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I always right click the game speed setting to put the game on slow for that first day. Whenever I do that IM22 ends his briefing with a huffy "as you wish".

Are we (and by "we" I obviously mean our supertechies, not me) able to make changes to Rebed, SWRE, or this latest editor?

Kaja, is this SWRE you're talking about?

I normally try to avoid these threads because the anti-Americanism that always surfaces is tough on my poor old heart. But when I see the normally genial, affable and reasonable ElvisMiggell post a gem like this, I just can't sit still: "Ah, i don't mind being watched, hell, it might be interesting. As long as there are the proper watchdogs in place." Come again? The whole notion is an oxymoron. The watchers and the watchdogs are necessarily going to be the same group of hoods. There's no point in them watching unless they can act on what they see. EM continues: "Which i am assured DO exist here, but DON'T exist in America." So, ahh, you don't mind a police state looking over your shoulder, just so long as it's not an American police state? I personally prefer no Big Brother. But Elvis, if you are going to argue that there is a stronger guarantee of individual liberty anywhere in the world than the U.S. Constitution, then you need to get a refund on your tuition dude. If my freedom was ever imperiled by something I posted or some site I visited on the 'net, I would rather take my chances of having a fair trial and getting an unjust law repealed here than anywhere else in the world. Btw, I might just note that I haven't seen the NY Times post any lists of people jailed by Ashcroft for Internet Thought Crime, at least not yet... I don't like to thump my chest about how great America is because it just doesn't set well with a lot of folks, and especially isn't in keeping with the international flavor and feel of this board. Americans know they aren't inherently better, or for that matter different, than any one else. I honestly don't know a single American who believes that we are. I see proof of the brilliance of people in other countries on this board all the time: in the sheer technical know-how of vakundok and Billy Loomis, and even Jahled's manic creativity. We aren't smarter than anyone else and we aren't better. How could we be? We came (and continue to come) from everywhere...I think that's also why the animosity and distrust that many people in other countries feel towards the US is both hurtful and bewildering to so many Americans - we still feel our roots, still feel connections with our mother countries, even after generations, and are surprised that the bond is not somehow shared. And I think that Americans are so convinced of the commonality of our desires and aspirations with those of everyone else, that they are genuinely surprised when the opposition to what the US is doing is so vehement. That may well mark us as arrogant, SOCL, but I tend to believe it simply demonstrates that we are still in many ways a naive people. I do believe there is one thing which sets the U.S. apart: we were blessed (you'll excuse the expression EM) to have Founders who bequeathed to us institutions like a written Constitution, which attempt to maximize our civil liberties and enshrine the rule of law. I believe if all countries had such institutions there is no limit to what their people could achieve - certainly as much if not more than what we've accomplished in our two centuries. We are a young country, but one of the oldest representative republics. U.S. citizens don't have to envy anyone Elvis, not even the UK, when it comes to the guarantees of personal freedom we enjoy, Patriot Act not withstanding. From what I know of the Patriot Act, it does sound horribly misguided. But I don't accept the notion that it's the result of the evil machinations of a bunch of neo-brownshirts who want to conquer the world for Big Oil, and jail the opposition here. (Which reminds me, has anybody else in the states every stopped to compare the cost of a gallon of gasoline to the cost of a gallon of milk? And last time I checked, we don't have to drill under the North Sea or out in remote deserts for milk, then ship it around the world in supertankers. Yet the oil companies are reviled for supplying a product that is essential to our economies and doing so at a reasonable price. People are funny. I say, down with "Big Dairy"! But where was I? Oh yes, "fascist America"...) Here is what I think: I think George Bush was scarred by September 11 (note "scarred", not "scared"). I think those events traumatized him to some degree, and I think it has driven his foreign and domestic policy since. I think he recognizes that the threat posed by terrorism to the U.S. and eventually to the West is existential (I will stipulate for the record that the notion of the "West" is perhaps outdated). The madmen who flew planes into the WTC and the Pentagon would have used more terrible weapons if they had had them. Obviously Bush has made mistakes since then, and I count the Patriot Act as one of them. But the characterizations aside, Bush is no fool. He had to know how legislation like the Patriot Act would be perceived by both liberals and some conservatives in this country. He also had to know how it would be portrayed by the editorial staffs of the major media, who regard him with a loathing that is nothing short of pathological. I think he signed the legislation out of a personal conviction that despite the risks of a theoretical or even probable injury to the right of privacy, that it would save American lives. I think he was misguided, but not evil, and I do think that such laws put us on a slippery slope. As for Iraq, I don't think Bush was either evil or misguided. And I don't think that this was a war about "maintaining America's position in the world" as was stated earlier in this thread. I think ultimately it was a war about saving first American, then British, Dutch, German, French and even Iraqi lives. (For citizens of those countries who will be "outraged" by the suggestion that we fought a war in their name: I made no such suggestion. But I do assert that if America ceased to exist, you would be next in the line of fire, through no fault of ours or yours. And I assert that if America succeeds in helping the Iraqi people build a free and prosperous Iraq, it is not only the US which will benefit or American lives which will be saved.). The Iraqi war was a horrible gamble, and Bush had to know it. But I also think he reckoned that if something doesn't happen to change the dynamic of dictatorship, poverty, and fundamentalist extremism in the Middle East, that the cost in lives will someday run into the millions. The madrases (sp?) keep turning out their suicide bombers day after day... I know it's fun and probably a little satisfying for you guys to rail against our "cowboy" foreign policy, to paint Bush and Ashcroft as a belligerent simpletons, and generally vent against America. (Note to Scathane: sorry, but Bush's policies do not represent the dramatic departure you suggest: The US Senate voted 94-0 against Kyoto - it was going nowhere. The ABM treaty was with a country that no longer exists, and which if memory serves was not the Netherlands,btw . I would say that if the possibility of defense against a nuclear attack exists, our leaders are duty bound to pursue it. The M.A.D. concept which the ABM treaty sought to preserve was horribly immoral, the product of a nightmare era. Exiting the treaty before pursuing a missle defense was an example of political and diplomatic honesty, which come to think of it does represent something of a departure. And finally, if you want to read some really classic sabre-rattling, take a Google stroll through some of Clinton's, Albright's, and Sandy Burger's public pronouncements on Iraq in the latter 1990's.) If and when you've had your fill of slamming Uncle Sam, remember this: we were and are allies, we need each other now as much as ever, and like it or not, history has put us on the same side of a war against people who are determined to destroy our shared concept of civilization, and us in the process if we resist. You may call that last statement xenophobic. I look at the images from lower Manhattan and reply: "Yes. What's your point?". So, off of my soapbox, and enough apologia for Bush and America. My company is in the middle of a hardware upgrade for our largest customer, and I had time to kill. I'm sorry for chewing up so much bandwidth and sucking all the air out of this forum. I think I berated another poster once for trying to win hearts and minds to America on this board: people don't want to hear it and more importantly it just doesn't work, and I know it. But I don't think it is fair to smear Americans as jingoistic for expressing patriotism and deep love of country (more than unfair - it's jaded and simplistic). I guess that is one difference between Americans and many other peoples: we still believe in the nation state. It works for us because of those institutions I mentioned earlier. That we celebrate it and want to protect it is nothing more than common sense. That many of you, especially in Europe, take a dim view of nationalism and regard it as a source of war and strife is understandable given the slaughter of the last century. But our attitude is no less understandable, and I would argue that we are not wrong for loving, supporting, and defending our country. Last I would hope you folks accept at least the possibility that what is happening in the US now isn't necessarily the will of multinational corporate stooges or neo-fascists. There are millions of thoughtful Americans who feel we are in a fight for our lives. Though we detest war and it's terrible cost, we don't feel we have any choice but to fight. Note to Evaders: dude, can we base forum ranks on the number of words we write, rather than the number of posts? I'd make Warlord in no time!

