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True. But it goes in the other direction too. The Epee got a lot better and doesn't fly at all like it did in WC2 either, but I'm guessing that nobody is complaining about that because it gives us another great ship to fly. A factor that wasn't relevant before (published length) is now very...

Huh. That's a good point. The X-Wings in the X-Wing games were properly modeled and scaled relative to all the other ships, so TIE fighters really could fly in between your shots. It didn't happen all that often, but it was still pretty annoying whenever it did.

No Raptors either, right? ;)

Clearly I stand corrected on a number of points. Thanks everyone, this is good reading...

Ah, thanks for the correction. I haven't read the novels, so to the degree they have anything to add about the PTC, I have no idea. Having sufficient power for the PTC under combat conditions could be a chronic problem for the Confederation-class, though. Given that it's a...

Amazing things are possible in wartime. Witness the scaleup of US fleet carrier production coming out of a major depression into World War II. Not to mention the raising and rebuilding of many of the battleships sunk at Pearl Harbor fast enough to get them out in time to participate in...

Hey, thanks for trying. I guess the "No Raptors were improved during the making" text in the credits is gone now? I haven't tried the Ep4 Raptor... I imagine it's not the WC1 Raptor by any means, but I'm at least curious to see what kind of a difference it makes... Scimitar... 25 meters...

As per previous discussion on the topic (several months ago?), this cannot really be solved by gun convergence alone. Flying the Gladius, the lasers are more useful at mid range than at point blank, since they're so far apart that small targets will still fly between them. The Raptor would...

Now that Sternenwind is playing again, what difference will it make? :D

Well, if you haven't played Homeworld 2, it's basically an RTS in 3D, not a flight simulator, so any mod of it would not be like the traditional games in the WC franchise, nor would it be like Arena. It is, however, very pretty and you can get some truly epic fleet vs. fleet capital ship wars...

That Gothri's really menacing. I think it's a way scarier-looking ship than all the asymmetrical pointy designs.

No argument about their theoretical roles :)

The Arrow's armament takes a little skill to use well against the heavies, yes, but it's more than adequate for any target. The Rapier lags far behind the Raptor in damage capacity because on full guns, the refire rate is very slow compared to the Raptor's. I see the spread between the Arrow's...

Slippery slope, huh. sigh... Yeah, the Raptor was the Thunderbolt of WC1, no question. But although storyline-wise, the Rapier is the Excalibur of WC1, I'd say the closer performance comparison for the Rapier is the Arrow. Nothing in WC1 is as overwhelmingly broken - I mean, dominating -...

It's quite possible that if you originally rescaled those ships, you'd have gotten some complaints. Someone *always* complains. But if you took a poll of the only people who would notice or care today (read: active WingNuts), it looks like there would be at least a majority in favor of...

Cool art is good :)

Maybe Roman Lynch. Go anywhere, buy anything, steal anything that can't be bought, fix anything, get away with it all, screw anyone, and never get caught.

Vicky, It's nice to have grandiose dreams, and WC is fun. No question about it. But most of us have jobs, and also don't have all the time in the world. There's a lot of information to be had in these forums and it is shared freely and willingly by most of us. But if we don't know...

Hello, Vicky. I think maybe one of Bandit LOAF's points is that right now, your ideas are mostly "trees," or worse, "leaves" and you don't have a "forest" yet. The concept you're pushing around right now just sounds like "just like Wing Commander, updated engine, all the missions." If that's...

Even the WC2 fighters were affected by the conversion. There's the Epee Gripes thread, for instance. The Epee fared very well from the conversion - now it's a tiny target and hardly gets hit. Even when it gets hit, it usually doesn't get hit with full guns unless you're doing a head-on pass...