Those senarios never knocked on Earths Door.
the Enigma Sector was a front line but not near earth..
The bugs were really distant from earth and that secret mission where the got to Cygus was the closes they'd come...it wasn't desperate..
I hope that if they ever make another 27th century Privateer game they remember that Galaxy's are light transports and Drayman's are either medium or heavy transports. For some insane reason they tried to use the Drayman class as the Confed light transport in Privateer online instead of using the Galaxy class light transports from Privateer.
The bad guys get to Earth's door in the Wing Commander Movie, Fleet Action, Armada and if you lose Wing Commander 3.
Secret Ops gets to Sirius and Talos, which are both just one jump from Earth.
Long time since I wrote anything in this forum... but better late than never writing
I saw an earlier post in this thread about releasing a WC where you actually play the wing commander, like Halcyon.
I have been thinking in the same way actually. Since it feels like most new games released today are either first person shooters, RPL:s, World of Warcraft wannabees, squad based tactical etc. etc.
In short all types of games except flight or space simulators!
So why not try to introduce the WC-universe to new players by putting them in the position of wing commander, charged with the strategic thinking, issuing flight orders, personal management (pilots might for different reasons get pissed on each other and you must try to solve the conflict before it runs out of control), and try to balance the personal needs of your pilots to the needs of the carrier you are on.
That would be something I would be willing to try. To be the wing commander sitting back on the carrier worrying about my pilots.
Battlestar Galactica isn't even that good.
So why not try to introduce the WC-universe to new players by putting them in the position of wing commander, charged with the strategic thinking, issuing flight orders, personal management (pilots might for different reasons get pissed on each other and you must try to solve the conflict before it runs out of control), and try to balance the personal needs of your pilots to the needs of the carrier you are on.
IMO Star Crusader did a great job of having the player fly missions and manage their flight wing. Doing something similar with Wing Commander but expanding the wing management section would be great.
Even better it would be the perfect excuse to show the Pilgrim War and the earlier stages of the Kilrathi War. Start with the last campagin of the Pilgrim War and then continue into the Kilrathi War ending with your character's retirement around a year before WC1.
Begin as the squadron commander on a cruiser and then move up to wing commander on a Yorktown, then a Concordia, then a Bengal Tiger, and end on on whatever class the movie Concordia was.
Have your character requistion fighter craft and pilots with limits based on how well you've done as well. Start out with a group of Scimitars, Minotaurs, and possibly Hurricanes and move on to being able to get better ships later, Merlins, Rapier-Is, Hummers and Wildcats in the first campagin since I doubt that cruisers would be carrying bombers, Falcons and other pre-Kilrathi bombers when you get promoted to the Yorktown and others as they come online.
Aren't all the people who worked on Prophecy and Secret ops still around EA, or did they all move on?
You guys aren't getting it...
Let the bad guys take over earth is what I'm saying...not just knock on the door but knock it down...
The best hope for a WC sequel is Chris Reid or LOAF winning the lottery and giving a cash influx to EA.
So why not try to introduce the WC-universe to new players by putting them in the position of wing commander, charged with the strategic thinking, issuing flight orders, personal management (pilots might for different reasons get pissed on each other and you must try to solve the conflict before it runs out of control), and try to balance the personal needs of your pilots to the needs of the carrier you are on.
That would be something I would be willing to try. To be the wing commander sitting back on the carrier worrying about my pilots.