Ok, if you're like me (God help you if you are) and you're a little obsessive about the quality of your gameplay and piloting skills in FreeSpace and are equally as obsessed with earning every medal offered in the campaigns because, hey, it's a reflection of your quality of gameplay and piloting skills, it can drive you a little nuts to see a hole in your medals case where a medal should be.
I know I've flown certain missions numerous times to fulfill whatever requirement was necessary to earn a medal for that mission and I know others have been as "dedicated" as myself as to filling their cases with
every medal offered. I guess it gives players (er, sorry...
pilots) a somewhat menial sense of accomplishment (yet, in your head you can still hear that little voice of reason saying "C'mon, it's just a game!" right?)
Having been through FS1 and FS2 too many times to count, I recognized that I still find myself, at the end of each campaign, viewing my medals case with a sense of pride. Yet, at the site of all of those shiny medals, it still bothers me - especially at the end of FS1 - to see that infernal hole in the middle of the medals case where a small shield insignia (similar to SOC Unit Crest in FS2) should be.
So here we go.... Does anyone have a clue/theory as to why the outline for shield crest is there but no medal/crest was offered/created to fill that place in the FS1 medals case? Has someone perhaps, in their FREDing or in their perusing through the original source code, stumbled opon any remarks of a medal that never made it into the game? Is anyone else as obsessive-compulsive about these stupid things as I am? (....calling therapist now.....)
Can't wait to hear these replies....
