Sean O'Connor's Games

Ah, my mistake, you can. You can't do it with the right mouse button any more, which is how I used to do it (in v3).

In the latest version you can't do that upgrade-and-drop thing, which makes the game quite a bit harder.

Ships could have a default missile setup, so you wouldn't have to select missiles unless you weren't happy with the normal ones.

The 'hit area' is definitely determined by the ship's contents and not its display size; you can create a ship with no triangles at all but you still get hit. I don't know if it's cost, weight or number of components that detemines the hit size, though.

Once you get to mission 100 or so it really doesn't get any more difficult ... okay, so your wingmen can have better ships, but really that just means they can launch more missiles into your arse .

... um, wrong thread .

Well, I'd say more a rationalisation. Because C++ felt the need to be backward compatible, and because it's object-oriented stuff was added later, it is a bit of a mess. C# kept the syntax and the basic ideas, but some things are quite different (like it being pure OO, like Java).

Heh, no it doesn't. That's cos it's a proper new language, not just C with some extra bits tacked on . For some reason everything about .Net has ended up being called Sharp; I guess C# started it, and they just thought it was an interesting name.

C# is the main language for .Net development. Syntactically it is similar to C or Java (lots of curly brackets and words like new and int). The main difference from C++ is that, like Java, there are no pointers and things are garbage-collected for you.

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I haven't ejected or hyperspaced for 50 missions at least. Once your ship is big enough, you can take an awful lot of hits before you feel like there could be trouble.

It would be cool, although I don't quite know how it would produce anything other than random squadrons. Would it spawn random objective craft as well? Imagine trying to defend a freighter with 5 enemy squadrons all over the map ...

I think so, yes.

Yes. File/Create a new team. It'll wipe your current ranking and everything and start afresh.

Hmm, I never had a great deal of luck with books, although if you want to have a go at C (not C++) I'd recommend the original and best The C Programming Language by Kernigan and Ritchie. For C#, there is a book by B. Gunnarson or someone like that which is really good. I've recently signed up at Gam...

Java is a good place to start. C and C++ are kind of hard, but hardcore programmers will tell you they let you write faster, smaller programs. C# is very good at what it does, similar to Java in language terms and has a good library, but there are some things you can't do (low level I/O, pointer tri...