[Scotty]

Behold boys, the magic of the fusion engine.  Of fission.  Could go either way.

[voidSkipper]

I apologise - I tend to take a lot of the gameplay with a pinch of salt, treating it more as mechanic than story.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Well, keep in mind that the fuel powering the Hecate is nuclear fusion. I'm sure the Orion has a similar power supply as well.

[Spoon]

Well, keep in mind that the fuel powering the Hecate is nuclear fusion. I'm sure the Orion has a similar power supply as well.

Isn't the Hecate one of those new designs that have vasudan designed generators? (or am I mixing something up with blue planet here?)

[TrashMan]

No, Escape Pods cannot be assigned to wings. They are some of the only craft that can't do so, along with sentry guns and jump nodes.

Well, here's something for the next SCP build to fix.

I can already imagine a 6-10 escape pod wings (a dozen waves) fleeing a ship. Keeping it alive until all wings leave would be an interesting task.

[colecampbell666]

I thought the Deimos and Hecate were joint designs.

[Snail]

Well, here's something for the next SCP build to fix.

I can already imagine a 6-10 escape pod wings (a dozen waves) fleeing a ship. Keeping it alive until all wings leave would be an interesting task.

Hmm. And it'd be impossible to keep all of them alive, you just need to keep as many as you can... And variables can track how many have died...

* Snail goes off to FRED something, then gets bored and archives it

[SpardaSon21]

While the Deimos and Hecate may be joint Terran-Vasudan designs, all that really means is that Vasudans have more advanced fusion reactors and engines.  I'd be willing to bet the Terrans are better when it comes to warheads, metallurgy, and astroengineering.  I mean as far as we know the Vasudans didn't invent any new bombs during the Great War, and in Freespace 2 Vasudan fighters have less HP than Terran fighters.  Plus the Orion is better than the Typhon.

[Commander Zane]

Yet the Hattie is tougher than even the Orion.

[Aardwolf]

That sounds just like the mission with the Krios' escape pods in the original Silent Threat, except that only had one wave. And it was nigh impossible.

You would, as Snail said, want to keep track of how many die, rather than just fail the player as soon as one dies. Although as far as bonus objectives, it seems like the pilot medals screen is directly analogous to XBox-style "Achievements". Some of them are kind of dumb, particularly in FS2, like Epsilon Pegasi Liberation and Nebula Campaign Victory. I mean, getting a medal for beating the game like in FS1 was enough, IMO, and individual missions not so much. Nonetheless, that would make for an awesome bonus objective and grant-medal sexp.

[wistler]

I played the FS1 port or whatever it was i downloaded and i seemed to be getting a medal after every mission which seemed just ridiculous.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

...FS1 port or whatever it was i downloaded...

Close enough, but it's called FSPort in short.

[Aardwolf]

I played the FS1 port or whatever it was i downloaded and i seemed to be getting a medal after every mission which seemed just ridiculous.

I recently replayed FS1 (in the original engine, as opposed to the fs2 port) and got every single medal on medium. I was surprised.

[eliex]

The criteria for the awarding system is easier in original FS1 than FS2 IIRC.

[Snail]

That sounds just like the mission with the Krios' escape pods in the original Silent Threat, except that only had one wave. And it was nigh impossible.

You would, as Snail said, want to keep track of how many die, rather than just fail the player as soon as one dies. Although as far as bonus objectives, it seems like the pilot medals screen is directly analogous to XBox-style "Achievements". Some of them are kind of dumb, particularly in FS2, like Epsilon Pegasi Liberation and Nebula Campaign Victory. I mean, getting a medal for beating the game like in FS1 was enough, IMO, and individual missions not so much. Nonetheless, that would make for an awesome bonus objective and grant-medal sexp.

I think it's fine to have mid-campaign medal grants. It did take some effort and skill to get to that point of the campaign, and that's basically what medals are for, right?