AdmiralFishface

I've seen three very good movies in the last few weeks, each one very different from the other. Knew only one of them, enjoyed them all. Snatch - Excellent cast and acting, real good humor, and a plot that builds up as perfectly to the climatic moment where all the storylines were finally combined. Coffee and Cigarettes - A collection of shorts, actually, featuring lots of well-known actors and musicians, like Bill Murray, Roberto Begnini, Iggy Pop, Alfred Molina, et cetera. Not for everyone, I suppose, the humor was very subtle (my favourite kind), and some scenes really simply took too long pointlessly. Harold and Maude - A beautiful movie with lots of black humor, an interesting philosophy of life and powerful camerawork.

I agree. 1 squad of X-Wings is a pretty powerful force, able of dealing considerable damage. IIRC, in an X-Wing novel, a handful of X-Wings were enough to kill a Carrack cruiser with a volley of torps. Having 3 or 4 squads of X-Wings flying around a cruiser dealing no noticable damage to its shields while it -slooowly- kills them is simply ridiculous. Using RebEd, I divided the fighter forces into half squads while considerably boosting their firepower, speed and maneuverability. That way there were more little dots flying around in major engagements, looking nicer, and they were a lot more deadly, 4 squads of Y-wings and a group of 6 B-Wings pounding an ISD to pieces (with heavy losses, though) while the X-Wings held off the TIES. The big problem with SW:R fighters, rebel ones in particular, is that they don't fire their torps until the enemies' shields are down already, so a cap ship's shields must be taken down with superior laser firepower first, so no torp volleys into an SD's shields, unfortunately.

The recharge, IIRC (correct me if I'm wrong, fellas) is the amount of 'weapons energy' building up in the ship per second. So if your ship has a recharge of 100 and one single cannon of 50 points firepower, it will fire twice a second.

You don't even know the meaning of the word SPAM if you haven't read THIS infamous thread.

That could be either X-Com: Interceptor or X: Beyond the Frontier. You probably meant X: BtF, because it was more about trading.

Yup, that's right, he was. Tachyon's my second favourite space sim, right after Freespace2, btw. You asked for Tachyon, you get a review (har, har) : You play Jake Logan, contract pilot who works for a Sol space mining company who, unfortunately, has been sentenced to exile for blowing up a space hospital, though he's innocent. So he tries to make a living in the Fringe (unclaimed space, where laws aren't enforced) as contracter. You get to choose between two sides, the Bora colonists, and the GalSpan corporation trying to drive them away. You get a list of missions at several different starbases which you mostly can choose to do in any order. Missions vary very much, you get the standard assault and defend missions, you'll deliver stuff, look for stuff in specific sectors, etc. Interesting thing is, as freelance contracter you'll get jobs from everyone around beside the side you work for. You'll get hired by the local police force, by power-hungry "asteroid barons", by gamblers, scientists, etc; you can be a fighter in an arena, too. Graphics are pretty good for its age, especially the HUGE space stations, and ship designs are pretty. You can buy several fighters from light interceptors to heavy assault fighters and outfit them with many different systems and weapons. And you can hire wingmen, too. Some wingmen will only be available by completing missions, some will decide the outcome of missions. Oh, and the dialogue and voice-acting are pretty cool, too. Have some screenies: GalSpan Orion fighter using a Tachyon Jump Gate GalSpan Poseidon multirole bomber GalSpan Cruiser in front of New Vegas casino starbase Bora Cruiser Medical Frigate

Okay, as you've observed quite correctly the ship cards have nothing to do with the ship models. To import models you need the Model importer you find in the download section. Mask's tutorial with the importer will take it from there. The problem with ships using the same model is only existent, as far as I understand, if the same model is in two different model slots. Having one ship buildable by both sides (as in check both boxes in RebED) does not result in problems. At least it hasn't for me so far.

Yup, got my assignment, but what are my lines? Only got German version here, don't know the original lines. Should I just improvise something?

17'' CRD and I'm quite satisfied. A 19'' would be nice, but I got more important components to waste my money on (and no money to waste).

The limited number is a limit in the game, unfortunately noone has discovered how to add ship, fighter, character, etc. slots. If you check a ship for both to build, it will be available for both sides.

Can't connect, it seems, same as N3C's problem.

Oh. That explains a lot. Problem solved.

So that's why we never saw the older Boba without his helmet...

Routine cardmaking. Take a pic, paste it onto a neutral blue card sized bmp, save, load in RebEd. Never had any problems. Sure, colors were distorted, but ever since I used Photoshop and color palettes, the changes are acceptable. But not this time. Routine procedure, all is well, but when I load the bmp into RebEd and use the 'autogenerate' function (best way to test really quickly) the BG remains blue. Jaw drops. Tried various approaches: save pic without applying palette first, apply palette and save, paste the intended pic onto an existing and functioning one - not working. Fun thing is, when I erased the foreground and loaded just the blue, i got a perfect BG. When I use the Tac palette instead of the Strat one, BG works, but pic is ugly. So is the card foreground able to mess with the BG even though the BG color remains the same al the time? WTF?!

