Sean O'Connor's Games

slow connection. ignore the double post.

Describe any awesome strokes of luck, feats of skill, or crushing defeats of your CM career. For instance: Earlier today, i was in a Whirlwind on a destroy Starbase mission. My wingmen were all dead and I had spent all my missiles taking out enemy fighters . I flew into the middle of the turret ring...

I've now started going for the highest GoldCross% I can get, which I find a lot more entertaining than just trying to live forever. It basically means having to fly really cheap, attack-oriented ships with few wingmen (rather than the best ships I can afford). Can you get Gold Crosses if you fail a...

how is it that a ship with a tighter turn radius than, say, an orik still manage to get hit by one if fired from behind?

The wing commander isn't always a high value target. Sometimes I take out ships that I personally would never select as the lead ship, and all of a sudden they're all hyperspacing away. I've noticed that. Just a few minutes ago, I destroyed a Whirlwind, and his Raven and Eagle wingmates attempted t...

Skragarak wrote:Well I know that missiles often completely disappear in very large battles (100+ ships), perhaps the bug is related to this.

how often?

by this past year, i mean 2009.

When you're in large dogfights with many different opponents, which strategy is more advantageous/successful? 1) being cautious and taking shots at any opponent who gets in your line of fire so as to survive longer/reduce damage, or 2) being aggressive and hunting down individual ships so as to try ...

sometimes when i fire a missile(s), it travels much faster than normally and seems to "skip." There was one instance where i fired an orik directly at a static fuel depot, and it glitched like that and the missile traveled straight through the depot without exploding. anyone know why this is/how to ...