Extralucas Posted October 3, 2003 Report Share Posted October 3, 2003 Well, do ya? Personally, I wouldn't like to become one. Well you get 20k each month, but probably it's mostly boring (few missions during entire month) and heck risky. Not worth of it. -_- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl. Facehugger Posted October 3, 2003 Report Share Posted October 3, 2003 I would join, it would be the only way to beat my xenophobia, by frying a few greys! And Mutons! And anything else I can think of! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Squad Posted October 3, 2003 Report Share Posted October 3, 2003 I would join. It sure would be more exiting that my life is now. And imagine that X-com Uniform. It would be great babe magnet . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j'ordos Posted October 3, 2003 Report Share Posted October 3, 2003 [quote name='Raven Squad' date='Oct 4 2003, 12:46 AM']I would join. It sure would be more exiting that my life is now. And imagine that X-com Uniform. It would be great babe magnet .[/quote] I'd think it's likely to be a plasma magnet too, but hey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl. Facehugger Posted October 3, 2003 Report Share Posted October 3, 2003 Well, being human is being a plasma magnet, so that wouldn't matter too much! And besides, the persuit of females is more important than risking one's life to save his planet anyway! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SupSuper Posted October 3, 2003 Report Share Posted October 3, 2003 for sure, it would be much more exciting than my current life, and you make quite a bundle still, in real life you don't have Load and Save buttons so it would be dangerous. also, it would be real time which is even more dangerous. which makes it even cooler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[stewart] Posted October 4, 2003 Report Share Posted October 4, 2003 Average combat life of, what?, 1.3 seconds? Yeah, right! That's why the armies of the world are full of 18-year-olds; they're stupid enough to think that's cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apocca Posted October 4, 2003 Report Share Posted October 4, 2003 [quote name='stewart' date='Oct 3 2003, 11:28 PM']Average combat life of, what?, 1.3 seconds? Yeah, right! That's why the armies of the world are full of 18-year-olds; they're stupid enough to think that's cool![/quote] Not if you're going to be one of the scientists or engineers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SupSuper Posted October 4, 2003 Report Share Posted October 4, 2003 [quote name='Apocca' date='Oct 4 2003, 05:30 AM'][quote name='stewart' date='Oct 3 2003, 11:28 PM'] Average combat life of, what?, 1.3 seconds? Yeah, right! That's why the armies of the world are full of 18-year-olds; they're stupid enough to think that's cool![/quote] Not if you're going to be one of the scientists or engineers [/quote] when the base is raided, always remember the safety rule #1: "When everything else fails, hide in the toilets." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl. Facehugger Posted October 4, 2003 Report Share Posted October 4, 2003 Well, I would love to be part of xcom, especially if it is realtime. Then the only thing that could touch me are blaster bombs, and those chryssalid monsters. Of course, if you were a civie you would be even worse off. No weapon, forced to being stupid, the list goes on... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted November 11, 2003 Report Share Posted November 11, 2003 I may be slightly gone in the head but not that much Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl. Facehugger Posted November 11, 2003 Report Share Posted November 11, 2003 Thats whats wrong with the youth of today! They don't want to sign up and defend their country! Damn hippies! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevelyan Posted November 11, 2003 Report Share Posted November 11, 2003 I would give my life to preserve the human race... and at least i would hit something... DAMN ROOKIES!!! I'll be sure to blast my own face off when i get mind controled to, to save my buddies TUs :-p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikker Posted November 13, 2003 Report Share Posted November 13, 2003 i would also join x-com/x-corps. It would be nice to acturly be able to shoot back. And i would be able to meet commander tommy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordT Posted November 13, 2003 Report Share Posted November 13, 2003 [quote name='mikker' date='Nov 13 2003, 03:35 PM']And i would be able to meet commander tommy![/quote] How could you know that I will be a commander? