Posts by RGHawk2000

What was the command to see the cockpit in your ship??

RG...out

Well, finally Im getting my new joystick (logitech) this Thursday. Here, at my country. you dont find easily any joystick at the computer shops just gamepads (you have to order the JS) My old one wasnt working fine anymore eventhough I ve been using it to play JumpGate and Evochron (some buttons doesnt respond plus the roll and pitch function of the stick is not working ok/ 80%) Anyway, my new joystinck is not as good as my old at 100% functionality but it will be good enough to get back in the game ...

As for the people having trouble, if you have connection issue 90% chances is your firewall but if you have crashes issue it might be your SL copy or video config. (remember SL is an old game and it does have some issue with new video card)

Anyway, Ill pm you guys when I completly back in the game...

RG...out

PS: OFFTOPIC: could the splash damage also be torpedoes explosion for the new CF 1.6? ...That would give some realistic situation when you try to blowup a torpedo in FL

Oh! the beautiful arena and the smell from the smoking guns. Hello everybody, This is RGHawk back to you in another week of excitements, fights, and glory in order to attain victory on the Assault event every Saturday.

For this Saturday Assault Event we got on earlier than usual to call every player online to participate. A total of 14 players showed up where only 12 finish at the end of this week event.

As usual, players were picked by Petrus and me getting the following alignments:

Team 1: Marc / Kamikasi / Donator (*) / Jtak/ Fallen_Ghensi / Darstalker / Petrus4 (Yes, besides flying the miner, he was again attacking team 2)

Team 2: LaserJet / Sheppard / Fallen_spartan118 / Black_Lighting / Gunny (AWOL) / Sev (AWOL)

(*) on last 30 min, this member switch to team 2 to rebalance the team due to some players of team 2 had to leave.

Even though we started to call players at 7:30pm GMT, we finished to assembly the teams by 8:15 pm GMT so the event started at 8:30 pm GMT and ended at 10pm GMT.

As soon as every team dock to their respective home planet ( this time Marc got it right) server restarted to help to get an smooth event. The first attack was achieved by team 1 while team 2 decided to defend. The attackers from team were MarcBomber, Kamikasi, Donator, Ghensi, and Darkstalker while Jtak stayed at his home planet to defend his miner. Laserjet, Sheppard , and Gunny were trying to attack team 1 but they couldnt find the miner so they falled back to defensive position to protect their own miner. Black_Lighting, and Spartan118 succeeded to shot down some enemy fighters while Laserjet, Gunny, and Sheppard took the rest out. As soon team 1 were sent back to their planet, they came back to team 2 territory knowing already the location of team 2 miner from last encounter. On the other hang, the second wave attack of team 2 was again unsuccessful to locate team 1 miner. Team 1 miner took this opportunity to get into his fighter cockpit known as Petrus 4 and accompanied team 1 strike team to accomplish their job. They succeeded taking team 2 miner 4 times while Team 2 fighter were still looking for team 1 miner. Few minutes later, Laserjet and Sheppard spot team 1 miner and succeded to shot it down but no before receiving heavy damage from Jtak who did a hell of a good job by defending his miner. Just 1 kill and all team 2 were sent back home their escape pod. Therefore, after 30 minutes playing the score was Team 1 = 4 and Team 2 = 1

On the next 30 min, moral on team 2 started to diminish. We understand our failure to locate Team 1 miner plus being in a defensive strategy costed us a lot. Nevertheless, we kept going. We reorganized ourselves and started a series of small attacks by fighters wing of 2 players (Laserjet & Gunny / Sheppard & Spartan118) Black_Lighting stayed behind to protect Team 2 miner. On a PvP confrontation, team 2 took the best out of team 1 however, we had the same problem than before, no where to find team 1 miner. This gave an edge to team 1 to counter attack plus to realign its defensive by Jtak tactics sending team 2 fighters in their escape pods for second time. On the other hand, team 1 score another 2 kills by the hand of Marc and Dark, while kamikazi, and Ghenzi helped to cover Team 1 offensive attacks. The score was team 1 = 6 and team 2 = 1 Team 2 was facing a major defeat in the history of the assault event. To make things worst, 1 player has to leave and we were at the lowest moral than ever in the event. Things started to get out of control so I recalled my players home to start another offensive with all of them attacking team 1 miner. The results were very positive and team finally managed to locate team 1 miner and score 3 kills while team 1 score another 2 kills. After the 1st hour of playing Team 1 was leading by 4 points team 2

