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Question: Why are the innards of the ship on it's bottom exposed to space? Seems to scream for microasteroids breaking things all the time.

Also, who would implement a persistent server, and how could they afford it? No, I doubt that will happen.

Remembering the playtesters guide and the manual for Priv from long ago: The Demon and Orion are tanks. They're meant to be able to play against the biggest ships and at least survive. Meanwhile, they can still lug light cargo loads. The Centurion is a fighter. Agility is the operative...

Overmortal, congrats. And, ignore Shipgate. He's a freak. Only freaks don't like babies and kids.

Brad: Actually, some caveats. I have (actually, had...The CD is long gone) the funky WC1/Ultima 6 CD version, which included only WC1 without the Secret Missions packs.:-( That version is basically impossible to run via DOSBox.

Not likely. WC, the mil is like it was in WW2. They prefer enlistments, but you could always be drafted...

Well, maybe some people would LIKE doing it manually, to build a collaborative WC universe, that's all sorts of hand-done. Like, if there's anybody with any knowledge relating to astrosciences, and such, and how colonization would proceed, etc.

Oh. I thought it was, like, extra models.

Um, to where? It's pathed in the zip as /wcu-ships/<blah>, but I don't see that dir. <confused> No, I'm not good with these technical things on the last full day before break.

I think it's better if we ignore P2. It's just too different.

Even if you don't need it, what's in there? And, since I already downloaded it, how do I install it, anyway?

Major systems (Sol and the core human systems (Alpha Centauri, probably, would be one, I think), Firekka, etc) should be scripted. Otherwise, so long as the distribution makes sense, autogen works. Sol *must* be scripted, IMHO, and down to extreme detail. It's the one system everybody can...

Dan_w: I'm not sure whether or not to include P2 as a Wing Commander game. I recall (perhaps an urban legend?) that the reason it doesn't have the WC title on it is because it got sent back from QA with the comment 'This isn't Wing Commander'. Also, it was just...a bad game.

All, I've been reading, reading, reading...Witnessing the dispute between the various factions which seem to be emerging with what I'm calling the "Vega Stream" (Privateer-Remake and WCU, the Wing Commander mods/remakes/we-gotta-find-a-better-word-than-those using the VegaStrike engine)...

All, I've been reading, reading, reading...Witnessing the dispute between the various factions which seem to be emerging with what I'm calling the "Vega Stream" (Privateer-Remake and WCU, the Wing Commander mods/remakes/we-gotta-find-a-better-word-than-those using the VegaStrike engine)...

Actually, you forget surplus equipment. Such is often sold on the open market. There was a thriving market after WW2 in old military gear, for instance, and that market has continued uninterrupted ever since.

No, there is a point there...It seems a bit too big for a postwar thing, when the KE is supposedly in the midst of civil war and such. Um...Hmm.

JKeefe: Secret Cargo Space: I don't think the VS engine supports it? Similar with the 4-way armor stuff. I know everybody'd like it, but does the engine support it?

Infantry behav... Spirit, I gotta hear more. I REALLY gotta hear more.

Um, the problem: How the hell does one justify it to the bean-counters? :-P More seriously, a good idea might be for a Confed fixer to show up after a suitable amount of time, following the player, and offer both that free trip and an (off-camera) mission to look into things at Jolson...