Re: Wing Commander

[The Saint]

Like EaW, you have two sides, well three if you want to count the Union of Border Worlds but they werent nearly as big as the Confederation or Kilrathi Empires. Both sides have tons of ships, tons of fighters, tons of bombers. The only real thing the series lacked was ground weapons, except for the scant things shown on the Wing Commander Cartoon series.

 

For anyone that has played a WC: Prophecy they'll know already just how many star systems and how many hundreds of worlds are in the WC universe simply because the damn thing came with a galactic map. Also anyone who's played WCs 1-3 know this war went on technically longer than the Galactic Civil War of SW. The Confederation and Kilrathi fought each other to a stalemate for nearly 4 decades. Unfortunately I'm not a modder, but I'd be willing to learn, and more than likely will have to if there isnt much interest in this project. My field of expertise is really doing research on topics like this. But yea, just tossing this idea out there for anyone with experience who might enjoy the WC universe.

Edited February 16, 2006 by The Saint

[Teradyn_pff]

Holy hair balls Batman!

 

Sheesh, I can't believe I didn't think of this one. This would be cool to see as there should be plenty of resources to go off of for the space portion. I loved those games, it is a shame that none of them work on my computer, even Prophecy. Hell, I even played WC Armada. Bad kitties, bad.

[The Saint]

Here's another idea for you folks to chew on. Battletech. Honestly, I'm surprised no one has mentioned it. There is yet another plethora of information for people to find on ships, ground vehicles and honestly people giant battlemechs. Who could ask for more?

[MajorPayne]

Well with WC it wouldn't be that easy because of a severe lack of ground units. As for battletech I've been playing with the idea for months. As it is for me I'm going to see about a trek based mod.

[The Saint]

True, ground units would have been made up. There are some instances though of ground units the Kilrathi use. But thats it.

[Lucius]

sorry, but im lost.. WC sounds familiar but never officially heard of it... and battletech, isnt that a card game? i think someone said they wouldnt teach me cus its too hard to figure out... but that was also like 5 years ago

[The Saint]

sorry, but im lost.. WC sounds familiar but never officially heard of it... and battletech, isnt that a card game? i think someone said they wouldnt teach me cus its too hard to figure out... but that was also like 5 years ago

 

Okay maybe you heard of Mechwarrior? Its based on the Battletech universe. As for WC, its just short form for Wing Commander.

[Lucius]

i get it now    (still never heard of wing commander) mechwarrior is awesome

[The Saint]

i get it now     (still never heard of wing commander) mechwarrior is awesome

 

 

http://tactics.solsector.net/confed-list.htm#

 

Use that link. Wing Commander though to sum it up was a series of games(give or take 8-9 in all) that spanned the later stages of a war(13 years) that had gone on for nearly four decades across hundreds of star systems.

Edited February 10, 2006 by The Saint

[Lucius]

ok, cool thanks

[kingdark]

is wingcommander a rts game or not? I think i have a game about wing commander but that is a game with a joystick

 

EDIT

I viewed some information about the wing commander series and i still havent found out if it is a rts game or if it requires a joystick.

But it still seems it has a pretty big fanbase and alot of models to go on. making up some models shouldnt be that dificult altough i wouldnt be able to do that)

anways let me know about the question ok?

Edited February 10, 2006 by kingdark

[The Saint]

WC isnt an RTS game, its a sim flight game.

[Teradyn_pff]

Um, anyone play Wing Commander Armada?  This one you had a simple interface like in BattleFront2 and you then flew flight sim mode with the units that entered battle.  Was an interesting idea.

[Epytron_Omega]

This wouldnt be that hard to do... I have most, if not all the models, for the Confederation from the TC for St Armada... I know because I was helping out with a revamp of the mod, we were going to finish up the Kilrathi and complete the mod.  Anyway I have the models, so its just a matter of converting them into the alo and ala format and things would be perfect.

 

EO

[kingdark]

and i have star trek starfleet command that gave also have lots of models so i could alsohelp out

[Zarkov]

Teradyn,

 

There's a couple of fan made patches available that will allow you to run the game on most computers incl. winxp. It also allows you to change the resolution of prophecy. WC5 in 1600X1200 = yay.

All off these patches are available on www.wcnews.com.

There's also a remake of wc privateer available for download on www.gamershell.com.

 

Greets,

Zarkov

[Teradyn_pff]

Dude!  Thanks!  I will go check this out.

[Samheyn]

YEAH! A wing commander TC would be just awesome! Would love to see the TCS Concordia or the Shiva-Class-Vessel frying some planets with their multi phase gun (so we would even have a replacement for the death star). As for the ground units : There were some "tanks" and buildings in wing commander 3&4 (remember the planetary missions?). The main problem would be that all the WC games textures (ground&space) are unusable and would have to be redone completely. Another problem would be the question of the timeline. Personaly I would like the classic Confed vs. Kilrathi era around the time of WC1&2 (years 2654 to 2664). I know that it would be much easier to make WC4 or 5 stuff with what we have, but I prefer ships like the waterloo class or the bengali carrier over the flat designs of the Victory or Vesuvius class....

[Epytron_Omega]

Another problem would be the question of the timeline. Personaly I would like the classic Confed vs. Kilrathi era around the time of WC1&2 (years 2654 to 2664). I know that it would be much easier to make WC4 or 5 stuff with what we have, but I prefer ships like the waterloo class or the bengali carrier over the flat designs of the Victory or Vesuvius class....

 

well EAW was designed to have different tech trees, so what you could do is start in the WC 1&2 eras and move up to 4&5, this way everyone is happy.

 

EO

[Samheyn]

Hey... don't no if anybody is interested in this, but I found an old book with all the WC1&2 ships, weapons and everything with their explainations and all the values for armor, shielding etc.

actualy very interesting stuff

[kingdark]

try and scann some stuff and upload it then

[Samheyn]

I would  but there is a detail I didn't think about.This manual is 100% german. Even if all these values would be readable I would need to translate the text... a lot of work.. but I know that I have all manuals from the parts 1 and 2 in english somewhere around too...

[kingdark]

Good Luck

[The Saint]

Well the website I listed earlier, has all the ships from WCI through IV, intelligence relating ship names, enemy aces, explinations of weapons and so on.

[Samheyn]

Whoa... man, hell lot of WC sites on the net. Last time I checked for some is about the time of the Star Trek Games mods (Such as mods for ST:Armada or the earlier mentioned ST: Starfleet Command) Didn't think that there is still such a huge community for WC... with all this Stuff provided by these sites it shouldn't be that hard to make a good TC.