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Nice video. I didn't notice that you were using the map to target select and had edited it out till you pointed it out...I thought you were just really clever at selecting the next target. Question...what difficulty are you playing on? Those ships went down very easily. Do you hae the diff...

But if we do assume its length is correct and its mass is wrong, we're back to the problem I mentioned before. Even if it's density is stupidly low (i.e. it has almost no armor, and massive amounts of empty space on the inside), it still is at a minimum 130 times more massive than the Vesuvius...

I agree about "Flight of the Arrow"...it's probably my favorite mission in the game. Or at least, really close to it. I think my top 5 are: * Flight of the Arrow * Rescue Run * Armageddon (if only for the exchange between Freyrs and Trigger, but it's also an awesomely designed mission) * First...

Dundradal links to the thread where I was developing the branching guide. The CIC actually hosted the finished (well, nearly finished...I'm still open to fixing mistakes if anyone finds any and reports them) guides. The "quick reference" flowchart is here...

I'm still not buying 22 km. The whole mass issue scuttles things. Mass scales roughly with the cube of length, for ships with similar aspect ratios. If the Vesuvius is 1.6 km and 240,000 tonnes, then a 22 km ship with roughly the same density should be about 2,600 times more massive...or...

Many such things bother me about the movie. There are a ton of little references that are supposed to make it feel more like "iconic wing commander" but miss the boat because they don't *quite* fit in the continuity that had been established to date by the games. The fighters could have just as...

Heh. The first time I completed WC3, I was a freshman in college. My roommate watched me beat the game (he didn't play himself, but had read on GameFaqs or something how one beat the game and what happened so that he could have a bunch of snide comments saved up for me...like mocking the...

There's also a line in the WC1 manual (and a mechanic in the game) where, if you expend your fuel, you can still fly at 50 kps on "reserves" and your afterburners stop working (only happened to me once...luckily I had already taken down all the Kilrathi in that mission). This could be...

I'm not sure I agree with the basic premise in this thread. First, you kind of cherry pick in your sci-fi selection. How about Babylon 5? Humans do not "outsmart superior aliens" there...humans are shown as technologically inferior to several races, who continuously kick humans butts when...

If you think no-one has ever complained about the bad science of Star Wars/Star Trek, etc., you've clearly never looked around on these newfangled interwebs much. :-) There are entire websites dedicated to complaining about bad science in science fiction. And actually, Babylon 5 made a...

We don't know how "shields" work, but they almost certainly are *not* using atmospheric effects to create some kind of pressure field, or else they wouldn't work in space (where there is not atmospheres)...at least, not unless they work by the ship continuously spraying gas or plasma out, which...

Minor nitpick, but there are no shockwaves in space. A shockwave is a moving step change in density and pressure that propagates through a medium like the atmosphere. There is simply no medium (or at least, not a sufficiently dense medium) in space to transmit a shockwave. The only way a...

@Mace That's true, and a good point. However, I don't think that is what is really guiding my dislike of Prinze. To be honest, I never thought of "me" as "Christopher Blair". I always thought of Christopher Blair as the canonical character that took the place of "me" in the canonically...

Good post. I mainly agree on Transformers. The fact that the CGI-generated robots were better and more emotive actors than the human characters says volumes. And the low-brow humor simply didn't work at all... On the WC movie, my main complaint (other than Freddie Prinze Jr.) is that...

The pirate base mission is one of the hardest you'll fly in a while. I remember the first time I beat it...my wingmen had been all shot down, my ship was shot up, and then I ran out of AB fuel right around the time the Militia showed up to help with the last wave of pirates. I limped over to...

Welcome to the club of Standoff players! Standoff is way harder than any of the official Wing Commander games, which is part of its charm. You actually have to get good at it to progress through the game, so it's not like any kid can grab a joystick and save the universe. Combining the...

Difficult question, because I liked them all. I think I'd have to say WC4. For me it breaks down like this... I tend to like storytelling first, gameplay second, and pretty flashies (graphics, etc) last. WC1 was of course the game that started it all...but like many "origination games" it...

This probably isn't terribly helpful, but from a cursory Wikipedia search, it seems like the forgat for .obj files is pretty straighforward (I assume they're ASCII?). .3ds files are binary and a little more complex, but nothing crazy...the fundamental way 3d objects are stored is the...

Something I've wondered. The CIC currently makes a fully playable version of WC1 available for free download, with EA's permission, if I recall correctly (it was the version bunded with a copy of PC magazine, or something like that?) If WC1 is one of the games that GOG releases...do you...

An incomplete list of things to do or not to do if you're worried about your personal data getting data mined: 1). Get rid of your cell phone 2). Cancel all credit cards 3). Stop using debit cards. ... 5). Cancel any Twitter, Facebook, or other social networking accounts ... 8). Cancel...