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[quote who="Kavik_Kang" reply="87" id="3624556"] You heard Picard say it once in a TNG episode, "present minimal aspect to target". This doesn't mean to point right at them, like it sounds, it means to point as much as you can at them while keeping the primary guns in arc. Run away at the same angle. This makes you a very hard target, an even harder one than if you point directly at them, and keeps all your guns firing all the time. Very few people in that gam

whoops double post.

*applause* Wonderful [e digicons]:')[/e] (by the way this emoticon not displaying properly, it should be :') ) That was the greatest monodrama I have ever seen! <

[quote who="Hunam_" reply="76" id="3624390"] you can afford $15 gamepad [/quote] Sorry I reserve all my money for buying games.... I am a game (w)horder........ but true that is no excuse for not getting a game pad.... but as I said before, I do move a lot and I would rather not have to drag around a game pad from place to place to play SC. I want to have all I need to play games with my notebook and trusty 2 hands (and maybe a mouse for

I hope that I won't need to buy a gamepad just to play the game "the way it was designed to".... It's keyboard or mouse or combo for me. Before you know it they will be wanting me to buy an Xbox to play a game "the way it was designed to play". The next step then we will all be required to buy an Oculus rift or something..... and then sell our souls.... [e digicons]:hugme:[/e] oh wait... I already sold mine when joined the Founders program [e digicons]:hu

[quote who="Kavik_Kang" reply="66" id="3624276"] How about the option of flying a flight sim with a mouse? Is there any reason to allow the player to make the mistake of trying to use a mouse to fly a plane? [/quote] [quote who="Volusianus" reply="67" id="3624288"] Actually, many of them totally allow you to. [/quote] [quote who="Kavik_Kang" reply="68" id="3624291"] And the people who are making those gam

[quote who="IBNobody" reply="44" id="3623804"] Sell me on it. Why a radar box versus using off-screen screen-edge indicator tabs? Will the combat arena be that massive? In single-player, will I often be up against 2 ships at once? In multi-player, can't I track the location of 2 enemy ships? (The third would likely be on my screen.) [/quote] Okay let me try and sell you on this. The screen is square. Fast moving object

Not sure if I may have missed this some where. Will there be any form of fog-of-war in combat?

Will there be any kind of implementation of Fog-of-War?

For those of you complaining about aiming I can only say you guys really are awful in playing games.... I say that with confidence because I actually had quite a good hit rate against Thraddash ships and Arilou ships (about a 10% hit rate) while using the Druuge ships. And against bigger ships I got close to 40%. And that was with the annoying constant zoom-in zoom-out. Not that I ever won many wars with the Druuge since the recoil effect always made me

Name: Swarm Carrier Speed: Low Acceleration: Med Turning rate: Low Primary weapon: Random teleportation that creates EMP shockwaves or Energy blasts when disappearing and again when reappearing. (Kind of like the Kor-ah spinning ninja stars, or the Kzer-za ring of fire) Secondary weapon: Squadrons of mini-fighters (like the Orz) Speed: Ultra-fast</span

[quote who="cuorebrave" reply="1" id="3623056"] Okay, since my spam firewall blocks Starcontrol.com as Pornography still, I can't access any of this from my computer at work (where I do all my good, lazy, day-dreaming!) [/quote] You don't have to show off your fandom and dedication to Starcontrol in such a..... manner..... unfortunately I have not set my spam filter to block out implicit pornographic content...... [e digicons]x_x[/e] (after

What I want to see in NEW DLCs are things that reflect on actual REAL life. For example: Science is able to prove some physical laws. Or new theories emerge regarding some property of the Universe. Or new things are discovered in the Universe (for example this star is actually a binary star). Or there is actually a hidden 9th planet only just discovered... It would be cool to see these things be integ

