I've read on the Interplay forum that if you pre-order the game, you'll get C++-libraries for creating your own missions on the Bonus CD (and the other contents of the CD are great as well: missions for Wrath of Khan, Kobayashi Maru and Balance of Terror). (Read on http://feedback.interplay.com/sfcommand/msg1/1585.html) Is there any other way the libraries could be made available when the game gets released? Online perhaps? (Cable modem rules Packaging it in for versions for other countries? I reckon there are a lot of people out there who can't preorder due to the lack of a creditcard and it really sounds awesome to be able to make your own missions!! I've also read a post on the Dynaverse campaigning system and it's looking better and cooler every day. I really can't wait. I haven't been this excited about a game since X-Wing. (De_script_ion Dynaverse at http://feedback.interplay.com/sfcommand/msg1/1328.html) Cheers, Johan

: Is there any other way the libraries could be made available when the : game gets released? Online perhaps? (Cable modem rules : Packaging it in for versions for other countries? I reckon there are a : lot of people out there who can't preorder due to the lack of a : creditcard and it really sounds awesome to be able to make your own : missions!! Possibly.  We know they will be available via pre-order on the bonus disc, but we also would like to make them available online. But no decision has been finalized. I suspect that there is a question of making the bonus disc not special enough if we release the _script_ing libraries. However, we're trying to convince the powers that be that there is lots of other stuff on the disc that will never be available otherwise. The bonus missions will _eventually_ be released.  But the pre-order people will get them 3 months or so before that happens. Everything else on the disc won't be released, with the possible exception of the _script_ing libraries. As soon as we get a firm decision, we'll make that information available. pax,

: Y'all have to have the final battle from the 6th movie. : I'm not a big Star Trek fan, but that Shakespeare quoting guy kicked : ass. Quoting Shakespeare is a one-way trip to cool villian-dom. Not planned for the box, but that would make a good one.  We can't have cloaked ships that fire, however. : What else will there be on the bonus disc? _script_ing libraries, bonus : missions, and... Behind the scenes stuff: concept art, music and design (includes the game soundtrack as .mp3s) interview movie other movies early PR material SFB stuff (like SSDs of the special SFC-only ships) a copy of SFBOnline screenshots up the kazoo and anything else I can get my hands on... : What's the inside skinny on Fallout 3? Very, very inside. pax,

: ass. Quoting Shakespeare is a one-way trip to cool villian-dom. Not planned for the box, but that would make a good one.  We can't have cloaked ships that fire, however. Could you have a ship that can de-cloak and cloak rapidly?

Could you have a ship that can de-cloak and cloak rapidly? Ugh, that would be Bad(tm). Rapid cloaking/de-cloaking would throw off the very delicate balance between ships/races, and give cloaking ships a huge advantage over other ships.