[Ravenholme]

At the risk of voicing a cliche...

That's just the train.

Or a flamethrower.

[FreespacePilot2010]

Hurry up and release R1 already! This type of feature can be in a patch.

[General Battuta]

Hurry up and release R1 already! This type of feature can be in a patch.

Are you talking about Blue Planet or Diaspora?

Because in both cases, this type of feature is not slowing down development. It's not even related to Diaspora development, and it's a side project for those members of BP not involved in texturing the last model that needs to be finished.

[Colonol Dekker]

We're wating on ONE MODEL???




For the love of the baby Ewoks, STICK A CHECK MAP ON IT AND WE'LL MAKE DO

[The E]

it's one model that is rather close to completion. Trust Esarai to ge the job done.

At any rate, that is enough BP talk in the Diaspora board, clear?

[StarSlayer]

 I could stand to hear a little more...

[FreespacePilot2010]

Are you talking about Blue Planet or Diaspora?

This is the Diaspora thread so what do you think?

[General Battuta]

Are you talking about Blue Planet or Diaspora?

This is the Diaspora thread so what do you think?

I don't know, it's a thread about Blue Planet features in Diaspora, both of them are working on an R1, and you're asking for somebody to 'hurry up and release r1' since 'this type of feature can be in a patch'. Given that the discussion here already centered around making this happen after Diaspora R1, your comments only really make sense with regard to BP.

So what do you think?

[FreespacePilot2010]

Think about this for a minute GB. BP already has its R1 up. Why would I be asking to hurry up on releasing the BP R1 if it was already up?

[General Battuta]

Think about this for a minute GB. BP already has its R1 up. Why would I be asking to hurry up on releasing the BP R1 if it was already up?

Ah, I see the confusion. Not to be pedantic, but Blue Planet: War in Heaven's Release 1 is essentially complete, but has not yet been disgorged.

The beautiful beautiful butterfly that is Diaspora R1 has been released...to our dreams. *wistful sigh*

[FreespacePilot2010]

Isnt Age of Aquarius the 1st release of BP? Im confused now.

[General Battuta]

Isnt Age of Aquarius the 1st release of BP? Im confused now.

Yep. The confusion here is that the first half of War in Heaven, BP2, is War in Heaven R1.

Aaaaanyway. Back on topic, what kind of abilities would you guys want to see on Diaspora capships?

[The E]

Abilities we have experimented with with some success are things like ECM bursts that disrupt enemy weaponry, health regen (due to your crew doing emergency repairs and such), scans to temporarily boost your damage output, active armoring to boost your armor a bit against an incoming storm of bombs and such.

[NGTM-1R]

Gun boost, overdrive for the main battery turrets basically. There are hints in 33 that Galactica handles her shells in a fashion to make this possible.

If they go with locked subsystem values (and I kind of think they will, it's hard to justify regen in BSG) you could have subsystem regeneration to represent the D/C teams going around setting up casuality power and the like.

I feel uncomfortable suggesting anything else without much knowledge of shipboard operations in BSG.

[General Battuta]

Both of those could definitely be pulled off.

[Colonol Dekker]

FULL POWAH TO ENGINES!
 
 
That and emergency hard turn to avoid potential incoming.
 
Also would like to see potential to order smaller caps to shield the bigger ones like the movie air force one.
 
That and ramming speed too.
 
Can't think of any more.

[newman]

You should be able to tell your fighter squadrons what to do. Launch, order them around, and recall them back. Send them on BARCAP, wild weasel, space superiority, etc.

[ryanbran87]

I think it would be nice to be able to Like Newman said order the fighters around.  Like for instance you set your ship to engage a 240^o firing arc of flak and have the fighters plug the "hole" so to speak.... if you know what I mean.

"Stay the frak out of Galactica's firing solution"..... if that is even remotely possible

That and the whole ya know... Spear a toaster ship.... with a ship as big as it is..... that would be fun..... eh?

[General Battuta]

You should be able to tell your fighter squadrons what to do. Launch, order them around, and recall them back. Send them on BARCAP, wild weasel, space superiority, etc.

Launching isn't currently supported as wings refuse to arrive from player fighterbays.  You can give them all the orders you can give regular FS2 fighters, of course, and we have a (fairly trivial) method to give orders to whole squadrons instead of individual wings.

[StarSlayer]

I just realized I could probably fly a Pillager with this.  I'm giddy with the commerce raiding opportunities...