[quote who="Volusianus" reply="73" id="3620892"] Quoting Xenove, reply 71 Now now boys.... (right? boys? right? May I should just use the girls as a general word instead???). Let's stop the bickering and getting sidetracked and focus on the OPs request. Well clearly I'm a Kohr-Ah. [/quote] My apologies Kohr-Ah boy... err girl.... thing.... err Kor-ah.... Umm... I wonder maybe Kohr-Ah a

Although if we reflect on the question: "How to make the perfect Bad Guy". Does that mean a believable humane (human) bad guy? OR The perfect-incarnation-of-evil bad guy? In the movie the "Fifth Element" you have the inherently EVIL thingy and bad guys. They were bad, nothing to understand or sympathize there. Bad is as evil gets. But then you have the "bad guys" like in the movie "Watchmen",

[quote who="Hunam_" reply="70" id="3620421"] Considering an "unhealthy" interest of Arilou/Greys in human race, I'd bring significance of human genome forward one way or the other (probably the most valuable trait/the most believable advantage human race has IMO). [/quote] Hmmm human genome.... well in another post I said that in SC2 the genius should have been genetically engineered to understand better precursor tech. Since it is quite unl

[quote]he Kzer-za and Korean [/quote] You mean Korh-ah (or sumtin' like dat)....... The "bad" guy in the movie "Watchmen" was actually quite "good". A good place to take down some notes........

Now now boys.... (right? boys? right? May I should just use the girls as a general word instead???). Let's stop the bickering and getting sidetracked and focus on the OPs request.

As I stated before we can take inspiration from the game Darklands..... And maybe the experienced "old" guys are all dead already from fighting the invasion..... Leaving a rather small pool of fighters left over and who are already too busy fighting the aliens. An experimental vessel is then left to the command of the most promising officer in the vicinity that can manage to arrive in time to fly it away before it is destroyed by alien for

[quote who="Kavik_Kang" reply="62" id="3619511"] There is no situation in which 40-year-old men would follow a 20-year-old kid as their leader. A 20-year-old leader is not believable to the point of being silly. [/quote] In an established military context with old and established tech yes, it is very unlikely for very old 4-star geezers to let a 20 year old green rookie command a starship as there will always be an older guy (even if it is by 1 year) who

True in a military setting having a 20's in command is unrealistic. But SC2 had circumstances that could only make it so. Mainly that it is not a military base and small population (literally a small village of scientists). It always happens with the advent of disruptive tech or disruptive sequence of events. Where the old school is too old to utilise the new tech, or there are huge changes in the world. Let's say the world has seen peace for cen

I suppose what everyone is trying to say is that it is hard to create a green 20 year old hero when the world is populated with "older" people. Unless the story revolves around kids (like Narnia, or the Wizard of Oz, Home alone, etc). It is quite unrealistic to expect a green horn surround by "older people" to be the hero when every year you add to that is one more year of experience and wisdom which would create a more believable hero. In a manga like Naruto, N

[quote who="Kavik_Kang" reply="46" id="3619212"] Personally, I am tired of seeing 20 year old generals and senators in movies. It's ridiculous, make the hero be in his 40's, a 20 year old hero is not believable. [/quote] That is unfortunate and while it is true that there are too many "younglings" in games, anime and manga which you apparently don't find in movies (except lately) the protagonist is chosen to appeal to the largest possible dem

[quote who="Kavik_Kang" reply="43" id="3618953"] command of a starship over to a 20-year-old who hasn't even graduated the academy yet. [/quote] No that would not do! But certainly it should be fine if it is a 20 year old something stumbling upon an alien spaceship and forming a bond with the AI or controls of the alien spaceship. Like in those soooo many numerous movies and animes...... maybe could be just a tiny winy little bit cliched&nbs

[quote who="Kavik_Kang" reply="11" id="3618016"] And yet, in the end, all you wind up with are some "side quests" for evil conversation options. It's a wonderful "glorious vision", but in the end, it's really just half-a-dozen side quests. That's how it actually works out in the end. [/quote] I am not talking about side quests. Have you played Starcraft at all? Or Dune 2?? Are those missions side quests? No.