[AndrewofDoom]

I worked so hard on the Nordera Blacksmith too. 

[Jellyfish]

'Blacksmith' I hear? A better version of the Battleaxe, I hope. Or one without the Hertak kill protocol.
Still, the parts of the image that weren't ambient_factor'd to oblivion look awesome.

Aestivals are green.

A light shade of green, and it was reflective. This is opaque dark green. Cordi green.

[Flak]

Any capital ships for the Zy?

[guitarfan01]

First off, welcome to HLP guitarfan01 

  Thanks!  I've been lurking on the Diaspora board (and before that, BTRL ...on the other forum) for years, but I have just recently come to explore the rest of HLP and FSO.  I'm just starting to play the 3.6.12 version of the retail FS2 campaign now, thanks to GOG.  I played TIE Fighter, X-Wing, X-Wing Alliance, Descent, Wing Commanders 3-Prophecy all when they came out, but never FreeSpace until now.

Cowboy music is pretty distinct/jazzy, its quite a bit different from the music used in WoD so far.
I do have a pretty much every track Yoko kanno made on my pc (just in a wierd .ape format, need to convert that) so I'm definitely going to be looking for tracks there

Aha, good news indeed!  I don't believe I've ever heard of .ape format.

[MatthTheGeek]

inb4 r.ape

[ssmit132]

And noone notices that its not a Battleaxe getting carved up

I worked so hard on the Nordera Blacksmith too. 

I noticed, I noticed! I just didn't say anything!

[-Norbert-]

Yoko Kanno really is a great composer. He (or she? I actually don't now) is for Anime what Jeremy Soule is for computer games.

[PsychoLandlord]

Nice Job Spoon. Had a lot of fun with the first WoD, eagerly awaiting this one.

[NGTM-1R]

And noone notices that its not a Battleaxe getting carved up

To be fair, it has nearly the same basic shape. We just thought it had bee massively prettified.

[Droid803]

True that.
The sidepods are on opposite sides though

[Dark Hunter]

Yoko Kanno really is a great composer. He (or she? I actually don't now) is for Anime what Jeremy Soule is for computer games.

She.

More of a fan of Yuki Kajiura's work myself, but Yoko Kanno is nothing short of amazing.

[Jellyfish]

I do know Yuki Kajiura (his/her work in Madoka and My-HiME were awesome) but Yoko Kanno goes right above my head.
What did she do?

[PsychoLandlord]

The way I hear it,  Everything, but the only thing I know she was involved in was Cowboy Bebop. Oh, and Macross Plus.

[Zacam]

First thought: Google it.

More Direct Answer: Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and other utterly awesome stuff.

Another artist to potentially look up: MELL

[PsychoLandlord]

Wow, she really has  done the music for everything. Or at least, everything I've bothered watching.

So Spoon, if it isn't revealing too much, how big are some of the battles in WoD2 going to get? You have a skill with throwing hordes of ships into a mission and not letting it turn into a BOE, which is awesome and I'm curious as to whether or not you were going to expand on that.

[-Norbert-]

More Direct Answer: Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and other utterly awesome stuff.

Don't forget Vision of Escaflowne. You can think of the series what you will, but the soundtrack is really great.

[NGTM-1R]

To be honest, I can't stand most of Kanno's work outside of her more well-known series.

[Spoon]

Wow, she really has  done the music for everything. Or at least, everything I've bothered watching.

So Spoon, if it isn't revealing too much, how big are some of the battles in WoD2 going to get? You have a skill with throwing hordes of ships into a mission and not letting it turn into a BOE, which is awesome and I'm curious as to whether or not you were going to expand on that.

Some of the new capital ships produce a tremendous amount of firepower on their own, So much that I'm afraid that I'll hit the object limit 
It's likely that on average, WoD2 will have less ships on screen than WoD1 did

[PsychoLandlord]

Aw. The BoE's (except good) were fun. But, you've already proven your abilities as a FREDer, so I'm sure that whatever you end up doing in WoD2 will be awesome.

[Spoon]

Thanks