[WOLF_Angel]

Hey Guys,

I am not asking for an update on ANYTHING.  The forums here have been rather quiet the past month or so.  Which seems unusual.  The project is still alive right?

[zookeeper]

It's a bit of a quiet period, I suppose, after we got a lot done earlier this year. Most of the activity at the moment seems to be in the private forum and in irc (as usual), so the project's is certainly nowhere near dead even though it doesn't necessarily show in the public forum.

[chief1983]

Yeah, even Brand-X has been back recently and working on a couple of models, both of which are looking better each time I see them.

[CountBuggula]

Yeah, even Brand-X has been back recently and working on a couple of models, both of which are looking better each time I see them.

Yeah that ISD is looking quite drool-worthy.  Can't wait to see that one in-game.

[Dragon]

Maybe pics of WiP Millenium Falcon Brand posted on IRC a while ago could spark some interesting discussion.

[StarSlayer]

Maybe pics of WiP Millenium Falcon Brand posted on IRC a while ago could spark some interesting discussion.

Something along the lines of its too (wide,thin,tall,short,long,smooth,angular,blah,blah,blah,derp,derp,dur)

[Cypher]

Something along the lines of its too (wide,thin,tall,short,long,smooth,angular,blah,blah,blah,derp,derp,dur)

 

Yep, better bring the bread to go with the whine.

[CountBuggula]

Wait, Brand's got pics of an in-progress Falcon?  I wanna see!

[swashmebuckle]

Falcon Surprise
Thunder Stolen

[Snail]

How are you guys balancing the Falcon? More like a freighter or a bomber?

[TopAce]

We'll tell you once we have it in-game.

[chief1983]

Might depend on the instance.  A stock 1300 might just be configured as a convoy ship, but a rigged up smuggler's ship might be a bit more capable.  Dunno yet.

[StarSlayer]

Might depend on the instance.  A stock 1300 might just be configured as a convoy ship, but a rigged up smuggler's ship might be a bit more capable.  Dunno yet.

She got progressively more bad ass across the movies, the ANH she was like B-24, by RotJ she was dogfighting Squints with the best of them.  Funny enough ISDs seem to be deceptively swift as well though, in the first two movies they where pretty good at running down fleeing quarry.   

[CountBuggula]

Funny enough ISDs seem to be deceptively swift as well though, in the first two movies they where pretty good at running down fleeing quarry.   

Swift, yes.  Maneuverable, not so much.

[brandx0]

Yeah, that's one interesting facet of Star Wars (the movies at least, books sometimes get it right, sometimes wrong) that big capships are roughly as fast in a straight line as fighters, it's the maneuverability they lack

[newman]

Well, when you got 1.6km of pure armored awesome that's fast and covered with powerful weapons from every angle, augmented with hangar bays packed full of TIEs just waiting to launch and rip someone a new one, I guess you can live without maneuverability

[Leaph Chausew]

You have to wonder how long it'd take those ISDs to accelerate to those velocities, though.   I reckon, whilst possible to reach those speeds, it's probably deemed as tactically pointless in most scenarios, given the role of an ISD.

[CountBuggula]

You have to wonder how long it'd take those ISDs to accelerate to those velocities, though.   I reckon, whilst possible to reach those speeds, it's probably deemed as tactically pointless in most scenarios, given the role of an ISD.

I dunno...happened all the time in the movies, though usually when chasing the falcon.  That and it had no trouble at all overtaking a Corvette, which is supposedly fast as it's used extensively as a blockade runner.

[StarSlayer]

You have to wonder how long it'd take those ISDs to accelerate to those velocities, though.   I reckon, whilst possible to reach those speeds, it's probably deemed as tactically pointless in most scenarios, given the role of an ISD.

Everyone runs from ISDs so its in fact tactically sound.  It's why the Falcon's "attack run" on the Avenger in ESB worked, since Needa and crew where busy pulling up what to do in that situation from the ship's databanks.

[brandx0]

Well while I don't expect an ISD to stop on a dime, there's one bit that's very telling about the ISD's acceleration capabilities in RotJ.

The Imperial fleet is sent to the far side of Endor's moon, and ordered to wait.  The Emperor knew that the rebel fleet was coming, but didn't have any sort of time scale for that.  He simply knew they'd come.  From this we can assume that the fleet was at something approaching a dead stop.

When the rebel fleet arrives, within moments the Imperial fleet swings around the moon and is in engagement range.  While perhaps there was some dramatic editing involved, I can't bring myself to believe that the cut from "It's a trap" to the fleets engaging each other was a timelapse of several hours, so we know that the ISD (And, by extension, the Executor) can accelerate from nearly zero relative velocity to a very high speed within minutes, in order to swing around the moon so quickly.

Curtis Saxton did an excellent analysis over on his Star Wars Technical Commentaries site, and while his conclusions give some pretty massive capabilities of acceleration (In the order of thousands of Gs) which wouldn't work in a game environment, they still show that the ISD's speed and acceleration are nothing to be discounted. 

Of course, being able to turn in an entirely different story