Topic: Newbie Question about OP missions (Read 2369 times)

arktiem · « **on:** June 06, 2003, 03:03:35 pm »

Hello everyone!!

I am a newcomer to the fourm (but an old player of SFC 1 & 2) and have a question about Orion Pirates (which I finally picked up on sale). I do ask that you PLEASE forgive me if this has been asked already. Oh, and if the quality of the stupidity of the question offends anyone I do apologize, but I could not find the answer in searching around the WWW.

According to the Interplay site, the product box and all the reviews I read of the game there are supposed to be "26 Historical Star Trek battles and three bonus missions based on the "A Piece of the Action" TV episode." According to the Interplay site, these 26 missions are Skirmishes, but when I access the Skirmish area I only get 5 missions to choose from. Am I getting it wrong (the thickness of my skull is in direct inverse proportion to any and all information being able to be absorbed ya know)?. Do they appear as missions in Campaigns or should they be playable Skirmishes? Also, where are the "A Piece of the Action" bonus missions?

I would be ever grateful for any and all assistance.

Most sincerely,
arktiem

FireSoul · « **Reply #1 on:** June 06, 2003, 03:13:25 pm »

Look at my site. Maybe you'll find the things you want for OP.. and a LOT more:

http://klingon.stasis.ca/sources_and_utils/

I can't call myself authoritive on the matter, but I do have a lot of tihngs to enhance SFC:OP.

-- Luc

3dot14 · « **Reply #2 on:** June 06, 2003, 04:45:31 pm »

1.) I don't think 26 means the skirmish missions... I think it means there are 26 campaign missions to (randomly) choose from. (but I am not positive either.)

2.) FYI, some skirmish missions are available only to specific races. (when cycling through the race selections, you are likely to find more)

3.) Firesoul's site is the OP source. You are bound to whatever you want, as long as it's OP.
Try look for "Bonus.exe" on there IIRC.

Holocat · « **Reply #3 on:** June 07, 2003, 11:18:50 am »

The piece of the action skirmish missions are in some sort of bounus pack that was released shortly after OP's release; You'll have to download and install the bonus pack. I'm pretty sure the missions based on the monsterously large ganster ship was less than 26, more like 4 or something.

There are a series of pirate Dynaverse2 campaign missions which might total to 26, but as I play fed rather than pirate I don't know the score on that one.

The origional EAW missions weren't included on OP, but Nuclearwessels I hear made a conversion so that they could be played on OP.

I'm pretty sure that Firesoul's got a link to Nuclearwessel's missionpacks and the EAW missionpack conversions, but i'm not sure if Firesoul's got the bonus skirmish packs (the Ganster Monster Ship pack). It'd be nice if he linked to, as I can't find a working link of the bonus fed skirmish packs myself.

FIresoul also made an extensive shiplist addition, OP+, as you've no doubt seen chatted about on the forums by now. Get it, it's fun.

Meaw,

Holocat.

Edit: Err, whoops, found that 'bonus.exe' on firesoul's site. I should get it too, fighting the monster ganster ship's quite... amusing.

FireSoul · « **Reply #4 on:** June 07, 2003, 11:44:34 am »

Quote:

The origional EAW missions weren't included on OP, but Nuclearwessels I hear made a conversion so that they could be played on OP.

I did that.
EAW Campaigns recompiled for OP
EAW Bonus Missions (Sulu) recompiled for OP (voiceless)

Quote:

I'm pretty sure that Firesoul's got a link to Nuclearwessel's missionpacks and the EAW missionpack conversions, but i'm not sure if Firesoul's got the bonus skirmish packs (the Ganster Monster Ship pack). It'd be nice if he linked to, as I can't find a working link of the bonus fed skirmish packs myself.

I think these are it:
Bonus.exe

Quote:

FIresoul also made an extensive shiplist addition, OP+, as you've no doubt seen chatted about on the forums by now. Get it, it's fun.

