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Title: Giant Capships
Post by: Vasudan Commander on January 24, 2007, 02:47:46 am
Ive heard alot of talk about 'Gigas' , 'Gargant' and other ships like this......and im wondering what everyones going on about.

I remember seeing the TDFx Apocalypse, and that thing was pretty nasty (can we get a pic of it please? i lost mine  :( ) , but apparently people have made ships bigger then that thing.

And talk in the inferno threads of a ship 150 km in size ? ?!  :wtf:  :eek: :eek2:

Need pics, explanations, stories......INFO !

In the words of Johnny Five , from short circuit ....

"Input ! Need Input !"
Title: Re: Giant Capships
Post by: Dysko on January 24, 2007, 02:52:38 am
You can find the SSJ Gigas in Inferno R1 (http://inferno.hard-light.net/R1.htm), along with its terran counterpart, the TSJ Icanus.
Title: Re: Giant Capships
Post by: Blue Lion on January 24, 2007, 03:01:38 am
How many threads have you made in the past week?
Title: Re: Giant Capships
Post by: Turey on January 24, 2007, 03:06:19 am
How many threads have you made in the past week?

16.

I went back and counted.  :blah:
Title: Re: Giant Capships
Post by: Admiral Edivad on January 24, 2007, 03:12:19 am
How many threads have you made in the past week?

16.

I went back and counted.  :blah:

he wants a custom title...
Title: Re: Giant Capships
Post by: Blue Lion on January 24, 2007, 03:36:07 am
I don't even know if I've made 16 threads total in 5+ years of posting here.
Title: Re: Giant Capships
Post by: General Battuta on January 24, 2007, 03:52:23 am
He spawns threads like a flak gun spawns...flaks. 
Title: Re: Giant Capships
Post by: Turey on January 24, 2007, 03:57:05 am
He spawns thread like a flak gun spawns...flaks. 

 :lol: :lol: :lol:

Well, a goat, a midget, and a transvestite walk into a bar...

No, I'm sorry. I can't match the level of hilarity in the previous post.
Title: Re: Giant Capships
Post by: General Battuta on January 24, 2007, 04:07:05 am
I made Turey laugh again!

SIG ME, TUREY!  SIG ME!
Title: Re: Giant Capships
Post by: Vasudan Commander on January 24, 2007, 04:38:45 am
How many threads have you made in the past week?

16.

I went back and counted.  :blah:


Hey, they're all legit. Im not spammin ! :hopping:
Title: Re: Giant Capships
Post by: Flipside on January 24, 2007, 04:53:39 am
Perhaps, but you're close to filling up the entire first page in Freespace General here :p
Title: Re: Giant Capships
Post by: Sarafan on January 24, 2007, 07:31:28 am
He spawns threads like a flak gun spawns...flaks. 

 :lol: :lol: :lol:

That was just too great.

Honestly I dont know much about those giant capships but is something that big actually worth it? I mean, we all saw that the Colossus was good for nothing against the Shivans and that the Sathanas can be destroyed if you just take out its beam cannons or get behind it.
Title: Re: Giant Capships
Post by: Polpolion on January 24, 2007, 12:46:10 pm
they're fun, none the less.
Title: Re: Giant Capships
Post by: Mobius on January 24, 2007, 01:30:37 pm
I see many references to the Gigas and the Gargant in this first page :blah:

Don't forget the Vinaashak and the Vyndi....Vindh.... the other SSJ.
Title: Re: Giant Capships
Post by: Admiral Edivad on January 24, 2007, 01:35:11 pm
I see many references to the Gigas and the Gargant in this first page :blah:

Don't forget the Vinaashak and the Vyndi....Vindh.... the other SSJ.

is there ANOTHER SSJ??? :eek2:
i thought shivan supercaps were only Sathy, Amritaya, Gigas, Vinaashak, (Gargant)

EDIT:
maybe the SCa Shiamak? (the worm)
Title: Re: Giant Capships
Post by: Mobius on January 24, 2007, 01:41:52 pm
It's another SSJ. It's name is similar to "Vyndiachal" but ends with "ar".

That's what happens when you don't read posts in the Inferno forum, Edivad!
Title: Re: Giant Capships
Post by: Admiral Edivad on January 24, 2007, 01:47:31 pm
Vyndiachal reminds me of a bomber.

<runs on the INFERNO thread snd looks for SSJs>
Title: Re: Giant Capships
Post by: Mobius on January 24, 2007, 02:07:48 pm
A huge bomber....

VC(Vas Com) the 150km long ship will be mentioned in INF and will be used only as a background bitmap.... I know that there are problems with huge objects that also have turrets.
Title: Re: Giant Capships
Post by: Snail on January 24, 2007, 03:43:55 pm
SSJ Vidyadhar. Smaller than both the Icanus and Gigas, but cool ship anyway.
Title: Re: Giant Capships
Post by: Dark Hunter on January 24, 2007, 06:20:52 pm
Gah! Snail beat me to it.  :mad:

Before you ask: the Gargant, Vidyadhar, and the current version of the Gigas are not released yet. And no one knows when they'll be released (if ever), though it'll likely be a very long time.


There was also an old old old Vasudan ubership called the Sechat-Thor, which is available, but looks like crap so I don't reccomend using it, except maybe as a collector's item.
Title: Re: Giant Capships
Post by: Mobius on January 25, 2007, 12:20:32 pm
You forgot the old Gigas...it may be used and is similar to the Gargant(that is similar to the Sathanas).
Title: Re: Giant Capships
Post by: Snail on January 25, 2007, 02:57:38 pm
The old Gigas has a lack of maps. I think giving it a few more textures here and there could actually make it a spiffy ship, noh? And giving it more than just one forward gun, too.

BTW, the ****at-Thor is just an oversized Aten with a Sobek head grafted on. It's crap and don't go hunting for it.
Title: Re: Giant Capships
Post by: aldo_14 on January 25, 2007, 03:12:12 pm
The old Gigas has a lack of maps. I think giving it a few more textures here and there could actually make it a spiffy ship, noh? And giving it more than just one forward gun, too.

BTW, the ****at-Thor is just an oversized Aten with a Sobek head grafted on. It's crap and don't go hunting for it.

Plus, it really pissed off the Norse god of Thunder.
Title: Re: Giant Capships
Post by: chief1983 on January 25, 2007, 04:36:05 pm
How is everyone overcoming the fact that a capship can only have so many turrets, meaning that the larger it gets, the more dispersed the turrets become, and the larger the blindspots are?  The SWC was having trouble just with a 14.7km SSD.  As they say, 'a small one man fighter should be able to penetrate the outer defense' of anything so sparsely protected.
Title: Re: Giant Capships
Post by: aldo_14 on January 25, 2007, 04:37:31 pm
How is everyone overcoming the fact that a capship can only have so many turrets, meaning that the larger it gets, the more dispersed the turrets become, and the larger the blindspots are?  The SWC was having trouble just with a 14.7km SSD.  As they say, 'a small one man fighter should be able to penetrate the outer defense' of anything so sparsely protected.

Bigger FOVs and more effective weapons, like Flak or Beams in place of laser turrets.  That, and just bulking up the hitpoints :D