[General Battuta]

Yeah, I had that issue and I believe shift-O did the trick. For whatever reason the HUD remains hidden.

[Jeff Vader]

Which build?

[XM-09182b]

Woohoo! It worked: now to try beating this campaign. So far, I'm in awe of the cutscenes.

Thanks again for the help everyone: I'll send you a chocolate chip cookie...if I can figure out how to send a cookie via e-mail.

-XM

[CaptJosh]

HRm...I was going to say that the last time I had seen that error, I was using an SSE2 build I had compiled myself, but that's no longer true. I ran into it playing the JAD campaigns with a radar icons build...

[FoxtrotTango]

For the Knossos portal mission, do you have a link to somewhere I can download the music used in it? I swear to Bei that I've heard it before, but I don't have it with me. I'd like to rectify that, provided you had the time.

Also, first post on the HLP forums.

[Darius]

Sure.

Welcome to HLP

[Androgeos Exeunt]

You're doing it wrong, Darius.

[Nemesis6]

Tiny question: During forced entry, how do I stop the big wad of doom that warps in behind the convoy and instantly takes out the capital ships? Not really sure how to deal with this one.

[Jeff Vader]

Take out the forward beam cannons?

[Nemesis6]

But the problem is that the Temeraire is lost before I even get into range of the thing. If I hang in the back to intercept the one that warps in 3 kilometers off the stern of the Temeraire, the escort dies like that from the bomber attacks. It really makes it difficult. Sending bombers to attack it gets them shot down far from their target, too, so I'm wondering if there's some secret strategy to use here. Also, from what I know, it would be near impossible to destroy 3 beam cannons with 2 or 1 bomber and a ragged fleet of fighters...   

Think I'm gonna try flying bomber sortie or something to see how that pans out.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Tip 1: Play that mission on Very Easy.
Tip 2: Use a Herc II.
Tip 3: Load both missile banks with Trebuchets.
Tip 4: Switch to SINGLE-fire mode.
Tip 5: Target all beam cannons.
Tip 6: Use your wingmen to cover all escort ships.
Tip 7: When the SD Abel arrives, divert all energy to engines, fly towards the Ravana, switch back to dual-fire mode, target the bottom beam cannons and fire one twin salvo at each. When you are done (and the Temeraire says that they can handle it), target the two smaller SReds at the top fins and destroy them using whatever you have.

[General Battuta]

Yeah, you just need to have a few Trebuchets left for when the Abel shows up.

My usual sequence of guard orders in that mission is:

1 wing per cruiser (as the cruisers jump in). I target the Aeshmas and use Trebuchets to disarm the Cain and Lilith but don't destroy them.

When the Sanctuary jumps in, all ships guard the Sanctuary.

When the Temeraire jumps in, all ships guard the Temeraire, and I scramble to get behind the Temeraire to wait for the Abel to show up.

[terran_emperor]

For the Knossos portal mission, do you have a link to somewhere I can download the music used in it? I swear to Bei that I've heard it before, but I don't have it with me. I'd like to rectify that, provided you had the time.

Also, first post on the HLP forums.

If you refer to the music from Forced Entry, then it is from Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children -specifically the track "Sara ni Tatakau Monotachi" (Translation:Those who fight further)

[eliex]

Nice, did you make that yourself AE?

[THEllisor]

Howdy, I've been lurking around here (the HLP boards) for a good while now. And most of the problems that I've had with getting the SCP version of FS2 to work were easily fixed by perusing the boards and finding the relevant posts.
However, I've seem to come upon one that I don't quite know how to fix. :
First off, I have played through Blue Planet in it's entirety a few times already, using the 3.6.9 version of the Media VPs (and the same for the launcher, if that makes a difference.) Additionally, I recently downloaded and have played Silent Threat Reborn with the 3.6.10 MVPs. Now when I try to play Blue Planet, I can get through the first 4-5 missions, but in the red alert mission after the Duke makes it's first jump from Delta Serpentis (Or wherever the Duke is when you first start chasing it) I continually crash out of FS2, no error being reported other than the one that Windows gives (The, "I'm Sorry, but Windows has encountered an error with..." one.)
Furthermore, I attempted to fix this with a quick search through the BP board, and I saw that I needed to redownload the mod.ini file, (which a quick peek into my BP folder confirmed as missing for whatever reason.) But, the link in the first post to download the mod.ini file only contains a bmp file (or that's all that WinRar showed ms as being in the file.)

Relevant data:
OS: Windows XP, service pack 2
RAM: 1024 MB (1 GB)
CPU: AMD athalon 3200+ XP (2.19 GHz clock speed)
Video Card: nVidia GeForce FX 5200, 128MB
Sound Card: Motherboard
Build: Windows nightly build, 29 Jan 2009 - Revision 5055
MVPs: 3.6.10 version

I did see somewhere on the boards that told how to get the log file. I'll see about tracking that down in the morning once I have a few minutes (betwixt university classes  ) but that will likely be next evening, if not Tuesday.
Long and short, any ideas as to why the crashing if it was working before? And where do I go to get the mod.ini (or what do I have to put in there I guess)?

Thank y'all in advance for your help, and for putting up with an inquisitive FNG

[General Battuta]

Just press shift-O.

Your problem will be solved!

EDIT: Apparently I am thick.

[THEllisor]

Isn't that where you turn off the HUD? Or am I thinking of another key combo?
Blue Planet is completely crashing (as in back to desktop,) and I'm completely befuddled as to why. 
I'd try it, except that I doubt that pressing anything once the program has crashed and burned will help. 
*THEllisor prepares to eat his words is he is proved wrong

[General Battuta]

Wow, what was I reading? What I said had absolutely no bearing on your problem.

Hrm. Let me think on this.

Try using a 3.6.9 build to play the mission. See if that helps.

[blowfish]

There's a link in the first post of this thread that should fix the red-alert crashes.

[THEllisor]

Hmm, tried that. Similar problem to getting the mod.ini. I open the file and there's files (apparently) missing. In this case, the only one I see is "readme.txt" and I can't even open that one.   

Huh, I just opened the same rar file with 7-zip and the mod.ini shows up there. And the noredalert.rar is showing up properly as well. I'll check to see if the mod.ini or the noredalert files fix the problem. Thanks.
*THEllisor wonders why it didn't work with WinRar, but it did with 7-zip.

EDIT: Yep, the no red alert deal fixed it. Of course, this doesn't answer why it worked before no problem. But, it works now, so I'm Happy. Confused, but happy.