Evaders99

Eville has an Entrenchment version for testing... should be up on the SVN Let me know if you need access to it

It really depends on what virtual PC software you are using, whether it will scale to full screen or keep your hosts resolution.

Fate of the Jedi: Abyss Wow - I'm probably a bit biased (I enjoyed Troy Denning's Star by Star and his other SW novels are well worth it), but I can see where this series is going now. Maybe because the Sith get some action and that story starts intersecting with the Luke/Ben storyline. Maybe because Anakin Solo and Jacen Solo get a cameo (though as a ghost?)... Denning happened to write the books in which both die... and Raynar Thul gets a cameo. More Barabel jokes. Han Solo is classic Han, Luke gets some major action. Dennings really gets things going when s*** hits the fan. Leia didn't really feel like a major character enough to be on the book cover, but she has some nice banter with Han. Overall I really enjoyed it and didn't feel too short, it was worth reading.

Well since Rebellion is set after the Battle of Yavin, Alderaan would have been rubble. There would be no point having a planet you couldn't colonize or anything

Yes, just the latest version. You shouldn't need to decompile the HW2 ones I haven't looked at Spooky's in a while, but sounds correct

District 9... just saw it and I don't know. I can't say I really liked it or hated it. It's certainly a unique movie. Maybe its because I generally don't like the documentary-style movies. Or that the film lacks a final resolution. Don't know whether to recommend it or not The rated R is appropriate though... don't bring your kids/wife/weak-stomached. Body parts fly and people get vaporized.

Yea you'd need to decompile all the big files. I believe the big files get loaded and then the overloadbigfile works to read the data, but don't quote me on that

Yes, except now you don't need the -mod part

I think you have the right change. Though I think some of the effects will create performance issues, esp when too many ships are firing at once. You don't have to recompile, just use -overridebigfile But there is a big creator if you need it. The utility I've used is unfBig

ya or try on http://www.swrebellion.net

Just a heads up from Eville Any volunteers?

What do you mean? The images from Rebellion are simple bitmaps

I think Luke and Vader will always detect each other. Probably this late in the game, your quickest option is to blockade and assault. Keep following him, tacking over systems, eventually he'll have no where to run.

Good luck, those events are essentially hardcoded.

Been there, done that. Even with the source code, I don't know there's much you can do. It's a seriously old game with many problems. I'd want to revamp a lot of it, interface, graphics, modding and scripting... it is pretty much writing another game

The Guild is back!

Well that can't be it because that's a local file

Yea there isn't anything too exciting to talk about. I guess the next big thing is SW:TOR, but I'm not really a MMO fan. I don't want to sink money into it, but I may.. we'll see. Been trying to drive more traffic to our forums, but those have dropped off faster than SWR loyal fans. Oh well

More or less, its a mini-expansion that adds starbases. You do not need it to run play SOGE (though many other mods may use it). Eventually there will be an Entrenchment version of SOGE, but the plan is to keep both a vanilla Sins and Entrenchment option.

SOGE version 0.90 requires Sins 1.15 or higher. It is not Entrenchment compatible.

Interesting, thanks for the news!

EvilleJedi would be the one to ask. I'm sure if he knows what you're using it for (ala not a commercial project) he'd be more than willing to give it to you.

More C&C4 Sounds interesting. I'm not sure whether the whole tone change. I actually like some of the campy elements, the cinematics of actors speaking to you as the commander... I don't know if it would be a C&C game without it. I would hate to see it turn into another boring game that took itself too seriously (C&C Generals anyone?)

Excellent observations. I'd sure Eville will do what he can to fix this

I guess this is supposed to be our running novel thread http://karentraviss.typepad.com/blog/2009/08/end-of-one-era-start-of-another.html Seems Karen Traviss knows of some big changes coming up, enough that would either retcon what she's done. So she's stopped with further SW novels. I wonder what's in store.. I have a feeling I don't like it already. If you have to retcon a major part of the SW EU, what would this entail? It seems like it would be worse than the whole Vader-built-C3PO thing