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Except that's not the way it usually works. Assignments are according to which unit you are a part of, not according to which fighter you fly. It just so happens that a particular squadron will generally only fly one model of fighter, but when the fighter is removed from the squadron, the...

Every instance I can think of in which someone was banned had a few key items - 1.) Whatever it was that led to the banning was at least partially them just plain "being stupid". 2.) They were warned by one or more moderators multiple times that they needed to quit doing the bannable offense...

Re: ships 1.) (guess) The designers felt it would be a good idea to add a complete group of new ships for you to fly, as opposed to once again hauling out the older designs. 2.) Dragons are expensive, and money that would buy a single Dragon could probably buy a whole bunch of other...

You go right ahead and compete for her all you want. Meanwhile, I'll go look for someone who's actually attractive.

Hmm... Oddly enough, that didn't work for me. I burned out, and iirc, there were only a couple of them left, but that didn't keep them from maintaining a distance of a couple thousand clicks behind me and blowing a hole in the back of my ship. The fact that it doesn't take Vaktoths long to...

This mission is proving pretty frustrating. The Gratha's seem to know just the right moment to drop a mine when you can't avoid it (ouch!), the Scimitar isn't fast enough to afterburn away from the Vaktoths (the first time I played this mission, I took out the first wave of Vaktoths at the...

The ONLY appearence of the Steltek to date in any WC universe material is toward the end of the plotline in Privateer 1. IIRC, they're mentioned briefly in the ICIS manual for WCP, but only to discuss whether its possible that they are the aliens who have taken over the Kilrah system. About...

There's a very good reason for that. Being on the front lines is excellent when it comes to finding out the state of things. But it also suffers from its ability to end the life of a high-ranking military officer at the worst possible moment. And the death of a high ranking officer can halt a...

I'm not disagreeing with that (and its probably part of the reason people did it). I AM disagreeing with the idea that Thrakhath had some sort of deathwish when he did it.

IIRC, according to the announcement made about six months ago, Freelancer was supposed to be out last month. Freelancer has gone from "Due out sometime in the next year or two" to "Due out sometime in the next several months". Unfortunately, its been in the latter stage for several months now...

There have been a couple of comments from some of the more knowledgeable and connected people here to indicate that the PNR site is legit, and that Chris Roberts really is working on a WC TV series. Mind you, there's been nothing of real substance. Its just been a brief confirmation that they...

What do we know about the time between SM2 and WC2? Tiger's Claw approaches the K'Thrak Mang in order to launch a strike. Every last fighter on the carrier is out on patrol, many of them flying solo (without a wingman). The Austin is nearby, presumably coordinating with the Tiger's Claw...

Yes, but with the bugs, you actually have a fighting chance. With the Steltek, an unmanned combat drone was singlehandedly wiping out the local Confed battle fleet. I don't think a manta could pull that off.

Boasting about how you've taken those who were important to the other side is a time honored tradition in combat, particularly among groups where the honor of the individual is important. Ditch the more modern ideas on the value of humans in general, and then go stand outside the walls of the...

Er... Deep space provides the ultimate form of navigation. The stars are easily visible, with no intervening sunlight to keep you from seeing them. Navigators used the stars for hundreds of years before the invention of computers, and there's no reason they couldn't use them again. A...

Follow the link. Then you'll understand.

A minor point, but I think it might be a little more fitting to phrase that: Only high-powered plasma weapons and shield-ignoring torpedoes can penetrate shields. It means the exact same thing, but considering the argument (i.e. it goes in cycles)...

Troll... I'll be surprised if we hear anything substantive out of this particular guy.

Ender, go find a copy of 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich', read it, and come back. Maybe then I'll think about paying some attention to anything further you have to say on this issue. Your posts quite frankly strike me as naive, uninspired, and in the exact same flavor as the Afghanistan...

Kusanagi generally wears her hair shorter, iirc, so I don't think that's a very good match-up. Of course, with the myriad of bodies she has available in GitS 2, there's a very good chance that one of them might resemble Spirit. But then again, Spirit doesn't really look like a Shirow Masamune...