[Anaz]

the top and the bottom of the ship are the only thing that is blocked by the impeller drive field. The walls are usually protected by sidewalls that use grav tech as well, but provide less shielding, and can be destroyed. The front and back of the ship have no shielding because otherwise the impeller drive wouldn't work.

So you can shoot at the sides for a while, or shoot up or down it for a less while.

[NGTM-1R]

So in other words they're really just 18th-century man-o'-war writ large and in metal.

[kasperl]

Jup.

[pyro-manic]

Heh. Bust out the HMS Dreadnought then...

[karajorma]

Actually those are probably superdreadnaughts judging by the number of missile banks on them.

And the reason why something wouldn't be able to kill these things is because they kill things at a several light seconds distance and travel at relativistic speeds.

That's why I said Freespace would be unsuitable for a HH mod. The AI gets screwy trying to deal with fighters at 400m/s try giving it missiles moving at tens of thousands and it would probably have a heart attack

[Geezer]

Actually, they're battlecruisers - the HMS Reliant and the PNS Sultan

[Knight Templar]

Originally posted by Kalfireth
Would you guys please give the whole "it looks like a cock" thing a rest? Try and give the guy a hand with modelling improvements sure, but you're all old enough to show a bit of maturity.

Kindly show it.

Cocks? I think they look like vibrating dildos...

[Akalabeth Angel]

Originally posted by Knight Templar


Cocks? I think they look like vibrating dildos...

     Actually, in another forum I first saw this posted and someone said they looked like didloes. I thought I'd post it here just for fun to see if it'd get the usual response, and sure enough . . . you guys sure are predicktable.

[Taristin]

Originally posted by Geezer
PNS

Sadly, that doesn't help with the association they're making

[Geezer]

Too true.  It's supposed to stand for "People's Naval Ship" but I'm beginning to wonder what Weber really had in mind.  I think I'm going to have to reread the entire series, treating it as some kind of perverse sexual allegory...  

[Janos]

Originally posted by Geezer
PNS Sultan

pns sultan more like pms sultan am i rite

[Akalabeth Angel]

Originally posted by Janos


pns sultan more like pms sultan am i rite

      That's because you're pronouncing the letters individually rather than taking it as a word with no vowels.

[terren]

Guys, get back on the -ING subject already.  For all the problems your proclaming with the AI, it's just a matter of scale.

if M=KM then where's your problems?  and for once we'd have some ships that the default attack command works with...

Oh, and thanks for the screenshots, know where I can find more?  I've been trying to modle these things off the book covers.  It's not going well :\

[karajorma]

It's not just a matter of scale. Trying to do HH in the FS2 engine makes about as much sense as trying to do a U-boat simulation.  (actually less sense!).

The physics are simply all wrong, not just the AI.

Like I said it just wouldn't work unless you did some sort of hybrid version that used FS2 physics. It wouldn't be remotely close to the book though.

IIRC there is a some guy making a freeware HH game. Unlike FS2 he's writing the engine from the ground up to take the high velocities and large distances into account.

[Akalabeth Angel]

Originally posted by terren
Guys, get back on the -ING subject already.  For all the problems your proclaming with the AI, it's just a matter of scale.

if M=KM then where's your problems?  and for once we'd have some ships that the default attack command works with...

Oh, and thanks for the screenshots, know where I can find more?  I've been trying to modle these things off the book covers.  It's not going well :\

    Here's a couple more pics:

http://theminiaturespage.com/news/888962/

    There might be more in the "more info" at the bottom of the article

[terren]

Originally posted by karajorma
It's not just a matter of scale. Trying to do HH in the FS2 engine makes about as much sense as trying to do a U-boat simulation.  (actually less sense!).

The physics are simply all wrong, not just the AI.

Like I said it just wouldn't work unless you did some sort of hybrid version that used FS2 physics. It wouldn't be remotely close to the book though.

IIRC there is a some guy making a freeware HH game. Unlike FS2 he's writing the engine from the ground up to take the high velocities and large distances into account.

Ah, physics my nemesis.  but still, you could use just the capships, against FS ships.  You'd kind of need fighters to take them down given the range and the damage those 'bomb pumped lasers' deal.  Just a question, has anyone had any luck building a bomb pumped laser?  that being a missile that launches a spread of long trailed shots in a cone at a target?  I realy just need to know if there's a way to make 'shots' shoot in a cone, the rest is not to hard, with the right skin on a missile.

Do you have a link to the HH game??  I've been looking for something like it for about  3 years.

[GT-Keravnos]

http://www.adastragames.com/products/adastra/sits.html

[karajorma]

Originally posted by terren
Do you have a link to the HH game??  I've been looking for something like it for about  3 years.

I was actually on about this. It's still a WIP though so don't get all excited yet.