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BC Forums => BC General => Topic started by: DJ Curtis on August 05, 2009, 12:29:25 PM
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Normally I don't start threads about my gaming, because I don't actually game in BC that much, but this was crazy. I was trying to see how close I could get the Excalibur to the big powerful protostar in the stellar nursery system, and I got a little too close. Before I could get the lumbering beast turned around, my impulse engines were disabled and the star pulled me in at an incredible speed. I was somewhat offset from the star, and it pulled me so fast that I actually slingshot around the star and was thrown clear of the nebula cloud. Wild.
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haha that's cool!!
did ya grab any screens of this??
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Naaah... You're welcomed. :D
*runs*
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Damn someone needs to make a video of that, that sounds awesome lol.
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hehehehe, sounds like fun.
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i went back and tried to recreate it. I must have been just enough offset to make it happen the first time. man i love gravity fx. nicely done, frontier!
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i went back and tried to recreate it. I must have been just enough offset to make it happen the first time. man i love gravity fx. nicely done, frontier!
it has added a whole new dimension to BC, we didnt have before, AH I bet he had Spock on board.
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There is a way to calculate the speed and direction you need to get the "slingshot" effect around a gravity well...
But I don't remember it :( and you would still need something else (like a button, an AI, a NAV point, or something like that) to make your ship face that direction with that speed since it is pretty hard for us to maneuver the ship to perfectly face a direction.
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So DJ got pretty damn lucky then.
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Thers also one funny thing i experienced:
Try the PSI blackhole, grab your slipstream drive and try to intercept to its coordinates via slipstream intercept. You will be thrown with such an incredible speed :shock:
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I've slungshot around Belaruz IV or whatever that default QB set is these days.
Quite a few times.
My friend Monk has always been a cynic about BC, prattling on about how crap it is. On a whim one day, he decided to play it.
I set up a QB with a bunch of ships, and after he defeated the enemy, he went around attacking his allies. He was particularly annoyed when he couldn't catch up with a sovereign class. I noticed something.
"Wait, you see how his speed is steadily increasing, and he's sort of sliding sideways?"
-"Yeah?"
"Expand his target listing, see if his engines are online..."
-"Huh?"
*I do it for him*
"Yep, see, his impulse engines are offline, and he wasn't going the right speed for orbital insertion."
-"So..."
"So, there's no need to chase him, he's caught in that planet's gravity well, and will burn up in a minute."
-"Oh, COOL!!"
Then he was impressed that we could beam their crew aboard and rescue them, though it required a warp jump.
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DJ, did you check your chronometer readings after that happened? :P
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Man, I really need to install Gravity FX and Galaxy Charts.
But first I'd need to make a new install (my current install is kind of f'ed up) and reinstall all of the mods and my custom hardpoints! NOT something I want to do. -.-
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you could always use KM as a base install and work from there... at least with KM, the many mods included (such as Gravity FX) all work perfectly together...
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The bad 'collision' system often makes for some humorous situtions. I am pretty sure I am not the only one to go spinning very fast and in a random direction after colliding with another ship. Sometimes this happens. And sometimes you just blow up. The former is always alot funnier though :D
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Billz, if you're in KM1 (can't remember the name of the mod outside if, if it exists outside KM), have you tried disabling that mutator "Nemesis Collisions"? I too didn't like the collision system, and a long time ago I tried to find a fix for it, and disabling that made me happy at least.
Sometimes on the early testings of GC, when I was trying out the engaging warp sequence I came across something funny, related to collisions and speed.
In the warping engage sequence, the ships boosts to a big speed to show her warping out right, so, in the "early" days of GC, it still didn't had a check to see if the path was clear. So on a few occasions, my ship boosted to that high speed in a straigth line, colliding with something (normally a asteroid or a ship that happened to be there). However she didn't stopped, she was destroyed but continued in a straigth line in high speed, even reached the point of the warp flash and all. Then she appeared in the "in warp" set ya know, with the starstreaks and all, spinning and exploding, ultimately being destroyed in bits, and leaving me stranded in that set :lol:
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Billz, if you're in KM1 (can't remember the name of the mod outside if, if it exists outside KM), have you tried disabling that mutator "Nemesis Collisions"? I too didn't like the collision system, and a long time ago I tried to find a fix for it, and disabling that made me happy at least.
Sometimes on the early testings of GC, when I was trying out the engaging warp sequence I came across something funny, related to collisions and speed.
