Destraex

Just looking at the fleet pics and the fleet spacing/formations look a bit strange. I envisaged a homworld style all round defence formations. Sort of like a flat sphere. These ships look like they are travelling in ship type blobs rather than spread and balanced to support? Perhasps formations are to come?

i'd just like to be able to rename ships and fleets. Just the Text would do. It would be funny to see your friends custom named fleet enter the area. The "7th Heavy" have arrived to assist the fight for instance But then again I also want a little more flexability with badges and paintjobs. It just adds so much class and longevity to a game like this.

Now your talking, all of the above is welcome. Great read.

Do you reckon that those turrets can fire in the vertical plane?

you sure there was no shrapnel?

As long as their is force to start the flak pieces traveling, they will keep on going. Theoretically there would be systems on cap ships to protect against any impacts at all. Otherwise they all mayaswell be big fat one shot one kill targets if hit by anything. Consider how fast things would travel without terminal velocity. Offcourse once the acceleration forces of the explosion stopped that would be your top speed. Don't quite know what kind of armour you would need to stop a projectil

Another aspect of no gravity and the 3D vectors is the ability of a ship to spin in various directions to fire while not affecting its heading. I think the code may even be there (or hopefully released) for real 3D physics as it was in Alpha game. In any case great to hear that you are starting on the mod. One Idea I would have would be a very strong emphasise on the culture takeover, as the influence of chaos takes planets by subversion

maheshjr, the easiest way to put it is that you can attack one ship with 100 times the ships in a 3d plane as you can on a 2D plane. There are many ways to surprise and many more ways to look for a surprise. You can also have infinetly more complex strategies and formations in a 3D plane. For instance in space you may have a wall of ships, on the sea (2D) you will only have line abreast. Its much easier to bring numbers to bear in space. If you were a commander in space would you lin

this is the only thing I did not like so far. There is no real 3D in the tabletop game, the explanation below I do not agree with. 3D gives the ability for many ships to attack from many more directions than the 2D plane does. This makes a single ship much more vulnerable to attack and demise faster than the 2d chokepoints offered by land combat. However I imagine for a space computer game, games workshops would take a different approach. A Computer game can handle the complexities of 3D combat.

I think this game is perfect in every way for a Battlefleet Gothic mod. THere is so much source material for this and so much character to the universe. Apparently the Battlefleet Gothic rules are available as a free download, which is unusual for Games Workshop. here are the rules http://www.specialist-games.com/battlefleetgothic/rulebook.asp http://www.star-ranger.com/BFG.htm For those of you who have never heard of Battlefleet Gothic http://us.g

Kenetor I wanto see that battlefleet gothic mod, that would be the hugest thing. Dawn of War is still a game I play regularly with friends and that universe is soooo good. No fancypants good guys in that one

anymore pics stressman?

Well that makes it easy.

spore looked good originally as a concept, looked scientific and realistic now its a cartoon with monsters :(

it was too! If its not wireless I may consider it.

oh and Yarlen. Thanks for replying to my email even, since the idea was half in jest. 1Spartan I must look into this G15. I do own a HOTAS Cougar though, for my flight sims.... I bet its better than your G15 :D

I think you should just include all ships and races, then only get the better ships once you reached the top tier of research for them. Older ships would be available straight away. That way you can play any combination.

ok, free g15 keyboards for everybody that purchased sins!!! You lucky bugger 1Spartan!

Good ideas, but like in silent hunter 3 can you see what the tracks are in game?

nope lol

i will try it..... thanks he did see me as a different colour though, and we were allies

i think then he is colour blind He swears he was green, and all i could see was purple. Don't even think many colour blind peeps could think that though. Team colours could fix it, but then its hard to find ones own ships and gear? i will take your word for it that if he chooses green I see green

ok cool, will try ctrl, seems easiest. I will just remember the enemies as i should One other thing, played a game tonight and it seems that my friend thought he was one colour and he turned up another on my screen?

Just playing another game and two things seem to stand out. When ships are jumping and performing other actions it is hard to read the stats while holding the mouse over Also is their a function for identifying enemy players/ships in game. Or is it just by memory of the diplomacy panel?

It was really just in jest. Its a running joke with the guys I LAN with... the guy I'm talking about is a muso and he obviously loves his music, thats all. He requested that I ask.... although I know its not gonna happen. I also think that an ingame MP3 player is an awesome idea though. For really long games you can listen to docos aswell as music. Catchup on your RSS streams. Stuff like that, while being able to skip, fast forward etc. Alt-tabbing linda spoils everything ju