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A space combat game in the Mass Effect universe might be decent.

Could be. The newest computer that I have used much that even possesses PS/2 ports was built in the twentieth century--the ability to reconnect may have been added to newer systems. All of my current systems have only USB and Firewire.

How new is your PC hardware? It may be that you have a PS/2 socket, but the "back end" where the socket connects to the rest of the system is being seen by the system as a virtual USB port or something.

No, it does not, but when your keyboard is disconnected, and then you put the plug back in, you have no keyboard input at all due to not being hot-pluggable, therefore except for the mouse you have no user input. Aside from what little you can do with mouse only, you thus can do nothing...

Yeah, now if only disconnecting the PS/2 plug did not automatically force you to lose your work . . .

A tank indeed--the Broadsword has the highest shields and armor compared to the attack power of its opponents of any flyable craft in the WC series.

The Secret Ops weapon loadout was fun, but I liked the Charging Mass Drivers--one fully-charged blast could obliterate anything lighter than a Moray in one hit, and anything up to a Manta in two.

My problem with PS/2 keyboards is that they are not hot-pluggable, which means that if your plug ever gets knocked out accidentally (or intentionally because somebody is being a jerk to you), you have no choice but to reboot and lose any progress since your last save.

"The Darkening" was entertaining enough to play, and I enjoyed that some of the non-plot missions had fun cinematic scenes, but it was no Privateer.

I like the sharpened-looking blades on the edges of the Dralthi's wings--they look ready to slice open any weakly-armored opponent.

Another thing is that a timeline that doesn't have the Confederation possessing jump drive until 2580 starts to come into conflict with the Kilrathi War timeline, since that leaves only fifty-odd years for expansion and colonization before the war begins, and a number of the colony worlds do not...

I do hope that, similar to Wing Commander's escort carriers, the Star Citizen ones retain the idea of the escort carriers having a better thrust-to-mass ratio than the big carriers (in other words, like how the Tarawa had destroyer-type engines built into it). Not that it should be able to...

I think the killboards just count kills since being assigned to the current ship/base, not kills since the beginning of the pilot's career.

I always wondered why they didn't use an unsigned variable and allow 255 kills instead. It's not like there is any situation where less than zero kills would be a valid value . . .

Nice. I don't have the kind of cash for buying all of the different craft up front, so I went with the Origin 315, which seems like a decent jack-of-all-trades for starting off (better all-around than the Aurora, at least).

Not only were 1/3 of the enemies in wC3 Darkets and a further 20% Dralthis, but they had pathetic shields and armor compared to even the Arrow, which meant that they were only a threat when at least three of them were gunning for you. Boosting their shields/armor to at least 75% as much as the...

We're talking about an entirely different scale of radiation here. A Quasar has radiation equivalent to a supernova, only instead of exploding once and then fading, it maintains that level for millions of years without a break. Getting within ten light years of it would melt any substance that...

Apparently "quasar" means something different in Wing Commander than in our world, because what we call a quasar is an object that puts out more radiation than the combined total of all objects in the average galaxy, and is suspected to be powered by a supermassive black hole (like those in the...

I love the scene from Maniac's autobiography there, showing how the entire Morningstar program was scrapped, design documents and all, during the False Armistice. It also shows us why the Morningstars were not even mentioned during WC3 and after, since not even the design data was left to allow...

Ah, too bad Maniac only got a one-liner here--I had been hoping for one of his usual anecdotes with a brief rant detailing his feelings about the craft.