Zombie Posted September 12, 2007 Report Share Posted September 12, 2007 There is nothing stopping us from doing so (privately of course). - Zombie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NKF Posted September 13, 2007 Report Share Posted September 13, 2007 Heh, every so often I go pass a custom embroidery shop with custom prints or images on caps, shirts, anything (like Autobot symbols to names of favourite sports teams, bands, etc), I often get this urge to go in and then handing over a T-shirt and asking for a red rectangle (with white outline) on one sleeve and a cyan rectangle (white outline) on the other, and then both overlapping on the right pocket - ala the UFO basic jumpsuit labelling. Though that's in the game, I don't think it's official X-Com symbolism. It is in my minds eye, but perhaps not to the corporate bigwigs. And I feel it (and TFTD's badge) doesn't get enough love - well, not as much as X-Com Apocalypse's gold and black X badge which appears to have become the official logo/brand for X-Com. - NKF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombie Posted September 13, 2007 Report Share Posted September 13, 2007 Though that's in the game, I don't think it's official X-Com symbolism. It is in my minds eye, but perhaps not to the corporate bigwigs. And I feel it (and TFTD's badge) doesn't get enough love - well, not as much as X-Com Apocalypse's gold and black badge which appears to have become the official logo/brand for X-Com.There's a good reason for that, Apoc's logo is better. Too bad it took them a few games to get a decent badge out of it, otherwise the first two games would be sufficiently represented. - Zombie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NKF Posted September 13, 2007 Report Share Posted September 13, 2007 UFO never truly had a badge of its own (well intro-wise), hence why I've always associate the jumpsuit badge with it very strongly. TFTD's wasn't bad, but you couldn't quite help but feel that it was encroaching on another particularly very popular piece of pop culture with a very similar badge. It just added two pie shapes to it. As for Apocalyse - wouldn't it make a great belt buckle? - NKF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomb Bloke Posted September 13, 2007 Report Share Posted September 13, 2007 There was the red X on the yellow circle logo. At least that's what I think it was... The thing they stuck on the SkyRanger, anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NKF Posted September 13, 2007 Report Share Posted September 13, 2007 Oh yes, there was too. The red > For some reason I seem to remember a triangle with an unclosed corner in a yellow circle for the Avenger. In reality the marking on the Avenger is just obscured - So my mind's just making stuff up thanks to the "A" in Avenger. - NKF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ki-tat Chung Posted September 13, 2007 Report Share Posted September 13, 2007 UFO: https://www.ufopaedia.org/images/1/13/Ufobadge.gifTFTD: https://www.ufopaedia.org/images/c/c7/TFTDBadge.gifApoc: https://www.ufopaedia.org/images/5/5d/ApocBadge.gif I seem to remember finding a hi-res image of the TFTD logo somewhere in the Apocalypse data files when I was digging around...as for the belt buckle, the standard X-Com uniform in Apoc does indeed have an "X" buckle...you only notice when you take off all that armor...and manage to ignore that ugly stock face... =p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombie Posted September 13, 2007 Report Share Posted September 13, 2007 I seem to remember finding a hi-res image of the TFTD logo somewhere in the Apocalypse data files when I was digging around...Well it isn't really high-res, but it is larger than anything in TFTD. You can find it in \TACDATA\XCOM.PCK - Zombie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ki-tat Chung Posted September 14, 2007 Report Share Posted September 14, 2007 LOL, correction, high-er res then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Sol Posted March 14, 2016 Report Share Posted March 14, 2016 Hello everyone! I am extremely sorry for necroing the thread but i've stumbled upon this thread from my google search when i was looking after that scammer.I just wanted to warn everyone as he may become active soon again.https://www.xcomufo.c...topic=242028156https://www.xcomufo.c...topic=242029355 This guy is STILL around, still SCAMMING PEOPLE. He even has a whole website about him. He is a "writer" now.https://www.nordurlan...om/the-author/Matthew AchesonStill ows me: Payment: $178.74 USD he scammed from me in 2010. He has new ebay account as well, currently unregistered again due to SCAMMING PEOPLE:https://feedback.ebay...430.m2531.l4585 BE WARNED! THIS GUY IS A SCAMMING PIECE OF HORSE $%^&!his current email is matthew.acheson@nordurlandes.com and his last paypal company id was www.CrypticHouse.com He is STILL selling x-com things on ebay. He will do new ebay account for sure soon. I never got my items from him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombie Posted March 15, 2016 Report Share Posted March 15, 2016 First of all, I edited your post to remove the unnecessary swearing. Don't know what happened between you and him (obviously there's money owed somewhere) and I can't comment on the scamming allegations. Here's what I can say: I purchased most of his X-COM/MicroProse collection back in 2009 or so. He was very friendly and service orientated. Everything was carefully packaged and combined to save on shipping. He answered every one of my messages and emails (which was quite a few) and went so far as to iron the t-shirts before sending them out. I got everything I purchased in the condition described. This was back when he was still with Skyranger Games. I did see he created a new eBay account and was selling the remainder of his X-COM items (IIRC a few strategy guides, some novels and a slug of shrinkwrapped copies of TFTD), although I never got around to contacting him. AFAIK, all of his X-COM items are sold now. Did you ever try to contact him? Or file a complaint with eBay? - Zombie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Sol Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 I still have all the emails between him and me, when he still had his scamrangergames.com up and running.The first parcel arrived fine and was a bunch of strategy guides including some x-com ones. However some of them were badly damaged (pages torn, holes) and he refused to do even partial refund. I will post pictures of these "collectible condition" guides later on. Then i won this -----------------------------------Purchase Details----------------------------------- Description: Lot of 15 X-COM UFO DEFENSE Novels (Diane Duane) , Item# 370367937355Qty: 1Unit Price: $6.00 USDTotal: $6.00 USD Description: Lot of 6 X-COM UFO DEFENSE Strategy Guides , Item# 370367928881Qty: 1Unit Price: $7.50 USDTotal: $7.50 USD Description: Lot of 10 X-COM TERROR FROM THE DEEP - Factory Sealed , Item# 370367921677Qty: 1Unit Price: $16.49 USDTotal: $16.49 USD Subtotal: $29.99 USDShipping and handling: $148.75 USDInsurance - not offered : ---- Total: $178.74 USD Payment: $178.74 USDCharge will appear on your credit card statement as "PAYPAL *SKYRANGERGA"Payment sent to: sales@skyrangergames.com================================= he clearly only interested in profit and was not interested in selling that stuff as cheap as i won it (i think). However he still decided to "pretend" he shipped it. Yet refused to provide and shipping and tracking details (YET tracking was provided for first order with the guides). I've been waiting for a few weeks, asked where was my package and got no response ever since. Nowhere. What kind of complaint can i file if it was 6 years ago? Of cause i can write to his current email adress, but judgjing from my experience most i will get would be ignorance and maybe some anger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Sol Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 here's all emails between him and me back in 2010 in one pdf file.Unfortunately i was too naive back then and waited till the end, i hoped a "big" seller and a x-com fan like him could not scam me. But damn i was wrong.... He just stopped replying at all and completely ignored me since thenGmail - Your Order.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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