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Offline Turey

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Re: What are you flying? (The describe your flagship thread)
@CP5670 -- I see no image after the quote.  I think you got Dekker'd...

At least it's just text this time:shaking:
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Offline wtf_cl0vvn

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Re: What are you flying? (The describe your flagship thread)
Sentry Gun (Watchdog) with internet connection, freespace open and a TV. Nothing can beat that.

Add mini-fridge with unlimited beers, a food cabinet with beef jerky and leftovers, and a microwave.

personally :)
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Offline Mathwiz6

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Re: What are you flying? (The describe your flagship thread)
Bosch Beer.

And... Really, I say they need more, and more fighters. And snip-ey ships.

Because really, only way to drop a big ship right is to use a bunch of disposables.

(trades Colossus for 10000 Ursa, 10000 Erinyes (mara's, but those are tough to find), and 10000 Perseus.

Voila. Shivan problem solved.

(imagines lag of 20000 helios)


 

Offline wtf_cl0vvn

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Re: What are you flying? (The describe your flagship thread)
Solve a shivan problem? thats preposterous.

rather, trade the fleet for alpha 1s in 3:2 ratio of Maras to Ursas.

Un-freaking-stoppable.

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Offline AdmiralRalwood

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Re: What are you flying? (The describe your flagship thread)
The Hiigaran Battlecruiser from Homeworld 2.
Better would be the Tier IV Prince of Hiigara from PDS 7.3. Or, rather, the BV Battlecarrier, as it's more suited to a flagship role.
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<MageKing17> "There's probably a reason the code is the way it is" is a very dangerous line of thought. :P
<MageKing17> Because the "reason" often turns out to be "nobody noticed it was wrong".
(the very next day)
<MageKing17> this ****ing code did it to me again
<MageKing17> "That doesn't really make sense to me, but I'll assume it was being done for a reason."
<MageKing17> **** ME
<MageKing17> THE REASON IS PEOPLE ARE STUPID
<MageKing17> ESPECIALLY ME

<MageKing17> God damn, I do not understand how this is breaking.
<MageKing17> Everything points to "this should work fine", and yet it's clearly not working.
<MjnMixael> 2 hours later... "God damn, how did this ever work at all?!"
(...)
<MageKing17> so
<MageKing17> more than two hours
<MageKing17> but once again we have reached the inevitable conclusion
<MageKing17> How did this code ever work in the first place!?

<@The_E> Welcome to OpenGL, where standards compliance is optional, and error reporting inconsistent

<MageKing17> It was all working perfectly until I actually tried it on an actual mission.

<IronWorks> I am useful for FSO stuff again. This is a red-letter day!
* z64555 erases "Thursday" and rewrites it in red ink

<MageKing17> TIL the entire homing code is held up by shoestrings and duct tape, basically.

 
Re: What are you flying? (The describe your flagship thread)
Talyn from Farscape just bigger and with a few more harmonic dissonance cannons, and a pilot in the pilots den who was amiable to my goals that I wouldn't have to micro if I did not wish to, neuro transponder for myself

 

Offline IPAndrews

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Re: What are you flying? (The describe your flagship thread)
What a strange thread. I'll take the Liberator. If someone's already taken that I'll have it's bigger copy the Excalibur. I'd rather have the Liberator though I like the 70s flight deck complete with lava lamp.
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Offline AdmiralRalwood

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Re: What are you flying? (The describe your flagship thread)
The Liberator from Blake's Seven? Man, I used to love that show...
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Codethulhu GitHub wgah'nagl fhtagn.

schrödinbug (noun) - a bug that manifests itself in running software after a programmer notices that the code should never have worked in the first place.

When you gaze long into BMPMAN, BMPMAN also gazes into you.

"I am one of the best FREDders on Earth" -General Battuta

<Aesaar> literary criticism is vladimir putin

<MageKing17> "There's probably a reason the code is the way it is" is a very dangerous line of thought. :P
<MageKing17> Because the "reason" often turns out to be "nobody noticed it was wrong".
(the very next day)
<MageKing17> this ****ing code did it to me again
<MageKing17> "That doesn't really make sense to me, but I'll assume it was being done for a reason."
<MageKing17> **** ME
<MageKing17> THE REASON IS PEOPLE ARE STUPID
<MageKing17> ESPECIALLY ME

<MageKing17> God damn, I do not understand how this is breaking.
<MageKing17> Everything points to "this should work fine", and yet it's clearly not working.
<MjnMixael> 2 hours later... "God damn, how did this ever work at all?!"
(...)
<MageKing17> so
<MageKing17> more than two hours
<MageKing17> but once again we have reached the inevitable conclusion
<MageKing17> How did this code ever work in the first place!?

<@The_E> Welcome to OpenGL, where standards compliance is optional, and error reporting inconsistent

<MageKing17> It was all working perfectly until I actually tried it on an actual mission.

<IronWorks> I am useful for FSO stuff again. This is a red-letter day!
* z64555 erases "Thursday" and rewrites it in red ink

<MageKing17> TIL the entire homing code is held up by shoestrings and duct tape, basically.

 

Offline CP5670

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Re: What are you flying? (The describe your flagship thread)
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That pic makes me wish I hadn't given my lego bricks to my cousins...Oh the wonderous things I used to make.... :(

One word: ebay. Most of my collection has actually come from there.

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@CP5670 -- I see no image after the quote.  I think you got Dekker'd...

That website apparently doesn't allow remote linking but it was in my browser's cache, so I could see it. :p

 

Offline karajorma

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Re: What are you flying? (The describe your flagship thread)
Which is basically what happened to Dekker. Only with goatse. And banning.
Karajorma's Freespace FAQ. It's almost like asking me yourself.

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Offline CP5670

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Re: What are you flying? (The describe your flagship thread)
In any case, some of you can probably guess what it was given the quote. :D

 

Offline Qwer

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Re: What are you flying? (The describe your flagship thread)


Yarr! My flagship will own you all. >D
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Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: What are you flying? (The describe your flagship thread)
http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/3d-wips/601-tauri-superbattleship-uns-achilles-5.html

Pure Pwnage.

I'd be more impressed if it didn't look like he took all that was good and holy of warship design, both real and scifi, put it in a blender, and set it on puree.

The Mk 15 CIWS Phalanx turrets are straight copies. The flight pod (which by the way scream Galactica) guns may be straight copies of the British 4.5"/45 QF Mk III (and Mk II BD mounting), I can't get a good enough look at them to see, but they are at least heavily derivative. The centerline and conning tower lighter guns are either direct copies or heavily derivative of Italian Navy 6"/53 mounts, and like their progenitors probably have dispersion problems due to the closeness of the guns. The conning tower has obvious AEGIS SPY-1 radar influences, and equally obvious Western battleship conning tower influences, but shows the amateur's misappreciation of the actual height of these structures. (The Japanese built high conning towers, but had "greenhouse" upper levels. Western-style towers were lower and longer.) The VLS system is the only thing that shows a degree of both realism and originality.

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Offline Snail

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Re: What are you flying? (The describe your flagship thread)
Sentry Gun (Watchdog) with internet connection, freespace open and a TV. Nothing can beat that.

Add mini-fridge with unlimited beers, a food cabinet with beef jerky and leftovers, and a microwave.

personally :)

Mmmmm.... Good idea.

 

Offline Agent_Koopa

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Re: What are you flying? (The describe your flagship thread)
My flagship, the HMS Peleus, is, by FreeSpace standards, a destroyer-sized ship. Representing the first Koopa foray into space, this state-of-the art warship takes influence from the older Morton-class airships and their ancestors, the seven superairships built for the Koopalings to enforce the total seizure of power in the Mushroom Kingdom. She is therefore made mostly of wood, taking a ship-like design, and relies primarily on more conventional weaponry than newly-developed and untested beam and laser technology.
She retains some propellers, intended for atmospheric flight, though they almost never see use, having been necessarily superseded by an aft cluster of rocket thrusters, supported by thrusters dispersed around the ship.

Armament includes several small swivel cannons located at various points on the ship. These serve in anti-fighter and anti-warship roles, firing metal cannonballs whose diameter is equal to about a quarter of the Hercules' length. As you can imagine, these cannons are capable of incredible damage to a naked hull, though their effectiveness is greatly reduced against energy shielding. Also located in a few places are omnidirectional Bullet Bill launchers, upgraded with tracking equipment and thrusters to meet the new threat of fighters. In the place of flak guns are cannons firing standard Bob-omb ordnance, which when detonated results in an absolutely lethal spread of shrapnel. For anti-warship use, the Peleus is armed with several medium cannons on large swivel mounts, firing metal spheres the size of a Hercules fighter. (think real-life battleship turrets with huge cannonballs). These can smash through a corvette with ease. For the most resilient of foes, the Peleus is outfitted with two large fixed-mount cannons. These fire absolutely huge metal spheres capable of smashing a destroyer with only a few shots. However, these are to be used as a last resort; a Peleus can not carry much ammunition. For the sake of using the new technology, one beam weapon is included on the bottom of the ship, approximately the power of a Terran SGreen, though it consumes more than double the power needed to fire an SGreen and is prone to failure.

The crew consists of a variety of races, though maintenance crews consist largely of Dry Bones; they do not need spacesuits.

The Peleus is not without her share of weaknesses. Though her weapons are difficult to take out, as they contain little electronics, almost all anti-warship weapons are located on the deck, towards the top of the ship, leaving the bottom undefended except by an unreliable and low-power beam cannon. Bombs take a heavy toll on the primarily wooden hull, though it is more resilient than one might expect. All in all, her anti-capship armament is superior to that of the GTVA, but it relies on ammunition. Her fighterbay is empty; no fighters have been retrofitted or developed for space travel. She remains a fine ship.
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Re: What are you flying? (The describe your flagship thread)


Yarr! My flagship will own you all. >D


And that would be... what now?  :p
It looks really cool, but I'd like a name to go with the pic.
(If I had to guess... is that the new Gigas from INF SCP?)
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Re: What are you flying? (The describe your flagship thread)
Hatshepsut class-destroyer.

"Gunnery control, open fire !"  :pimp:

 

Offline Snail

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Re: What are you flying? (The describe your flagship thread)


Yarr! My flagship will own you all. >D


And that would be... what now?  :p
It looks really cool, but I'd like a name to go with the pic.
(If I had to guess... is that the new Gigas from INF SCP?)

No. But if so Woo would kill Qwer for posting that. (well SadisticSid anyway).