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Offline Martinus

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[color=66ff00]The FSUpgrade project needs a destroyer, the destroyer will be the main focus of the campaign. As the FSUpgrade is a community project we're looking you guys to submit drawings, meshes, models, whatever... of something you think both looks asthetically pleasing and looks like it can kick a bit of ass. :nod:

The destroyer should have the following characteristics so try to make your design reflect this:

1. It's about 2 km long (aprox. orion length).
2. It's fast (sleek? Large engines? You decide).
3. It carries anti capship torpedos.
4. It should reflect a mixture of Vasudan and terran design.
5. It's a prototype with ablative armour of sorts, this can be conveyed in textures or in geometry but since we're working with HT&L in mind your poly count can be quite high.

So submit your designs, the more detailed the better but everything is welcome, you might just see that destroyer you had been imagining in Freespace in high poly glory. :)

UPDATE: due to much confusion (partially my fault) I must stress that beam weapons are still the main FS capship weapons type in the upgrade, they will not be replaced by torpedos which are intended as an additional weapons system.
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Offline Shrike

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Torpedoes?  Heresy.
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Offline Martinus

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[color=66ff00]Remember that heretics were often those that defied the norm and made progress where those ruled by dogma could not. ;)
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Offline Ashrak

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uhm do you mean.....star trek torpedoes (OH YEAH BABY!) or starlancer torpedos (THOSE SUCK!!!)
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Offline Kamikaze

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*suggests this be stickified*

EDIT: Nevermind. I need to RTFP.
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Offline Sheepy

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Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]As the FSUpgrade is a community project we're looking you guys to submit drawings, meshes, models, whatever... of something you think both looks asthetically pleasing and looks like it can kick a bit of ass. :nod:[/color]
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The things sticking out of the side are broadside torpedo mounts :p
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Offline Singh

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whoa.....now THAT is a ship a navy ought to be proud of!
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Offline Shrike

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Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]Remember that heretics were often those that defied the norm and made progress where those ruled by dogma could not. ;)
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Here's a hint.

Freespace warships have beam cannons.
Freespace warships lack torpedo launchers.

Which do you think is more appropriate for an upgrade to Freespace?
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Offline Singh

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The Colossus had better beam cannons and see how well it did.....
I think Torps would be a better option, if they moved much faster or had greater range than the ones currently in use.
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The problem with torpedoes or missiles of any kind is that, no matter how fast they are, they can be shot down. (If they couldn't they would be called railguns :p)
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Offline Shrike

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Originally posted by Singh
The Colossus had better beam cannons and see how well it did.....
I think Torps would be a better option, if they moved much faster or had greater range than the ones currently in use.
Yes, against the warship with the giant-ass beam cannons of ultimate death that can blow up Orions in a couple seconds.  :rolleyes:

Torpedoes are not Freespace.  So why are you putting them on the main ship of the Freespace upgrade project?
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Offline TheCelestialOne

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Maybe they changed their minds? Maybe they found a way to effectively utilize torpedoes. I mean if you can create something similar to Photon/Quantum torpedoes it'd be a helluva lot better then the missiles the ships are currently armed with or even certain laser turrets. The increase in speed would be incredible ;)
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Offline mikhael

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Didn't we have a few torpedo intercept missions?

Seriously though, I have to agree with Shrike on this one, and you lot should know how much I hate to agree with him on anything. The future of Freespace would assuredly be with beams. If capships used any self propelled ordinance of any sort, it would be large volleys of standard missiles (and even that I don't really see, though I think we should ;))
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Offline Bobboau

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freespace == beams
freespace == no_torpedos

the type of munition is not in the general stile of FS

and what about the big distroyer I made and put in that one thread
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Offline Carl

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Originally posted by Bobboau
no_torpedos


dude, seriously, you need to take a break from unix.


and be careful how fast you make it. when i was making the borg cube, I wanted it to go nice and fast like on Star Trek, but they wouldn't fight because they zoomed by too quickly.
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Offline Kamikaze

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Nah, it's just that he's a C coder.

Of course, similarly you know a person is a Java coder if they keep TalkingInWierdCapitalization or LISP if they use-absurdly-long-and-descriptive-hyphen-linked-thingers. Perl coder if they keep talking about their $home and $dog and their $wife then suddenly lapse into wierd symbolic speech, "$%/$%#@)&$)&@%#(*&@#%&_".
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Offline Shrike

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Originally posted by TheCelestialOne
Maybe they changed their minds? Maybe they found a way to effectively utilize torpedoes. I mean if you can create something similar to Photon/Quantum torpedoes it'd be a helluva lot better then the missiles the ships are currently armed with or even certain laser turrets. The increase in speed would be incredible ;)
If you want to do that for your own private campaign, more power to you.  But presumably the FS upgrade project is supposed to follow the lead set by Volition as much as possible and using a minimum of creative liscence in doing so - which means warships are armed with beams, not torpedoes for their antiship firepower.

I have to ask, why torpedoes?  Why are you making such a drastic shift in armaments?

Mik, you're probably thinking of Piranhas, which are handy for short-range defense.
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Offline Black Wolf

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There were no beams in FS1. If we'd been having this discussion 4 years ago, people would probably be saying "No. The Shivans use beams. The GTVA uses Plasma Cannons."

Just a thought...

[EDIT] Keep in mind also, that the Collossuses big beams had massive heat dissipation problems - perhaps the GTVA couldn;t counter this in massive weapons and turned to torpedoes?

Out of curiosity, is there any reason the destroyer can't have both? It fires BFGreens (or an appropriately upgraded variant) until heat dissipation becomes a problem, and then switches over to its torpedoes?
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