Trivia 3 Week 4

Here's Week 4 of the CIC/agwc Trivia game! Check your old scores here. Good luck!

Welcome to Game Three, Week Four Trivia. We play each week. Every Monday two main questions and one bonus question are posted to alt.games.wing-commander and listed at the CIC. Please email answers to CReid1701@aol.com or ChrisReid@wcnews.com. Be sure to include a name you would like to be known under for the Scoreboard that will be up soon. Have your answers in *before* this coming Sunday (November 26, 2000) to ensure your answers are recorded. Answers submitted early may be returned and you may be able to fix incorrect answers, time permitting. Main questions answered correctly are good for 5 points, bonuses good for 3.

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Answers to Questions from Week 3 (starting November 13, 2000):

Question 5: Where is a place the Morningstar Heavy Fighter was tested?
Answer: Canewdon System and Ayer's Rock were good popular answers.

Question 6: Where is a place the Excalibur Heavy Fighter was tested?
Answer: Kentari and Jupiter were good popular answers.

Bonus 3: Where is a place the Wraith Medium Fighter was tested?
Answer: The most common answer was the Terran Confederation Space Naval Academy Simulator.

Answers should have ranged from specific points in space, planets or simulated locations.

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New Questions for Week 4 (starting November 20, 2000):

Question 7: What is a relatively unique object in the Sol System that has a major effect on jump points in the Ulysses Corridor?

Question 8: What is a relatively unique object in the Enigma Sector that has a major effect on jump points throughout the sector?

Bonus 4: What is a specific object in the Vega Sector that can have a major effect on jump points in the Ariel and Caliban Systems?

"Object" is a loosely defined term in these questions. We're looking for specific names for each object.

Submissions are due by November 26, 2000.

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Please email answers to ChrisReid@wcnews.com and do not post directly to the Newsgroup. Thanks,

Hades on DVD

CIC staff member Cpl Hades posted some brilliant observations on oddities surrounding the Wing Commander IV DVD to alt.games.wing-commander. Submitted, for your approval...

So what did I notice? Well a few things... for instance, while most screens are the full width of the screen and in "letterbox" format, odd bits of scenes (such as the start of SC_3370A.VOB) aren't the full width of the screen. Whereas odd bits of other scenes (I only actually noticed this in SC_2490A.VOB) were completely full screen. Would have been nice if the whole disk was full screen like that, but I guess we'll make do with like 10 seconds of full-screenness :) Oh, and some scenes just don't have any sound (SC_2470C.VOB among others)

Anyone remember the introduction to the Speradon missions where you see the inside of the shipyard and it's making Bearcats? Well it isn't in WCIV DVD. Oh well.

Also there's some odd text on the screen during at least one briefing. LOAF says that it was included in the unofficial hintbooks as "Border Worlds poetry", but since I don't have those hintbooks, I'll just paste what I could read of it here:

"...down the the spiralling drains of desire drowning dying to breathe your air before the darkness settles in. Ahh. if I could wake next to the golden green pools of your eyes in the liquid hazel dreams of my imagination someday in the distant near future you ????? return to me in my dream once..."

Plug It In, Plug It In

Hi there,

I might need some plugins for my movie: Final Conflict. If you could help it would be great. I could use the following plugins for 3DStudio Max 3 !!!

- space effects like nebula or anything that could improve the environment and let space looking better...
- plugins for light effects (for laser shots and engines)
- plugins for any kind of explosion (particle explosion, ...)
- any plugins for effects with video post
- any good looking effects for space movies
- effects for comet and asteroids
- effects for damaging ships (for example when an asteroid collides with a ship)

Thank you for your support !!!

Best Regards,

Alexander Grober

In the Zone

In an effort to promote fan made Wing Commander projects, we are now sharing our Wing Commander Editing Chat Zone with the Wing Commander Development Center! Hopefully, we can make it a world-class forum for helping the fans keep the Wing Commander Universe alive!