[Flaser]

Finish Homesick - or Derelict on hard.

Your idea of subspace combat will definitly change when GTVA vessels charge you.

[Nuclear1]

Derelict... ah the good ol' days of having your ass nearly rammed out by a Lucy jumping in.

[Knight Templar]

Hippo: I usually use the Prom S because I hate spraying fire around and do more of a "shoot when I have the shot" thing.

[Hippo]

I just don't think that the S fires as fast as the FS1 variant... It also packs less of a punch when even it takes 8+ shots to down a shieldless manticore, where as FS1 takes 3-5... Its still a good weapon don't get me wrong, but i find the subach more effective then it... Though, I also favor the avenger and banshee to the Prometheus when i get a chance... But since most of the time I fly either an Athena, or a valkyrie, i'll go with avengers and a banshee respectivly, but with a prom as backup in both cases... I just rarely use it...

[Woolie Wool]

You must be thinking of the Prom R, which is that ****ty Prometheus retrofit that's given to you when you join the 107th Ravens.

Anyway, I love the original Prometheus and Prometheus S. They are my main weapons for every mission (well, the Prom S is until I get the Kayser).

[Annorax]

I got to about 650000 points in FS1, and never advanced beyond Commodore... Pilotview was always telling me I had 2.3 million points left for my next rank, and I was too lazy to just build a mission where Basilisks were worth a quarter million to get to Rear Admiral.

[Woolie Wool]

And that's why the game accuses you of cheating when you rise above Commodore--it's almost impossible to do without cheating.

[Lightspeed]

its possible but very boring to reach. Ranks are stupid anyhow. At least the way they are.

[Flaser]

Unless someone cared to do manual promotion in their campaign and assign more duties to the player using persistent variables.

[Woolie Wool]

You don't really need persistent variables. Just give ships more Player Orders as the player gains in rank. For example, in the first mission, the player may not be able to give orders to anyone and in the last mission he might be able give orders to anything up to corvette size.

[Kosh]

Originally posted by Woolie Wool
It turned around to face the Bastion.

Wierd. That never happened to me. It always jumped out just after the Bastion got there.

[Nuclear1]

I'm never gonna get above Commander in it. Never...

[nucas]

there was this one mission that i always completed perfectly in fs1, and every time i did i was automatically promoted afterward. i was a captain before i lost my last player file when my computer exploded.

[TopAce]

Originally posted by Lightspeed
....Ranks are stupid anyhow...

Not the ranks, only the amount of score you need to reach to get them. I think that ranking system was not optimized for single player, it was optimized for PXO. It simply would be too boring for PXOers that after 200 missions, all have the rank of Admiral.

Originally posted by Woolie Wool
You don't really need persistent variables. Just give ships more Player Orders as the player gains in rank. For example, in the first mission, the player may not be able to give orders to anyone and in the last mission he might be able give orders to anything up to corvette size.

I think it would not be so ideal. You are(in theory) a rookie at the beginning of the campaign.

[Solatar]

The TVWP is working this way, for most of the campaign you are not even Alpha 1.

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by TopAce

I think it would not be so ideal. You are(in theory) a rookie at the beginning of the campaign.

Maybe you misread my post. At the beginning of the campaign, the player should have VERY LITTLE authority. Some of your wingmen will actually order you around.

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by Solatar
The TVWP is working this way, for most of the campaign you are not even Alpha 1.

I do that too, although you become a squadron leader in the middle of the campaign instead of near the end. In the third Starforce chapter, you start as Beta 1 and take orders from Alpha 1, who was the player character in the second chapter. It kind of ties the two stories together a bit.

[TopAce]

Originally posted by Woolie Wool

Maybe you misread my post. At the beginning of the campaign, the player should have VERY LITTLE authority. Some of your wingmen will actually order you around.

The 'little authority' is already done. But the 'player ordered by other wingmen' would be quite hard. You know that it would be really impossible to make an Ai that can measure the situation and give logical orders. In addition, it would have no use if you can ignore it and go after your head without any consequences of refusing to follow direct orders.

[Woolie Wool]

SCRIPTING, TopAce. It's not hard for Alpha 1 to tell you to break and attack when enemy fighters are spotted. Besides, the orders given are usually the logical choice for the situation anyway (would you really just sit there when fighters are screaming towards you at full speed?).

[TopAce]

I see. I belived you were thinking about something more complicated. . .