Posts by Sir Spectre

warzog , it may have been 6 months since you released the mod, but it´s only been 1 month since I started playing it. Those others who have been playing longer than me, have no excuse. <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 al

Yeah, encounters are a bit high if you have several factions angry with you. If only one is angry, then they´re about right. But that brings up a point. I noticed that if I attack Pirates, everyone loves me including Kilrathi and Retros. If I attack Retros, everyone loves me including Kilrathi and Pirates. If I attack Kilrathi, everyone loves me including Pirates and Retros. Now I remember from the original Privateer the faction being F = Friendly; N = Neutral; H = Hostile. I never at any time had only one faction hating me. I was almost always Hostile with Kilrathi and Retros, and usually Pirates as well. A bit more evenness needs to be included. Remember in Righteous Fire, Retros and Kilrathi were allies. The bar on Perry Naval Base is always a CTD. As for Commodities, please include Uranium somewhere, I still haven´t found it to mine. Also, a few mining bases and refineries are missing some of the usual stuff they sold in Privateer and some of their prices are little low at times too. For instance iron and tungsten, in Privateer iron could be as high as 54 and tungsten as high as 76. Liquor is also too low priced in a few places. Grain is too high priced on many of the Agricultural worlds. Some of the Pleasure Planets had more to sell than just pets (and Artifacts <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> ). I can´t remember, are &quot;Books&quot; available to buy on Oxford? I don´t recall seeing them. The Oxford starfield template, which if I recall correctly is the hidden system starfield in Freelancer, that starfield gets reused too many times in a number of systems. That tunnel effect looks great a few times, but the more you see it the more it´s obvious it doesn´t look as 3dimensional as the rest of the starfields. At one point, I was mining an asteroid field and looted Liquor <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>, I wish I could remember where. I only point these out to hopefully aid in the fixing process. The great qualities far outweigh any problems and by no means am I demeaning this mod. This is an excellent mod! <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Sir S

warzog , Nice touch, I just saw myself sitting in a bar in New Constantinople. &quot;Privateer Sir Spectre&quot; I took screenshots of it. <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.

warzog , well I´ve finally been playing the mod and reimmersing myself back into Privateer. I have to say this mod is excellently done. I actually got a couple of those old thrills back as I afterburned into the jumpholes hoping my ship jumped before an

Hey Bob, I can´t get Mod Manager to accept your download you sent me a link to. Do I need a recent mod manager, I haven´t even used it or played FL in 7-8 months. Although I finally had the great pleasure to try Warzog´s version. Terrific stuff! Sir S

I´m ecstatic to see your progress. I was sorry to hear that Warzog has left the project, but I´m glad you´re reinvigorated with the task. The pics are excellent as is the Drayman! What type of coding are you using on the .avi´s? Because I don´t get any picture, just sound. I really like what I see, thanks to you and Warzog´s great efforts. Sir S

<font size=1 face="trebuchet ms"><BLOCKQUOTE><hr size=1 noshade>3) Cranked up the AI another notch! <hr size=1 noshade></BLOCKQUOTE></font><font face=´trebuchet ms, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica´ size=2> Great, for those of us that haven´t played this game in 5 or more months we´re going to be fried. <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> <font size=1 face="trebuchet ms"><BLOCKQUOTE><hr size=1 noshade>9) Added the Righteous Fire Intro movie. <hr size=1 noshade></BLOCKQUOTE></font><font face=´trebuchet ms, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica´ size=2> That´s cool. A movie file from the original game? Keep up the excellent work. Sir S

