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Re: Blue Planet: The Battle Captains (Fan Campaign)
I was wondering... Would it be possible to somehow mod a "survival"ish/ defend 'till death mode for freespace 2? You know with you flying caps ships?

 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: Blue Planet: The Battle Captains (Fan Campaign)
Yes, it's not hard - it'd just be a gauntlet mission, but with the player(s) in capships.

We even built multiplayer capship command missions for the BP Multi project.

 
Re: Blue Planet: The Battle Captains (Fan Campaign)
Yes, it's not hard - it'd just be a gauntlet mission, but with the player(s) in capships.

We even built multiplayer capship command missions for the BP Multi project.

Zomg! I didnt even know that the Freespace 2 multiplayer scene existed anymore.

 

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Re: Blue Planet: The Battle Captains (Fan Campaign)
Merry Christmas, one and all! IOU a slightly-belated stocking stuffer.

If you, perchance, always wanted to fly a Sanctus as everyone's favorite
Spoiler:
Shambala-building
hippie space admiral, then you are in luck!

If not, then TOO BAD, because . . .

"We have now reached the point where every goon with a grievance, every bitter bigot, merely has to place the prefix, 'I know this is not politically correct, but...' in front of the usual string of insults in order to be not just safe from criticism, but actually a card, a lad, even a hero. Conversely, to talk about poverty and inequality, to draw attention to the reality that discrimination and injustice are still facts of life, is to commit the sin of political correctness. Anti-PC has become the latest cover for creeps. It is a godsend for every curmudgeon and crank, from fascists to the merely smug."
Finian O'Toole, The Irish Times, 5 May 1994

Blue Planet: The Battle Captains: Missions starring the Admirals of BP: WiH
Frontlines 2334+2335: T-V War campaign
GVB Ammit: Vasudan strike bomber
Player-Controlled Capship Modding Tutorial

 

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Re: Blue Planet: The Battle Captains (Fan Campaign)
Wooooh! I can't wait to play it :)
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Re: Blue Planet: The Battle Captains (Fan Campaign)
Would this happen to be an INDRA exercise?
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(the very next day)
<MageKing17> this ****ing code did it to me again
<MageKing17> "That doesn't really make sense to me, but I'll assume it was being done for a reason."
<MageKing17> **** ME
<MageKing17> THE REASON IS PEOPLE ARE STUPID
<MageKing17> ESPECIALLY ME

<MageKing17> God damn, I do not understand how this is breaking.
<MageKing17> Everything points to "this should work fine", and yet it's clearly not working.
<MjnMixael> 2 hours later... "God damn, how did this ever work at all?!"
(...)
<MageKing17> so
<MageKing17> more than two hours
<MageKing17> but once again we have reached the inevitable conclusion
<MageKing17> How did this code ever work in the first place!?

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<MageKing17> It was all working perfectly until I actually tried it on an actual mission.

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Re: Blue Planet: The Battle Captains (Fan Campaign)
Would this happen to be an INDRA exercise?

Yes, indeed. No other reason for UEF ships to be firing at each other here. :)
"We have now reached the point where every goon with a grievance, every bitter bigot, merely has to place the prefix, 'I know this is not politically correct, but...' in front of the usual string of insults in order to be not just safe from criticism, but actually a card, a lad, even a hero. Conversely, to talk about poverty and inequality, to draw attention to the reality that discrimination and injustice are still facts of life, is to commit the sin of political correctness. Anti-PC has become the latest cover for creeps. It is a godsend for every curmudgeon and crank, from fascists to the merely smug."
Finian O'Toole, The Irish Times, 5 May 1994

Blue Planet: The Battle Captains: Missions starring the Admirals of BP: WiH
Frontlines 2334+2335: T-V War campaign
GVB Ammit: Vasudan strike bomber
Player-Controlled Capship Modding Tutorial

 

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Re: Blue Planet: The Battle Captains (Fan Campaign)
Well, it could be some other fleet exercise. ;)
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Codethulhu GitHub wgah'nagl fhtagn.

schrödinbug (noun) - a bug that manifests itself in running software after a programmer notices that the code should never have worked in the first place.

When you gaze long into BMPMAN, BMPMAN also gazes into you.

"I am one of the best FREDders on Earth" -General Battuta

<Aesaar> literary criticism is vladimir putin

<MageKing17> "There's probably a reason the code is the way it is" is a very dangerous line of thought. :P
<MageKing17> Because the "reason" often turns out to be "nobody noticed it was wrong".
(the very next day)
<MageKing17> this ****ing code did it to me again
<MageKing17> "That doesn't really make sense to me, but I'll assume it was being done for a reason."
<MageKing17> **** ME
<MageKing17> THE REASON IS PEOPLE ARE STUPID
<MageKing17> ESPECIALLY ME

<MageKing17> God damn, I do not understand how this is breaking.
<MageKing17> Everything points to "this should work fine", and yet it's clearly not working.
<MjnMixael> 2 hours later... "God damn, how did this ever work at all?!"
(...)
<MageKing17> so
<MageKing17> more than two hours
<MageKing17> but once again we have reached the inevitable conclusion
<MageKing17> How did this code ever work in the first place!?

<@The_E> Welcome to OpenGL, where standards compliance is optional, and error reporting inconsistent

<MageKing17> It was all working perfectly until I actually tried it on an actual mission.

<IronWorks> I am useful for FSO stuff again. This is a red-letter day!
* z64555 erases "Thursday" and rewrites it in red ink

<MageKing17> TIL the entire homing code is held up by shoestrings and duct tape, basically.

 

Offline CT27

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Re: Blue Planet: The Battle Captains (Fan Campaign)
How would you say the difficulty of this compares to the previous two BC releases?  Most advised to play Severanti on Medium but Lopez on Easy/VE.

