[Solatar]

Nope, no end-mission sexp. This would help when the fifteen minute game is over. Anybody think fifteen minutes is a bad amount of time? It isn't too long, but it is short enough that you can hop in and finish a game while waiting for something.

[Goober5000]

It's a good amount of time.  But I especially want the end-mission sexp for the T-V war and UW campaigns.  Remember that fighters didn't even have intrasystem drives until past the midpoint of the T-V war (at least).  They were ferried everywhere by carriers.

This means that without an end-mission SEXP we'll have to do some crazy SEXP fiddling in every mission in order to get ships to exit into the fighterbay.

[Solatar]

Also don't forget, in the Unificatin War, the Faustus was a high end military cruiser, used for research, AND combat. They carried two fighters.

[Goober5000]

What does that have to do with this thread?

But while we're on the topic, yes, I am thinking of the Faustus in the same way. In fact, it figures significantly in my storyline of the UW (which is progressing nicely - still not done, but much headway has been made ).  It's a high-end cruiser, very expensive, and only used by the UNE and it's colonies, because that's the only faction which can afford them.

Except the Faustus is not a military cruiser.  The FS tech DB says that it is a civilian design, and as such, it should be devoted to research only, not combat.

[Solatar]

Wellm I guess tha GTFg Atropis will be our main combat ship.

[Goober5000]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking.

Clarify: does the Atropis or the Sovereign come first?  I assume that one is used during the UW, and the other is an upgrade that is rolled out just in time for the TVW.

[Solatar]

Atropis is in the UW, Sovereign is like the Leviathan in fs1, powerful, great, but not many in service until later in the war.

[EdrickV]

The "hidden" SEXPs:

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#ifdef NDEBUG
switch (Operators[i].value) {
case OP_WAS_PROMOTION_GRANTED:
case OP_WAS_MEDAL_GRANTED:
case OP_GRANT_PROMOTION:
case OP_GRANT_MEDAL:
case OP_TECH_ADD_SHIP:
case OP_TECH_ADD_WEAPON:
j = Num_op_menus;  // don't allow these operators in final release
}
#endif