DarthTex

I agree with E, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering would be great choices. Worse case, you work in IT for some company. I loved computer programming (mostly) and took it as a personal challenge to create the most efficient and logical code (although documentation was a drag, and I tend to over do that). Unfortunately, all of my computer language skills are obsolete; does anybody even program anymore is assembler, FORTRAN, Basic or Pascal? I didn't think so. Electrical engineering I didn't like that much at all (I just couldn't get the "feel" for those teeny, tiny electrons running about), although as the course got harder my grades kept getting even better . Go figure ... I ended up sticking with Aerospace engineering. I always wanted to design some wild aircraft, and fly through the sky. Well, drafting was a pain (no computers back then, vellum & pencil only), and the cost for flying was prohibitive (when available). So now I crunch numbers on designs, and just "fly" on a computer simulator (SW X-wing and Tie Fighter were great!) Good Luck with your choice Master Xan

During the tactical battles, if you see any capital ships with the "glowing blue sphere" around them, that's the tractor beam on them. Like Tofu mentioned, it usually the larger capital ships "holding" the smaller capital ships steady so they can pound them. It doesn't completely stop them usually (depends on bigger vs smaller ships), unless more than one ship grabs them (but then how can you tell? A glowing blue sphere looks like the next glowing blue sphere). Have you never noticed the "glowing blue sphere" around capital ships during the tactical battles before?

Hey Evaders, does that "birthday" thing at the bottom of the Forums page really work? I've seen some names pop up there occasionally, but with how many people "joined" you would think there would be several each day. I'm assuming most of this type of data is missing, or whatnot. Make sure you add Jahled for today! and sing him the birthday song

Happy birthday Jahled! Wherever you are ... (probably snapping lots of pics of animals at the London Zoo)

Good luck Tofu. Post when you can.

So, how go all of the "other" versions of Reb2 developing out there? Slocket? Davidadas? Moribundus? nordwindranger? Rest up steel & keep the updates coming.

First I would suggest sabotaging the shield generators, which you have tried, but: don't use FORCE users (Vader & Palpy will foil - guaranteed!); don't use large numbers (i.e. one huge group), send several groups & mix the numbers, mix the decoy numbers too. Load up on Y-wings and/or B-wings (high bombardment values ) & lots of 'em. Then try again. Load up on heavy hitters (high bombardment values ) & lots of 'em. Then try again. Disperse your fleet (leave most of the heavy hitters & all the Y-wings/B-wings at Coruscant) and blockade all the enemy systems you can. This will lower the enemy maintinence points such that (hopefully) things will start being "scrapped" (again hoping a Gen Core on Coruscant gets scrapped). This might take awhile; take up a hobby or finish exploring the galaxy. Continue to do espionage missions as much as possible, on Coruscant or other (blockaded?) enemy core systems to get info on Coruscant. Good luck.

Unfortunately, there is not a "savegame editor". Before one can be programmed, the format of the savegame file needs to be deciphered. As far as I know, no one's done this, or been actively doing this. I've been tinkering with this off/on for the last year or two, and have made some progress. What you're suggesting might be possible (theoretically), it's just beyond complexingly complicated to the nth degree.

Silly Def, ... in Texas! I'm still here, checking in occasionally (lurking ) when I get the time. It's been quite hot here lately; daytime low 95F - daytime high 104F, & still far, far behind the power curve on rain. Working, tired of working, still working (at the office & on the homestead). It's good to see your posts on NSO again Def! Things are far different than when you first started this thread. You have alot of material covered, and alot to cover & it's all been enjoyable. Keep up the good work (as of right now, it's the only thing interesting bringing me back to SWR; things have been exceptionally "dry" in the SW universe, & hence this site. But I'm not much of a help either, so I'll have to work on that )!

Happy Birthday to our late, great comrade Grand Moff Paul Conway. RIP partner

If things will "turn around and get better" and you're "a pessimist", what are things like when you're an optimist? Hang in there Mad!

Happy Birthday to The Duke, John Wayne and ... Peter Cushing!

I've had the same thought. Although I think they did it more for game balance, to me ISD's should be more "terrifying" if you ran into one of them. The down side being with this game when it came out, if you played Imperials the ISD couldn't be too powerful, but if you played Rebels the ISD wasn't terrifying enough

Just sit back & enjoy Rob! I hope to see it soon myself. As for the Sherlock Holmes movie, I keep expecting an Iron Man suit to be hidden nearby

Nice pic Slocket! Keep up the good work

Considering Eygpt is a Muslim country, although progressive by some standards; other than "western" establishments I don't think you'll find too much alcohol flowing over there I've only been to Cairo once, and during the "windy" season. I only got to walk around the airport for a short time (out on the tarmac that is, not in the terminal)

It's not "memory", but "storage" space. All of those vid's you make & put on Youtube, de-motivation posters, Zoot War posts, all of those take "space". I know I've collected quite a bit over the years Besides, you never want your hard drive too full, it just slows everything down trying to keep track of it all. And doing multiple drives (a RAID system), is just good insurance should your drive ever just ... die.

Great job LLF! Enjoy yourself (and stay out of trouble ...)

Although the idea of a "balanced game" would be nice, due to the "poor AI" of the game, the best you can hope for is to "pump up" your enemy and "handicap" yourself so you hopefully get a challenging game. I haven't really done a tough "pump/handicap" game or know just how far I could go before going too far. Maybe someday I'll experiment

You are correct Rob! One million Megabytes is one thousand Gigabytes which is one Terabyte. @Mad: What other high end components are on that thing? DVD-ROM? Video Card? wireless what? etc. ...

Happy Birthday to Peter Mayhew and to this up-and-coming actress Caroline de Souza Correa

Happy 65th Birthday GL! Now you can "retire" and sign all rights and ownership of SW & LucasArts to me [Jedi mind trick]"These are the papers you need to sign. You don't need the headaches anymore"[mind trick off]

Send me a PM (private message) with your e-mail address and I'll send it to you

The maximum number of facilities is limited by the system energy available

What if they were using several Class-A thermal detonators?