see here I don't know what to say. If you have read manuals/tutorials/appendixes and everything else billion and 5 times and keep telling and asking these things then you either are - 1-dumb or 2-thoughtfully trying to insult game developer and game comunity by trashing the most important and big part of the game - AI. You probably have to read all those manuals at least 5 more times. quote:Originally posted by cdrhardboot: Planets- While i love that they are huge, the terrain textures for bases/citys are.. strange. They look great from up high, but in close its.. erm.. ugly. The bases themselves are extremely spread out(building to building, not base to base). While i think i understand why trees dont have collision detection, it would be nice if they did. Ugly? What about if you try to use more decent video card? Or add some AAs of AFs? IMHO with all the scope and variaty UC has pretty descent graphics... You just have to find right settings for your computer. quote:Originally posted by cdrhardboot: Cargo- I dont like it! I should be able to store what i want where i want! Luanch Bay - Why is it i cant capture enemy fighters and fill an empty luanch bay? Is it something with how they dock? different systems for different ships? If you would be less sarcastic you'd sound less pathetic. Well, you just funny... Why don't you build your own game, man? And don't forget to put collision detection on trees. That's the most important part.. lol. quote:Originally posted by cdrhardboot: Brig - How can an unarmed prisoner escape from a cell? Ive been in jail, and there is no way of getting out.. unles you are part of the Fantastic Four. Im just guessing that by 3030 the prison cells are even more secure. It would also be nice to have a 'Prison' button in tactical(like the medibay one), to be able to quickly monitor it and assign marines, etc. Your prisoners escaped? Man you are so funny... Why do you think they've escaped from prison on your ship? My prisoners for example after I reach the station are transported to place where they belong. Maybe you should use more durable bars in your ship's prison? Or maybe your've spent so much time in space that all your crew got tired and pissed of you and just gave up their duties... Yeah sounds like a good explanation. quote:Originally posted by cdrhardboot: Done. Some of this may be trivial, but the better it gets the more people playing the more money the better it get the more money and some private servers to keep the community alive. I think you had to much of rubbish .Otherwise you wouldn't be so rude and disrespectful. If you would have read all the information about the game so many times you would have more respect for it's developer and game community every one of which enjoys every aspect of the game. If your point here is to start liking the game - read all the information about it fully at least ONCE, ALL OF IT. Go through tutorial using training commander mission. Run game in windowed mode and use appendix while playing to learn what all those thousands of items in the game do and mean. And believe me after you do it you will come back to the forum and will be sorry for what you've just posted. Try to learn that some games require more attention and longest time to familiarize yourself with all the features and possibilities. It's always easy to trash game on the forums, but go and learn the game first to be worthful to trash it. Right now from all you've posted me and many others we think you don't know a damn thing about this game yet. So good luck. I hope you'll have another chance here. [ 06-22-2004, 09:37 PM: Message edited by: Meras ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ditto00 Posted June 23, 2004 Report Share Posted June 23, 2004 Um meras, I know he was ranting on UC, but he did seem to do it in a respectful way so IMHO I don't think that such negative posts are necessary, even though what he is talking about is already covered in other posts in the forum. So are you sure you want to go at him in such an agressive way? (I'm not trying to start a fight meras, I just don't want the flaming to start from him, then leading to you, then resulting in SC shutting the topic down, so sorry if I offend you) Cdrhardboot, like I said, you ARE just repeating other posts in the forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reanor Posted June 23, 2004 Report Share Posted June 23, 2004 You are probably right, I will remove offensive sentences. But those were my feelings after I've read his post and I had a right to express them because I played UC and have my opinion about it. And I wouldn't agree with you that his post is filled with respect and kindness. He talks like if UC would be his ORDER to 3000AD and he is not satisfied with the end product. His way is very far from being respectful, my friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ditto00 Posted June 23, 2004 Report Share Posted June 23, 2004 quote:Wait, WAIT, WAIT! On certain mainboards, you MUST NOT turn on your computer while this jumper has been switched. In that case, turn the power plug, and set the jumper for just a few seconds. Read your manual if in any doubt! Otherwise, you risk seriously damahing you mainboard. Best regardsHe is right, I forgot... quote:hummm.... just a few(3 or 4) years ago, I took the batteries off the motherboards, and shorted the positive to negative battery terminals together(on the unplugged motherboards.), to drain the caps and wipe the bios passwords.YOU SHOULD NOT DO THAT FOR ANY REASON UNLESS THE MANUAL SAYS SO!!! (which I doubt will EVER say that) It's complicated why, but I'll try to explain. You can fry transistors because capacitors like to drain REALLY FAST in an incredible surge, and the battery is usually one of the only things that keeps it from surging because it has to go through the chemical process in the battery. Try touching the terminals of one and you will see what I mean. I guarentee you will never do it again. What you want to do is ground the capacitor, which drains it safely and instantainously. If you want more info on draining it, contact an electrician or electronics engineer. quote:Setting them up..was never that difficult....all one had to do, was put most of the hard drive settings to auto, and tell it how much memory it had...the rest was pretty simple.....I would only advise it, if you know what you are doing, or don't mind learning through trial and error. You are thinking of the configuration menu. I am talking about the Factory Settings. Its complicated beyond reason and will make your head spin, and one wrong setting and you will most likely ruin your chips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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