[Flipside]

I think the problem is that the [V] nebula was never designed to be seen from the outside. If I read the ASCII art right, it just doesn't work that way, you end up being able to see things that are miles away whilst bumping into your wingmen almost.
I still think particle emitters and volumetric fog are the way to go, but I'm pretty sure that V-Fog is only supported by DX9 cards. And I'd also hazard a guess that we can completely forget about something like that until HT&L is more implemented.

[Fry_Day]

Actually, V-Fog can be done just fine by DX8-class cards. And for some reason the M$ V-Fog example isn't working on my Radeon 9800 Pro. Excersice to self: fix it.

[Terorist]

Interceptor Weapons
The Babylon 5 project should love this.

You bet.
Has anyone tested this yet? There was talk about performance hits etc. and having so many targets to track, seen any bugs? I suspect there can be some, just like having too many asteroids in mission makes some ships let weapon shots through them as the collision detection system got too much work.

At the moment I'm thinking of adding something in so you can say in the tables whether or not the interceptor shoots at fighters and such. To make them have a chance of shooting down fast moving missile and lasers interceptors are also about x4 more accurate.

Interceptors shoot at fighters etc, that is, work in offensive roles as well as in defensive - just like in the show. There's probably some need for AI stuff, so that a ship attacking aggressively doesn't bother intercepting incoming shots and uses it's interceptors for offence as well. Normally incoming shots should be prioritized over fighters in targeting.

[_argv[-1]]

Originally posted by Flaser
_argv[-1] I think Robin's system is better, since it doesn't deal with flags instead it lets you customise each ship giving them their own apropiate strenghs and weaknesses.

Pardon? Which of my flags do you not like?

[Flaser]

Originally posted by _argv[-1]


Pardon? Which of my flags do you not like?

Your flags are great and fine.

It's the flag system based ship distinction that I don't like from the begining.

[Descenterace]

Hmmmm, some good ideas here for my Quantum Reality game engine.  I'm impressed with the Beam attenutation, but I thought the idea of Beam Cannons is that the energy doesn't attenuate that much...

[Bobboau]

it was mostly for fighter beams, but think about it even for capships, if you've got a ship that is 40,000 meters away you're not going to have the same punch as if it was 4 meters away, also there is (or there was last time I looked at it, phreak disabled the damage attenuation about a month ago for some reason) code that sets the end of the beam as being dark so it seems to fade, but it takes into acount the length of the beam so when it hits something the beam won't sudenly get dim

[ChronoReverse]

And the best part is that this is a good way to set a beam range.  It's better than having the beam extend to infinity or disappear suddenly.  Speaking of which, is it possible to do something like this for primaries, other than it'll slow things down since the bolts go further and last longer?

[_argv[-1]]

Originally posted by Flaser
It's the flag system based ship distinction that I don't like from the begining.

What's wrong with it? What would be better?