Recent content by Destrier

WC Resources Hey guys, thanks! BlueClaw and Phoenix's sites were exactly what I was looking for. And Phoenix - hell yeah, that site rocks. Wish I had half the HTML skillz you do...*grin*. Thanks for the resources.

I have played WC1, SM1, WC2, and WCSO. I do not have the money to buy further WC games or products - nor do I really have the time to play them, much to my dismay. Is there anywhere available a summary of the WC storyline, so I can catch up on what I've missed in SM2, SO1 and 2, WC3, etc.? I...

Cat Parallels Sivar is a goddess - at least, I've always understood her to be. Anyone who knows anything about Terran cats will see why this is so. Female cats are the hunters and the killers - thus Sivar, a War God, would be a hunter and killer (the God of the Running Death). Male cats sit...

Well, as a long time member of the Beta Testing Team for a space-sim that does just that, I hope I can answer with some small whiff of authority...*grin*. The problem with using the same engine is basically a matter of scale. Performance of a flight engine (eg. the Prophecy engine) is based...

Destrier = a knight's warhorse. I was born in the Year of the Horse, and so when I got WC1 (so many years ago) and was looking for a suitably cool sounding callsign, it seemed appropriate. I've kept it since then.

Okay. How about... Most 3D engines for space sims don't handle perspective very well - that is to say, the point of view you get from the cockpit isn't really that accurate. As a result, they inflate model sizes to make them appear more massive. This is especially the case in a game like WC...