The galaxy is not tightly packed. That is an illusion of the zoom distance. As you pull away from things, they appear to get closer together. Now, icons have a minimum size so that you can actually tell what things are so that, combined with zooming out makes it appear that they overlap. However, if you were somehow able to see the planets all at once without the icons (you can't in that picture because the meshes are less than a pixel big) you would see that they are no where near each other. Infact they are millions of meters apart.

like from NY to wash D.C.   

*plows thru frosts dreadnaught*
well wasn't that fun.

just keep in mind, uber-powerfulization creates balance issues.

No! You sank my dreadnought!
The Emperor will NOT be pleased... Perhaps an extended vacation is in order till he calms down.


That would be great! I love Star Destroyers, and while EAW is fun this looks to be better. I wonder if the game engine would allow the Deathstar to work its magic on the planets...

Yeah the Eclipse Super Star Destroyer made a brief and destructive appearance in EAW:FOC in the last mission. Unfortunately, they felt it would be to unbalancing to allow it as a regular hero unit. There was a mod that promised to put it in, but the mod never worked for me personally. (Probably my mistake somewhere, but I can't seem to find it.)

can it take out that "whole fleet?"

am I the ONLY staunch supporter of Democracy on this forum???

so long as they aren't invincible.

I.e. they really should have difficulty retreating and dealing with smaller units.

Hehe

It's not that it's in-game that makes it sound good, it's the fact that you become supreme leader that makes it sound good

Well you're right about that. Being on the other side of the equation certainly changes one's perspective. In GalCiv2 on the rare occasion where I've made a big enough mess of things that the senate refuses to allow me to go to war I wish I could change the government back to Imperial without taking the economic hit.

If you choked someone every time you lost a flagship you'd run out of officers right quick. Unless you stumbled across an Admiral Thrawn and stopped losing flagships.

I have no designs on your name lol. I'm just pretty sure a lot of pretentious players will try and pass themselves off as Emperor. Probably not as The Great Emperor.

(Re-reading it I in no way mean to insinuate pretentiousness on your part.)



Well, the flagship I was thinking of wasn't that much more massive then a normal dreadnought. Closer to one and a half times more massive.

Maybe players should be limited to a certain number of these units so as to make them more...epic. I'd really only want one, decidedly more powerful than a regular unit. To balance this you would of course have to put the resources into training and upgrading it. And yes, being more massive it would probably have a lower acceleration.

But the power of this ship (symbolic and actual) should set it apart from the run-of-the-mill dreadnought (and enhance the role-playing aspect of the game.)

By the way, is this game going to be star-wars-ish in having units with a max speed? Or are they going to have a max acceleration and (nearly) infinite top velocity instead?

Sweet! That will be a refreshing change.

And damn you reply fast!

I'm surprised they even try...

Thinking about why I'd like to see the Imperial Star Destroyer modded into SoaSE, I've realized that I really like the idea of a multipurpose capital ship. The Imperial Star Destroyer from EAW has the punch to go up against other capital ships, while providing its own fighter screen and bomber force.

That's really what I'd like to see, perhaps for the TEC. A capital ship that is a general purpose craft, like the SD was for EAW. Not smashingly powerful against capital craft. Not unbelievable against fighters or bombers.

But instead a balanced ship which in numbers can form the backbone of a fleet. That would fit with the TEC lore, strength through numbers rather than specialized deadly combat ships.

Well the balance may be a little tricky but it can be done. I want to stop referring to EAW but in it they managed to tackle it. One on one an Imp Deuce would have a hard time fighting a Mon Cal Cruiser. And its tie fighter and tie bomber complements weren't nearly as effective as x-wings or y-wings. They were however, very visually impressive.

And the game is going to be in beta soon, so if it were a practical idea this would be the time to test and balance such a ship. I'm sure by raising or lowering its firepower, shielding, and size of fighter/complement it could be made useful but not the game-killer you and I are afraid of.

Still it doesn't truly matter, I'd much rather see my idea of a "Flagship" then the general-purpose capital ship. I can always (try to) mod either in afterwards.