So, Mars, in your opinion, what is the biggest logical error and FS. And explain away to me the "small" leap of faith that would be needed to explain away the tech discrepency.
The physics, by far, is the biggest problem with the FS universe, followed by jump node inconsistancies
The small leap of faith? We can assume there's a good tactical reason why beam cannons aren't in most Shivan ships in FS1. What that reason is could be several things: maybe it inhibits their mobility (time between jumps?) and the Lucifer fleet is an advance fleet, maybe it takes away their ability to use unstable node, it can be explained by many different things
I understand your physics argument, but FS is not at all unlike many other space shooters, so in that regards I don't consider it a big problem. I think FS would have been better if ship and weapons base velocities would have been a whole lot higher though, but I'm not that upset by the lack of Newtonian physics. The jump node inconsistancies bother the hell out of me though, especially for campaign writing.
However, I don't agree with you small leap of faith. There's no evidence that says that the Shivans in FS2 couldn't have used unstable nodes. In fact, they probably did. It is widely accepted, and is near canon, that what we saw at the end of FS2 was that when the Sathani made Capella go nova, it created a "supernode" that allowed them to travel to great distances, possibly to another galaxy, universe, or even another dimension. This "supernode jumping" technology is probably very similar unstable node jumping, and the same technology is probably what allowed Lucifer fleet to get to T-V space in the first place. Also, if having beam weapons hinders their ability to use unstable jump-nodes, why did the Lucifer have beam weapons? The Lucifer used such unstable jump nodes, did it not? So that theory is shot before it could even begin.
But that's only talking about the beam weapons. The inconsistancy problem is thus: In FS2, all Shivan and GTVA ships had three seperate weapons systems: beam cannons, anti-fighter beams, and flak guns. In FS1, no ships had them except the Lucifer, and it only had what we might imiginatively call beam weapons. So the problem is, how did ALL of them have essentially the same exact technology when they re-encountered eachother.
I'll give you some explanations and show you how they're illogical. The first one I just talked about, the node thing. Second one, the Shivans want to be "good sports" and not have technology that would be "unfair" so battles are more "balanced." Not logical, because, what's the deal with the umpteen million Sathani? Obviously that's overkill compared to the GTVA's one Collossus. And if the Shivans wanted to be good sports, what's the deal with the Lucifer itself? If they really wanted to be good sports, the Lucy wouldn't have shields or flux cannons in the first place, nor would they be so upset about the GTA learning how to track ships through subspace, so we can kill it. So, I see no evidence that the Shivans were trying to be "good sports."
Thirdly, what if the GTVA simply developed these weapons out of their own volition, and decided to equip them on all their ships. The Shivans, who have all kinds of weapons laying around, since by now they should have invented just about anything, decided to equip themselves with the same weapons. This is similar to the "Shivans were being good sports" theory. Firstly, this is bogus, because in reality, technology that is not used is forgotten.
Example: Did you know that humans invented the steam engine before the birth of Christ? It was invented in Alexandria, Egypt by some famous philosopher or another. Anyway, it wasn't used because it was thought to be unnecessary because of all the cheap slave labor that existed at the time. It took almost 2000 years when slavery was being abolished, for the steam engine to be reinvented again. So, if the humans did invent these weapons on their own, the Shivans are unlikely to have them lying around themselves. Also, if this theory is true, then the Shivans should have countless other weapons lying around that we haven't even thought of. How did the Shivans guess to use anti-fighter beams and flak guns specifically, to match the GTVA, when they could have used anything else? Remember, the Shivans and the GTVA are supposed to be completely isolated from eachother during the interim.
So, no small leap of faith that I have yet seen can be used to explain away the tech discrepency. So, some other method should be used. However, you do have a point, Mars, and that is changing FS1 may be a bit too drasctic of a fanfic method to try to explain the tech discepency. So, I'm afraid I'm going to have to scrap this mod.
Sad, my first mod was a complete failure.
However I do want to resolve this tech discrepency, and I think I have an idea of how to do it by, instead of changing FS1, simply creating an add-on campaign that takes place during the Great War, but after the events of FS1 and Silent Threat. I'll post my idea later, so I can give you guys a chance to digest what I just said, but I'd like you to chime in on my idea to create a campaign as a fanfic way to explain away the tech discrepency.