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny Posted November 13, 2003 Report Share Posted November 13, 2003 Too dangerous I think. But yeah. :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark0 Posted November 13, 2003 Report Share Posted November 13, 2003 I wouldnt say no if its to defend the country. join in as a rookie and having alot of chances to gt killed or MCed... indeed its dangerous but will see some action, maybe go crazy after the war Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j'ordos Posted November 13, 2003 Report Share Posted November 13, 2003 Or as Warbucket puts it: 'We get to play around with tons of cool stuff and blow things up' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted November 13, 2003 Report Share Posted November 13, 2003 Well if you put it that way maybe it would be pretty cool to join up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mustang Posted November 17, 2003 Report Share Posted November 17, 2003 I'm like Warbucket, I get some cool, big guns and get to blow stuff up.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SupSuper Posted November 17, 2003 Report Share Posted November 17, 2003 (edited) and don't have to pay for the damage i just hope people don't get too used to the "save civilians? what for?" rule Edited November 17, 2003 by SupSuper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted November 18, 2003 Report Share Posted November 18, 2003 You get given a weapon and your expected to use it. What more could you ask for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j'ordos Posted November 18, 2003 Report Share Posted November 18, 2003 I call BB Launcher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted November 18, 2003 Report Share Posted November 18, 2003 Shotgun Sniper -_- ( I'm one of the best around) Tought by Vassili Zaitsev Himself :laser: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl. Facehugger Posted November 19, 2003 Report Share Posted November 19, 2003 Is it even possible to snipe with a shotgun? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted November 19, 2003 Report Share Posted November 19, 2003 -_- Shotgun is a figure of speech used among my comunity. It mearly means that I call being the sniper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SupSuper Posted November 19, 2003 Report Share Posted November 19, 2003 i would be everything but a rookie. i can really see the commander coming over and saying: - Rookie Albano, grab those 2 primed grenades and move into that alien base. - But sir, isn't that suicide? - Nonsense! You'll do a great thing for your country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X-Clu-Zif Posted November 19, 2003 Report Share Posted November 19, 2003 I get payed more in my current job, but then again in 1999 I got payed less than that... And umm yeah well my current job is not really that risky, so maybe I should just stick with that, and hunt aliens on the computer where I can load if anyone important die... (not that I do that of course...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RustedSoul Posted November 19, 2003 Report Share Posted November 19, 2003 heck i would, as long as the 20k a month is tax free & in US $$ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SupSuper Posted November 19, 2003 Report Share Posted November 19, 2003 if the 20k were ? (euros) i'd be damn rich with just a month's pay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl. Facehugger Posted November 19, 2003 Report Share Posted November 19, 2003 I would love to be an xcom operative stationed in america. Or england because those are the only two countries which predominatly speak my language! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j'ordos Posted November 19, 2003 Report Share Posted November 19, 2003 What? You don't want to learn new languages? Expand your horizon? What about Spanish? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl. Facehugger Posted November 20, 2003 Report Share Posted November 20, 2003 Very funny... I suppose I could be stationed in a spanish speaking country too, but I would perfer an english speaking one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SupSuper Posted November 20, 2003 Report Share Posted November 20, 2003 (my spanish isn't very good) - Hola, Facehugger. Es el nuevo recruta? - Si. - Mui bien. Pega en duas granadas e corre en direccion de los aliens. - Ahhh, whatever. :: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robo Dojo 58 Posted November 24, 2003 Report Share Posted November 24, 2003 I'd join X-COM/X-Corps, but the idea of carrying two primed high explosives and running through a UFO doesn't appeal to me. :whatwhat: Sure, it'd be quick, and even glorious to some, but I'd rather run across a field toward a chrysallid with nothing but a cattle prod. Take *ZAP* THAT, *ZAP* you delicious monster! *ZAP* Take... URK... uh... *drool* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted December 5, 2003 Report Share Posted December 5, 2003 (edited) [quote]I'd join X-COM/X-Corps, but the idea of carrying two primed high explosives and running through a UFO doesn't appeal to me. Sure, it'd be quick, and even glorious to some, but I'd rather run across a field toward a chrysallid with nothing but a cattle prod. Take *ZAP* THAT, *ZAP* you delicious monster! *ZAP* Take... URK... uh... *drool*[/quote] chrysallid hits you over head with big rock. Starts riding you like a horse through the field with cattle prod up your nose giving you constant zaps. Edited December 5, 2003 by Raven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robo Dojo 58 Posted December 7, 2003 Report Share Posted December 7, 2003 [quote]chrysallid hits you over head with big rock. Starts riding you like a horse through the field with cattle prod up your nose giving you constant zaps.