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I so can't wait for Jump to Lightspeed! It looks like so friggin' much fun!
I can only pray that I get into the BETA 
/give thumbs up to devs
MSP0 wrote:
Continuity problem: Star Wars ships don't jump to lightspeed. They jump to Hyperspace. You have you SciFi genres mixed. If ships jumped "just" to lightspeed, it would take them 4 years to go from Earth to it's closes neighboring star.
I guess Lucasarts is sleeping at the helm in protecting their darned universe.
hmm good point.... even though it is a just a name, good point.
*slaps Devs* wakey wakey
Hmm.
I don't suppose anyone could tell me how to get X-Wing & Tie Fighter to run in Win XP.
Due to this expansion coming out, I'm going to need to re-aquaint myself with them and hone my dogfighting skills. I don't want to bog this thread down with this, so just send me an email or message in the forum.
While you guys are all over the spiffy new craft, I'll be happy to re-aqainy myself with an old favorite. The Y-Wing. Sure it's a lumbering beast of a starcraft, but considering the beating these things can take and still manage to complete their mission, I'll take one of these classic craft over a B-Wing anyday!
Thanks!
Great job of making the playstyle like X-W v T-F and bringing it to the best MMO platform out there!GameSpy:How do you plan to connect both parts of Star Wars Galaxies so that they don't devolve into two separate games? Will there be quests or content that requires you to do stuff on the ground and in space?Cinco Barnes:The space experience offered by Jump to Lightspeed is tightly integrated with the Star Wars Galaxies ground-game adventure in many ways.
GameSpy: Do players take off and land manually? Or is there some type of an automated "break" in the game?
Cinco Barnes: We don't want you to worry about learning how to land and we definitely want to be able to thrust you into the action immediately. You'll launch your starship from a starport, and be taken directly into space via a loading screen where you can immediately engage enemy ships or plot a course to another planet.
Do you play hockey? That was the best deke I've seen in the 2004 playoffs!
I am very, very sad we'll see no player-piloted craft flying about the sky, and the battle of Hoth is just plain not possible now. I already had a group of people planning to get into base raids. I was also very interested in the how game would change with tie bombers. It looks like we are going to see very divergent worlds. If this leads to NO LAG space battles as the load should be miniscule I could come around to enjoy it, but much like the jedi saber duel video was A GIANT, LAGLESS LIE I'm afraid we're headed to the choppy, lag-plauged future. The Devs are not capable of predicting the future, but they are certainly capable of predicting the rosiest version of a non-existant future. I wish I could find the post where officially they claimed that flying into the planet was the desired direction. Blackman's comment a few weeks back about "flying bomber missions over Tatoonie" was a carefully constructed statement indeed! "Promise the sky and deliver... the early 90's" must be the motto at the space expansion dev team.
MSP0 wrote:
Continuity problem: Star Wars ships don't jump to lightspeed. They jump to Hyperspace. You have you SciFi genres mixed. If ships jumped "just" to lightspeed, it would take them 4 years to go from Earth to it's closes neighboring star.
I guess Lucasarts is sleeping at the helm in protecting their darned universe.
You are technicly right however I think they were used interchangably in star wars, I think Leah says "how long untill we can mak the jump to lightspeed" (if I can rember corectley).
Quinton_McTish wrote:
Hmm.
I don't suppose anyone could tell me how to get X-Wing & Tie Fighter to run in Win XP.
Due to this expansion coming out, I'm going to need to re-aquaint myself with them and hone my dogfighting skills. I don't want to bog this thread down with this, so just send me an email or message in the forum.
While you guys are all over the spiffy new craft, I'll be happy to re-aqainy myself with an old favorite. The Y-Wing. Sure it's a lumbering beast of a starcraft, but considering the beating these things can take and still manage to complete their mission, I'll take one of these classic craft over a B-Wing anyday!
Thanks!
I read this on the Lucas arts forum: use the windows 95 combatability mode on and turn off 3D acceleration for some reson it only works with software render. hope that helps.
to tell you the truth snikrop... i never thought or figured they would have manual landings and what not. Just never occured to me as something doable.
I mean it'd be hard to do to allow space based ships to fight on the ground. dont ya think? it'd be a bit unbalancing. not to mention laggy as heck
CommanderRyalis wrote:
I read this on the Lucas arts forum: use the windows 95 combatability mode on and turn off 3D acceleration for some reson it only works with software render. hope that helps.
JimPriduex wrote:
MSP0 wrote:
Continuity problem: Star Wars ships don't jump to lightspeed. They jump to Hyperspace. You have you SciFi genres mixed. If ships jumped "just" to lightspeed, it would take them 4 years to go from Earth to it's closes neighboring star.
I guess Lucasarts is sleeping at the helm in protecting their darned universe.
hmm good point.... even though it is a just a name, good point.
*slaps Devs* wakey wakey