As promised, you gave a comment to Wolfy´s story, I´ll give one for yours. <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> You´ve got excellent character traits and development happening for their behaviors and what they do, but you´ve left out some important parts. For one, we don´t know what they look like. Even Adelpha, who you describe the best, doesn´t have any mention of the colors of her dress or its specific style, how it shapes her nor do we know the color of her eyes. Her necklace, there are endless possibilities how a neckless can look, yet there is no features given. Is it gold, copper, jade...a chain, linked, loosely held clasps? Also, the most lifelike character in this story is Jaden because it doesn´t take extra explanation to understand the things he does, where others who do things we don´t do in our world, it might require a little more flare to the description. Like I said, when it comes to talking, you give a great sense of the characters personalities, but looks, facial expressions, body movements and character qwerks are all lacking. From a reading point of view, don´t separate every line of text with a spacer. Only use spacers when going to another character somewhere else, or jumping time. I know this forum doesn´t indent, so maybe you need to mark each new paragraph with something. For instance what you wrote could be more easily read like this: <font size=1 face="trebuchet ms"><BLOCKQUOTE><hr size=1 noshade> ___&quot;C5, divert all available energy from the reactor to the shields, i have a feeling it will be needed at some point&quot; Craylo ordered. Lights in the cabin and computer consoles faded briefly, as the entire Firespray´s shielding was reinforced. ___&quot;I am detecting 3 rebel ships heading this way please deal with them, or we will be destroyed!&quot; the transport captain exclaimed. ___&quot;Are you alright master?&quot; C5 asked slightly concerned &quot;Yes i´m fine, i was just thinking.&quot; Craylo replied, when i go to challenge the rebel ships, make my voice sound like Boba Fett. If this works, there will be no need to fire a shot&quot; he added. &quot;Mesa gonna find yous soon Jaden&quot; <b>{A NEW SCENE SOMEWHERE ELSE, DOESN´T NEED AN INDENT TO START} </b> came a young gungan voice from somewhere in the leafy garden. The voice belonged to Oopiee, one of Jadens friends. Jaden had hidden himself behind a large bush, he could still see Oopiee, however Jaden would be missed by all but the keenest observers. No sound could be heard from the oppulent garden, aside from the splashing of fountains and the murmer of a conversation between the fathers of the two boys in the workshop. ___&quot;Mesa spend longo time looking for you Jaden, yousa maxibig hider&quot;. Oopiee announced to the garden. ___When what seemed like an eternity to Jaden had passed, he crept from his hiding place. ( it had only been 5 minutes ). Oopiee had taken the time to hide in the large fountain in the centre of the garden. ___Jaden crept around the garden, looking in all the hiding places he would use, when he had no luck with this, he went to the central fountain and sat on the edge of the stone work, watching a butterfly like creature flit from flower to flower. ___Unknown to Jaden, Oopie had risen silently from the waters of the fountain. ___Splash! Jaden was soaked by Oopiee. ___&quot;Mesa got you!&quot; Oopiee Laughed. ___Jaden climbed into the fountain alongside Oopiee, it was very refreshing on a hot summers day such as today. &quot; And i got you!&quot; Jaden exclaimed as he splashed Oopiee Craylo´s ploy had worked, or so he thought. The rebel ships withdrew, with the exception of one ship, a Y-wing bomber. &quot;Rebel vessel, you are ordered to leave the system or be destroyed.&quot; A vocally altered Craylo ordered. ___&quot;If you, Boba Fett are guarding a lowly transport such as this, then the cargo must be valuable indeed.&quot; The rebel pilot said. <b>&lt;--- </b> &quot;This leaves me with no other choice fett&quot;. <b>{TWO CHARACTERS TALKING TO EACH OTHER USUALLY SHOULDN´T HAVE PERSONAL DESCRIPTIONS IN THE SAME PARAGRAPH} ---&gt; </b>The next sentence made Craylo´s throat dry. ___&quot;FOR THE REBELLION!&quot; screamed the Y-wing pilot. <hr size=1 noshade></BLOCKQUOTE></font><font face=´trebuchet ms, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica´ size=2> You´re very good at showing the character qualities through dialog, but if this were to be compared to your photography skills, this would be a black and white photograph story as opposed to a full rich color photograph showing all the detail. But as it is fan fiction, it is very good for what it is. And I wouldn´t suggest necessarily pushing yourself too hard on something you can never sell. Although, if you write an original story of your own one day, you should consider these things I said to help you bring breadth to the world you see in your mind. Merry Christmas! <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Sir S Edited by - Sir Spectre on 12/25/2004 7:48:34 AM

@ff, make an honest response to Wolfy´s story then I´ll take a look at yours. <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Wolfy , you´re welcome. <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middl

<font size=1 face="trebuchet ms"><BLOCKQUOTE><hr size=1 noshade>wondered if i actually did this...its so..not like me<img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> <hr size=1 noshade></BLOCKQUOTE></font><font face=´trebuchet ms, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica´ size=2> A year ago, I had to interpret everything you said so others could understand, so yes, I´d agree, it wasn´t like you. <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> But it was a sign of the more intelligent Wolfy we know today. <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> It´s a great dialog drama! It reminds me of the old radio plays, where all you have is dialog and sound effects. You´re missing character names and action description so I can´t say it´s like a book or even a stage play. But you do have realistic discussion and speaking, for most writers they have the worst difficulty writing good dialog. Dialog appears to be something that comes naturally to you. It´s a little short for a story and could use a lot more elaboration ... so says the man who wrote a 33 page play about one argument! <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> <font size=1 face="trebuchet ms"><BLOCKQUOTE><hr size=1 noshade>(and Spectre, if you´re still out there, i´d really like to know how you like it<img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>) <hr size=1 noshade></BLOCKQUOTE></font><font face=´trebuchet ms, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica´ size=2> Thanks for the email, it was fun to hear from you again. I´m pleased to see you´re partaking in some mind expanding behavior (without the use of an illicit products <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>). Keep writing and always remember this when you reread what you have written: &quot;Am I giving people enough description to help them understand the details of the characters, world and events I have in my mind?&quot; This is what you need to work on, people reading your work have to be able to see into your mind ... scary thought, isn´t it?! <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> EDIT: Now that I look at it again, compared to your topic post, it seems even less like you than I thought before. Words are actually properly capitalized in the story! <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> ___________________________________________________________ Sir Spectre giving the Spammysburg Address on 5/13/2004 22:21 PST: 12 posts and 2 days ago, we brought forth on this forum a new direction, conceived in spam and dedicated to the preposition that all posts are created useless. Now we are engaged in a great civil disobedience testing whether that thread or any thread so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great forum of that nonsense. We have come to dedicate a portion of that forum as a final resting-place for those topics that gave of their importance that spam might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this ... blah blah blah, spam spam spam. Edited by - Sir Spectre on 12/16/2004 12:53:28 PM

