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@Destraex: I didn't mean to go off on such a tangent as I was seeing the above posts people made and I thought I'd throw some good mods in there. As for FL, yes, it does feel like a "real" capital ship. We've worked a lot on getting the sluggish and "weighted" feel to them. In addition to this, we've made player ships dockable, so an ISD can carry its own fleet and then deploy them in different systems. Futhermore, we’ll have a “hyperspace&rdqu

@Destraex: Seeing some of the games named here, like XWA, people were touching on different areas. I thought I'd dive in a bit more of the area of fighter simulation. As for capitals, you can fly them in FL. @Rackjabbit: If you liked XvT, you'll like FW 2. We're trying to repro

You need to have a scout in your fleet as they're the only objects that I think can view mines. What I do is put the scounts ahead of my fleet and then let my collective group knock down the mines when the scout reveals mines. It does takes sometime, but i gets the job done. I hope they're thinking about putting a mine sweeping fuction in for one of the vessels to speed up the process. As it does take some time to do it this way.

All of those games you listed Daton, are very good in their own right. I've played almost all of them. One I think you guys forgot to mention was Freespace 2, which is open source. There has been a tonne of work done on the engine and its led to some AMAZING space fighter simulation. Here's a good mod link for you guys to look at: http://www.youtube.com/user/BeyondtheRedLine