Hmmm, I seem to be having trouble with this too. I'm trying to run the GOG version of Prophecy with the enhancement pack. When I execute the steps that AD outlines above and try running Prophecy, it asks me to Insert CD#1 as soon as the game tries to execute. Obviously, I don't have the...

OK, thanks for the responses. I know I'm still hoping for, one of these days, an "all in one" finalized release package with a single install file, but till then I'll keep playing the game as it is!

I was just wondering...are the Standoff folks still supporting the game (i.e. fixing bugs, updating to work as Windows and DirectX, etc. evolve, and so forth), or have they all moved on to other things? Just asking because I love Standoff...it's in the running for my favorite Wing Commander...

Here's a (perhaps crazy) explanation for the HF-66... Is it possible that it was HF because it was originally developed by someone else (i.e. not Confed), and just adopted by the Confed Navy? Early on we see "CF" for "Confederation fighter (presumably), and "KF" for "Kilrathi fighter". Maybe...

OK, compiling it so far, with my own, rhyming version of G and H: A is for Arrow, that flies so fast. B is for Broadsword, with armor to last. C is for Centurion, a price quite steep D is Drayman, who's trust you keep E is for Excalibur, a ship built to last and F is for Ferret, which...

A silly challenge for the community... So I've noticed that a number of folks in the community here, like myself, have recently (i.e., within the last couple of years) had kids. I don't know about you, but I'm up to my elbows in reading children's stories. One of the worst at getting stuck...

I'm not super familiar with Action Stations and that timeframe. Is there any "official" art of material that tells us what the Yorkshire looked like, or is NinjaLA's picture above purely his conception as an artist?

Interesting that they don't like the gameplay. I always have thought that WCIV had by far the best gameplay of any of the WC games, and certainly is lightyears better than anything LucasArts put out. The excellent AI was part of that, the flight dynamics made posible by afterburners and the...

Wow. Pretty harsh. I can't quite figure out what their problem is... really. The bit about WC copying LucasArts is especially silly. I like the X-Wing/TIE fighter games as much as the next person, but they were pretty consistently chasing Origin through the entire 90's when it came to making...

Having actually worked on big, multi-million dollar projects with both Lockheed and Boeing, I can attest that their bureaucratic and contract requirements are every bit as onerous as the U.S. governments, and in some case more so (big companies' IP lawyers and lawyers worried about liability...

The sad thing is that I'm not sure we could get back there today. At least, not easily. We've lost a lot of the technology. Manned space travel is one of the few technologies that we've taken a step backwards in the last 30 years.

Never understood why this would be the case. The Kilrathi didn't keep any plans of the Sivar or the PAG? All the scientific, engineering, and technological know-how was lost to them? All their scientists and engineers who worked on it were dead? Keep in mind, for a weapon of that scale...

For that matter, did anyone else think it rather cavalier of Blair and Decker to just return to the Intrepid after visiting Telamon? Even if they were "genetically acceptable" (as they obviously were, or they would be dead...Sosa certainly implies such), how do they know that they weren't...

There's one important distinction, although I'm not sure it's absolutely established as fact. I had always believed that the Temblor bomb was *only* usable against tectonically unstable planets, and that that represented a fairly small percentage of inhabited planets (including Kilrah), and...

Really? Telamon was horrible, but it was one relatively small world on the fringe of colonized space. We don't know what it's original population was before GenSelect hit, but the impression is certainly that it was smaller than some of the big core worlds (either of the worlds in Sirius, for...

I don't know of any specific ones I could list off the top of my head, but there's got to be lots. For the Civil War, at least, you could probably start with any of the numerous non-fiction books that have been written about it, and look at their citation list. The ones I have read very...

The Kilrathi seemed to go through a fundamental shift in design outlook between WC1 and WC2. With the exception of the two "super heavies"--the Gratha and the Jalthi--the Kilrathi fighters in WC1 are all extremely nimble and yet incredibly under-armed. Even the Krant (a terribly bizzarre...

Wow. Those prices are something else. I was lucky--I bought my first copies secondhand from a good friend who had basically everything and was looking to move on for some reason. I got WC1, SM1+2, WC2, SO1+2, and the WC2 speech pack for $50. All in good condition. And I still have them all...

The numbers can't possibly be seconds per circle, because then less is better, but we consistently see more maneuverable ships having higher values (Rapier 10/10/10 > Hornet 8/9/8 > Scimitar 6/6/7 > Raptor 6/5/6. Salthi 14/12/22 > Hhriss 12/10/15 > Dralthi 10/14/10 > Krant 7/10/7 > Jalthi 7/7/7...

Or...Blair could have been KIA sometime in those 10 years, and not been arround in WC3 because of it. For all we know, Jazz's treachery might have saved his life. :-) Blair wasn't indestructible--in fact, he was shot down durin gthe Battle of Earth. If that happens anywhere else, maybe he is...