The scout is the ship that comes in the point of time when you actually have a conversation with the Steltek in the game, it´s in a scout ship. You remember that part right? When your gun is charged up to defeat the drone, it´s the scout ship that gives it to you. I´ve heard the Vega Strike engine is sort of clumsy. Sir S

Just in case you´re interested, WCNews spoke of a project that modeled the Steltek Scout, which I can´t remember if you have or not. I suppose it is a weaker adversary than the drone, because the drone was a front line weapon from what I can recall. If you´re interested. <font size=1 face="trebuchet ms"><BLOCKQUOTE><hr size=1 noshade>WCU Privateer Finds Steltek Presence While work on reaching the milestone version 1.0 release continues, the <A href=´http://priv.solsector.net/´ Target=_Blank>WCU Privateer</a> team are still hard at work on the models for the project, and it´s time for the Steltek to get the treatment. First up is the drone, famous for showing up when you want it least. Sadly the pictures aren´t very high resolution and these thumbnails are all we have right now. <img src=´http://www.wcnews.com/newershots/thumb/wcuprivsteltek1t.jpg ´> Next up is the Steltek scout, and it looks like someone decided to let the thing dock at a mining base. <img src=´http://www.wcnews.com/newershots/full/wcuprivsteltek3.jpg ´> <hr size=1 noshade></BLOCKQUOTE></font><font face=´trebuchet ms, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica´ size=2> Sir S Edited by - Sir Spectre on 12/9/2004 12:38:52 PM

warzog <font size=1 face="trebuchet ms"><BLOCKQUOTE><hr size=1 noshade>the Centurion is a &quot;Very Heavy&quot; fighter in FL, so they wanted it strong, but slow. <hr size=1 noshade></BLOCKQUOTE></font><font face=´trebuchet ms, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica

If you do what Greyviper suggests, make sure the Steltek can´t catch you if you want to run, I remember running from the abhorrent little drone a lot in the original game. <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Sir S

@Gp, yes, what a wonderful way to prove me wrong, by misspelling and being inconsistent with the proper form of the word &quot;epitome.&quot; <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.

There are some obvious names to use. For instance in the Confed, Christopher Blair, Maniac Marshall. The Vesuvias could have Admiral Tolwyn. Thrakhath for the cats and maybe Hobbes. Can anyone remember some of the names that appeared in the orignal Privateer game. Not like Sandoval who had no ship, but Roman Lynch and what his henchman´s name? What´s the smallest faction in FL? Maybe Roman Lynch can have his own tiny Mob empire. Sir S

Sorry guys, I´m history. I´m part of the annuls of TLR lore. I only entered this thread to begin with because it was originally linked from the news items on the front page. Otherwise, I would never have known about it. Normally I just check up on a few FL mods then go away. ___________________________________________________________ Sir Spectre giving the Spammysburg Address on 5/13/2004 22:21 PST: 12 posts and 2 days ago, we brought forth on this forum a new direction, conceived in spam and dedicated to the preposition that all posts are created useless. Now we are engaged in a great civil disobedience testing whether that thread or any thread so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great forum of that nonsense. We have come to dedicate a portion of that forum as a final resting-place for those topics that gave of their importance that spam might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this ... blah blah blah, spam spam spam.

@Gowserpaul, you don´t post much, but you´re consistent. <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> @Esq &amp; Fd, you´re both, right there, demonstrating the time-honored and &quot;historic&quot; tradition known a

@Esq with 5348 posts you must ALWAYS be here. <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> @sw, thanks. <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif w

Your commitment to the project is commendable. Congrats, you´re making wonderful progress. <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Sir S