[Stormkeeper]

I am going to make a capital ship mod for Freespace just out of spite of this thread.

[blowfish]

I am going to make a capital ship mod for Freespace just out of spite of this thread.

The reason I created this thread was because at the time, I had noticed a number of n00bs asking why we couldn't fly fs capships.  So I figured I'd just say it.

[chief1983]

I am going to make a capital ship mod for Freespace just out of spite of this thread.

o hai ill halp

[Stormkeeper]

I'll help test!

[ShadowGorrath]

I have a modified Fenris with shields, and player controled beam cannon and missile launcher. The cruiser is player controled.

[Grizzly]

If you want to fly capships, play Starshatter: The Gathering Storm! (Or X3: Reunion, but there it takes quite a while before you can get one... if you want to. A big capship in Unmodded X3 is not so special. With all the mods avaible you can actually put it to use...)

[Nuke]

I am going to make a capital ship mod for Freespace just out of spite of this thread.

its on nukemods to do list, but dont hold your breath, its at the bottom

[Flaser]

Hmmm....

I did something I rarely do: I didn't read the whole thread just the opening post, then said to myself - 'f*** this!

All said and all true - in Freespace.

Now go watch Crest of the Stars. I would love to pilot the Gosroth.

[Nuke]

the problem is not that its impossible, a bridge sim with interactive rtt control panels and an fps style walk around system. fire control, advanced communications, a tac map, point and click targeting, all possible. but it all comes down to how do we make it fun?

would make for some awesome multi-player, you would have team vs team games where each team operates a ship. one guy takes the helm, another takes fire control, another on flight ops, and so on. you could even go as far as having simple fps style combat. you get disabled then the other ship sends in the marines to take the ship, and you got to fight em at the hatch while your damage control gets the ship operational again. could probibly do a doomish sprite based character system. or model them if you're really good at making characters look real with only subobject animation. ive never modeled a character so i wouldnt know where to begin.

single player can start you out as something low level like a gunner and work your way up to command. but that seems an order of magnitude less interesting. id need more ideas on how to spice things up.

[WMCoolmon]

I am going to make a capital ship mod for Freespace just out of spite of this thread.

Call it "Why Flying Capships Don't Work".

(You can't use the whole thread title, I'm pretty sure there's a 32-character limit)

[JGZinv]

Yay for CotS/BotS. (Flaser gets it  )

Really you need basic systems control, nothing more.
Pilot, strategist (comms/ops/whatever), and gunners.
If need be, break the gunners down into banks for either separate lasers, flak, etc,
or give each gunner a laser cannon and a secondary for something else.

No one wants to be monitoring the oxygen levels in aft holding bay 9468, or
the espresso output of the mess hall. That's pretty much obvious.

Task the crewed ship with taking out waves of fighters, clearing a mine/roid field, chasing down
rogue ships to capture, going to broadsides with other heavy ships. Pilots are going to have to communicate
with gunners and ops, as well as know when to roll the ship and think about orientation of the enemy.

Ships could also act as carrier, just attach a hanger/platform and integrate a spawn on/in/around the ship.
Pilot and ops will have to decide when to give the green light to let pilots out, and where is the best place to release them.

[chief1983]

Yeah, think aircraft carriers/destroyers in BF1942.

[Colonol Dekker]

Bah, there'd always be some noobish TK on th flight deck of the Japanese carrier... I ran him over with a Zero every oppertunity i got....

But for a noob he wasa bloody accurate

[chief1983]

I was the engineer dropping C4 on my team's flight deck...every once in a while...

Normally I was the engineer sniping the noob TK'ers from the back of the boat.