Heh. I wish you had told me this earlier. I spent far too long trying the Kamekh mission over and over again trying to lose. It's impossible! If you eject immediately after launch, it's like the mission was successful...you get the same Ralatha strike. If you eject any other time, you get...

Here's what I have so far. It's still a draft. I've color coded the missions that I've played according to the system that they take place in, but I haven't coded the missions I haven't played yet. Ignore the text color...that's my own notation. Everything will be black eventually...

Thanks for all the information. I appreciate it. Wait, you can join the Pirates by just flying to their base on the mission that you find it in? I always assumed that, since they were red dots and I was way outnumbered, if I tried flying in, intending to defect or no, I would get shot to...

Dundradal, These mission paths are awesome! I'm trying to explore all the different missions in Standoff, and they're a great help. I hope your Standoff Guide doesn't get forgotten...Standoff is a great game, and far more nuanced and challenging (and hence in need of a guide) than many...

I haven't read Fleet Action (yet), so maybe this is explained there, but I was looking at the Wing Commander Universe map, and for the life of me I can't figure out why any kind of major engagement takes place in Warsaw. Since the Kilrathi's objective with their suprise attack was to crush...

Just did something I've been meaning, and trying to do for the past two years, in between real life's demands...I finished Standoff. Saw all three endings. I realize I'm about two years off the pace, but I don't get much time to play games anymore. I just want to thank and congratulate...

For me it's an easy decision. I own WC1+2 (and SM1+2, and SO1+2, and the WC2 speech pack) on 3.5" floppy disks. I own KS Saga on CD. Since I have a CD drive, and haven't the slightest clue how one would go about reading 3.5" floppies these days, I think I'll be playing the KS version... :-)

I think you're presuming a lot about Kilrathi zoology here. (And not necessarily knowing too much about Terran zoology in the process). First of all, I don't think a Gorilla's teeth particularly inspire fear in anything, but their STRENGTH does...a gorilla could rip a man (or maybe even a...

I'm actually still kind of annoyed that Arena wasn't released for PS3. I understand not releasing it for PC, especially given the piracy problem, but I hate it when game developers favor one console over another, when the two platforms are essentially equal. I've always been a Sony owner, not...

I think you've nailed it. The Tiger's Claw was apparently well known to the Kilrathi, and seen as the lynchpin of Confed's fleet in the area at the time (reference Thrakhath's boast after the 'Claw was destroyed that "without the Tiger's Claw to protect them, my fleet will sweep through the...

Not sure I quite followed all of your post. But if you really want a PC-based Wing Commander game beyond the ones that Origin/EA has released, check out some of the excellent fan-built mods and games that are hosted right here on CIC. Some aren't finished yet (but are eagerly awaited by all...

I've never used Treman, but I have tried to run the WC1 ship editor that is hosted here under Win7. It is also a 16-bit program. No luck. I think Windows 7 just won't run 16-bit software. Win XP (which is natively 32 bit) could handle 16 or 32 bit, but Win 7, which is natively 64 bit...

Durandal, Do you have you finalized mission trees posted anywhere formal, or are they just hanging around in old discussion board threads? I'm having some issues finding what the final version you've blessed is.

Thanks. I suspected it was the secondary objective that gave me the Sao Paulo. No matter...that's a fun mission (although, even knowing the right strategy, it sometimes is just nearly unwinnable...the starting position of the Grikhath's seems to be randomized, and if they happen to start just...

So I'm playing through Standoff again, and trying to find hidden missions and things I might have missed before. Meaning I'm trying to do both better and worse than I did on my first playthrough. Worse is easy. Better is hard. So I turned the difficulty down when trying to do better to see...

Terminology question: I know that the CIC has authorization to offer for free download the PC Gamer release of WC1 (so in a sense, WC1 at least can be downloaded for free right here). However, the CIC is very careful to specify that it is *NOT* freeware. Please clarify the definition of...

I have friends in the games industry (not to the extent that LOAF and some of the others here do, though), and according to them, software piracy is one of the biggest reasons why development of games for PC's has flagged compared to games for consoles. According to my friend, the average new...

Either way would be awesome. When I was unable to get wcview working with KS, I sort of let the project languish, but if you have the ship stats from the game reliably, I'll pick it back up again...

Hmmm... I guess some programmers took some shortcuts and didn't implement path-intersection detection...just colocation detecation at discrete time intervals... Should have payed more attention to stability limits...

I had always thought that Confed lost the McAuliffe Ambush because they mis-decoded a Kilrathi message and ended up being outnumbered 2-1. They also had the misfortune of sending battleships up against strike craft with no fighter support? They're lucky that they managed to break the Kilrathi...