as a boneified hw playa i'll make my opinions on yer questions and give the real modders some advice or info etc whateva
1. Plasma bombs should be slow reload energy weapons. Mainly because in HW attack bombers never run out of ammo
2. Swarming is very very popular, to actually be in a scout amidst the giant battle would be an aweseom, awesome experience...i say GO FOR IT!
3. Well they should, if you want to capture the feel of HW you'll need to make it as corresponding as possible
4. The mothership shouldn't be any bigger then the colosus. The colossus was what? 15 km's long? The MS is only like 2, 3, or 5 kilom's long so that shouldn't really be THAT big of a prob.
5. I would say leave them fixed. You never see a scout with missiles do ya?
6. Taiidan. For one thing, all taiidan ships look slapped together very very quickly and hap-hazardly. As well as most of their strike craft look adapted from atmospheric use. Which means that the exiles wouldn't have the resources to make an entirely new space combat design so they just adapted current atmosphereic craft to space...to save cost, and time. Next to prove my point, notice the difference in the engines in the kushan and taiidan fleet. Taiidan engines appear to be Ion engines, Kushan engines appear to be some kind of plasma engine, requiring only at the most 2, but you see on the Taiidan MS there are something like 11 or 12 ion engines, which would lead you to believe the logic asumption that the exiles aren't as technoglically advanced as the evil empire, and therefor require more rudementary means of propuslion. Which would explain the much higher number of engines on their cap ships and fighters. Now on to the next point. The Box art. The box art depicts the taiidan fleet flying toward a kushan fleet that's infront of Hiigara. This would lead one to believe that the exiles (taiidan) are retaking their homeworld from the kushan. Seems logical to me. On to the next example, the specialty ships. The 2 special ships for each race being:
Taiidan- defence fighter and defence frigate
Kushan- drone frigate, and cloaked fighter.
This explains
, if you were a race of dwindling numbers with no chance of getting reinforcments, wouldn't you rather defend and help keep alive the pilots you have? I.E. Defence Frigate and Defence fighters. Now the evil empire wouldn't care about pilots cause they would have a practically unlimted supply, and would be more aimed toward fast killing of the enmey. Hence the drone frigate. Drone frigs are amazing swarm killers...the evil empire would want to kill as many oposing pilots as possible....using atrition tactics....hence the drone frig. And the cloak fighter...what better way to attack a defensless convoy then with cloaked ships? It all proves the point that the Taiidan are the exiles and the Kushan are the empire.
7. would be difficult i guess with the FS2 engine...but i don't mod fs2 so i wouldn't know
8. i relaly really hope so
9. would be incredibly difficult to emulate i'd think...and then you have to figure out what it would do to the ship you're in
10. i would go with a helios torp with modded damage and shockwave properties.
11. would be nice but like GoDo said...can't be done
12. they should be...someting like missiles but with energy properties and an the graphics changed to match those of ec's
[This message has been edited by StyffyDawgIX (edited 02-11-2002).]
