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Offline Ace

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Re: BSG Online announced - could this be a problem?
Reminds me a lot of EvE online. The 2d DRADIS there is pretty interesting too.
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Re: BSG Online announced - could this be a problem?
Wow, that actually looks really good, almost like something from Freelancer (now I'm worried about all the BSG mods for Freelancer instead of Diaspora).  I didn't realize stuff like that was possible for a F2P browser game of all things.
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Re: BSG Online announced - could this be a problem?
What's that "i" Character you speak of? Never used that character myself, care to elaborate on just how you use the character? Seems to me to be completely unnecessary to me!
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Re: BSG Online announced - could this be a problem?
The graphics come close to the freespace2 open engine. But I still think the fs2o engine still looks better. Im also not liking the camera angles.

Also heres a new pic of a non cannon ship in the game. It looks sort of like a defender star from the original BSG to me.
« Last Edit: June 18, 2010, 10:21:49 pm by FreespacePilot2010 »

 

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Re: BSG Online announced - could this be a problem?
That doesn't look like a BSGish ship at all. That's why I think it's pretty good.

Too many people just take a battlestar and reuse bits from them, there's 100's of designs out there that all look.. the same. One thing with the ships in BSG is that they're all incredibly different! Kudos to whoever designed it.
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Re: BSG Online announced - could this be a problem?
Heres some even more screens but its with the above ship under attack by cylons.

http://scifiwire.com/2010/06/exclusive-first-look-at-battlestar-galactica-online-screen-shots.php

 

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Canon... a non cannon ship would be unarmed :p
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Re: BSG Online announced - could this be a problem?
I hope this isn't set up like their stupid Dark Orbit game.  That game is also "free to play"...if your idea of playing a game is to do nothing but get pked an infinite number of times from the very beginning.  In order to be able to even do anything in that game you have to shell out lots of real money from the start. 
I'll have to see how their pk system is set up before I even think of trying this one out.

 

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Canon... a non cannon ship would be unarmed :p
I see what you did there...

also, on the fence with this.
could be cool, but F2P and me don't get along that often.

 

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Re: BSG Online announced - could this be a problem?
That doesn't look like a BSGish ship at all. That's why I think it's pretty good.

Too many people just take a battlestar and reuse bits from them, there's 100's of designs out there that all look.. the same. One thing with the ships in BSG is that they're all incredibly different! Kudos to whoever designed it.

 :confused:

If it's a warship in the BSG universe (as opposed to a rag-tag-fleet ship) it ought to have some familiar design features... even if it's just the look of the turrets, or some obligatory ribbing. Where's my obligatory ribbing ?!?!?!?

 

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Well, out of the 3 canon battlestar types we've seen only one had actual ribbing, so I wouldn't call it obligatory. Otherwise, I tend to agree - this looks more like it came out of Babylon 5 then BSG.
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I'd disagree, it has a design ethic in common with Pegasus or Valkyrie; it simply doesn't have the traditional Battlestar shape we're used to.
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Looks more like a Civvie ship then a Combat Vessel. Not very BSG-ish in my opinion, but as a Civvie vessel it doesn't matter that much.
The only non-canon non-Battlestar design that i was able to immediatly identify as a BSG ship was the Bolitho, the design screams: "BSG - Colonial - non Carrier...".


 

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Looks more like a Civvie ship then a Combat Vessel. Not very BSG-ish in my opinion, but as a Civvie vessel it doesn't matter that much.
The only non-canon non-Battlestar design that i was able to immediatly identify as a BSG ship was the Bolitho, the design screams: "BSG - Colonial - non Carrier...".

Exactly.
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besides that- the propulsion to hull ratio just seems off- ow and did I mention its total lack of colonial disk-shaped markings
and guns---> those are missing for sure....

that's how I see it anyways,

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looks more like an earth ship from SG-1 than BSG to me.

 
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Methinks BSG 'Online' is just as 'online' as Transformice is. You log in. You enter a lobby. You fly a mission and blow up stuff.

Could be fun.

 

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Re: BSG Online announced - could this be a problem?
looks more like an earth ship from SG-1 than BSG to me.

Same thing here.
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Re: BSG Online announced - could this be a problem?
I actually thought it looks more like its from Star Wars than BSG(or SG or B5). Specifically the kotor era of Star Wars.

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but F2P and me don't get along that often.
Is F2P supposed to be an abbreviation of my username? I dont remember us not getting along. You might have me confused with someone else.

 
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F2P=Free 2 Play.
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[21:51] <@Droid803> this will be SLIIIIIGHTLY awkward
[21:51] <@Droid803> as this rich psychic girl will now be tsundere for a loli.
[21:51] <@Droid803> OH WELLL.

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[07:57:32] <Caiaphas> inspired by HerraTohtori i built a supermaneuverable plane in ksp
[07:57:43] <Caiaphas> i just killed my pilots with a high-g maneuver
[07:58:19] <Caiaphas> apparently people can't take 20 gees for 5 continuous seconds
[08:00:11] <Caiaphas> the plane however performed admirably, and only crashed because it no longer had any guidance systems