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Really? Money is no object? There are a number of pleasure planets in the Gemini sector that come highly recommended...

I don't really know, actually. I just remember reading it on the CIC news page. I haven't used GameTap - I think it's an online delivery service. I'm not really sure there are rules of thumb as to what gets you a cease and desist letter. Mostly that depends on how litigious the IP owner is...

Whoa, easy. I think maybe we're just talking past each other a little bit. There are some things that the show has done with the music that just beg for a nice, big, "wtf?!", most especially the "All Along the Watchtower" conceit. That definitely moves into the "wouldn't it be cool if"...

Oh, dear... not this again... Sorry. Long story short: Raptor is properly scaled in the Vision engine according to its statistics in Claw Marks. WC1 manual states that the Raptor is 36 meters long. That makes it the same length as a Broadsword. Eder scaled the model of the Raptor to...

One thing that hasn't been done very well or very often is strategic-scale WC. There is an impressive-looking WC4 conversion for Homeworld 2 that looks to be a good sit-down-and-play fleet combat mod, and the original WC: Armada pits 1 carrier against another carrier. I occasionally hear about...

Check the news archives on the CIC over the past few months - I think WC1 and WC4 are being released or have been released on GameTap. The Kilrathi Saga (WC1-3) is windows-compatible and is probably still for sale somewhere out there. As for cpyrite infr - uh, I dunno. It's not like that's...

Always awesome :) Of course, the problem is momentum. It's a very long way from idea to execution, especially if you're going to start from scratch. You planning to use an existing/available engine to do this? (FS2, Vision, or or Flight Commander, etc.) Because otherwise, you're going to...

True. There's an awful lot of... 'artiste' mentality going on behind the design of the show, and the podcasts give plenty of proof to that.

You're so easy to set off, LeHah. It's fun :p

Although the range of musical influences in BSG is so diverse as to feel discordant, I think it works on at least two levels. One, there are enough differences between the cultures of the 12 colonies. While they're all from the same "country" so to speak, I think it's appropriate in the sense...

I wish I'd known that. Thanks for the bit of trivia - if I ever get around to revisiting WC4, I'll probably use that bit of info. I did hit Seether with a Leech missile. Then I killed him with mines.

The one that happens if you managed to get one of your laser cannons ripped off? Never experienced it myself... Maybe Pliers could manage it.

How do you do that? Which version of WC1 do you play? I played PC-DOS version. Refire rate was decent but not enough to knock down a Gratha before it dumped the whole gun capacitor into Drayman. As I recall, it takes three paired shots just to knock down a Gratha's aft shields, let alone...

The scatter cannon kicks so much ass it's preposterous. It's a close second to the dust cannon.

Hornet's a fine ship for a leisurely dogfight. But for escort missions... two laser cannons just don't cut it when you're trying to distract a Gratha going full bore on a Drayman. "Stop that. It tickles." - Gratha pilot

It was the in-mission cutscene that convinced me there was no saving it.

Well, they weren't quite the same. The Sivar's proton accelerator gun had a long charge and lock time and could not be used against capital ships, only static targets. The PTC was reworked for lower yield and a charge fast enough to be used against capital ships. Given that the Kilrathi did...

Sure, matter of preference. I go after the Targus just to up my kill count, which is otherwise often appallingly low. Targu: one torpedo, for one kill on the scoreboard. The destroyers are juicier targets but I let my wingmen have them. For my 4 torps, I can get 4 kills for 4 Targu, or 2...

The Concordia is Tolwyn's ship. He spends a lot of time there. If any ship's going to be clean, it's that one.

If you don't know, maybe nobody does. My personal, completely unfounded and unsubstantiated guess, is that TCS Victory had a crazy captain once who used the Victory very much like a destroyer in ship-to-ship combat. She's not designed for ship-to-ship combat, but she does have a *capship...