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Anyway, this may seem slightly petty, but for personal preferences I want to modify (read: reduce) the number of credits earned from cargo missions, clean sweeps, and defend missions so that it will play more like the original (right now its too easy to upgrade your ship). I'll have to adjust...

roflmao. I blew up the drone yesterday and even after hearing the Admiral's speech, I hadn't a clue that the game was over. I had about 4 million credits at the time so I decided to make some money to buy a Paradigm. I was at about 7 million credits when I took a cargo mission to XXN-1927...

Regarding the Arrow... The only other WC game I've played besides the original Privateer is Armada, which is where my familiarity with it comes from. You put it as coming in after the RF plot...but my impression of it is that its an ultra-light confed fighter. Would a light fighter really...

Yeah I hate it when I have a series of perfect shots lined up towards the back of a Demon or a Kilrathi ship and they just run away from my plasma bolts. Although, considering that I'm using plasma bolts...I probably deserve it. With regards the AI aiming ability...yeah, it's quite good. I...

"<i> Combine servers in a beowolf/openmosix cluster spreading all over the internet.....</i>" Heh, dare I say it? Bah, it's more fun to make beowulf cluster jokes on /.

Very strange... I managed, after several attempts, to pass the Oxford missions without needing to resort to cheating. Soon after I took up Mission 1 for Palan, and simply couldn't do it. I gave it maybe 10 tries, and always ended up getting ripped apart by the many demons (I'd autopilot to...

Yeah I can do a 2 jump cargo run in only slightly more time than it takes me to pick up the remains of a Kamekh.

Yeah I remember wondering the same thing. Would be real nice, since the multiple HUD system is rather clunky in the remake.

Yeah I have autotracking on my torpedo mount as well. However, doesn't seem to work as well as autotracking with guns. The guidance seems to be minimal, whereas the guns go all over the place.

Works fine for me...unless you are using afterburners while you shoot.

Well, I finally managed to pass Oxford mission 3 without resorting to cheating, after about 10 or 15 tries. There's a great deal of variability in terms of the ships present for the mission, so it's really a matter of luck. This time, I had to quickly kill those 3 Demons, and then was faced...

Yeah, auto-turrets are a good depature from the original. I remember in the original the only use I had for turrets was when I was running away. Otherwise they were largely useless.

Well, for a long time I had my tractor beam mounted on the heavy weapon slot on the Demon, since I couldn't figure out what the mount enhancement did. Use the mount enhancement on your light missile slot which will give it the ability to mount a tractor beam. You can only hold 1 missile there...

Well, torpedos are a pretty cheap temporary replacement for heavy guns as well. If you can't afford the gun you want, just grab a laser or meson blaster and be liberal with using your torpedos.

I just encountered the 3rd Oxford Mission. Bleah. I never thought I'd say this, but the mission would be easier if the enemies would actually shoot at me! Plus, they don't show up in my hostile targets list so it's tedious to try to find them. So do you gives give chase or stick...

" 1 tractor beam (with autotracking too :D) " Haha, you put autotracking on your tractor beam? Looks like someone has a bit too much money... My Demon looks much like yours, except I have a 4th plasma gun in place of whatever the hell it is you have (campaign spoiler...blah).

I killed 6 militia and a confed on that mission. Was able to recover my rating pretty quickly.

In general, Autotracking rocks. However, when several enemy ships are flying right at you...it seems that I could do a lot better manually. Many times the shots just fly all over the place (probably aiming for different ships, but the shots often don't connect and the ship my crosshairs are...

It's funny...I played Privateer a lot as a kid, but I never even knew that there was a campaign. I knew about Sandoval, but he seemed to me to be a shifty character, so I never took his missions. Then again, the first time I played the game was...maybe 1994 or so? I remember that Win95 didn't...

Alright, I'm not exactly sure how you guys remade the game so I don't know if you can deal with some of the things I propose. Anyway, the cloaking device is a major imbalance in the game. It's cool enough to stay there (and it is part of WC after all), but some things need to be done...