Since some players left team 2 due to extreme circumstances, 1 player from team 1 was transfer to team 2 in order to rebalance the teams. Donator from team 1 was sent to team 2 and after a server restart, the game was resumed. Team 2 was losing 8 x 4 however, after a brief discussion among team 2 players and some given incentives, our game play improved big time. While Laserjet and Sheppard dedicated themselves to destroy team 1 miner, Donator and Black_Lighting dedicated themselves to get rid of Jtak who was doing a great job defending the miner so far. Spartan118 stayed back defending the miner doing a great job with his task. There were some major issues about flipping the miner so a NEW RULE WAS BORN out of this. When an enemy team fighter flips a miner more than 2 time, 1 point was to be given to the affected team. This rule will be implemented also in next assault event. Getting back to the game, Laserjet achieved 3 more kills while team 1 achieve only one more kill by the hand of Darkstalker. After that, the fight was pretty close, Sheppard achived 2 more kills for team 2 while kamikaze and Marc got 2 for its team. Score was 11 x 9 so team 2 was getting close but time was running out. With just 2 minutes left, team 1 achieved 1 more kill by the hand of donator closing the score to 11 x 10. Team 2 was so closed but team 1 reacted with a major counter attack getting another kill for them. They were some other tries from both side but time was up. The game was over leaving the score Team 1 = 12 & Team 2 = 10. But it was a good fight and good come back from Team 2. Everyone on both sides did their best but only 1 winner could come out and this time was Team 1. Great Job Guys and congratulations to Team 2 who make their best come back ever.

Well, this is all for now and hoping to see you again next Saturday 8pm GMT, BE THERE

RGout

PS: some pictures will be shown later

I couldnt even work with MilkShape m8 so I congratulate you with that. Did you try the ship modelling guide in lancers reactor. Try to do it in Gmax and see how will come out I bet you it will be much easier ...

RG...out

Best whishes to Sleepy and MHawk in their marriage and may God guide you in your path always...

RG

The event experience last night was real good. Hunters were winning but due to some techs problems we called even last night. New London was crashing on us when many players were in that system. But before that, the hunt and fight was pretty dam good. It was a nice chase from three fronts and again Donators caught up/spot the trader at New London just before the server went off.

I want to congratulate Dark and every player that participate in the event cause it was real fun and I did enjoyed.

RG...

If you want to test it I am for it. I think I will be a good choice cause I use 2 CF 1.57..the original to play online and a little modded one when I play single player. SO If you want I could mod a beta version of the new CF to see if the protection works (one thing to notice is that Im not a modder, I just use fl explorer and IONCORSS CE to test new upgraded on single player)

SIncerely,

RG

Hello Everyone,

This is RGHawk covering the Assault Event from the Arena. As you know, this year started kind of slow for the Assault Event but that never took the spirit out of the brave contestant. So far 3 events were held and only 1 report came out until now. Yes, I will give a brief report on the Assault Event on Jan 07/2006 and a complete report on the Event held on Jan 28/2006.

As for the Event on Jan 7/2006 we have as follow:

It was a come back event after a long holyday break well deserve by all brave players. As usual Petrus and I gathered people at the Arena before the event. In this event, some new and old faces got together. Players were people from BG, DC, Pia, Fallen, and LP clan. The pick was carefully done by making both teams with people from every clan.

After the teams were ready, everyone head to the coliseum to dock at their respective home planet.

The event started with a strong attack from team 2 while team 1 decided to defend at the beginning. The attack was Lead by LaserJet. He chose to divide the attack team in two wings with the help of Baldwin. Each wing from Team 2 took one corridor so we named them Left and Right wing. The attack was so successful that Team 2 scores 5 points in the first 10 minutes. Then, it was Team 1 opportunity lead by the commander officer Averdui. This pilot, flying by a particular style, score like 6 points in the next 25 minutes. Impossible to hit and with his wingmen backing him up he accomplished the objectives.

In the next hour, hell broke lose on both side. However team 2 managed to take out the best of the situation. With Laserjet leadership follow by pcforce, Baldwin, canoso, Lord Cain, Admiral, and Kiran, they got a total amount of 24 kills while Team 1 only could get 10 more kills making the final score Team 1 = 16 & Team 2 = 29 so team 2 took the victory this time. That was all for Jan 07/2006.

Next report will be for the Assault Event held on Jan 28/2006. This will post here (same reply) late tonight and I hope you will enjoy it....

Now, for the Assault Event Results on Jan 28/2006...

Again, this is RGHawk taking the news to the next level on event runners. This last Saturday event was real awesome and you could not even imagine what would happen there. Do you want to know more? Read further...