Homepage for that: http://klingon.stasis.ca/OP_plusrefit/

There's another thing that I took over at some point and really worked on my ass off to improve: the CoopAce script. .. originally put together by MagnumMan, I took over the project and added material to it until I ran out of features to add. It's quite stable, and can be quite challenging. The installer (by MagnumMan) is good for both EAW and OP.
http://www.khoromag.org/taldren/scripts/coop-ace-3.0.1.exe

hm.. let's see..
CoopAce. check.
ShipList. check.
Recompiled EAW missions. check.

All you're missing are the custom OP Campaign Missions by NuclearWessels, and my Custom Campaign files which mix the NW Custom Missions to the EAW recompiled campaign missions. These, with my shiplist, have given me the best single-player good-time playing on SFC ever.

-- Luc

arktiem · « **Reply #5 on:** June 25, 2003, 02:53:15 pm »

Hey everyone!!

Thank you SO much for all the help. I am sorry for taking so long to reply to you all, but both me and my computer took a little ill. But, I'm back once again!

I still have had problems with getting things to work right, so I finally gave up on this lost cause. When I tried to install the bonus missions (which are claimed to be included with the program right on the box and on the jewel case) that you all told me about, I would gain the three "Piece of the Action" skirmishes but then all the others disappeared from existence! I had to reinstall everything then tried making a backup of the scripts folder. I installed the bonus missions and then copied back the compressed zip folder. That seemed to work okay, but caused some freaky stability problems, so I had to reinstall again. I contacted Interplay's support service. This was the first of two replies I got from them:

"Check under the historic skirmish. I believe they are under there. "

Well... I had to break it to them that there is NO historic skirmish listed and NO historic skirmish folder or file. My next reply was this:

"The extra mission were only on a bonus CD you can get it here:

bonus.exe
http://klingon.stasis.ca/sources_and_utils/

I think that they added all the missions, skirmish plus the 12 campaign ones to get 26."

I'm sorry... but that makes the packaging and ads very, very false. They state the bonus stuff comes with what you purchase and it doesn't. And with the difficulties I have had getting them to work... Not to mention they never really answered my initial question as to why is is listed as included when they knew very well it wasn't Oh well... I just wanted to thank you for all your help! I will be looking over the goodies you recommended and get to downloading!

Hailing frequencies closed.
End tranmission.

Arktiem

FireSoul · « **Reply #7 on:** June 25, 2003, 04:22:14 pm »

Let me be clear:
.. that site, http://klingon.stasis.ca/ , is MY site, and is independant from Interplay or/and Taldren.

I have and own the bonus CD, here. It has "Bonus CD" written on it. I made the installer available for download since the sources have been made available, and someone reminded me of these missions. Look for a separate CD, or use the downloaded installer, but please do not affiliate my site with false advertising.

-- Luc
FireSoul

arktiem · « **Reply #8 on:** June 06, 2003, 03:03:35 pm »

Hello everyone!!

I am a newcomer to the fourm (but an old player of SFC 1 & 2) and have a question about Orion Pirates (which I finally picked up on sale). I do ask that you PLEASE forgive me if this has been asked already. Oh, and if the quality of the stupidity of the question offends anyone I do apologize, but I could not find the answer in searching around the WWW.

According to the Interplay site, the product box and all the reviews I read of the game there are supposed to be "26 Historical Star Trek battles and three bonus missions based on the "A Piece of the Action" TV episode." According to the Interplay site, these 26 missions are Skirmishes, but when I access the Skirmish area I only get 5 missions to choose from. Am I getting it wrong (the thickness of my skull is in direct inverse proportion to any and all information being able to be absorbed ya know)?. Do they appear as missions in Campaigns or should they be playable Skirmishes? Also, where are the "A Piece of the Action" bonus missions?

I would be ever grateful for any and all assistance.