[/quote] I wish, I wish, I wore my standard issue C4 vest. :crying: That's a neat idea, though. Would Xenocide AI allow the aliens to humiliate X-Corps officers like that? Like, you're down to your last guy, then he's MC'ed and forced to beat himself to death? Snakemen riding on zombified X-Corps agents? Sectoids parading on a cyberdisc, bowling through the last few agents? I'd lose a few Skyrangers just to see some alien victory parades. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted December 8, 2003 Report Share Posted December 8, 2003 Yeah. it would be cool to see an Ethreal MC your whole squad and make them do the Can-Can across the screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centurion Posted August 10, 2004 Report Share Posted August 10, 2004 Why be an agent when you can be a scientist/technician? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x0563511 Posted August 10, 2004 Report Share Posted August 10, 2004 Because then your just an overpaid desk weenie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex the greater Posted August 10, 2004 Report Share Posted August 10, 2004 i'd join just to whare thoes cool brown jumpsuits (wait i think i have one of thoes arount the house ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centurion Posted August 11, 2004 Report Share Posted August 11, 2004 [quote name='x0563511' date='Aug 11 2004, 12:47 AM']Because then your just an overpaid desk weenie. [right][post="90147"]<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/post][/right][/quote] Yes, but a LIVING overpaid desk weenie! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex the greater Posted August 11, 2004 Report Share Posted August 11, 2004 [quote name='centurion' date='Aug 11 2004, 04:17 AM'][quote name='x0563511' date='Aug 11 2004, 12:47 AM']Because then your just an overpaid desk weenie. [right][post="90147"]<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/post][/right][/quote] Yes, but a LIVING overpaid desk weenie! [right][post="90189"]<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/post][/right] [/quote] and you get overpaid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centurion Posted August 11, 2004 Report Share Posted August 11, 2004 Oh, and just an afterthought: if it weren't for us fat lazy overpaid professionals, you heroic people would be stuck with the starting weaponry for the whole length of the conflict (in this case it wouldn't be terribly long). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x0563511 Posted August 11, 2004 Report Share Posted August 11, 2004 hmm, well... maybe id be one of the weapons techs... Testing out the new laser prototype could be fun... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex the greater Posted August 12, 2004 Report Share Posted August 12, 2004 not as fun as wharing a brown jumpsuit but i couldint join X-corps cause i'd have to join the normal army first and rise up thro the ranks to become a supper eleate comando (and than whan i join X-corps i have to start back at the boutom of the ladder) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Blehm 98] Posted August 15, 2004 Report Share Posted August 15, 2004 well, usually, they pick some of the best soldiers, and if xcom needs soldiers, it drafts them from the stockpile of extra soldiers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex the greater Posted August 15, 2004 Report Share Posted August 15, 2004 no it drafts them from the navy seals, the SAS, and all thoes outher eleate teams. rookie means you have no experince fighting aliens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paladin Posted August 19, 2004 Report Share Posted August 19, 2004 [quote name='stewart' date='Oct 4 2003, 12:28 AM']Average combat life of, what?, 1.3 seconds? Yeah, right! That's why the armies of the world are full of 18-year-olds; they're stupid enough to think that's cool! [right][post="47203"]<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/post][/right][/quote] I totally agree, I'd prefer to be a Scientist/engineer in XCOM, much more in my line of work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsereve Posted August 21, 2004 Report Share Posted August 21, 2004 (edited) It depends on four things. One: what is the difficulty level? Two: does my commander have Util? Three: what are my commander's ethics on reloading? Four: do I get Commander Tommy's autograph? Edited August 21, 2004 by Tsereve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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