 

Offline Lepanto

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Re: Blue Planet: The Battle Captains (Fan Campaign)
How would you say the difficulty of this compares to the previous two BC releases?  Most advised to play Severanti on Medium but Lopez on Easy/VE.

Try Medium, I'd say.
"We have now reached the point where every goon with a grievance, every bitter bigot, merely has to place the prefix, 'I know this is not politically correct, but...' in front of the usual string of insults in order to be not just safe from criticism, but actually a card, a lad, even a hero. Conversely, to talk about poverty and inequality, to draw attention to the reality that discrimination and injustice are still facts of life, is to commit the sin of political correctness. Anti-PC has become the latest cover for creeps. It is a godsend for every curmudgeon and crank, from fascists to the merely smug."
Finian O'Toole, The Irish Times, 5 May 1994

Blue Planet: The Battle Captains: Missions starring the Admirals of BP: WiH
Frontlines 2334+2335: T-V War campaign
GVB Ammit: Vasudan strike bomber
Player-Controlled Capship Modding Tutorial

 

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Re: Blue Planet: The Battle Captains (Fan Campaign)
Anyways, it looks awesome.  Available for download soon I take it?

 

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Thanks, my loyal fan! :) I'll hopefully finish by New Year's, but no promises.
"We have now reached the point where every goon with a grievance, every bitter bigot, merely has to place the prefix, 'I know this is not politically correct, but...' in front of the usual string of insults in order to be not just safe from criticism, but actually a card, a lad, even a hero. Conversely, to talk about poverty and inequality, to draw attention to the reality that discrimination and injustice are still facts of life, is to commit the sin of political correctness. Anti-PC has become the latest cover for creeps. It is a godsend for every curmudgeon and crank, from fascists to the merely smug."
Finian O'Toole, The Irish Times, 5 May 1994

Blue Planet: The Battle Captains: Missions starring the Admirals of BP: WiH
Frontlines 2334+2335: T-V War campaign
GVB Ammit: Vasudan strike bomber
Player-Controlled Capship Modding Tutorial

 

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Re: Blue Planet: The Battle Captains (Fan Campaign)
Thanks, my loyal fan! :) I'll hopefully finish by New Year's, but no promises.

niffiwan has also stated he looks forward to playing it, so doesn't that mean you have two fans?  ;)

 
Re: Blue Planet: The Battle Captains (Fan Campaign)
Oh, I thinks he's got a bit more than 2 fans ;)

 
Re: Blue Planet: The Battle Captains (Fan Campaign)
Oh, I thinks he's got a bit more than 2 fans ;)
3?    :lol:

 
Re: Blue Planet: The Battle Captains (Fan Campaign)
Sorry if i have to summon the elderly ghost of the FSO engineers again, but my game keeps crashing every now and then. ;_;
I can't narrow it down, it happens on complete random events and played time.

I already reinstalled the game (i use the Steam version), downloaded all the files again and applied the files from niffiwan (the one with the "too many turrets on the Hedetet)
I already tried out 3_7_2_10997 and the 3_7_1_20141223_r11204 build...
I honestly hope i didn't do anything too stupid, the error must come from somewhere/one right?  ;)

Graphics Driver is up to date.
Here is my .log :

Plz hulp meh! D:

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Re: Blue Planet: The Battle Captains (Fan Campaign)
Update blueplanet, blueplanet2 and download mediavps 2014. Use FreeSpace Open Instaler or download them manually.


After some thought...
BattleCaptains-GTVA needs mediavps_3612 but newest bp and bp2 need mediavps_2014, so maybe there is conflict? :confused:
« Last Edit: January 04, 2015, 03:18:16 pm by tomimaki »

 

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Re: Blue Planet: The Battle Captains (Fan Campaign)
Go to the BattleCaptains-GTVA folder, and open your mod.ini. Change the "mediavps_3612" line at the bottom to read "mediavps_2014". See if that works. Sorry for the inconvenience.
"We have now reached the point where every goon with a grievance, every bitter bigot, merely has to place the prefix, 'I know this is not politically correct, but...' in front of the usual string of insults in order to be not just safe from criticism, but actually a card, a lad, even a hero. Conversely, to talk about poverty and inequality, to draw attention to the reality that discrimination and injustice are still facts of life, is to commit the sin of political correctness. Anti-PC has become the latest cover for creeps. It is a godsend for every curmudgeon and crank, from fascists to the merely smug."
Finian O'Toole, The Irish Times, 5 May 1994

Blue Planet: The Battle Captains: Missions starring the Admirals of BP: WiH
Frontlines 2334+2335: T-V War campaign
GVB Ammit: Vasudan strike bomber
Player-Controlled Capship Modding Tutorial

 
Re: Blue Planet: The Battle Captains (Fan Campaign)
Thx for your help. I will do your suggestions :)

The installer said all my mods and mediavps are up to date (but i downloaded them again just to be sure)
Game still keeps crashing unfortunately :(
After some testing i could maybe narrow it down a bit:
Most of my crashes were directly after the Cain class cruisers (the first wave) were destroyed, maybe that helps :)

No problem Lepanto. First we have to determine if it's a problem caused by my foolishness or a mod related problem ;)

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« Last Edit: January 04, 2015, 08:09:34 pm by WorldsDawn »

 

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Re: Blue Planet: The Battle Captains (Fan Campaign)
I still have the antipodes problem, but I'm currently playing again.
First crash happened after the Moloch was destroyed, I think I was giving orders to my bomber wings to return into escort position...
Second attempt I did nothing when the Moloch went down and the game kept running...