[Sarafan]

A SHRUBBERY!

NI! NI! NI! NI!

 

has anyone tried to make a ship similar in usage to the whitestars from B5?? I mean i know they were not that powerfull or big when compared to many other stuff there but when put toghether in a formation or something 4-8 or more thy could take out almost anything out there.


also has anyone noticed in one of the B5 movies that Sheridan says at some point that the firepower on theyr new destroyer thingy...(cant remember the name) was not that much greater then an "average" whitestar....! Does that mean they had different tipes of whitestars some more powerfull some less??


Anyway something like that would really be usefull. They would be able to operate in groups and take on enemy cruisers corvettes and even destroyers without the presence of big capships.


Sure they would be very very expensive but then again they would be worth it! I mean they also must have shields....and refeltive tipe armour as in B5!

A gunship, so to speak? I guess it could be usefull.

[akenbosch]

ahem...steve-o's Thor. it was a reference for gunships in my list.

[TrashMan]

NI! NI! NI! NI!

find ye greatest oak in the woods...and chop it down!..With a HERRING!

A gunship, so to speak? I guess it could be usefull.

I has made one some time ago...If my memory serves me it was mosly for escort duties...like a shilded mini-cruiser.. a few mekhu turrets and 2 cyclops launchers (alltough I guess i should change that to make it more usefull against capships...hmm.. M-10 torpedos! )

[akenbosch]

gunships are usualy just bombers with the focus put on primary weapons (GUN ships). so yes, the whitestar and thor are the best examples. trashmans sounds like a manueverable assault bomber.

[jr2]

If it hasn't already been suggested...




(wikimedia.org)



Originally this plane was designed as an interceptor... but it was too fast for it's weapons!

EDIT: Awesome overview of the engines.

[akenbosch]

oh for the love of a frawrkwig...


http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,48835.msg991173.html#msg991173

please, everyone, read that. then suggest things that arent on that list.

[TrashMan]

gunships are usualy just bombers with the focus put on primary weapons (GUN ships). so yes, the whitestar and thor are the best examples. trashmans sounds like a manueverable assault bomber.

Not really...it has no gun/misisle points...everything are turrets. I'ts basicly a mini-cruiser

[Grizzly]

Cloaking technology
Dreadnaughts (New name for the super jug?)
Ejector seats for fighters
Ship to ship torpedoes, (more powerfull misiles)
Indeed, gunboats.
Herrings.
A Mjolnir that actually has anti-fighter turrets as it says in the Tech Room briefing.
Something different then an Arcadia installation. more variaties in installations.
Fighter based weapon that goes trough shields (off-course, there have to be bad side effects for that one)
And I disagree with Aken Bosch that all beams should be converted to slashers, I think  all slashers should be converted to beams.

[Mobius]

Dreadnaughts (New name for the super jug?)

In FreeSpace, or at least in Inferno, Dreadnought stands for "Mega-Destroyer"(SODn Solaris).

Ejector seats for fighters

They already appear in many campaigns...

A Mjolnir that actually has anti-fighter turrets as it says in the Tech Room briefing.

The Mjolnir is supposed to have AAA batteries. The problem is that the developers forgot to add them...

[MrBig101]

A mass driver, perhaps?  Who needs beams when you can go all David and Goliath and shoot a huge rock at those pesky shivans?

[Grizzly]

Alpha 1
Alphaÿ 1
Alphaü 1
Alphaë 1
Alphaä 1
Alphaé 1

and so on...

[Snail]

That would be

Alpha 1
Alphaÿ1
Alphaü1
Alphaë1
Alphaä1
Alphaé1

Or else it would look like Alpha  1.

[colecampbell666]

 
That last one changes the pronunciation.

[Agent_Koopa]

That last one changes the pronunciation.

Uh... no. If you didn't know, those extra characters are unprintable; they show up as blanks in FS2, even though the font itself can display them. They're used to create several ships in-game with the same name, to represent a ship jumping out and jumping in again.

[Mobius]

They're useful in cutscenes. In mission cutscenes!

That last one changes the pronunciation.

They all change the pronunciation.

[Polpolion]

Ejector seats for fighters

They already appear in many campaigns...

There is actually no canon evidence for or against ejection seats in FS, or at least to my knowledge.

[akenbosch]

the pilots eyeballs would pop out, followed by a good deal of their insides.

why? they're not wearing space suits, just thermal flight suits and oxygen masks! (command thought the indestructible cockpits of FS would be fine for keeping the vacuum out and the air in)
 

[jr2]

Eh?  How do you know that the suit's helmet visor doesn't auto-close?  The rest looks like a normal suit. 

[akenbosch]

because you see no evidence of a visor in the head.anis/fs1 intro cutscene

[AlphaOne]

so then in a game where you get blown to pieces by multi megaton missiles you actualy care weather or nor you can see a helmet vizor or not! Whats the point???

you turn to ashes the second your fighter/bommber explodes for gods sake.


Also even GTVA command is not that retarted so as not to order space suits for its pilots.

The fact that we do not see them does not mean they are not available. For all we know they could be using some sort of force field instead of a normal glass or something vizor. The same tipe you see in the fighterbay. No doors there as far as i can tell but a ratehr powerfull forcefield