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Anyone have any clue as to how to get on the losing path for Ep. 3? I really want to play the alternate missions, but I can't seem to lose! Usually when I eject I get captured, my wingmen take care of the situation often when I do nothing (on nightmare difficulty), and you can't land after...

A suggestion- perhaps you could penalize the player that doesn't survive the sim mission by docking him some points? It would create competing incentives to eject- the "i'm hosed, so I better retain my score" vs. "if I don't eject now, I might get a few more kills and boost my score further...

Intriguing- though an orbital ion cannon strikes me as another taxpayer "handout" project for the US military-industrial complex. SDI was (and the current ABM shield is), IMO, a ridiculous waste of money that was little more then a thinly veiled excuse for massive billion dollar corporate...

Though you wouldn't know it by the way everyone's ships look completely different! :-p

Funny, I didn't think this mission was that hard- at least, not with the Rapier. I got pwned with the Gladius and usually lost most of the bombers at the Ralatha battle, but with the Rapier, I was able to save most of the bombers and take out the fighters in record time. I think the strategy I...

That one killed me a lot- I haven't played it in a long time, but if I remember right, you are dealing with a wing of morays and a wing of manta at that Nav Point. I chose whichever spacecraft wasn't the Scimitar (I think the other choice was the Epee, but it might have been the Banshee)...

Yeah, that mission is pretty tough! I found the best way to beat it (and continue on the winning path) is to do the following- for the convoys, initially focus on trying to find and destroy Stingray clusters as fast as you can (preferably saving missiles/stormfire ammunition for the defense of...

Oh, and as to plot developement vs. strategic complexity- I recognize the issue- the less scripting you use, the harder it is to make a tight plot revolve directly around the action. I don't think strategic gameplay precludes having a strong plot though- remember, your average fighter pilot...

Sorry about the double post, but apparently my link above didn't work- just google "Star Raiders" and "atari"- you'll see what I'm talking about.

Hmmm, thankx for the link to Starshatter- I look forward to giving it a try! I have indeed tried Standoff, and I really think it's a good mod (IMO, a far better game then the original Prophecy, WCP SO, or even WC3), and I appreciate the innovations that the Standoff team has employed in the...

Loaf- Read my above points. You don't have to accept my ideas or line of reasoning if you choose not to. If this is an honest forum for intellectual debate about space sims, then attacks on one's character in place of arguments based on logic (also known as ad hominem attacks) have no place...

I stand by everything I said in my previous post. FS2 certainly has it's faults when compared to WC series as a whole (e.g. weaker dogfights compared to earlier WC games, lack of character interaction, and a backstory that could have used a whole lot more fleshing out), as does WCP compared to...

I don't even know why I'm bothering, seeing as any difference of opinion about the merits or faults of WCP or FS/FS2 that is out of the party line is responded to with ad hominem attacks on the poster- e.g. Granted, I know this is a WC dedicated forum, but if the lot of you seriously...

I agree that the character interaction of Wing Commander was absent from Freespace- but I'm going to have to also agree with those who think that Freespace had a better overarching plot then WCP, for many of the same reasons Sphynx stated- the Shivans were mysterious, powerful, and only glimpses...

Aside from freelancer, which PC space sim games attempt to be mouse based? (and I agree with Eder, a trend toward outright replacing a joystick with a mouse in a space combat game is idiocy, IMO, because you just don't get the same playing experience) On a second note, why bother with...

I would play a WC game on any platform as well, but I would prefer a new PC title. My WC collection includes the PC versions of all wing commander games (except that I accidently destroyed my copy of Prophecy) as well as the SNES of WC, and 3DO's Super WC and WC3. Personally, I think the PC...

lol, which begs the question, if you go by the WC games' respective engines- why not just make a bunch of WC3 transports with hangers built on to them? (seeing as "ships-of-the-line" go down from one fighter without too much more trouble) :) (especially seeing as capships in WC3-4 seem to lack...

you have to right click on the nav point with your mouse until you hear a chime- sometimes hitting the precise point to activate the chime is kind of tricky because the point is so small

If era weren't an object- A Confederation Class, a Plunkett (even though they are fugly), a trio of WC3 destroyers, and a corvette squadron for point defense/hit and fade. It's a group with a good combo of heavy hitting power and fast strike capability- without requiring something along the...

What do you mean, not a danger? By going AWOL to fight your own vendetta, you still put other's lives at risk simply by not doing your job. WC3 even emphasized that- if you go track down Hobbes, one of your wingmen gets killed BECAUSE you weren't there to do your job (which not only is to...