[Fetty]

"gunships" would be more fun
they actualy move
you got a few forward facing guns/beams
rest is ai controle
that could be fun actualy

[Solatar]

Originally posted by StratComm


What, you would expect more than one person to fly the thing?

Pilot 1:  "Coming to port 25 degrees, hold her steady..."

Pilot 2:  "No, let's go left!"

Pilot 1:  "But I'm going right!"

Pilot 2:  "I want to go left!"

I thought port WAS left...

[kasperl]

mmm, another idea on the HUD problem, what about making all of the turrets appear as one subsystem, with the average damage of all the turrets?

[FreeTerran]

hmm.....
Thats a big problem and i think we fly better fighter and bomber not capships or ?

[J.F.K.]

The FL style, where you automatically fire with all guns which can face in the direction you point, is quite good. It would be nice if the rest of the turrets/guns (the ones that are out of range) would be slaved to the AI, to guard your back as it were.

[diamondgeezer]

Originally posted by Free Terran
i think we fly better fighter and bomber not capships or ?

Assuming I've translated this right, this is the smartest thing you've ever said...

[Towani]

Originally posted by Hippo
I made a mission for flying an orion... ships could leave MY hanger too, but beam damage would crash the game, and you can't warp out because the orion only hits 15m/s...

The Orion does warp out but it takes about thirty seconds. 15 to power up the jump drive, another 15 to get half way into subspace before the game decides it's time up and ends the mission.

[##UnknownPlayer##]

You know what we really need to do? Code a proper result for if you blow out a cap ship's drives when it's midway into a subspace portal. You know, make the portal collapse, a shockwave explode, some debris appear and for the game to register the ship as definitely killed.

[Sesquipedalian]

Now that is a good idea.

[Terorist]

Agreed. It might be a little tricky to code, though. (Correct me if I'm wrong.)

[Sesquipedalian]

Maybe, maybe not.  Right now the problem is that the engine doesn't really know how to handle that scenario.  The trick would really be only to tell it how.

I've had it happen that I disabled a ship after the warp-out sequence has begun.  The ship didn't proceed through the subspace aperture, but it already counted as departed.  The ship would sit there for a while in space, and then vanish.  Not so good, really.

[Terorist]

Yup, I've done the same. First time that I remember was from FS1, with a Lilith. I was expecting a pretty lightshow, but was disappointed. :-)

[Black Wolf]

Originally posted by Fetty
"gunships" would be more fun
they actualy move
you got a few forward facing guns/beams
rest is ai controle
that could be fun actualy

Muah ha ha ha ha....

[Translator]This can, and has been done. And Is very cool [/Translator] ha ha!

[Hippo]

Originally posted by Towani


The Orion does warp out but it takes about thirty seconds. 15 to power up the jump drive, another 15 to get half way into subspace before the game decides it's time up and ends the mission.

I docked mine to an isis, because its the only forward facing docker to an orion... freespace made the huge warp hole, but i only got partway before the timeout limit expired... looked funny tho... i'll try the fs1 version... mabey it'll work there...