[Eishtmo]

Quantity has a quality all its own.

[Taristin]

I'd have to argue that these more turrets makes the game more how it should be. Where fighters arent matches for capital ships at all. In fact, a fighter enterring a cap ship's range would be a deadly stupid idea like this. Taking ot a turret on them would be even more of an accomplishment.

[TrashMan]

If you ask me what should be done is the following:

1. Double the damage of every missile weapon in the game.

2. Double (or quadripple) the size of every missile (or halve/ cut by 1/4  the bank capacity)

3. Increase ROF of laser turret oin capship

4. Increase damage and range for anti-capital lasers/missiles

5. Give capship lonb-range anti-fighter missiles

6. Increase fighter speed by at least 20%

[Jonathan_S47]

You can’t really mess with the speed of the ships. Anything over 100 m/s and the AI starts to have problems.

[TrashMan]

It can handle up to 140..alltough that's pushing it -* not only for hte AI but for the player allso

120 for the fastest fighter IS a 20% increase and it manages ot handle that...

[Trivial Psychic]

To be fair to J_S47, I too increased the number of turrets on the Fenris/Leviathan on my HDD...

Fenris, with 12...


And the Leviathan with 16, since it should have more guns than a Fenris...

You gonna make those available for download? 

[Raptor]

You gonna make those available for download? 

I would right now, except FileH appears to be down ATM.

[aldo_14]

If you ask me what should be done is the following:

1. Double the damage of every missile weapon in the game.

2. Double (or quadripple) the size of every missile (or halve/ cut by 1/4  the bank capacity)

3. Increase ROF of laser turret oin capship

4. Increase damage and range for anti-capital lasers/missiles

5. Give capship lonb-range anti-fighter missiles

6. Increase fighter speed by at least 20%

Albeit it wouldn't actually be Freespace then, but something else.   i'm quite fond of the overgunned, stupid dangerous ships idea myself, the only problem is that I'd feel obliged to have a big 'I know this isn't really correct but it's cool' disclaimer when actually using it.

[Scooby_Doo]

Check out my cap ships and their turrets,  while not as many as you have, they fire much faster and dual barreled.  They don't do a whole lot of damage individually, but they do add up.  Oh and set FOV to about 1, nothing quite as scarey as bolts flying past your face GACK!

[Mars]

You know, if somone did for the Orion what TP has done for the Fenathan cruisers, I would love them forever.

[TrashMan]

How many turrets would you like?

[Mars]

Just enough to bring it up to FS2 standards, so about 30

[Raptor]

Just enough to bring it up to FS2 standards, so about 30

Go for 36-38.  That way the tech description just needs to be altered to say '...over three dozen death dealing turrets...'

At least, that's what I'd do...

[Mars]

We don't want to make it too much better than the Hecate, which, after all is supposed to be better than the Orion.

[Trivial Psychic]

You know, if somone did for the Orion what TP has done for the Fenathan cruisers, I would love them forever.

I did nothing.  It was Raptor, and he already made an up-gunned Orion, back before Bob's Hi-poly version, but it has better-looking turrets than the standard.

[Jonathan_S47]

His turrets also behave better than the ones on Bob’s Orion and even the :V: original. The Orion had a problem where the turrets would fire just fine for a few seconds then suddenly quit and do nothing. Raptor’s Orion had no trouble with them.

(A shot of things to come and, please ignore the cheep muzzle flashes. They were just put in quickly for testing reasons.)

[Raptor]

Ah... nice to see someone using my up-gunned Orion, even with the persvaive infulance of Bob's 'Busy Bee' Orion!  Or is that one where you've borrowed the turret models and added new ones to the ship?

No, I'm not really a fan of Bob's HTL upgrade.  I did actually start work on my own, but I was told to abandon it.  Partly because I was trying to 'balance' the two sides to have equal mass each side of the engines.

[pecenipicek]

Ah... nice to see someone using my up-gunned Orion, even with the persvaive infulance of Bob's 'Busy Bee' Orion!  Or is that one where you've borrowed the turret models and added new ones to the ship?

No, I'm not really a fan of Bob's HTL upgrade.  I did actually start work on my own, but I was told to abandon it.  Partly because I was trying to 'balance' the two sides to have equal mass each side of the engines.

you shouldnt have abandoned it. that way people would have two different ships to choose from. bobs orion is both too busy and too dark to have that feeling of the good ole orion. perhaps an orion mkII, but it isnt really nice right now.

[Mars]

Weren't there 5 HTL Orions running around at some point?

[Raptor]

you shouldnt have abandoned it. that way people would have two different ships to choose from. bobs orion is both too busy and too dark to have that feeling of the good ole orion. perhaps an orion mkII, but it isnt really nice right now.

Well, I'm pretty sure I still have the scene file containing it.  I did at one point start turing it into a 'dreadnought' - reduce fighterbay for more armour & guns, but then I restarted work on my Hera...

Here's the thread where I was posting my work:
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,38542.0.html