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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Graham on December 06, 2007, 01:17:33 pm
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I've been wanting to put my modelling to the test, and was wondering what you guys would think of this; basically, a Corvette-class ship designed to fight in a 'wolfpack' group, basically like a small capship with very high speed and maneuverability, but weak shields and armour. We seem to have plenty of capships and fighters, but nothing to bridge the gap. I can't help but visualise 3 Corvettes flying in tight formation towards a Shivan capship, before letting off a barrage of missiles and streaking away.
I suppose it could possibly be made player-controllable, but I would need to find a tutorial for that. I think a bigger ship than a bomber would be fun to use from time to time!
If you've played Mass Effect, that game kind of inspired this idea, so you may see where I'm coming from.
I just would like to know what you guys would like before I start modelling ;)
Cheers, Graham.
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thats sorta what this is
(http://www.game-warden.com/nukemod-cos/Images/v2.jpg)
which was meant to fly as part of a battlegroup lead by its more heavily armed sister class
(http://www.game-warden.com/nukemod-cos/Images/ragnarok.jpg)
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I've been wanting to put my modelling to the test, and was wondering what you guys would think of this; basically, a Corvette-class ship designed to fight in a 'wolfpack' group, basically like a small capship with very high speed and maneuverability, but weak shields and armour. We seem to have plenty of capships and fighters, but nothing to bridge the gap. I can't help but visualise 3 Corvettes flying in tight formation towards a Shivan capship, before letting off a barrage of missiles and streaking away.
I suppose it could possibly be made player-controllable, but I would need to find a tutorial for that. I think a bigger ship than a bomber would be fun to use from time to time!
If you've played Mass Effect, that game kind of inspired this idea, so you may see where I'm coming from.
I just would like to know what you guys would like before I start modelling ;)
Cheers, Graham.
What do you mean there aren't any corvettes/frigates? :wtf: I alone made 4-5 of those. :blah:
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He seem's to be talking more along the lines of a gunship class.
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Basically something with maybe 5-10 crew, bigger than a bomber by a bit, but for working in groups. A kind of strike flight? Hard to explain :P
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He seem's to be talking more along the lines of a gunship class.
I have one of those too :P
2 if you count the old Barracuda..and the Armageddon is so large it can pass off as a gunship easily.
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me as well
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there a long thread about gunships about a week ago? :wtf:
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yea
i think this games been out long enough that every kind of ship imaginable has been done already.
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He means corvette as its used in homeworld, AKA what a corvette actually is rather than the massive frigates just CALLED corvettes in freespace.
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well this isnt homeworld is it :D
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He means corvette as its used in homeworld, AKA what a corvette actually is rather than the massive frigates just CALLED corvettes in freespace.
Iceni is a frigate and is bigger than a corvette :p
*yeah, I know what you were trying to say, I just luv messing with peoples headz*
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The corvette in Homeworld 1-2 is just like a gunship.
The end. :p
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IIRC, a crovette in HW didn't really have any anti-cap weapons worthy of mention. IT was an escort craft designed to shoot down fighters :P
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yea
i think this games been out long enough that every kind of ship imaginable has been done already.
Not quite. There still isn't a Terran corvette with a fighterbay that isn't SOC or horrendously expensive-looking.
Or a Vasudan medical ship.
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IIRC, a crovette in HW didn't really have any anti-cap weapons worthy of mention. IT was an escort craft designed to shoot down fighters :P
Who said gunhips are anti-capship only? :p
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yea
i think this games been out long enough that every kind of ship imaginable has been done already.
Not quite. There still isn't a Terran corvette with a fighterbay that isn't SOC or horrendously expensive-looking.
or is there :p
muhahahaha! :D
Or a Vasudan medical ship.
vasudans are expected to fight to the death :D
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We should model a shivan science vessel for laughs ;)
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IIRC, a crovette in HW didn't really have any anti-cap weapons worthy of mention. IT was an escort craft designed to shoot down fighters :P
Dunno, Pulsars were pretty useful against Heavy Missile Frigates and Ion Frigates.
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We should model a shivan science vessel for laughs ;)
what do you think a sathanas is, an overgrown destroyer?
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Shivan science consists of finding better ways to destroy your enemies. They'd probably wouldn't know what a lever is but they could know how to attach a plasma cannon onto a lifeform and re-work its entire biological system.
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And you would think they would have ships specificly made for experiments like that :doubt: