[Black Wolf]

http://www.sectorgame.com/forum/ikonboard.cgi?s=3f9fee9b758dffff;act=ST;f=13;t=571

Something I was thinking about earlier. If anyone has a compeeling reason against this, I'd love to hear it.

(Seriously, I would. I'm not being sarcastic - it strikes me as odd that V would make such an obvious (in hindsight anyway) story error)

[Goober5000]

We're adding carriers to fill that role.  As opposed to Inferno, our conception of the carrier is a big, fast, lightly-armed box exclusively for carrying fighters.  Capital ships are only used in rare instances.

As far as making a separate fleet for each solar faction in chapter 1, that'd be pretty much impossible from where we stand now.  It took us a full year to scrounge up enough ships for one faction; unless we get a modeller willing to churn out Terran fighters like hotcakes, we'll be using the same ships for every faction.

[Woolie Wool]

You can always steal some OTT ships.

[Goober5000]

No, because they're not in the pre-FS1 style.  Very few ships out there are.  We've basically had all of ours custom-made, and anyway we prefer to use only unique mods.

[Flaser]

...though IMHO we could make it so they have different paintjobs.

If you want to help, you're more than welcome.

It would be a big ordeal though to make some new ships - less to make variations of existing ships, though it would be still a big job.

[Taristin]

...Do you think that the GTA would use atmospheric vessels in space at some point?  I.e., using fighters specially equipped/retrofitted to maneuver in space? Because if so...

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,18484.0.html

[Eishtmo]

I actually did note this issue, and yes, we will have carriers.  There are at least two designs for the Unification War period, one of them actually lasted well into the the 14 Year War proper.

[Taristin]

Which issue? Mine? Or the carrier thing?

[Goober5000]

The lack of carriers issue.

[Kosh]

This might be somewhat off topic, but I was reading the tech room descriptions on the FS1 port and it said that the Typhon first showed up 2 years into the TV war.

[Goober5000]

No, that'd be two years before the war ended.

[Antares]

Will we be seeing the Angel scout fighter in TVWP?

[Solatar]

Yeah, it'll be in there. Look in this forum, it's around here somewhere, along with a bunch of other ships.

[GT-Keravnos]

How about a modern naval like carrier?

[Taristin]

Sea vessels in space!

[Flaser]

Hmm...I doubt if the Yamato would fit well into the FS genre.

[phreak]

anyone want to replace the volition bravos with an Iowa-Class?

Well heres my thoughts on this topic:
If its fun, I don't really care if its canon or not

[Goober5000]

Piccie?

For the time being, we have enough models... it's FREDders we're now searching for.