Mail Grab and VCR Movement

Hi, i´ve got two questions which answers i didn´t find in this news
group:

first:
Does anyone know how movement in VCR is controlled ? It seems to me
that ships move absolutely random (when not hit and pushed back). Even
if i use commands like "Stay out of range x" or "ram".
The main problem is, that groups of ships which start at the same point
depard and stay alone.

second:
Where can is contact tim to ask him, if he can improve the mail grab,
so i can use it with other mail programms than outlook 2000 (i.e.
Thunderbird !!!) ?

Thanks

>Does anyone know how movement in VCR is controlled ? It seems to me
>that ships move absolutely random (when not hit and pushed back). Even
>if i use commands like "Stay out of range x" or "ram".
>The main problem is, that groups of ships which start at the same point
>depard and stay alone.

This is a kown "problem". The main problem is that most of the time people
does not know how the ships should behave. Did you know that the "stay out
of range" is for exaclty one ship which is the current target. So you can
complain that is doesn´t stand of of every enemy ship as there´s no code for
doing that.
Also the ram is working. But you need to get within very close range unless
you are IMT.

If you want to achieve deeper knowledge on how movement works, there was
recendly a thread where Tim posted the current movement code (search at
google groups). If you get though the code you´ll know what to exspect and
what not.

> second:
>Where can is contact tim to ask him, if he can improve the mail grab,
>so i can use it with other mail programms than outlook 2000 (i.e.
>Thunderbird !!!) ?

I don´t think that he´ll does this, there´re other more important thigs to
do. I also think the Host Gui , to which you seem to reffer to, is
downloadable. So download the code and improve it youself.

If you still want to contact Tim his email adress is on the planets
homepage.

Greetings
Sebastian