[Vip]

I think each ship has it's C.O with a rank of Captain or something similar, and the Admirals just choose their flagships. So Petrarch possibly had a Captain XYZ that commanded the ship, like giving specific orders "Beams 1 and 2, fire at will. Helm, full speed, heading 2-3-7" whereas Petrarch was responsible for planning, and during the combat he would be like "Captain, engage this Moloch corvette and bring us out of this Demon's range", leaving details to the C.O. He would also coordinate multiple ships in the Fleet ("Actium, destroy this Cain crusier. Carthage, engage the Beast").

Also, I think we should not mistake the naval Captain and fighter Captain. The naval Captain is usually a C.O. of a capship, whereas a fighter Captain is a veteran pilot (possibly squadron commander) - see Captain Loukakis (sp?). I think that the player is awarded the "fighter" Captain rank in the game.

[colecampbell666]

How does that explain Loukakis's speedy promotion?

[Vip]

Dunno... Maybe he went on a rampage and destroyed a destroyer in the Battle of Deneb ?

Probably a typo, just as the Fleet/Battlegroups thing...

[colecampbell666]

 

[Mobius]

There's a Cursus Honorum, simple.

[CP5670]

How does that explain Loukakis's speedy promotion?

He probably played RI over and over again for a day or two straight.

[Mobius]

RI?

Are you refering to PI? You would be damn right!

[CP5670]

No, I mean the Rebel Intercept multiplayer mission. It's a ridiculously easy mission with a lot of points to be had each time you play it.

[Mobius]

Ah, yeah, that mission

[Armareon]

How do you gain those points , and take out those two corvettes quickly ? I know I can bombard them from five clicks out with Trubuchets , but I feel that that would take an eternity to reduce those ships down to dust .

Also , how do I export V.p files to notepad?

[colecampbell666]

Disable them, I assume. The Trebuchet does 700 damage to subsystems, while the Stiletto does 775.

[Armareon]

I've spent the last fourty minutes struggling to extract the VP files to notepad . Can anyone please advise me on which program to select?

[CP5670]

How do you gain those points , and take out those two corvettes quickly ? I know I can bombard them from five clicks out with Trubuchets , but I feel that that would take an eternity to reduce those ships down to dust .

There is only one corvette in RI, and it should be attacked with Helios bombs directly from the front (target the engine03 subsystem). Ignore the turrets on it.

As a lone bomber, you get something around 3620 points in that mission if everything is done right.

I've spent the last fourty minutes struggling to extract the VP files to notepad . Can anyone please advise me on which program to select?

What exactly are you trying to do? The VPs are just containers for many other files. If you want to look at the individual files, get VPView and extract them somewhere.

[Armareon]

How do I extract the extracted  file back to the original VP file?

[karajorma]

You don't. You should never change the VP itself in any way.

If you place the edited mission in Freespace2\Data\Missions it will override anything in the VPs in the Freespace2 folder.

BTW if you are using the media VPs you should extract the mission from mv_models.vp (in your mediavps folder) and place the edited version in Freespace2\mediavps\Data\Missions instead.

[Armareon]

I'm trying to modify weapons , but the changes I performed to the extracted file did not seem to affect the values of the weapons potency in the V.p Files.

[Hades]

Put them in Freespace/Data/Tables.
And besides. you do not want to edit the retail VPS.If you do, you might mess up Freespace 2.

[Grizzly]

I'm Commander... (not even played the FSPort yet!)

[Warp Shadow]

Well, the reason that an admiral flies a fighter craft [despite the obvious military stupidity involved in managing your assets like that ] is because flying a capital ship is tedious, slow, boring and almost totally hands free. Believe me, I hacked the tables to fly a ravana and then a vasudan corvette and all you do is sluggishly point your nose in the direction that offers the most turret cover and let the turret AI do the rest. You wouldn't want to try it. Incidentally, what would you guys think of a system in which you can command any ship [that doesn't have orders coming from higher up ] via the communications menu as long as you outrank them. Once you get to admiral you could pretty much tell the colossus what to do!

[Armareon]

If you could hack into your player files and give your avatar the rank of admiral before destroying the Santhanas Turrents , you could save 10000 lives by ordering the cannon folder that is the Phonecia to leave.