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LeHah
212 Squadron - "The Old Man's Eyes And Ears"
You'd be surprised how many middle-aged women agree with you. I use to be a member of the International Mark Hamill Society (A running gag from friends for 3 years) and got the news letter.
Scary german housewives in their mid 40s and 50s.
However, one newsletter had shitty little pics from Prophecy, including a shot of Hamill getting make-up buises and such. I doubt it's worth scanning its so shitty.
LeHah
212 Squadron - "The Old Man's Eyes And Ears"
Going through a car windshield at 60 mph and down the side of a cliff in 1978 didn't help his looks either. Plastic surgery then isn't what it is now.
Supposedly, Mark is a chain smoker and is very... creepily insane. My friend Garrett has been dating a family friend of the Hamills for close to a year now. She made me think that Hamill is the kind of guy that sits out on his porch and shoots crows with his 12-gauge.
(Then again, I don't believe a solitary slovo out of the girl's mouth)
Supposedly, Mark is a chain smoker and is very... creepily insane. My friend Garrett has been dating a family friend of the Hamills for close to a year now. She made me think that Hamill is the kind of guy that sits out on his porch and shoots crows with his 12-gauge.
(Then again, I don't believe a solitary slovo out of the girl's mouth)
FrostyCOS1
Spaceman
There is nothing wrong with sitting on your porch, shooting crows with your 12-gauge!
Bandit LOAF
Long Live the Confederation!
I remember talking to someone at DA (Eric Peterson, IIRC) years back, who said that Mark Hamill was a very, very kind person -- who you could convince to do whatever you want (they'd gotten him to do his WCM cameo for free)... and that because of this, his wife is his manager <G>
I know he refused to wear the coolest shirt ever when he signed WC CCG cards at GenCon, though... (on the other hand, he *did* sign WC:CCG cards at GenCon...).
I know he refused to wear the coolest shirt ever when he signed WC CCG cards at GenCon, though... (on the other hand, he *did* sign WC:CCG cards at GenCon...).
WildWeasel
Spaceman
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Bandit LOAF
Long Live the Confederation!
It's a baseball jersey with the WC:CCG logo on the front. And buttons.
What I liked about Privateer 2:
* Comparable graphics to WC4.
* Interesting trade engine. Finally get wingmen in Privateer.
* Monoliths!!!
* The actors. All right, so the star wasn't pretty -- he was a privateer! He's not SUPPOSED to be pretty! He's supposed to be gritty and tough with a strange, dark, sexual magnetism, like a vampire.
What I didn't like about Privateer 2:
* Too different from standard WC universe. I LIKED encountering the Kilrathi! I would have hoped that P2 would have allowed forays into Kilrathi space and to dock at their spaceports and colonies, but that whole universe was gone, to be replaced by something else entirely.
* Still have problems with win95 -- whenever I'm playing at the higher difficulty levels the game tends to go belly up after about twenty or so jumps and associated random encounters.
* This is the only game I've ever played where the Random Encounters were the HARDEST part of the game. Why? Because one of the ways the engine makes it harder is it keeps track of the number of ships at a jump point, and if it ever falls below a certain number (about 8 or so on the higher difficulty levels) it randomly generates more ships of one faction or another until the number is back up to the expected constant.
This is a real pain at jump points with a significant pirate presence -- you keep killing pirates and the game keeps dumping more on you, turning every damn jump point into a grueling endurance run. Kill kill kill more pirates, kill kill kill more pirates, kill kill kill 2 pirates and a neutral, who won't defend himself but I must protect him or that'll be one less ship at the jump point and give the game more excuses to throw pirates at me, kill kill kill 3 pirates jump in, kill kill kill 1 pirate and 2 military ships jump in, kill the pirate who kills the military and MORE pirates jump in, rinse and repeat until finally you have enough military and neutral ships at the jump point that the engine won't generate more ships and you can jump -- to the NEXT jump point, and do it all over again.
I felt like I was playing "Space Invaders" or "Galaga" from the 80s -- wave after infinite wave of enemy fighters, who just keep coming and coming till you are dead. It got to that I looked FORWARD to the actual missions, which I found immeasurably easier because if they fought hard at least they didn't have near-infinite reinforcements!
* And, of course, the difficulty increases by an order of MAGNITUDE if you accidentally shoot a military ship! Those trigger-happy thugs have no patience or understanding and all of a sudden you have the grueling endurance job of clearing a nav point of BOTH military AND pirate ships -- no easy feat!! Especially when the military sends in a Destroyer.
Respectfully,
Brian P.
* Comparable graphics to WC4.
* Interesting trade engine. Finally get wingmen in Privateer.
* Monoliths!!!
* The actors. All right, so the star wasn't pretty -- he was a privateer! He's not SUPPOSED to be pretty! He's supposed to be gritty and tough with a strange, dark, sexual magnetism, like a vampire.
What I didn't like about Privateer 2:
* Too different from standard WC universe. I LIKED encountering the Kilrathi! I would have hoped that P2 would have allowed forays into Kilrathi space and to dock at their spaceports and colonies, but that whole universe was gone, to be replaced by something else entirely.
* Still have problems with win95 -- whenever I'm playing at the higher difficulty levels the game tends to go belly up after about twenty or so jumps and associated random encounters.
* This is the only game I've ever played where the Random Encounters were the HARDEST part of the game. Why? Because one of the ways the engine makes it harder is it keeps track of the number of ships at a jump point, and if it ever falls below a certain number (about 8 or so on the higher difficulty levels) it randomly generates more ships of one faction or another until the number is back up to the expected constant.
This is a real pain at jump points with a significant pirate presence -- you keep killing pirates and the game keeps dumping more on you, turning every damn jump point into a grueling endurance run. Kill kill kill more pirates, kill kill kill more pirates, kill kill kill 2 pirates and a neutral, who won't defend himself but I must protect him or that'll be one less ship at the jump point and give the game more excuses to throw pirates at me, kill kill kill 3 pirates jump in, kill kill kill 1 pirate and 2 military ships jump in, kill the pirate who kills the military and MORE pirates jump in, rinse and repeat until finally you have enough military and neutral ships at the jump point that the engine won't generate more ships and you can jump -- to the NEXT jump point, and do it all over again.
I felt like I was playing "Space Invaders" or "Galaga" from the 80s -- wave after infinite wave of enemy fighters, who just keep coming and coming till you are dead. It got to that I looked FORWARD to the actual missions, which I found immeasurably easier because if they fought hard at least they didn't have near-infinite reinforcements!
* And, of course, the difficulty increases by an order of MAGNITUDE if you accidentally shoot a military ship! Those trigger-happy thugs have no patience or understanding and all of a sudden you have the grueling endurance job of clearing a nav point of BOTH military AND pirate ships -- no easy feat!! Especially when the military sends in a Destroyer.
Respectfully,
Brian P.