I believe that the higher the weapon recharge rate, the faster the ship can fire. Not sure what the maximum value is or what kind of rate of fire that will translate to. Damage control is the ability of a ship to repair itself, the higher the number the better.

vakundok = genius Thanks dude!

Right you are! It's important to have goals!

Check out the_mask's site. He used to offer it as a download from the SWR section.

Scathane is right, the enemy mission can still succeed even if you detect it ahead of time or while it is in progress. Get me, I'm a corporal! And it only took 11 months!

Actually, Resource Hacker is a tool that lets you view what's contained in the Rebellion DLLs. I think the blue hyperspace engine burns are in the gokres.dll bitmaps, starting at around position 22080. You can also use the DLL entries editor in Rebed to view and replace the bitmaps in the Rebellion DLLs, if you haven't downloaded ResHack yet. Good luck!

Thanks ricepr2001.

Sorry if this has been covered somewhere else, but: 1. Does Rebed allow you to edit the encyclopedia information for the production facilities? (I'm talking training centers, construction and shipyards). I can edit their stats, but can't edit pictures or text with my copy. 2. Does anyone know where the "large" (encyclopedia) pics of the advanced facilities are? I found the basic construction yard, training center, and shipyard pics in the gokres.dll at position 262-264. But I can't find the large pics of the advanced facilities. Maybe they're in a different dll? Thanks!

I think the build card is used when you are assigning characters to missions too. TK421 - you're usually so easy going! Take a stress pill (that's my answer for everything now) and get back to your post!

