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In general, when the link is directly relevant to the thread, it's fine. (How is "directly relevant" defined? If you have to stretch like Mr. Fantastic to reach the connection, it's not directly relevant. :p )

To the best of my knowledge the Thunderbolt II hasn't been featured in any WC game, fan or official. :p

At a guess, lacking a whole bunch of info needed to make a better judgment, there's no law covering it because it didn't happen enough to bring it to the attention of the MA legislature or judicial system. Another possibility (and, again, this is just a guess from an almost nonexistent amount...

It started out as a train wreck, why would you expect it to get any better with age? Pending input from any other staffers wanting to sacrifice IQ points, I'm throwing police tape around this accident scene.

Please don't bring fanon into these kinds of discussions. Nothing official has mentioned anything about the Morningstar's price tag. That it wasn't seen post-SO2 simply means that it wasn't seen post-SO2, not that it no longer was in use. It's a big freaking galaxy, there's nothing saying that...

Tachyon's biggest problem was that, unlike the inspiration (Privateer), it wasn't really an open-ended game. Once you completed all the missions, you couldn't even launch. Not helping any was the rather lackluster endings. I found both of them not very satisfying (for lack of a better term)...

It's still around. Dunno if it still has the shareware version that stamped "cheap bastard who won't buy our program" on any captured images. (No, that's not really what it says, but the effect is similar. :p )

Either you're being a not-very-clever joker, or your reading comprehension sucks, Kuhuha. Whichever it is, stop it.

It's not exactly impossible to find examples of a senior person overruling the decision of a junior member of an organization, "corporate" or not.

EA told the CIC to not make the Mythic data public, so there's nothing for others to do anything with.

No, I didn't mean the one broken down into 20MB chunks or whatever. There was one in 2 parts, the first being the executables, at 51MB, and the second the speech pack, 63MB. Looking at the CIC's files section, though, it doesn't look like the 2-part one is available for download, making the...

Hmm. Size isn't an issue for me (especially since I finished downloading the modded full install package a bit ago :D ), but I can't help but wonder if the enhancements could be applied to the "barebones" installer. Or, more importantly, would it be worth the effort?

Except they didn't. We're not talking about popping out a Liberty ship in a week or two during a global conflict. The Nimitz class, for example, started in the 70s, and they're still building them, over 3 decades later. Smaller warships come out more frequently, but not that much more. The...

Two words, LOAF: thermal bloom :D I'd imagine firing a plasma weapon (or, heck, any energy-type weapon) in an atmosphere would make for a lot more headache than just whatever's targeted (including the firing platform, particularly the way that one is mounted).

How, exactly, are you going to have global coverage with only "three or four" ships? That argument is only slightly less silly than keeping 2 BBs on the active roster. Also, with more smaller ships, you can better adjust the available capabilities to the actual requirements of the moment...

As a side note, the YAL-1 (the laser 747) weapon is totally useless against warships. It doesn't burn through or actually destroy the targeted missile, just heats up the missile's skin during the boost phase (when it's most vulnerable) until the structure is weakened so it can no longer...

I can see the convenience of such an option, if not available to the world at large. Some old biddy putting along at like 20 under the posted limit, on a one-lane road? *zot* Jackass cuts you off without so much as even a thought about the turn signal? *kaboom* Oh, what fun I could have with...

Even as something of a battleship fan, the odds of them once again being part of the fleet are rather on the low side. With a Nimitz-class carrier, you get anti-submarine, anti-air, anti-ship, and ground attack capability, all of the above out to several hundred of miles. With an Iowa-class...

What the brass may or may not "look favorably on" takes (or should take, anyway) a back seat to the needs of the service. If Gerald was needed elsewhere, he'd go elsewhere. There is more of a war than the immediate vicinity of the TCS Tiger's Claw, you know... :p

At times, I wonder if Tolwyn wouldn't have been scripted as "Admiral Asshole" in WC3 if they hadn't cast in that role an actor that has a tendency to portray assholish villain characters. Anyway, I saw the ad for WC3 in my Armada box, and I was like "yes, gotta have it!". My system at the time...