Why bother? Even if you could give perfect protection to the Steam files, it would be trivial for those with the DVD to post copies. The same is true for region encoding: it's an annoyance for legitimate users, and no obstacle at all for the pirates because the ways to break the encoding have been public domain knowledge for years.

By the way, will the pack also be available in Europe?

Looking forward to hear from people who bought it with their Specs and system interface to see if FC is not flickering anymore

I really hope so....!!!!!!

As far as the DVD goes, if it is the same as the one that was sold separately by BFC then it is Region Free (as are all Documentaries I believe). At least I had no problem at all running the DVD in my DVD Player (Europe). Unfortunatly I can't take a look at it right now, but once I'm back home I'll check, unless someone else is faster.

Cheers
OS

Appears to be Region-free... :up:

Player Information:
Player Region Code: Not Specified
Current Drive: E:
Title Region Code: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Thanks!

Will this be only directly sold via web ordering or will any of the major retailers North America or Europe see this on their shelves?

Don't worry about this package doing well, if there's money in my account, you got a copy purchased here.

Just curious.


Later,

Havoc.

Well, I have to say, after my initial sceptisism, this pack seems an excellent bargain and something not to miss. 19.99 is a good price for all that..:up:

Iam glad the dvd is multi-region.A price of $19.99 is quoted,what will the price be for shipping to Europe?I am certainly going to order it!:D

Oh, and I almost forgot. FC now has mouse support in the 3D window (similar to SC and DW) so you can easily pan and rotate the view to watch the aircraft taking off from the carrier, follow a missile into its target, etc. without having to use CTRL+ArrowKeys...

Small feature, but the game needed it BAAAADLY. :doh:

It will be available in stores (not sure which retailers yet) and on Steam (eventually).

However, it goes without saying that if you want to buy the boxed version, there's only one place you should buy it through and that's through The Subsim Store, of course. ;)

I'm always for supporting Admiral Neal Stevens, when possible. :up:

Will SUBSIM get a slice of the cost?
 

I want the box set and I would like to buy so it may be beneficial to SUBSIM as well as Sonalyst.
Do you want early orders for the box set?

Thank you,

Ron Banks MMCM(SS), USN(Ret):D

Late picking this up but why am I not surprised.

Any word when we can place an order on Subsim? My credit card is itchin' to go.

All the SCS community modders are crazy.

I was just wondering, some one brought this up on the sonalysts board as well but, have the stability issues with XP been solved (I mean besides the screen flicker) Regretfully I never got FC to run very well (no offence to sonalysts, FC is still probably my favorite war game) the first time I used it was on an old IBM 266mhz Pentium 2 which could BARELY run it, then I put it on my P4 1.6ghz and it ran better but still had some serious issues. Specifically I am talking about the way save files some time corrupt and the CTDs that usually happen about 15 or so minutes into the game. There was also this annoying thing that would happen when ever some one was fireing a missle. The Game would freeze and just keep repeating "Missile away, missile away, missile away" or what ever sound bite was playing. I can't wait to get this game and I will place an order ASAP (my copy of FC is rather beaten up as well) was just wondering about some of the issues that I encounterd. Just for further info I had a Nvidia Geforce 2 MX 400 64 meg card then. I heard that it ran better on ATIs but dunno for sure


Edit: way to go Sonalysts for getting these old classics up and running again

I can't wait to play Fleet Command. I tried the demo way back when and thought it was a great game but could never find a copy.

if I have one request of the sonalyst people, if it's not too much trouble and can be done in time, can you fix the demo for Fleet command too? People like to try demos before buying the game and it doesn't seem right that an improved version should be hampered by an out-of-date demo.

Also, you said you took out all the Jane's references. Will there still be some kind of reference guide so we know when to use the AIM-120 and when to use the AIM-9? DW only has a few missiles so you can keep track of them but Fleet command, even when I played just the demo, gave me the impression it was chock full of stuff. I hope we get at least something comparable to DW's reference guide but it's probably too late now to ask for that, I just hope you did it.

On a side note, I hope the mission editor for fleet command is easy to use. I heard we can export missions from some games to others, will a mission created in fleet command work in dangerous waters?

I personally can't wait to recreate everything from the War on Terror (can you say "campaign"?) to the current Israeli blockade of Lebanon (might be fun blowing up blockade runners).