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You still get e-mails, yes (quite a few are fleetwide things from Tolwyn, who probably doesn't have time to hop into a Ferret and tour the fleet with the news), I just can't find them in the game files as they don't appear to be in the same place as they used to be. Any idea where they might be?

Misappropriating this thread because I figure I may as well... Where are the e-mail messages stored after episode 2? Ep1 and 2 they're in FICTION which is fairly obvious, but in Ep3 and beyond (presumably because these are the missions with winning and losing paths and thus very different...

Just idly musing about the Firekka. The TCS Firekka is CVE-10. There were, of course, only nine CVEs in the initial run of Wake-class carriers. It's safe to assume that at some point after the TCS Tarawa returns from Kilrah the Confederation decided that CVEs might be a potentially...

Freespace/Freespace 2. Every CRPG with an unwinnable fight in, which is most of them. Of course, Freespace 2 did it far too much, but it's not exactly a difficult thing to do. Have the player fight a losing battle, holding the line, leading counterattacks, protecting evacuations, yes, that would...

...seriously? Humanity fights a thirty-year war against an enemy which never seems to outnumber them less than two-to-one except for a very brief period, Human technology always retains a slight edge except in the traditional area for sci-fi antagonists of cloaking, something the noble...

No, because you haven't done that yet. It contains roughly the same information as in the cutscene conversation with Bradshaw. Which is, I think, the answer - this was written before the devteam realised it could actually do cutscenes, so when they learned this message was turned into a...

Something odd I discovered when I took to Standoff with TREman with the intent to find the in-game messages. Before the first mission, in-game, I get three messages - from Admiral Terrell, Captain Graham, and Spoons. But there are files in stan__e1.tre for four messages, the fourth being...

Or Ohlander just missed the double meaning contained in the scene. The Confederation's finest officers (Blair, Eisen, "the best") are confused by the situation and many of them are abandoning previous loyalties ("lack all conviction"). Meanwhile, the Black Lance (Seether, Tolwyn himself) are...

What's the current latest version that can be downloaded, as opposed to which Standoff will update itself to? I have a computer which doesn't have an internet connection, on which Standoff 1.29 keeps crashing at the end of missions (Windows 7, nVidia GeForce 550Ti); I'm pretty certain that's a...

Fair enough. Then my complaint can be switched from being about Forstchen to about the generally slipshod approach the movie took to consistency with previous Wing Commander sources (yes, I know you can just about fit it in - that isn't exactly high praise). On the other hand, it makes perfectly...

Because Forstchen's research into British traditions was terrible (seriously, the Shetland Islands? The absolutely least British part of the United Kingdom, for an extremely English admiral? Scapa Flow in the Orkneys would at least have made some thematic sense...having Tolwyn look out over the...

If you're going to play the unofficial games, then Standoff comes in between Academy and Armada, and I believe Unknown Enemy is pretty much concurrent with Secret Ops.

I've been attempting to record Standoff gameplay using Fraps 3.4.1 recently, and while the actual missions run OK (a few audio problems probably caused by me trying to record to an external drive, I'm confident I can fix those), the cutscenes are all kind of out of shape for some reason. They...

If you did it right, a WC RTS ought to be far more Homeworld than Starcraft. And there'd probably be a market for such a game - the Homeworld series stopped existing primarily because Relic and Sierra split. 3D is the in thing at the moment, so a fully 3D RTS is probably a good game to be...

A sphere is fine for deep space operations, but as both the Confederation and Kilrathi want their fighters to at least be capable of flying through, and in some cases fighting in, atmosphere, it's not surprising they have aerodynamic shapes.

I have never played anything that wasn't released for the PC. I have never played either of the Privateer games because I dislike open-ended games. I could just about put up with Freelancer (which isn't really open-ended at all), but never found Elite or Frontier interesting (which is a bit...

Now there's a list and a half. Tell me, is there any particular source for the wide application of the "TCS" prefix in the Wing Commander universe? There's lots of transport and auxiliary vessels given that prefix that wouldn't recieve it in modern day navies.

Well, each to their own, but I don't think that including systems from the novels in locations which make the campaigns described in the novels impossible to plot on the maps really acknowledges much in the way of influence from the novels. And the weirdest thing is that End Run, at least, could...

I really don't think the Prophecy map was ever intended to accomodate the Forstchen novels. The giveaway is the location of Vukar Tag, ridiculously far into Kilrathi space - and Kilrathi space years after the war is over and they've presumably ceded the disputed worlds, no less - for the events...

So this thought was originally engendered by trying to survive Unknown Enemy #2A on Nightmare but it does apply here, and I figured it might actually have a chance of being read if posted in the Standoff forum instead. Theory: Nightmare difficulty in the Vision engine makes flying heavy...