<r> some interesting questions that would be cool to see answered. i am especially interested to know if fighters landing in fighter bays was fixed/made better in 4.5...<br/>
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landing gear - well if you are going to enter the atmosphere, then yes there is a reason...otherwise maybe it just ...

well, from the sound of it the game was reviewed as a first person shooter in space, which it is not. that may be the only thing the reviewer is familiar with, so one can not expect a good showing when reviewers are subjective and have only one context to review from...

<r> "although they won't react until damage is actually done, in my experience" - exactly, on top of usually being out of position. that is something i would like to see tweaked... <E>;)</E> so maybe just some additional code for escorting and defending commands to help actually create a proper ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>but the assault is supposed to get through. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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says who???? i bet if you asked a defender they would have a different opinion. or are you saying milo designed in this artificial 100% attack success?<br/>

<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Ships are not ...

<r> you might want to update this page (which happens to be your front page):<br/>
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he did in fact get on it! there should be a new link for dl of the file shortly...

I sent a message to feedback at starshattercentral (link to the following post mentioned) and posted in the B5 forum there that I am willing to mirror the file to save the bandwidth there. That was 2-3 days ago and no reply...

<t> Shoe,<br/>
I am definitely not seeing the AI cooperating on a sufficient level in the demo. They come into the attack piecemeal. While I can designate one target for all of them, they do not hold formations and coordinate their attack as a group. Try to have frigates form a protective ring ...

<t> milo - no offense meant, no criticism... i would definitely NOT compare this to an RTS - those games are far less realistic, so much so that i have no interest in playing them personally.<br/>
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it would just add to the realism so much if this could be done.<br/>
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piecemeal attacks ...

<t> milo - i would argue that there is quite some reason to have formations and manuevers for cap ships... it is and has been used in naval tactics for a very long time, and there is of course a reason for that.<br/>
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imagine telling your 4 frigates to form a defensive box around your carrier ...

John,
Thx! Will do some testing and see...

Matti,
He is referring to Command & Control, not Command and Conquer.

it would be MUCH easier if the demo version was the same as the release version...and it seems that everyone else in the world does it that way...

<t> is this possible?<br/>
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can a group of cap ships be put into a formation? will the ai have them protect each other, work with each other to achieve a goal? possible to also add commands to a formation that include manuevers, like combat maneuvers? pincer, target a particular craft, etc ...

<t> so i had the demo downloaded from the startshatter site, and then found the "updated" demo 4.03 on matrix games site!!! cool!!!<br/>
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i download it and go to install it, and the installer says it is version 3.9.4. huh? i figure maybe it is a typo and they jusy reused the same installer ...