Fine Elvis. Have it your way. Explain this to me, Junior. How come I'm older than dirt, and still a cadet, tasked with mopping up Zoot's cat poop on every SSD in the galaxy? And you, still wet behind the ears, have zoomed to the exalted rank of Warlord? Is the Rebellion that hard up for senior staff? And another thing...how come the Mon Calamari cover their starships with warts?? And if we can put a man on the moon, why can't we put metal in a microwave??? Riddle me this Batman. I hate to tell you buddy, but if it's between you and Zoot...my money's on the cat.

To paraphrase HAL9000 (man am I showing my age), maybe we should all just take a stress pill and relax. GonkRaider: take a look at the locations of many of our members. A sizeable number of them are from Europe, and the polls indicate they are totally opposed to the war. There's no way you're going to win them over on this forum, especially by lashing out in the way you have here. You shouldn't be surprised to get a fight with this topic. I know this is General Discussion, but maybe we'd all be better off if for now our discussions gravitate away from the Real World and more towards the galaxy far, far away... Jahled: GR is right man, you gave at least as good as you got on the flaming front. I cringe every time I see a current events topic on the few boards I frequent, because I know my blood pressure is going to take a hit. I wish GR hadn't opened this one. And I also wish you wouldn't occasionally accuse Bush of wanting to incinerate the planet...the fact that we're all still here suggests it just ain't so. Obviously you've seen some awful things in your young time, and your appreciation and appeal for humanity is laudable. Just remember GR is part of that big ol' human family, and who knows what he has seen? For all we know he was in the vicinity of the WTC on Sept. 11, 2001, and saw enough carnage to keep his nightmares going on an endless loop for the next dozen years. Trejiuvanat: "Husein is no Hitler either"??? That may be true...in the same way that it's true Hitler was no Stalin and Stalin was no Mao. His body count may not have reached their exact same stratospheric heights, but it hasn't been for want of trying. There are serious people who say Saddam Hussein has been responsible for the deaths of more Muslims than anyone else in history. Ideas do have consequences. My humble opinion is that the idea of defending SH or even trying to minimize his crimes is, in a word, perverse. You've made it plain on other threads that you think Bush is no better than Saddam Hussein and the US is responsible for most of the world's problems. If you want to make a fetish of your hatred for Bush and the US, well...it's your life. Spend your time as you will. But now that you've made your feelings known, why not concentrate on SWR, at least on this board? Kumbayah people. Peace be unto you. Now let's shut this thread down and get back to the business of escaping reality, not wallowing in it.

The Executor SSDs are the coolest ships in the history of, well... space ships. Not to change topics, but to all you Rebels out there...why are all your ships so butt ugly??? You guys should really have surrendered out of sheer embarrassment. I guess that's what you get when you let squids...err Calamari, do most of your ship building. Whenever I destroy an Alliance fleet, I look at it not so much as an act of war but as an attempt to preserve the beauty of the galaxy. Just taking out the trash, so to speak. In conclusion: <- Rebels <- Imperials

I remember an image on the SWMA site called "YT1300 Strike Package" I think. It was a trio of this type flying in formation. Very slick.

Jahled - did you use vakundok's utility to convert the bitmap to Rebellion's wack format first, and then make that converted file your replacement resource when you used Hacker? I think you have to do that conversion on any bitmap image that you want to put into the tactical dll 303 type resources. At least I think that's the case...

We do indeed Mr. J. Pax!

Jahled - you should really put your literary skills to better use. Maybe something like a new biography of Neville Chamberlain? I'm sure he was the kind of pol you'd take a real shine to.

Make sure you download The_Mask's tutorial on changing models. Give it a read and it will help. Don't get lost for now in the portion about converting .3ds models to Direct X - just skip on down to the part about uploading the completed .x files into your tactical.dll folder. Also, in the Rebed-Model Editing forum, look for the topic "How is the model editting (sic) done and carried into Rebellion." Look for Mask's post a few messages down. It is helpful too. You might want to create a copy of your tactical.dll before you get started just for safety's sake, but if you follow the instructions in the tutorial you shouldn't have any problem.

Tsunami, you can download a trial copy of Paint shop pro from the Jasc software website http://www.jasc.com/download_4.asp? This will let you load and save palettes, and assign palettes to images. But, the download is 31mb . There are probably better options but you can file this one away just in case.

What a timesaver it is to have the strategic & tactical palettes. No more wasting effort trying to turn a picture into the perfect Rebed card only to have the colors turn to junk once the card is uploaded. And finally I understand why my tactical images change colors when I import them. I know this info was there all along, but I didn't understand it until now . This is great vakundok.

Does save game editor = scenario editor? As long as we're asking for the moon, there's gotta be a flag that tells whether or not a character has been recruited yet New models, new fighters, a savegame editor...keep it up Mask and you're going to put poor JediGreg out of a job About the only thing left would be additional card slots in all the major card categories. Jahled is right on that score, someday someone is going to have to have a crack at the source code.

Thank you Vakundok. I'm sure you will figure it out