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Offline ShadowWolf_IH

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YOU CAN HIT F4!?!?!?

ok so i only do it sometimes...i always almost forget, but on the brightside, i make sure that all my testers know to do that. :D
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Offline Cobra

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cool, i'm not the only one using vanilla fred for an SCP mission. i'll dl the mission when i finish the two missions i'm doing.
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The mission built in scp 3.4
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Offline karajorma

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Didn't notice you'd updated :) I'll give this a try as I'm going to do some FA playtesting tonight anyway :)
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As promised I got some playtesting done :) There's very little in the way of technical errors so my problems are more related to the fun factor of the mission :)

The only technical errors I noticed were the missing delay between wave of Pisces wing (which I presume is simply an error of omission since the other wings all have a delay) and the complete lack of music! :D Surprised no one spotted that one :) Get to the mission specs editor and add some :)

As for the mission flow, this is where I had more problems. I never really felt like the Julius was in danger at any point. Maybe that's cause I just played well (for a change) but I got the Julius to the node with about 49% hull intact on medium). It might also be worth setting the Julius' hull to 75-90% hull damage to represent the fact that it's been damaged and stepping up the level of attacks a little.

One other thing that happened was that I managed to eliminate all the enemy craft about a minute and a half before the Julius reached the node which left me with a fair bit of sitting around doing nothing time.

So now we're stuck with the hardest FRED question of all. How do we make the mission more fun to play? I'm open to ideas :)
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Offline Cobra

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nah, just be like me and edit a whole bunch of crap. that way you don't have to do all the ships, events, etc. all over again. it works. ;)
To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow. - Metrodorus of Chios
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Offline karajorma

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To be fair Cobra your missiion didn't need as much work to make it fun to play. Your mission was fun but had lots of technical faults.

Sapphire on the other hand was on completely the other side of the problem. Her mission had very few technical problems but for some hard to define reason it just didn't work.

I've been in exactly the same boat myself and even though the mission that I'm on about is even more complete than Sapphire's I'm almost certainly going to do the exact same thing.

Sapphire as long as you're learning with each new version I don't mind :)
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