In the warping engage sequence, the ships boosts to a big speed to show her warping out right, so, in the "early" days of GC, it still didn't had a check to see if the path was clear. So on a few occasions, my ship boosted to that high speed in a straigth line, colliding with something (normally a asteroid or a ship that happened to be there). However she didn't stopped, she was destroyed but continued in a straigth line in high speed, even reached the point of the warp flash and all. Then she appeared in the "in warp" set ya know, with the starstreaks and all, spinning and exploding, ultimately being destroyed in bits, and leaving me stranded in that set :lol:
Currently not using KM1. I can disable the stock collision in BC as that has been unchanged, but then you just fly through stuff, and that is no fun :P
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I think my copy of Nemesis collisions is buggy. I still can't move much after the ships separate from their collision. I've had to disable it.
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Another funny thing happened today. Starships with hydraulics, lol. :P
Explanation:
I was playing around in BC after installing GCv2. I warp to Psi Blackhole while using the USS Faragut from Wileys XI Kelvin fleet pack.
As soon as I exited warp, I start getting pulled towards the black hole.
Instead of getting away, I turn my ship towards the black hole with impulse engines on full. Fly through the black hole and come out on the other side with hardly any damage (shouldn't a black hole destroy most things, lol?). After that, I am flying at such an incredible speed.
I then warp to the Itari system and for some reason my ship is 'bouncing' in warp. As in, it can be seen moving up and down like a car with a sweet hydraulics system.
Not sure why it was doing it but it was funny as hell.
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I want to add another type myself. I was goofing with the Aen Nen Thai (vulcan warbird) after finding out it had some alternate torpedoes. i was playing against a Borg Sphere at the time, and one of those funky torpedoes hit. the sphere spent at least a MINUTE spiraling out of control, spraying a series of spirals with its plasma leak! it happened again later after another ship blew up completely. the debris from it did the same thing till I hit end combat.
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i was playing as voyager against a borg cube and i had disabled its impulse, warp, shields and weapons systems, so i went to intercept it, half way through intercepting it BC froze for 2-5 secs...when it unfroze i had bounced off of the cube and was sent hurtling into star base 12...so i decided to warp out....and i got slungshot around the star base and warped straight up...then in warp the effects of the "collision" finally took place and i came out of warp at vesuvi 2 and exploded...
my dad had watched the whole thing and his expression was :wtf wtf?
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Would be neat if the slingshot could be used to throw you into a different version of the same map. Say you're doing it with the TMP Enterprise and when you slingshot, the star system looks the same, but you have a Sovereign class bearing down on you!
Time Travel!
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So Far, the coolest thing that ever happen to me is when I was fighting a Terran version of ISS Enterprise A with the KM miranda.
The ship cloaked out on me, And I was in severe damage. Just out of luck by at least a split second, I fired a photon right up it's Impulse engines, and another at it's cloaking device. The enemy had also suffered a great deal of damage for out of this that both warp engines started shooting plasma.
I quickly aimed for both plasma streams to ignite it, And once the explosions reached the ship, IT TORE IT APART, AND SPLIT THE SHIP IN HALF, KILLING IT WITH AN IMENSE EXPLOSION! However, I got to close to the explosion myself, And I began spinning out of control until I Hit a nearby starbase.
After that, well, u know the rest.
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WHOAS :funny
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The best thing i did was using the slipstream intercept on the PSI blackhole. man that was crazy, i warped out, it made a REALLY big BOOM and my speed was incredibly high, i couldnt move a bit with my ship. crazy
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try this out then......i was the examius class......and i was being pulled into the omega draconis star...so i turned to face it and engaged the in system warp(KM 1.0) and i manually went around the star and as i cam to leave the manual orbit i cam out of warp and got flung so far that I shot straight through the borg tactical cube i was fighting and then warped to starbase 12....it was amazing.......my dog was next to me and it made the loudest explosion noise ever and woke him up. :funny :funny :funny
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The coolest thing to me happened the other day, i was testinga ENT era Klingon D-2 ship in battle with the TOS akira, i was losing, and decided F*** it i'll Ram him! so i chased at him till i could line up for a Fast Ram, the Akira Tried to evade and i side swiped his Port Nacelle with my D-2's Head, suddenly i BOUNCED and went nuts and swirled in circles around and around, and port entire WING blew off, i figured i was done, but i saw the akira EXPLODE from my impact delayed, and finally i stopped swirling around and though i had one missing entire wing/nacells, i LIVED!!! Mua haha !!
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holy crud on a popcicle stick.......that blooming funny.......before my charger broke and my laptop ran out of power(whaaa....i ran out of juice and the charger broke) i was playing as a type 11 shuttle...on it cockpit i walked into my panel(walkfx..km1.0) and i saw brex and saffi sitting there with no bottom jaws........then i decided to go look out the windows and walked too far so i was stuck in that part of the model even when i was destroyed.....so i played as the ship...i tried to capture an escape pod.....and well....i got fulng into a star and then bc crashed because i started to run low on juice....hence:"before my charger broke and my laptop ran out of power(whaaa....i ran out of juice and the charger broke)"