How quickly do you gain battle points? - Page 3

Tobias · 2003-01-29, 09:54 AM

Real life like? I drink like 20$ a bottle wine's (I think its foolish to spend more), heres some of the top of my head:
As for Chardonnay's Turning leaf is good, and its fairly cheap, Robert Mondavi is also good, bit more though, and Kendall Jackson is also good. Chardonnay's are white wines. Sutter Home and Berringer (sp?) white Zinffidal (again sp?) are excelent cheaper blush wines, and though I am presonaly not fond of red wine, i believe Blacksiche (sp?) is a good merlot.

Navaron · 2003-01-29, 10:37 AM

Wow, for a few bucks more and less, you can get "real" wines. I don't mean the stuff that's mass produced for grocery stores and walmarts, but good wines.
There has been a major overproduction in American wines and it has flooded the market. The American wines are far infererior to Australian and Italian wines, however America is one of their most important markets. So to compensate, they have dropped prices drastictaly in the past 3 years.

You can get an amazing array of quality Italian wines from the northern provinces for pennies on the dollar. Go to you local winery, or fine alchohol distributer, and ask for a Lefant chart for the past few years. He should definately have one, and it will show you the degradation of value for the same year wines over time.

For example, you can get a bottle of Moscato D'asti in an average year - 2002, but for 7 dollars more you can get the same wine in a great yeat 2000. It's a light white wine, with just enough fruitiness to add to the spectrum of flavor - not detract from it. Great stuff and it runs about 18 dollars a .750 liter bottle.

Here's good rule of thumb, if it comes in jug, or with little wooden wrap, DON'T BUY IT.

Lexington_Steele · 2003-01-29, 03:37 PM

Originally posted by {BOHICA}Navaron
Wow, for a few bucks more and less, you can get "real" wines. I don't mean the stuff that's mass produced for grocery stores and walmarts, but good wines.
There has been a major overproduction in American wines and it has flooded the market. The American wines are far infererior to Australian and Italian wines, however America is one of their most important markets. So to compensate, they have dropped prices drastictaly in the past 3 years.

Here's good rule of thumb, if it comes in jug, or with little wooden wrap, DON'T BUY IT.

I would not say that American wines are inferior, they are just different. That is akin to saying American Microbeers are worse than imports. They are not worse, they just have a different flavor philosophy (they like to go extra heavy on the tannins). As far as American wines you probably don't want something older than two years anyways (also having to do with going heavy on the tannins).

BTW isn't it not Chianti unless it is in a little woodden basket?

NapalmEnima · 2003-01-29, 05:36 PM

Originally posted by {BOHICA}Navaron
Cap bps are shared among the squad. If you want more, you'd better get off your ass and out of that plane.

I'm pretty sure you're wrong.

BEP are given to everyone in the squad (so long as they're relatively close by... no hard distance has been mentioned).

If you're on your own, and you kill a guy, you get X BEP (I've seen 170 or so in the screen shots).

If you're in a squad, and you kill a guy, everyone in that squad gets 170 BEP.

Lemme say that again, because it's CRITICAL: EVERYONE IN YOUR SQUAD GETS THE SAME BEP.

There's no BEP reason to solo. To level up faster, get in a 10-man squad and commence ta killin'.

And BEP (and CEP) are also given across platoons... so being involved in anything less than a 30-man blood-thirsty horde-o-death is cutting in on your BEP.

Kinda sounds like I'm off my rocker? Lemme point you to my sources:

GAH! Can't find it... SJ recently announced that the platoon features had been added. The way he described it lead me to believe that CEP and BEP were shared in a more general way, rather than just for capping the base.

And if you look at this screen shot, (sheesh, had to really hunt for one) http://planetside-universe.com/media...d=37&img_id=11 you'll see that someone else killed TRaced, but the player (NotYourBitch) got 120 BEP for it.