I too would have liked to see the X-Wing series and Zahn's novels as either movies or TV series. But it is simply not going to happen since lately Lucas believes himself to be the greatest author ever and won't let anyone else's ideas interfere with him. I'm waiting for the day when he does all the acting himself.

Of Star Wars films: The Empire strikes back, because it was dark and IMO most of the characters simply acted coolest in this one. Of Non-SW... Well, the restriction of budget sure makes that tough. I'm simply gonna stick with those where the effects and budget were not the point of the film (unlike all hollywood blockbusters lately): Blues Brothers, which features both great musicians and actors and, additionally, is funny as hell. Ghostbusters is great, nothing more to be said. Airplane literally left me rolling on the floor laughing. And Dr. Strangelove must be one of the greatest movies EVER.

100 - maybe males - yup, mostly eccentric - check writers? - ah, there's the problem. we need more writers

I always liked Kyle Katarn's first ship, forgot the name, though. I don't know how unique it was, but at least it's the only of it's class ever seen.

England - Austria 2:2! Who'd have thought!

Last time I looked I couldn't find Borsk Fey'lya either.

Happy birthday Trej! and... um... well... Happy Birthday Trej!

Sorry to interrupt your little war games there, but I've got two cents around here somewhere I want to throw into the discussion. About females in Star Wars: Look at the classical trilogy, pre-special edition. If I count correctly, there are some 7-8 female characters in a total of three movies (not counting odd aliens whose gender is not clear), of which only four have dialogue: Leia, Beru, the Ion Control lady and Mon Mothma. Of these four only two are in a way important: Beru for being Luke's aunt and being partially responsible for his upbringing, and Leia, who is less important as Luke's sister or Vader's daughter or second-to-last hope for the Light Side than as primary love interest for the story. In the EU (as well as the prequels) more and more women appear. The position of women in society has become stronger since the 70s, and not every female character can be Leia, so stronger women are created. We have female Jedi, female villains, female pilots and smugglers and commandos. But somehow, it remains important that where there are men and women, romance has to occur. So once again, the women of Star Wars must obey to their biological role and become partners for their male companions. Star Wars now has more relationships than a daily soap, literally every female ever to be created has, at some point, been thrown together with any existing male. This doesn't exactly help them, for instead of being "Insert Name", they are no more than "Insert other name"'s girlfriend. Now I forgot what I wanted to say when I began writing this post, but at least I've achieved some kind of result. Good night.

OOC: IIRC You jettisoned yourself in an escape pod. Undoubtedly crewmen from the Liberty are retrieving it now. The Bad Samaritan is now in Noreto's hands, however. I think the Rebels' survivors will have a debriefing and an official ceremony to remember the fallen in the time Antilles takes to post his part of the Jedi business.

1.) Babylon 5, not only the best Sci-Fi series there is, IMO, but my overall favourite TV show as well. 2.) Futurama. Three words: Funny as hell. 3.) The Simpsons. Yay for yellow. Also: Monty Python's Flying circus, old but great, X-Files which would definetly be in my Top 3 were it not for the horrible 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th season, and Batman: TAS which was great until someone decided it should be more of a kids' show.

OOC: Mad, weren't the shipyards already gone? IC: The last minutes of the battle had been outright desastrous. The shipyards were lost, as were large parts of the Rebel fleet. The Star Destroyers' superior firepower had heavily damaged the two Mon Cal cruisers Ackbar had sent into battle mere minutes ago, their escorts were dead. Liberty herself had suffered from a collision with a dying imperial gunboat, its weapons load violently exploding against her shields, but still she was one of the least damaged ships in the engagement zone. Chronicle had been lost. Dozens of fighter craft lost. As the imperial destroyers moved away from the planet, firing blindly into the Rebel group, pickup craft hurried out of Liberty's hangar, coming to the rescue of pilots who had to exit their fighters, trying to find traces of survivors in battered starships' hulks. "To the fleet: Retreat. Move away from the enemy ships at maximum speed. There's nothing we can do here anymore." Ackbar said, feeling the weight of these words in his gut. "Hero of Commenor, Liberty and Defiance will stay behind for the rescue operations. We will fight the Empire another day." Slowly, the two fleets separated, triangular imperial destroyers moving one way, some of them already vanishing into hyperspace, the rebels moving the other way, trying to avoid the enemy's turbolasers. Rebel fighters scored last kills against the retreating TIEs. Ackbar had been prepared to lead the fleet into a battle they could not have won today. He had been prepared to lead thousands of brave people into their deaths. He had been prepared to die. But he would not die today; he would have to live with the sacrifices he had been prepared to make.