Talk:Carrier Command

Contradiction

In "Strategy" mode, each side starts with one island, while the rest are free. The two carriers each start at their respective home island, and the two home islands are chosen to be almost as distant as possible from one another. The enemy carrier, however, already has several islands under its control and therefore has an advantage.

This paragraph contradicts itself. Does the enemy only have one island or does it have several? JIP | Talk 15:25, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

You're right; there was confusion. All fixed now. Preacherdoc 20:53, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Enemy carrier respawn

"If the player manages to destroy the enemy carrier, the game is considered to be won. However, the player is then offered the opportunity to recapture all of the remaining enemy islands in the absence of the enemy carrier."

I think you'll find that, if you take too long to assimilate Nemesis, the Enemy Carrier is respawned. So the game isn't won at all. I can't remember how long it takes, but I know that I nearly went into shock when islands began to be taken again. It is therefore suggested that one takes the quickest route to Nemesis and make it friendly. mcnaugha 19:44, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

There's no mention of that in the manual and contradicts my experience. Probably had around ten hours gameplay between destroying the enemy carrier to taking Nemesis. On a similar vein I have noticed that it is possible to neutralise the Omega without destroying it. Since it will typically fail to take a defence island, if it starts attacking a sequence of them and simultaneously you take the nearby hostile islands it has nowhere to resupply from. Eventually you don't hear anything more from it - presumably it is stranded in the ocean somewhere out of fuel. CrispMuncher (talk) 21:30, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

I remember writing a hack to give the carrier infinite fuel, then sailing off the map for several hours, just to see if anything was out there. This was after killing the enemy carrier but before capturing the enemy islands. The carrier did not respawn. 2fort5r (talk) 01:22, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Spelling

The article needs to adopt consistent spelling of the MANTAs and WALRUSes. All capitals, or normal capitalisation? JIP | Talk 17:02, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Old comment I know, but in the user manual they are spelt out with an initial capital only. They are acronynms though. From the manual:

Manta = Multirole Aircraft for Nautical Tactical Assault

Walrus = Water And Land Roving Utility Shuttle

CrispMuncher (talk) 21:30, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Old comment I know, but it seems like good form to treat what are technically acronyms as nouns or proper names if they are known as the latter. Consider Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation systems. As such the article's spelling is perfectly fine. --Kizor 16:00, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Carrier Command: Gaea Mission announced

It's been announced today that Bohemia Interactive Studio and Black Element Software are in the development of making the official sequence for the original Carrier Command. [1]. More info at Games Convention 08 (GC08) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.202.208.245 (talk) 16:06, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

You mean sequel I presume. Zargulon (talk) 16:52, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Code

Was the source code for the various ports of this ever made public? Does it still even exist? I assume it was written in assembler and compiled with MASM or suchlike? 2fort5r (talk) 23:33, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

I have some floppy disks that contain it, but no floppy drive and the backup software (fastback) is no-where to be seen. I'm afraid that it's best to consider this code as lost. Ian (talk) 12:59, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

OK, after a 12 hour marathon session of fiddling with obsolete hardware, using GNU ddrescue to glean every reluctant sector, and VirtualBox to run fastback, I have the 68000 source in my hands. I'll now tackle the x86 version and also try and get agreement to make it public. --Ian (talk) 13:30, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Wow, you are seriously hardcore. Zargulon (talk) 14:13, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Commodore 64

If full 3D was possible for the Spectrum version why was it not possible on the Commodore 64? Is there some technical reason for this? Drutt (talk) 00:58, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

I believe the problem was that the C64's CPU only ran at 1 mhz, whereas the Z80 in the ZX Spectrum ran at 3.5 mhz. This might also explain why the contemporary 3D game Starglider 2 was ported for the ZX Spectrum but not the C64. In most other respects the C64 was technically superior. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 18:55, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Not a game guide

This is a very rare occurrence on the English Wikipedia, but now, an article that I myself started, about a computer game in the period where I was most active in gaming (from the middle 1980s to the middle 1990s), has got so detailed about the game itself rather than its impact on the world, that I feel part of this article is becoming a game guide. I don't mind the detailed descriptions about the game's setting and the objects under the player's control, and about how the game handles the carrier's internal workings, but the strategical and tactical guide on how to conquer islands and how to beat the enemy carrier seems to be too much. JIP | Talk 21:12, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

• This seems to finally have been addressed, over ten years later. JIP | Talk 14:19, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

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Island Names

Who were Lingard and Ursula named after? 2fort5r (talk) 17:28, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Source

• https://archive.org/details/edgeuk095/page/n81
• https://archive.org/details/GPPCSGVol3No4/page/n75/mode/2up

The Actual Game

There isn't any description of gameplay? At all?

I mean, for an article about a game, isn't that key? 2A00:23C7:3119:AD01:355E:5E4C:ABC3:B1DA (talk) 18:08, 29 December 2022 (UTC)