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Have you played the losing paths of standoff yet?

http://www.violentacres.com/archives/59/two-phrases-that-destroyed-american-culture That article about sums up my feelings on "earning respect" right there. So he doesn't like the SWC Rapier. Big deal.

Ah, I thought the Gladius was around prior to 2669.

The Gladius is ok, just functionally dated in Standoff, and rightfully so. I think if you're only comparing it to WC1 ships, it's pretty good- decent weapons loadout + comparable speed. That being said, who knows, with the way WC ship evolution works, it could come back and be as potent as the...

One thing I never understood is the supply difficulties in having four or five different types of fighter designed for the same job at the same time, serving off of mobile platforms (starships).... presumably, if you have Arrows, Ferrets, Hornets, Epee's etc. all in service at the same time...

Hobbes escaped before any info on the T-Bomb reached the Victory, IIRC- so it's irrelevant whether he made it back to Kilrah in terms of Thrakhath knowing about the T-Bomb. Additionally- if you play WC3- the faultline is a very specific point on the planet's crust- hence the reason you have to...

They might have been able to extrapolate the Excal's flight path based upon radio chatter from previous engagements in the Kilrah system- but how do we know the fleet wasn't trying to intercept Blair, and the random passing of Thrakath was just to give the player one more crack at him? It...

That's really, really cool to get an original WC voice actor on-board! :)

Yeah, but presumably the Broadsword has internal crewspaces, since you crawl through the ship to get to the cockpit instead of opening the canopy- why couldn't other fighters?

I wish they hadn't reused WC 3 capship models so much- but what can you do- I'm still a holdout for seeing some old WC1-2 capships in future games, as unlikely as that is... (though more likely now that a ship from the original two games has officially made it into 3d... the good ol broadsword...

To be honest, I always thought WC4 was the worst looking game of the lot- the capships were just plain fugly due to the crappy textures used in that game (WC3 looked wayyyy better).

I always figured if they could get a carrier close enough to launch fighters to strike Kilrah, (even with two refueling depots) then getting the Behemoth into the system and fired wouldn't be much more difficult (if at all more difficult, seeing as it seemed they only needed to secure the jump...

I miss the more sophisticated PC simulation games too (thinking USNF, Mechwarrior, WC, and Freespace) but give the 360 a chance- some of the games for it are surprisingly good (gears of war and the need for speed games come to mind).

Eh, I wouldn't be so passionate on the subject if I didn't think the series started off great but then progressively went down the sewer- 33 was freakin great, as was the whole dilemma of what do you do with a ship full of convicts- and the initial idea that there were scattered pockets of...

Then why do they bother with the whole interbreeding program, or having that one male cylon come on to Starbuck like 453 times in season 3? (and getting killed almost every time for his efforts!) Or the prison camp? Or keeping Baltar alive? I'd like to think there is a schism between the...

Yeah, I'm with you- they were a lot more interesting in my mind as genocidal machines with a minor curiousity in why humans acted like humans, (somewhat like Agent Smith of the Matrix series) instead of religious machines that want to basically breed with all humans left in existence- including...

Stopping while you're ahead is a great idea. Cowboy Bebop pulled that off excellently- you still wanted more, but it wrapped itself up without dragging itself into mediocrity (a la Simpsons).

Up to New Caprica it wasn't bad. The first episode of season three with the Galactica dropping through the atmosphere while launching fighters was freaking awesome. The problem with BSG is that it refocused from humanity's struggle with impossible odds to exploring "what it means to be...

yah, no dice

Hey, how do you get that custom mission to work? I have a data folder, but no missions folder within it- does the prologue make a second directory somewhere (my documents, for instance) besides the main install directory?