Therax

I like these beams. Check out around 2:25. [link="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhZQEvg1V0Y"]Nexus 2 Tech Demo[/link]

I hate to resurrect this thread, but it's been two months, and given that Beta 4 is the feature-complete point for Sins, can we expect to see firing arcs make it in?

I'm with P5yy here. An income/expenditure flow system works great in Total Annilation and SupCom, but in those games there is only one scarce resource, mass/metal. (There is a second resource, energy, but in most games it plays a much smaller role outside of the first 5 minutes of a game.) Trying to track income/expenditure for 3 scarce resources as in Sins is a recipe for trouble. There is also the issue of depletion in Sins. Even if you do nothing, and your opponent does nothing, a

Putting significant UI work off until a patch is always risky. Sure, Stardock makes patching very easy with SDC, but there are still plenty of people who will buy Sins at retail, and wonder why feature X isn't present out of the box. Many review sources (including magazines) make it a matter of policy to review games as released, not as patched. I don't want to turn this thread into a debate on patch policies, so let me instead say that being able to choose unit facing at the end of a

[quote]Therefore, the AI for certain ships needed another special list to organize strikecraft and this new list had to take priority over various other criteria like attack type and armor type.[/quote] Is this logic special cased to flak frigates only? If so, that may explain why I'm having such trouble with bad targeting when I add anti-fighter weaponry to other ships (such as capital ships). The dual-list system should really apply to all unit weapons, and those that can't shoot

And just for the fun of it, here are some pictures of a very nice plastic model of a Lauth-class cruiser. ( http://yosiza.hp.infoseek.co.jp/seikai/gousurosu/gousurosu_1.html ) There are more on the page ( http://yosiza.hp.infoseek.co.jp/seikai/seikai.html ) for a pair of Roil-class destroyers (<a href="http://yosiza.hp.infoseek.co.jp/seikai/ba-suro

Version 0.03 has been released! This is a big one, here's the changelog: The buildable area around planets is now much smaller, representing the real space pocket inside the star system proper. This leaves a much larger area between the buildable region and the edge of the Sins gravity well where ships can engage in combat without being in range of planetary defensive structures. Line ships can also safely park in this region and fire their mines. This is intended to represent