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The Stand was one of the best sci-fi books ever. This is a lot from someone who doesn't care too much otherwise for Mr. King.

Those pirates' flying is comical. Mercanaries are hired thugs, these thugs, as it would seem, were not paid well. It wasn't bacon and eggs, it was steak and eggs.:)

This is Drift if I ever saw it... Playing along...if you haven't met a gay by the time you've entered college, I'd say you've led a very sheltered life. I've seen some amazing things in my time, but whenever two males publicly...endulge themselves, something makes me shudder. I don't like...

Starlight, although there are still large Kilrathi ships opperated during the period(in case you didn't see the fairly good-sized fleet blasted by the alien capship plasma), you can't take shots at them outside of the Fralthi wreckage and starbase. There is the Pelican transport you can take...

The escorts are simple when you know what to do. Fly in close to the transport and link up as I'm guessing you know how to do. Engage the enemy fighters as necessary, relink, autopliot. Repeat until transports complete Nav route. When they jump, autopilot back to your carrier.

I'm not sure I'd go that far, ships are not only protected by force fields and armor plating, but also by the hull design itself. The ongoing battle between fielding better protection and more effective weapons has lasted centuries and presumably into the time of WC. Prophecy is in a sense...

Point being if you can bail out of a WW1 biplane, theoretically, a ship built centuries later should at least give the pilot the option.

When I got a used computer to run old DOS games-a WIN95 machine. I had to monkey around a bit getting my mouse, then sound, then joystick to work in DOS. When I started loading DOS games, I'd copy the game whilst in Windows, specify a new config and autoexec using a shortcut. The first game I...

Speaking of realism, is is realistic to send out humans in a flying coffin with guns? Some people don't like the idea of being "killed" by an opponent, especially a simulated opponent...but I don't know anyone like that, do you?:)

Yes it will, because the torps won't lock until the generators are disabled, this is true. However, if I recall, wingmen will still target the generators until their all out, if you did the same, i.e., play by the rules, you'd have an acceptable way of doing this kind of "hotdogging". Wasn't...

Somehow, that just wouldn't be the same. If you fire the torp, it will home normally. When fired without locking, it ought to act like a dumbfire missile with greater yield. My suggestion would be, if you remove the locking aspect, lower the turn ratios. At least you'd have a more realistic...

In order to short out a ship's system, the energy burst could penetrate the shield in some fashion, perhaps an energy burst is directed through the shield generators that feed the shields. As the shield gens draw power from the power plant, it is my belief that the power plant is gradually...

Although getting hit by a leech can be troublesome, they have a long lock time and aren't the most maneuverable projectile out there. I'd rather have the Leech Laser as a matter of personal preferance. You can decoy a missile, but creating a screen for guns with decoys, that's kinda silly.:)

How many missions were there that you could eject on and still follow the ideal winning path?

Even more humiliating was the prospect of getting beaten by Nazi counterfeiting of houndred dollar bills and British pounds. Fortunately, the press was shut down.

But the economy, it seems was much better during the war, was it not? My thinking is the income in post-war could be lower than it was during the war, inflation included.

Steam, that's kinda what I was saying, only not so bluntly.

I'm sure the price would come down. But even thought it's trillions per gram now, experiments use much less than that form what I've read. When they do use A/M for fuel, they'd probably use only minute amounts there as well.

TC, you see I don't consider a Golden Sun a medal, per se. I think of it more as the brand of a WC1-era coward. So, as you may guess, I finished with none of those. Q, I just got the doc you mentioned. I didn't have this before. Oh, and I've gotten to work on the site again. There may be...

I think it will when we continue to research into using it as a fuel source.