[The E]

Wait. A CRT TV??? How does that work?
Anyway, the big double doors in the screen center are the gateway to the campaign.

[karajorma]

At the start of the game (or when in the pilots room/barracks) You're given the choice between multiplayer and singleplayer pilots. So either restart or go into the barracks and change.

[haloboy100]

If you have trouble, just press F1 and you get an overlay explaining all the doors.

Wait. A CRT TV??? How does that work?

Cathode...rayon....tube...? 

[tinfoil]

Holymotherfrakkingsonofa*****! A CRT screen! Talk about old technology, they've got to have been phazed out, what, 5, 10 years ago?

[Herra Tohtori]

Holymotherfrakkingsonofa*****! A CRT screen! Talk about old technology, they've got to have been phazed out, what, 5, 10 years ago?

And they're still better at colour space than any flat panel ever. Aside from being big and heavy as a mountain, a good CRT display is quite frankly superior to any LCD/TFT panel, and to even surpass the mid-level CRT colour quality you need a pretty gosh darn expensive high quality flat panel. Better contrast too (related to colour reproduction). They also have higher vertical synchronization frequency (aka moar frames per second) and are less expensive to manufacture. Perhaps the biggest advantage of LCD's compared to CRT's is that they don't flicker in the same way as CRT's do, but people experience this in vastly different ways.

As far as I know, most graphics designers still much prefer CRT's in cases where accurate colour reproduction is a requirement.

In general, absorptive displays will just never be the same as emissive displays. LED displays have better chances at being the displays of the future, LCD/TFT screens are just a phase. They're just more convenient than the monolithic monitors of the olden days...

[spacetrader]

better and best of both worlds is OLED.  it's coming, and when it eventually becomes cheap enough, it will replace every screen. 

this isnt a crt monitor though, its a 640x480 tv, and thats the res im running.  i can barely read stuff, manytimes not in this game.  needless to say, my 8800gts g92 and e5200 can run this game maxed out at this res.

[Blue Lion]

I don't care

How do you like the game? 

[haloboy100]

I don't care

I smell jealousy?

and what about laser TVs? they sound interesting.

[Blue Lion]

I don't care

I smell jealousy?

I can't be jealous, I don't even know what he said.

[colecampbell666]

If you have trouble, just press F1 and you get an overlay explaining all the doors.

Wait. A CRT TV??? How does that work?

Cathode...rayon....tube...? 

You must speak French. Rayon?

As for order of operations, this is the order (IMO) in which campaigns should be played. Keep in mind that you must play each to completion as if you switch half-way through you'll corrupt your pilot and lose the accumulated stats

The ones in brackets are separate downloads, but they should be played.

(Terran-Vasudan War Project)
Cardinal Spear
FreeSpace Port
Awakenings
(BR: Shivans)
Silent threat: Reborn
Destiny of Peace
Homesick
Sync
Transcend (or is this after FS2?)
FS2
Derelict
(Warzone) (or is this before Derelict?)
(Renegade Ressurgence)
Procyon Insurgency
Blue Planet

Others worth checking out:

Inferno
Inferno: Alliance
Sol: A History
Shrouding the Light
Aeos Affair
Blackwater Operations Demo
***Deus Ex Machina***
***Just Another Day Trilogy***
Second Great War Pt II
Shivans 0.21
Teeth of the Tiger
*****Windmills*****
Twilight
Flames of War
...Many More...

Check out the links in mine or Lobo's sig for more related info.

[Jake2447]

If you have trouble, just press F1 and you get an overlay explaining all the doors.

Wait. A CRT TV??? How does that work?

Cathode...rayon....tube...? 

You must speak French. Rayon?

As for order of operations, this is the order (IMO) in which campaigns should be played. Keep in mind that you must play each to completion as if you switch half-way through you'll corrupt your pilot and lose the accumulated stats

The ones in brackets are separate downloads, but they should be played.

(Terran-Vasudan War Project)
Cardinal Spear
FreeSpace Port
Awakenings
(BR: Shivans)
Silent threat: Reborn
Destiny of Peace
Homesick
Sync
Transcend (or is this after FS2?)
FS2
Derelict
(Warzone) (or is this before Derelict?)
(Renegade Ressurgence)
Procyon Insurgency
Blue Planet

Others worth checking out:

Inferno
Inferno: Alliance
Sol: A History
Shrouding the Light
Aeos Affair
Blackwater Operations Demo
***Deus Ex Machina***
***Just Another Day Trilogy***
Second Great War Pt II
Shivans 0.21
Teeth of the Tiger
*****Windmills*****
Twilight
Flames of War
...Many More...

Check out the links in mine or Lobo's sig for more related info.

I would definitely play FreeSpace Port, Silent Threat: Reborn, and the Freespace 2 first... in that order
transcend should come after FS2
procyon insurgency before renegade resurgance
and awakenings should be the last fs1 era campaign on this list

Also, IMO Inferno, Inferno:Alliance, and Shrouding the Light should be on that top list.  I think STL is the best modded FS1 era campaign

[Jeff Vader]

Installing FSO manually ftw.

[spacetrader]

WOOOOWWWWW!!!  this is so ****in fun!   i cant belive i got all this for $6... this is too good.   i mean, seriously, this is so much better then i had thought it would be... why isn't this game and mod more known?   how could have i been under a rock this long?

[The E]

Yeah, that's the usual reaction. Don't forget to check out Multiplayer some time (Although it is recommended that you go on IRC to set up a date)!

[spacetrader]

i dont think anyone is going to like me in multiplayer.   im still going through tutorials that stop me because i dont have all the key bindings set.

thats really the only downside for me, there are too many controls to fit on my xbox controller.  but i leave auto tracking on and only map the most important buttons.   things like sheild eq and engine power dont matter much to me... i just like seeing big explosions.

[Blue Lion]

The big explosions are the best

[The E]

Oh, but from my experience, FS2's Multiplayer community is fairly small and welcoming. People of all skill Levels are welcome.
Oh, and if you're done with FS2, make sure to check out The Babylon Project and Wing Commander Saga, as well.

[haloboy100]

How could have i been under a rock this long?

Bad marketting, I think. Otherwise I could easily see Freespace reviving the space sim genre if re-released at the proper time.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Cathode...rayon....tube...? 

It's just RAY, haloboy.

[The E]

Bad marketting, I think. Otherwise I could easily see Freespace reviving the space sim genre if re-released at the proper time.

If gog.com did even more advertising for it, and we provided a clear and trouble-free way of upgrading to the full 3.6.10 experience, or if there were packages for Linux that would make installing the SCP goodness easier, then I guess it could be more successful...