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All of these excerpts from Maniac's autobiography make me wish I could read the entire thing from beginning to end. :D

A few ancient Mediterranean battles involved thousands of ships (e.g. the Trojan War and Helen having a "face that launched a thousand ships"). However, the "ships" in question were mostly galleys and other primarily oar-powered vessels weighing 200 tons or less. In the Age of Sail, even the...

Pulling a Maniac, eh?

Mystery Science Theater 3000 mantra: Repeat to yourself, it's just a show; I should really just relax.

Actually, all of the Zelda games except for the multiplayer Four Swords ones, do have carrying capacity limits for bombs and arrows. You can only carry so many (usually 10-30) at first, and you have to go find/earn/buy capacity upgrades (though once you get all of the upgrades, you will usually...

The quick-turning-without-blackout is because the fighters have inertial dampers installed which reduce the sensation of G-forces to a tolerable amount. In fact, in WC1, these are one of the systems that can be damaged in combat. It's not Newtonian, but neither is artificial gravity pointing 90...

I interpreted the phrase "saving missiles for a future mission" to mean thus: if you don't use the missiles, then they are added to your ammunition in the next mission. For example, if you had six missiles, and finished a mission with two of them remaining, then you would have the extra two the...

The swivel guns thing was done with the Excaliber--note that it had an auto-aiming mode in the game where you just have to face the enemy and didn't need to get it fully centered in your crosshairs. As for why other fighters didn't have it before, from a storytelling perspective either the A.I...

I've tried both ways, but from a pure gameplay perspective, Flint is the more useful, since you can select your own fighter and loadouts, but you are growing short on wingmen after you lose Cobra and Hobbes (and Vaquero as well if you chose to pursue Hobbes). Without Flint, you may find yourself...

Tolwyn presumably set his criteria based on what he thought would make strong warriors (aggression, obedience, strength, health, etc.). There is no evidence that he added in any appearance-based requirements beyond the "intelligent and fit for combat" ones, though it was mentioned that the...

The Wing Commander Academy continuity is separate, and a bit different, from the game continuity (and the movie continuity is different from both), so you need not spend too much effort trying to make them fit together, because they don't.

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I've only been playing vanilla Freelancer since I switched to 64-bit Windows because I have never been able to get the Mod Manager to work properly (after activating the mods it refuses to let me launch the game). Anybody know where I can go to ask for troubleshooting help on that?

I like how the Connfederation-class is mounted on the wheels and rails as the "Christmas Train".

A GeForce 420 or better should be able to run the game, and you'll have to boost your RAM to at least four gigabytes.

The Freelancer definitely looks attractive in these images, and the man in the picture gives a good sense of scale for this explorer/light freighter.

I would rather see Star Citizen topics get their own forum than see them take focus away from Wing Commander on the Wing Commander forums (fora?).

The main thing keeping keyboards alive at present is that it's nearly impossible to type above 20 or so words per minute on a touch screen because of the lack of tactile feedback. Voice-to-text software is still not reliable enough to do everything via dictation, especially in an environment...

BTW: didn't Mr. Roberts say at the beginning of the campaign that he had some backers who were willing to put up some money if and only if he could raise two million from other sources first? How much was that money going to be? One million? Two? Three? Anyway, Wing Commander III had a budget...

Gentlemen, we can build it! We have the technology!