All players were called to participate to the assault event on Jan 28/2006 and just few could make it. Most of players were far out from the event system while others were already there waiting anxious to start. Players that participated in the event were: Silent_Killer, Grinder, Averdui, Blackdragon, Neorok, Gizmo, Carbine, Corp, Riddick, Asi and 1 player that went AWOL after the event started, plus MarcBomber, and MarcBomber ...wow, 2 MarcBombers, the evil and the good side (if we could call it that way) At the end, we told Marc that only one side could stay so the other had to go (We never know which one stayed)

After the player pickup, both teams were layout as follow:

TEAM 1: Silent_Killer / Corp / Averdui / Grinder Riddick / ? (AWOL)

TEAM 2: Neorok / BlackDragon / Gizmo / Carbine / MarcBomber / Asi

As usual TEAM 1 was lead by Petrus and Team 2 was lead by me. Each player docked at his home planet except from one member who I think due to his loyalty to his clan he docked at the wrong planet. After we sort out the docking issue, the event started without any trouble.

The first attack was done by team 1. In this action, Team 2 leader (me) was speechless. I could not believe what I saw with my own eyes. Team 1 1st attack was lead by Petrus and Averdui. WHO THE HELL WAS FLYING THE MINER FOR TEAM 1??? That was the first question that came out of my mind. I couldnt even shot the bastards because I didnt react on time. With this awesome strategy, TEAM 1 got the 1st 2 points straight. On the other side, Team 2 counter attack was lead by the legend, Marcbomber. It was a Titan fight between Marc and Corp. At the end, Marc came out of it with 3 clean kills. The score was Team 1 = 2 and Team 2 = 3 One point lead didnt mean something because The battle was pretty strong on both side. I was thinking by myself this is it, Team 1 will get us sooner or later but I was not to give up that easy. I realign my fighters and gave Marc a wing of 3 fighters to accomplish his objective: Asi, Blackdragon, and Carbine. Neorok and Gizmo stayed with me for a while. While Marc and Blackdragoon were doing their jobs on enemy lines, My defenders and I were in real trouble. Averdui, Grinder, and Riddick approach us from different sides. I ordered my fighter to pick one each. As for myself, I choose Averdui. This pilot, with his peculiar flying style, was impossible to hit. He was a nightmare. I could only shot him down once for the rest of the night. Grinder and Riddick got their opportunity to score 1 point each making a total of 4 points. While on the other side, Asi got some fighters out clearing the way for Marc, BlackDragon and Carbine. They got 4 points more to give a total of 7 for Team 2.

The next 45 minutes were really important. Averdui, grinder and Riddick were all over Team 2 miner. Averdui, again, with his own flying style, manage to score 3 more points by his own. While Gizmo, Neorok, and Asi also tried their luck and succeed shooting the Team 1 miner 2 times.
The score was Team 1 = 7 & Team 2 = 9 at the moment. After that I told Marc, KILL AVERDUI, if we dont do that they will catch us faster and those 2 point lead wont mean anything. Marc did try but Averdui was slippery so he went off to do what he knows best, destroying the enemy miner and he did. Marc score 3 more points for team 2 making the score 12 for this team. On the other side, Grinder and Riddick also made their moves to get 1 kill each. One thing to notice was that Riddick sustained heavy hull damage on his ship but no one was capable to shot this guy down with just 5% hull. At that point, the server was going to reboot and we had like 1 min left. So I undock thinking not plenty time to shot me down again. OH GOD, I couldnt be more wrong. There were Fire Flashes all over Team 2 miner. I think even my own team trying to shoot enemy fighters down got a piece of me. Just before the server went down, Averdui got last 1 hit tearing Team 2 miner in small pieces.

The final score was Team 1 = 10 and Team 2 = 12. If the fight were to last longer who knows who would be the winner. For now, Team 2 claimed the victory and earned a prize of 100.000.000 credits. Yes, since so many people participate in the Assault Event, the prize was doubled. There was a 10.000.000 credits special prize for Riddick who stayed flying longer with a fighter with less than 5% hull.

After the event I interviewed Petrus and asking how he came out with the idea to attack Team 2 miner the first time. He just said: No one was coming so I took the chance Hehehe, pretty risky but pretty successful may I say. I also talked to MarcBomber to get his impression and he said: I think my colleagues at BG are mad at me for now cause I was on the other team I may say really nice job Marc, you dint let your feeling for your mates interfere with your mission. And last, we caught up with Averdui and asked him: What kind of flying style was that impossible to hit? He just said: Catch the turkey LOL, you could call it catch the rooster or the goose but one thing is for sure, that dam flying style is pretty effective.

