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Not too much teasing in there - sounds like a substantive, serious update. Thanks! Standoff aside, I hope you all have a happy and indulgent holiday season. The Christmas music has hit the airwaves, so I think it's official.

Home stretch, guys! I mean, c'mon - wouldn't you rather spend New Year's differently than you did last time? ;) *projecting only the best thoughts at team Standoff*

Thanks, Eder!

I know the difficulty settings affect aggressiveness and AI, but I'm having trouble finding the threads that detail the numerical effects of the difficulty levels (I know they're around here somewhere, but I just can't locate them). Hero and Nightmare difficulty decrease the amount of damage...

Ok *ahem* "Guys! The sooner you finish, the sooner it's finally over and you can get back to your lives!!" ;)

Back when I was still playing Prophecy, I (like a lot of us, probably) tinkered with using different ships in Secret Ops using the ship editor. I noticed that the Thunderbolt could be maneuvered into Shelton slides very much in the style of WC1 and WC2 without using autoslide (which it didn't...

Dammit! I shouldn't have read your post! Now you've got me looping too. Dammit dammit. Thanks a lot.

Maybe a different texture for the launchers? Not sure someone would be using Scims as torpedo-carriers by default. Maybe rocket pods instead?

PS - that mining station renders quite nicely!

I think the turrets look a little *too* big. Like most of the interior of this ship would need to be huge reactors and capacitors to power those freaknormous guns. Ship design ends up looking a lot more like HMS Rodney than USS Iowa, given the turret placement. Just an opinion.

Gorgeous... the Exeter's always been one of my WC favorite capships. No idea what those cylindrical things are... I always imagined they might be launch tubes or capmiss batteries, but as far as I know, there are no official sources suggesting what function they might play.

there's also the issue of projectile speed, which matters in WC1, 2, and Prophecy, at least. All projectiles seem to have the same speed in WC3 and WC4. Other than differences in maximum range, projectile speed causes some guns to not play as well with the others when it comes to deflection...

The Thunderbolt's a fairly large fighter, so the cannon mounts here are probably a little too large/not quite to scale. Gun barrels in WC1 are huge, but by WC3, the guns are smaller and less prominent, usually integrated into the fuselage. Unless those guns are heavy tachyon, heavy ion...

Bryan Adams? :confused:

Wow. Fearsome. Hearing that come over the comms, I might even be a little too scared to laugh uproariously at "Bugs Bunny screws his mother!" in the middle of combat. Sounds great but comes across a little too clear - I always imagine combat comms sounding a little more scratchy. But if...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080201/sc_livescience/navytestsincrediblescifiweapon Say hello to our little friend, the mass driver cannon.

Bomber pilot: "C'mon, bugs, come to papa. You think I'm carrying torpedoes? Nope. All I've got are Pilums. Lots and lots of Pilums. Just a little bit closer..."

Thanks for taking the time to articulate it LOAF, it's appreciated. I think I get it now. Cheers, Toast

Looks like a cross between a Thunderbolt and a corvette! My vote's for Buccaneer, because it looks about the size of a Galaxy-class trader. All those civilian craft in Privateer were pretty huge, and the name fits a ship available to bounty hunters.

*laughs* Duly noted. He's still a WC fan, unreasoned criticism of Arena aside. That's all I'm saying, and as I'm still something of a relative newbie I'm still feeling out what's acceptable around here and what's not. It's not always clear, even when you and the other moderators take a...