[Androgeos Exeunt]

Is there some kind of rapid-fire railgun?

[Stormkeeper]

To clarify, it's mainly the cruisers and karunas that spit out over nine thousand blobs...larger ships are geared towards anti-capital ship combat and tend to spam less.

So basically you have cruisers geared towards point defense, and destroyers geared to focus on anti-cap combat.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

So basically you have cruisers geared towards point defense, and destroyers geared to focus on anti-cap combat.

That would make sense if each destroyer has its own escort cruisers, just like the SOSD Olemus of INFR1.

[Droid803]

Actually, the Olemus was supposed to be escorted by two destroyers...
Not that any sort  of escort actually showed up during Showdown...

[Stormkeeper]

But this means the UEF can't conduct solo strikes like the GTVA. It also means covering the cruisers and such is much much more important.

[Droid803]

Karunas do fine.
They can hit corvettes and cruisers, and still manage to spam OVER 9000!!!! blobs.

[Excalibur]

Is this a completed campaign? (if it even is one) (oops, I should read the title of the forum.) It sounds interesting, though.

[General Battuta]

Age of Aquarius is complete, and it's arguably the best Freespace 2 campaign to date.

War in Heaven, the sequel, is still in progress.

[ShadowGorrath]

The limit of stuff in-game is 1000 though, so to your 9000.

[Droid803]

Given time it will spew over 9000.
So to you too.

[Snail]

Given time it will spew over 9000.
So to you too.

No, then it'll break the game.

First, player's primaries will stop firing, then collision detection fails and then, after a while, the game CTDs.

[Droid803]

It won't when 8888 of the projectile's lifetimes have already expired when the remaining ones come out.
It doesn't keep count of things that -used- to be there...at least that's how it should be. Waste of memory to remember # of projectiles that have been in existence.

[eliex]

You need the scribes to record your glorious epic mission though!! 

[Snail]

It won't when 8888 of the projectile's lifetimes have already expired when the remaining ones come out.

Well there won't be OVER 9000!!! simultaneously.

[Arkangel]

Well Im pretty sure if that were possible your graphics card would cry if you looked at them all

[Snail]

Well Im pretty sure if that were possible your graphics card would cry if you looked at them all

Blobs aren't that resource intensive unless they use 262144*262144 .tga textures.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

It's not the blobs. It's the polygons on a ship.

[Stormkeeper]

We are getting off course topic. Correct your bearings posts!

We've established that UE ships are basically specialists, built exclusively for their roles, e.g cruisers for fighter hunting, destroyers for capital hunting. Correct?

[Darius]

I wouldn't say built exclusively for these roles but cruisers do fare better against fighters, and destroyers are better against capital ships. Though  they are still outclassed by GTVA equivalents armed with beam cannons and flak.

Frigates are the generalist ship class and are the ones designed for solo operations.

[eliex]

Spoiler:

Is the GTVA cap-ship defects going to be used to see whether the Earth ships can use beam weaponry?