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a satisfying read, with some reservations. political views of the author are very prominent, and can disagree with yours dramatically (I, for instance, don't get terribly excited when every liberal is portrayed as a weakling, every enemy politician a bastard and every Navy official a hero)...

let's try to concoct more Russian names for planets and systems (based on city names, by WC custom). cold: (Novy) Norilsk war zone: (Novy) Kursk, (Novy) Stalingrad mining: Kuzbass prison; cold: (Novy) Magadan weapon-making: (Novaya) Tula a system to the northeast: Sibir farthest east...

how do sales of Final Fantasy Tactics Advance justify making a new major FF for PS3? how does KOTOR justify SW Galaxies? oh ok, how does the success of Lego SW justify a new Tie Fighter (or, realistically, something more general, pilot-any-craft, like Battlefront)? by making the audience...

as for "slapping labels"... I dunno, in my opinion, any game sporting 18 canon ships behaving like they should deserves this label. maybe even more than the Darkening did deserve a Privateer name, being very, very remotely connected to the franchise (while of course having inherited mechanics...

sorry to crosspost from another thread, but the post seems to be called for here :) --- about all the preliminary negative reaction, especially in the gamespot comments ("we were hoping for a first-person FMV game with Mark Hamill to boot, and they dare to give us this kiddy crap") -...

about all the preliminary negative reaction, especially in the gamespot comments ("we were hoping for a first-person FMV game with Mark Hamill to boot, and they dare to give us this kiddy crap") - funny, really. if a fan game with this level of attention to detail and canon was about to surface...

Lomonosov? ok :) Michurin (agricultural) Mendeleev (refinery) Stahanov (mining) - that's actually a little too far, but anyway :)

I've got a suggestion. as ChrisReid mentioned, it's not too inspiring, having to risk detection for trying to avoid detection in the first place :) maybe you could implement some different penalty? like uneven exchange rate, for example: converting 2 or 3 units of "normal" cargo space into just...

point taken, but I meant obsolete from the player's POV. if we're talking about fighters being iconic, the main thing to be taken into consideration must be their... how do you call it... computer screen time. impression left in our fragile young brains. I doubt that the survey meant "iconic"...

the Dralthi, of course. I don't know if any one player ship (err, if any OTHER player ship, for we've had a chance to fly a Dralthi :) - or if any Confed fighter at all can be considered the one iconic WC fighter. but the Dralthi can. it was the first enemy we had a chance to cross laser beams...

wow, a lot of progress! targeting works, damage indicators work, even some FX are in place! very impressive. you know, I've got an idea. there's this Belgian artist making damn good ascii portraits, Otium from Galza art project...

I've had similar problems some time ago: all the conventional capture programs only worked with D3D or OpenGL, and I needed to record a video from a Java game run in a browser. but there was this one app that made my day, called SnagIt. it can grab any region of the screen, and encode it using...

the bars on the cockpit are a bit thick, don't you think? other than that, excellent! each detail's in its place, and the overall look is gorgeous.

be warned: the books the game's based on, the author and the game itself are somewhat uber-patriotic and too eager to re-install Russia as a superpower. humor is present, but it's for you to decide whether it justifies the overall chauvinistic feel or not. prepare a good grain of salt for this...

Ace, why don't you try the "Culture" cycle by Iain M. Banks ("Consider Phlebas", "The Player of Games"...) good prose, and deals with that very issue, most of the way.

yup, had the thought about the guns, too. strange how they didn't seem out of place on the Dralthi and the Blaggard... maybe it's just more obvious when there's six of them? :) other than that, the ship is stunning! love the little tubes near the engine exhausts :) there might be too many...

I guess it was more about limitations of the old sprite engine, not the new 3D one. asymmetrical sprites don't flip well. either you have to make much more sprites, or the sprite flip is obvious when a ship turns. symmetry must have been a design decision taken early, right when the engine was...

a word to the wise about the guns/weapons MFD: ordnance feels good but guns... all look the same. they need either a reshape to more distinguishable look or a bit of creative pixel pushing. I can do that, just need to know all the dimensions of the final sprites. I suppose they're gonna be...

Howard: correction, Pioneer is the single most important thing happening in WC right now :) of course Standoff, SAGA and Gemini Gold are, too... in their respective forums :) here, Pio is. anyway, I wonder... will the game engine be capable of self-shadows? of course they add an unprecedented...

don't deny it, you've done an incredible job :) "cheating and re-using as much as possible" only means eliminating need for another guy on the team: a lead artist or a project manager, imposing draconian limits to what can be done. I know that there isn't a lot of textures used. good! :) so...