Well, that is it for today guys and I hope to see you next time again so DONT MISS on Saturdays 8pm GMT, THE ASSAULT EVENT

RGout

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Originally posted by SWAT_OP-R8R
arv we posted at the same time... i meant ravens pic

i removed the link in ur post... its better this way... thx for the model

Everybody is sending picture of ship models. I thought what OP wanted was a 3D flying ship model made in MilkShape, Gmax, or even in 3dmax..... and original. If that is not the case, there is one in lancersreactor (no beautiful but well is from 40k )

http://www.lancersreactor.com/…load/Download.asp?ID=1682

RG...out

Superb...that is an excellent and well content storyline you keep there OP. I can help testing modifications if you want m8. Also, could I introduce a new ship if this fit your standards?

RG

I know why he doesnt show CF server on it. What hapen is this and you could check that:

What Sleepy said is right. When you uninstall Freelancer and make a fresh installation, eventhough you input your old id (where you have all your chars from any server you have been) it wont show that you have been to that server until you login again to those servers with your new installation.

I hope that can explain that screenshot and you can figure the rest.

RG.

PS: at the end, what Wavey said in his last reply is right...

http://www.amazesoft.com/

RG.

If you sent an email to him he will reply sooner or later. Maybe, we could ask him to sent all the info given to him which was a lot. The format he sent us to fill was pretty good and would make the work easier to anyone taking over. So my suggestion is to contact him and ask for all that info so we dont have to start from scratch. Maybe one of the DC member could talk to him on msn or send him an email.

Otherwise, we could start from scratch and basicly what is needed is to check sector by a sector, take a picture of the map with sector complete exploration and fill up a form with all detail about the station, docking planet, etc on that sector. We could still use blade *.txt form for that purpose.

RG...out

Well, after 2 days going around JumpGate I found a good friend who still playing there. Lot of things have changed since I left. I did login from time to time with a friends account just for fighting the flux but didnt know about the major changes. Therefore I decided to join my friends squad. She just started the squad few days ago but it is pretty much settled with the players stations (which oyu dont have to pay anymore for monthly maintanance) and all the knew things about the game.

Yes OP mightygames shot down EU JG and some of the former EU player still playing on the US server after netdevil arranged their emigration there.

I also know that All good things will come to an end but I dont think it is the end yet of JG. Maybe in a close but also could be in a far future the end of it, who knows!

You have the link here guys..there is a 10 days trial with a CC and the worst thing that could happen is not liked it so before your 10 days are off, you could leave

It is completely difference to Freelancer and the only thing in common with starlancer is that is Joystick driven. It is not easy to play cause you deal there with space dynamics and if you die all your gear is gone and replace with newb gear so you have to think twice about what you do there. a lot of feature are explained (partially) ithe Jossh webpage eventhough it hasnt had a major update for a while.

Well, I guess i see you today in the assault event...

Sincerely,

RG

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Originally posted by Corp
That's a good one grinder. Damn i live out of the civilization so here i cant have more than 1mbit down 300k up (+all national calls but 36 euro+vat [3] ), damn too far from the damn central of this damn unpopulated area. [frust] [cry2] [cry2]

What the hell are you crying about ??? Imagine here with 384 poors kb and we pay more than 20 euros for that ·%&/@ excuse my french...

Anyway Corp, that is life I have to live with it...and Nitro, that is some power you got there, good for you...

RG

and this post is for/due to????

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Originally posted by Baldwin
Messages...Privys angered that OP has a record of messages that players send on the server.

Hehe, I dont even erase minds cause i like to keep a good record of what has been said, especially after I left chaos cause that experience showed me to have your proof at hands. The only thing i dont record is my msn chat cause I respect others people privacy on that matter.

RG...out

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Originally posted by Nitro
Ping requests:
Sent = 90, Received = 90, Lost = 0 (0% loss)
Approximate round trip times:
Minimum = 12 ms, Maximum = 21 ms, Average = 18 ms

Woow Nitro, what kind of connection you are running m8 and how much does it cost??ç

RG

You were referring to your chars or computer m8???

It would be good to clarify that...

RG...out

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Originally posted by Wavey
JG is still lurking in US but economy is screwed and no balance anymore

From what I heard Istvan (JG GM) has done a pretty good job fix and rebalance the economy. So I will give it try as I did to evochron. I will place my observations here after I play for a little while

RG...out