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One solution is to use the hat switch on the joystick to control head movement. Unfortunately, that removes the ability to use the hat switch for lateral movement of the ship (unless you have a HOTAS type control setup with multiple programmable hat switches). Of course this isn't a big...

That's a good suggestion, Loaf. Right now the instrument cluster is so small that angling the MFDs wouldn't really make much difference. But I could move them apart more and have it wrap around the pilot more. I'm also thinking I should get rid of the "titanium bathtub" look of the side...

It was especially silly in WCP. How long does it take to fly from one end of the Midway to the other? About ten or twenty seconds, right? Wouldn't that make the Midway roughly the size of, oh, say, North America? Just keep saying to yourself, "It's only a game." ;)

Something like this, perhaps? :) http://www.starshatter.com/shots/s2.htm :) http://www.starshatter.com/shots/s3.htm

But I haven't made a claim based on that sentence, I have posed a question to you: Are all commercial games in the same genre rip-offs of the archetype for that genre? Are all side scrollers rip-offs of Defender? Are all isometric RTS games rip-offs of Dune? Wing Commander was designed to...

You are using an interesting definition for "rip-off". All commercial games are "designed to make money". Are all games in the same genre then rip-offs of the first game in the genre? After all, they all leverage design conventions established by the archetype, whether it is DOOM, Dune, or...

...unless you are a biologist, or studying to be one at school. In that case, I think the details of how different species have evolved and how they are related would be pretty important to you. Wouldn't you agree?

I was referring to a different Lazarus. See the Gospel According to Luke 16:19, through the end of the chapter.

Thank you. I see what you are saying now. I had originally understood "represent" to mean "stand up for," or "associate with." As in, "what community or faction do they represent?" You are posing an interesting philosophical question on the nature of scientific experiment. But it seems to...

What we have here is either bad science, or a misunderstanding of terms. I suspect it is the latter. First of all, scientists use the terms "theory", "law", and "fact" in specific ways that are different from common usage, and very different from legal usage (i.e. lawyers and judges use these...

I think you are referring to Stanley Miller (who I believe is one person and not two). Miller was able to generate some amino acids from methane, ammonia, water, and hydrogen, back in 1953. As important as his work was, I don't believe it represents the current state of understanding of...

Sorry, I've read your post about five times, and I still can't quite parse that last question. What are you asking? Could you restate it in another way?

Yes, there is. The principle is "biogenesis", which means that in general, life only comes from life, not from non-living matter. At one time, people thought that animals (particularly vermin and insects) could spontaneously arise if the environment was right. If I remember my elementary...

In what way? If that is your definition of macro-evolution, then I agree with you. Bacteria with ears? That doesn't happen. No credible biologist has ever claimed anything even remotely similar to what you just stated. In fact, I don't even know why you would call that "macro-evolution"...

What I posted was a definition for the theory of evolution as studied by biologists: genetic changes in a population which are inherited by subsequent generations over time. The fact that these changes occur is an observed phenomenon. The theory (stated loosely) is that individual changes are...

I guess no one really wanted to discuss realism in space simulations after all. Oh well. By the way, for those of you arguing that "evolution has been proven to be impossible," quite the reverse is true. A reasonable scientific definition of the theory of evolution is this: Evolution is...

Hold on, now. There were elements of 2001 that were very realistic, particularly for a science fiction film of the 1960's. Kubrick and Clarke did a fine job of capturing the essence of real space flight given currently available technology: * It takes forever to get anywhere in space...

The very fact that you suggest that I am trying to make a point, or participating in an argument shows that you do not understand me at all. When I joined this thread, the topic was related to the realism of the Wing Commander games, and by association space sims in general. This is a topic...

1. Just to clarify, I said that paying 8 dollars to watch the Prophecy movie cutscenes in a theater would have been a ripoff. Someone reading your above statement might misconstrue it to mean that I thought Chris Roberts' WC movie was a ripoff. 2. I never made any statement as to whether...

Well, of the WC games, I've only played WC3, the original Privateer, and Prophecy. And I haven't finished any of them (nothing against WC, with my schedule I rarely have time to play more than about five or six missions of any game I buy). So keeping my comments to just WC3, I would say that...