Randy answered a few questions on the forum. He was ... inconclusive at best. Take a look:

Will there many cutscenes, if so can u tell me how many?

RL: both.

Did I say inconclusive? I meant to say he can beat Kosh, hands down, anytime. :)

PC Arena have a Mini-Preview up. I'm calling it Mini because it's small, but do not doubt it's quality. It has some great screenshots, so go ahead and check it out.

Marc made a post regarding the fighter capacaties of Capital Ships and B5. Here it is:

B5 can hold 28/42 a B5 squadron is 7 ships. Hyperion 6/6 -the standard EA squadron size is 6. Omega 12/2. Sharlin 15/30. G'Quon 24/48.

While replying to my inquiry about the Ship Preview Ken gave us some good news:

We have not forgotten about the updates!

thanks for your patience.

Ken Prugh informed us of PJL's approval of the alpha version from the physical point of view. Here is his post:

Actually, we just got done showing our demo to JPL (Jet
Propulsion Laboratories [part of NASA])for their comments.
They gave it a thumbs up! I am taking this as a sign that we
are on the right track. We still have a lot of tweaking to do
though.

If you want to check it out, we will have a large presence at
VorCon next week.

On a side note, I'll refrain from posting links to posts on the board because they stay on for a limited time and the new boards will be here soon. If possible, I'll just copy the whole post here. If anyone has anything to say about that, you can e-mail me by clicking on my name at the bottom of this post (or any post, for that matter).

Another preview to praise the B5 sim. This one is by WEWP. The author made a few mistakes about B5 in the opening, but it is a great preview nontheless. It provides 5 quality screenshots. Read it here.

By the way, this is the first time I get a news tip from a developer of the game I am covering. Thanks Marc :).

In case you didn't know, LoD means Level of Detail. It is a common term in games that use polygons to generate graphical objects. In this post Jeff Reitman explains it in more detail (pun intended :) ).

VORCON, or Voice Of the Resistance Convention, is the biggest B5 convention. This time they will be extremely big to celebrate the end of B5. Also, this time there will be a showing of the B5 sim at the convention. For more details read this article at GaGames.

Marc answered some questions in this post. I'll sum up the info here, but make sure to read the post too.

• LoD be implemented in the game.
• Orders to the player will be in audio.
• Info overload will be possible.
• There will be stuff to do between the missions.
• Getting too close to explosions will get you killed or, at least, thrown off course.
• Promotions and medals have been considered.
• The team has been told by the managment to expect a mission disk.
• Lens flares are in the game and, to quote Marc, look gorgeous.
• The more familiar First Ones might make an apperance.
• The status of your ship will be availible at all times.

Talk about info overload...

Solstice made a post on the forum saying that the borads will be postponed for a week. Marc, made us all happier by posting that he will get a snapshot taken of the current forum so we can continue our threads.

Here is a what Marc had to say about Capital Ships:

Capital ships will be controlled by a fairly sophisitcated AI (and in some cases, a bit of player control). They will be "live", active participants in any situation they find themselves in, not just scenery.

Sounds good to me. I would like to know more about the "bit of player control" part though...

Actually, this is not really news, but it was news for me and it's also good news so here goes.

Solstice, the moderator of the B5 sim Message Board posted this announcment:

NOTICE: Sierra.com's message boards will be brand new on October 1. Be on the look out for the new message board format but same great boards here at sierra.com on Thursday, October 1, 1998. Unfortunately, all messages posted here up from now until Oct. 1 will be wiped clean when the new boards go live. Thank you! Webmaster

Solstice

As you know, B5 and Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena CA are working together to make B5 the most realistic show on the air. Well, it looks like that succesful partnership is effecting everything that surronds the show, and mainly the Sim.

In GaGames' latest B5 related post they have information about a showing of the Sim at the JPL seminar. Read it to find out more.

Marc answered a question on the forum regarding multiplayer campaigns. It looks like we're gonna get them folks :).

Marc Hudgins made a post on the forum in which he asks to help him come up with new behaviors for Capital Ships. This is an actual chance to affect the game, what are you waiting for? Read the post for more details.

I mean that in the metaphorical sence. The B5 sim is certainly creating Shockwaves in the Gaming world. It is still far from finished, yet recieves only the best replies.
Force 1 has a post about the ways Force Feedback can affect the Starfury (guess who made it?). Next Generation have an interview with Marc and Randy.
It's good to see that this great game finally is getting the recognition it deserves.

If I am not mistaken, which is a likely possibility, this is the first big preview the B5 sim. And it's good to know that it's a very good one :).
The Preview has been done by OGR and it features many new screenshots, thogh not so much new info. It is defenetely a must-read, go here and enjoy.

AGN3D converted the trailer to Real Video format and greatly reduced it's size. You can get it here, it's only 2.4 mb and in good quality. It shows mainly a lot of Starfury battles and the WhiteStar raid on the Vorlon outpost. Defenetly worth a download.

I just finished downloading and it turns out that the new trailer is just a High Quality Slightly modified version of the old trailer. So unless you have a high speed connection or haven't seen the old one think twice before downloading.

So you thought the Preview was great? You haven't seen anything yet! Lorien outdone himself this time. He delivers an excelent new trailer with actual in game video! You can download it from GaGames or directly from here. Beware though, it's a hefty 26mb, but as Lorien said "1000% worth the download".