[Marcov]

No.
Not in model shape, not in subsystem set up.
Not even a little bit.
Not even a little one.
Not even a hint.

A hint?

The GTEP Hermes escape pod is now standard equipment on every GTVA warship of cruiser size or larger.

[Scourge of Ages]

The GTEP Hermes escape pod is now standard equipment on every GTVA warship of cruiser size or larger.

Escape pods are typically integrated in designated "escape pod tubes" rather than a full docking bay. Think of the blockade runner from Star Wars and the pod that the droids escape on. Even though the Hermes is significantly larger, it most likely functions the same way. Don't ask me how to FRED it, but that's probably what that quote means.

[The E]

Pretty sure that's the way it was meant. Because there are no cruisers with fighterbays in retail either.

[Marcov]

Really? Where's this "tube" in the .pof file now?

[MatthTheGeek]

*sigh*

Can't we just all agree that the FS universe doesn't make sense and move on ? Those discussions are sterile.

[NGTM-1R]

Really? Where's this "tube" in the .pof file now?

With plate bolted over it to conceal the obvious weakpoint in the armor, duh.

[Aardwolf]

How do escape pods work, gameplay wise, when there is no fighterbay? Do they arrive "near ship", or what?

[MatthTheGeek]

If you mean in retail, escape pods are always launched from a fighterbay.

Aside from retail, well, whatever works for you.

[Scourge of Ages]

Aside from retail, well, whatever works for you.

You could theoretically (maybe) spawn an invulnerable pod inside the ship, and after the ship explodes it's released and de-invulnerabled.

[MatthTheGeek]

...logic dictates that you should evacuate the ship before it asplodes.

[NGTM-1R]

...logic dictates that you should evacuate the ship before it asplodes.

Most of the time you actually see escape pods they have to be protected from the shockwave anyways. It's not a terrible idea.

[mjn.mixael]

If you mean in retail, escape pods are always launched from a fighterbay.

Aside from retail, well, whatever works for you.

That's not entirely true.. unless the Faustus has a fighterbay I don't know about.

[MatthTheGeek]

The Faustus always had a fighterbay, since FS1 retail. And at least one recent campaign actually used it to transport Ulysses, because that's the only thing that seem to realistically fit in it.

[mjn.mixael]

There's no fighterbay on the FSU model.. I'm too lazy to check retail.

[MatthTheGeek]

You're right, it's not a fighterbay, as in fighterbay subsystem. It just has a bay path. Semantics.

[Mongoose]

I'd assume that the only reason the Faustus was given that path in retail was specifically for "Out of the Dark, Into the Night."

[Polpolion]

Aside from retail, well, whatever works for you.

You could theoretically (maybe) spawn an invulnerable pod inside the ship, and after the ship explodes it's released and de-invulnerabled.

in my experience very bad things happen when your starting using hacks like that. course if the big ship just dies and it's only a tiny escape pod it may not be a huge deal.

[HAZARDLEADER]

Ok maybe i should not have mentioned star trek because, this is freespace forums not star trek forums

[LordMelvin]

Ok, maybe I should not have mentioned Star Trek, because , this is these are Freespace forums, not Star Trek forums .

This is general freespace talking space, Hazard. You can post on pretty nearly anything you want to here, as long as it's even vaguely freespace, and, more importantly, you don't take yourself too seriously, but if you don't spellcheck or express yourself well, you're going to see some people cracking jokes about it, and posting a poll at random out of nowhere with no real explanation of why the subject is relevant to anything, ever... well it doesn't make much sense. And we mock what we do not understand.

[Black Wolf]

Ignore the grammar nazis.