Recent content by Phy

Typical Retro taunt: "Die, by the very weapons you a-"*KABOOM!* Me: "The weapons I adore won't even fit on your ship there, Sparky..."

Is there an upper limit to the number of ships it can generate at any given time? If there is, I think I was bumping up against it last night... It was in RF Masterson 2 (the patrol mission), with a couple anti-Kilrathi patrols laid over top of it. That mission's supposed to generate 3+3 Talons...

That's not quite the case, I'm afraid - what you "feel" and what you'd experience are two separate things, dependent on your craft's velocity and acceleration at the time. Because your immediate physical reference frame is the ship, you have to take into account what it's doing, and what you're...

Isn't the gun sound in-game the same sound file as one of the other guns? Or is my head screwed on backwards? If that's the case, I'd lean towards your first answer, and if not, towards the second. And just to muddy the original issue a little further here... What about Privateer? Moving at...

I'm kinda stalled on Mission 3 of the Taryn Cross segment in Privateer... you know, Kilrathi and Asteroids? The kitties aren't so much a problem as the weird physics dragging giant rocks into me, when I really ought to have dodged it, which leaves a big hole in my shields, which the Kilrathi...

The crew on one half decides to start jumping up and down in sync...

Not having to fight your way out of an asteroid-surrounded pirate base on a contraband run would be one good reason. (Never really could get the afterburner/joystick trick to work.)

They never DO run like hell... :D I will give 'em this - they break pursuit if you don't activate fanatic status by being in a mission against them, or shoot 'em up a little or something. But still, and I'm sure everyone who's played Privateer has done it, there was that one time I took a...

It's not so much the gun control, as it is common sense. Consider: The Talon is small, has generally weak guns, only a few missiles, and blows up really quickly. About the only thing it's got going for it is maneuverability. For most of the game, unless you're challenging yourself, you're...

I've been playing Privateer recently on my 386 (Thanks to those of you who gave me advice on how to deal with Stacker a couple months ago)... and I've noticed a fairly glaring problem with the AI: You're the most important person in the universe. Pirates will be making a run on a tasty and...

Had to register just to reply to this... You've messed up your accounting somewhere. It's most likely that your "force 6" will be countered by the force required to pump spent fuel into the combustion chamber. (Never mind that the idea of combusting exhaust gases is just bizarre. You'd need a...