[LuaPineapple]

As in, fix the uber battle between S. & C., fix beam-freeing so the cap-ships fire correctly, etc... ? It'd be interesting to see how a mission like that would turn out. 

[General Battuta]

There are a couple remakes floating around the forum. Try a search.

[Commander Zane]

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,61153.0.html
This fits the bill pretty well.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

It's been done quite a few times. Kazan has done it and finished it; I've tried doing it from scratch, but got bored and stopped, and who knows what else. There's even a multiplayer version!

[Mobius]

Their Finest Hour as it was meant to be ---> BoE

[Charismatic]

it was mean to be the way they made it rofl

but anyways, yeah there are several makes.

[Polpolion]

I liked Kazan's version the best.

[Sololop]

I went in and un-dsabled the collie once and it moved out of range of the Ravana. I guess they gave the collie waypoints, but when they added the Ravana they decided not to have them move.

I wonder why..

[Mongoose]

I'd settle for someone re-enabling the events that exist in the mission file but aren't activated, and tweaking the mission to work in turn...which I believe is pretty much what Kazan did.  Hell, I'd even put in a vote toward getting something like that into the MediaVPs, since it's presumably what originally intended to do with the mission until they couldn't get everything working before their deadline.  At the very least, it'd make the Colossus's refusal to jump out make a hell of a lot more sense than it does now.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

I went in and un-dsabled the collie once and it moved out of range of the Ravana. I guess they gave the collie waypoints, but when they added the Ravana they decided not to have them move.

I wonder why..

Maybe the battle became way too boring if the Colossus moved about.

[Narvi]

I find it more likely that they just ran out of time. They were on a deadline after all.

[karajorma]

I don't think they ran out of time to build the mission. The mission itself doesn't seem rushed.

To me it seems like they discovered a bug after the mission was finished and the only solution they had time for was a hack.

[nvsblmnc]

I think the main reason the collie doesn't maneuver is that in retail the pivot point on the model seems to determine where the dealth explosion propogates from.

In order for the collie to explode nicely, the pivot was set waaay back from the middle of the ship, thus the Baseball Bat of Doom^TM was born.

Don't know if SCP has changed this, but the model would almost certainly need the pivot repositioned if the big C was going to move around without looking silly.

[Mobius]

You forgot High Noon. It clearly shows that the current pivot placement is a very good one because it allows the Colossus to maneuver properly during the engagement.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Well, if you placed the pivot in the middle, you'll get the Quarterstaff of 0wnage...

[Commander Zane]

Expand the model another ten klicks or so and you get the Bo staff of Rapeage.

[Mobius]

Another post like that and we'll get the Hammer of HLP Ownage.

[Killer Whale]

Just a noob question, but what does BoE mean?

[Droid803]

Battle of Endor.
MASSIVE HUEG BATTL.

[Mongoose]

Battle of Endor.
MASSIVE HUEG BATTL.

More specifically in FS terms,  "Battle of Endor syndrome" refers to a mission with a large number of capital ships and/or fighters on both sides, in which the player's actions have little to no effect on the outcome; the mission essentially becomes little more than an interactive cutscene that plays itself out no matter what the player does.  There has been a great deal of discussion (and/or arguments) over the years as to how much effort is required to construct a truly good mission of this type, or if making a "good BoE" mission is even possible at all.  This old article by Zarathud from the long-defunct FreeSpace Watch site argues that such missions have inherent flaws that cannot be overcome, while the much newer wiki article takes a more positive stance.  (The discussion page on the latter has some interesting back-and-forth, too.)