Most sincerely,
arktiem

FireSoul · « **Reply #9 on:** June 06, 2003, 03:13:25 pm »

Look at my site. Maybe you'll find the things you want for OP.. and a LOT more:

http://klingon.stasis.ca/sources_and_utils/

I can't call myself authoritive on the matter, but I do have a lot of tihngs to enhance SFC:OP.

-- Luc

3dot14 · « **Reply #10 on:** June 06, 2003, 04:45:31 pm »

1.) I don't think 26 means the skirmish missions... I think it means there are 26 campaign missions to (randomly) choose from. (but I am not positive either.)

2.) FYI, some skirmish missions are available only to specific races. (when cycling through the race selections, you are likely to find more)

3.) Firesoul's site is the OP source. You are bound to whatever you want, as long as it's OP.
Try look for "Bonus.exe" on there IIRC.

Holocat · « **Reply #11 on:** June 07, 2003, 11:18:50 am »

The piece of the action skirmish missions are in some sort of bounus pack that was released shortly after OP's release; You'll have to download and install the bonus pack. I'm pretty sure the missions based on the monsterously large ganster ship was less than 26, more like 4 or something.

There are a series of pirate Dynaverse2 campaign missions which might total to 26, but as I play fed rather than pirate I don't know the score on that one.

The origional EAW missions weren't included on OP, but Nuclearwessels I hear made a conversion so that they could be played on OP.

I'm pretty sure that Firesoul's got a link to Nuclearwessel's missionpacks and the EAW missionpack conversions, but i'm not sure if Firesoul's got the bonus skirmish packs (the Ganster Monster Ship pack). It'd be nice if he linked to, as I can't find a working link of the bonus fed skirmish packs myself.

FIresoul also made an extensive shiplist addition, OP+, as you've no doubt seen chatted about on the forums by now. Get it, it's fun.

Meaw,

Holocat.

Edit: Err, whoops, found that 'bonus.exe' on firesoul's site. I should get it too, fighting the monster ganster ship's quite... amusing.

arktiem · « **Reply #13 on:** June 25, 2003, 02:53:15 pm »

Hey everyone!!

Thank you SO much for all the help. I am sorry for taking so long to reply to you all, but both me and my computer took a little ill. But, I'm back once again!

I still have had problems with getting things to work right, so I finally gave up on this lost cause. When I tried to install the bonus missions (which are claimed to be included with the program right on the box and on the jewel case) that you all told me about, I would gain the three "Piece of the Action" skirmishes but then all the others disappeared from existence! I had to reinstall everything then tried making a backup of the scripts folder. I installed the bonus missions and then copied back the compressed zip folder. That seemed to work okay, but caused some freaky stability problems, so I had to reinstall again. I contacted Interplay's support service. This was the first of two replies I got from them:

"Check under the historic skirmish. I believe they are under there. "

Well... I had to break it to them that there is NO historic skirmish listed and NO historic skirmish folder or file. My next reply was this:

"The extra mission were only on a bonus CD you can get it here:

bonus.exe
http://klingon.stasis.ca/sources_and_utils/

I think that they added all the missions, skirmish plus the 12 campaign ones to get 26."

I'm sorry... but that makes the packaging and ads very, very false. They state the bonus stuff comes with what you purchase and it doesn't. And with the difficulties I have had getting them to work... Not to mention they never really answered my initial question as to why is is listed as included when they knew very well it wasn't Oh well... I just wanted to thank you for all your help! I will be looking over the goodies you recommended and get to downloading!

Hailing frequencies closed.
End tranmission.

Arktiem

FireSoul · « **Reply #15 on:** June 25, 2003, 04:22:14 pm »

Let me be clear:
.. that site, http://klingon.stasis.ca/ , is MY site, and is independant from Interplay or/and Taldren.

I have and own the bonus CD, here. It has "Bonus CD" written on it. I made the installer available for download since the sources have been made available, and someone reminded me of these missions. Look for a separate CD, or use the downloaded installer, but please do not affiliate my site with false advertising.

-- Luc
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