A uh, really big ship?

Da_Higg · Post by **Da_Higg** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 3:14 pm

That wouldnt've been no moon, it would've been a space station.

Post by **Arcalane** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 4:42 pm

Nice design - reminds me of fractal images.

It looks very spindly and fragile though!

MaxAstro · Post by **MaxAstro** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 11:32 pm

Wow, that looks awesome. As usual, your ships continue to impress.

Boss battle, anyone? XD

Cerebrus · Post by **Cerebrus** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 4:03 am

That is awesome.

Kazuael · Post by **Kazuael** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 2:28 pm

Thanks again for the comments guys. I kinda wish the aegis deflectors didn't draw lines as there's enough on this ship to be sorta in the way, but i suppose then you wouldn't know which deflector goes to which part.

Anyway, if you guys have any other ideas let me know, but I probably won't build anything until shipmaker 3.0 comes out because of the whole incompatibility thing.

Maybe I'll try to build something small for once while we wait for it.

Kazuael · Post by **Kazuael** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 2:34 pm

Thanks again for the comments guys. I kinda wish the aegis deflectors didn't draw lines as there's enough on this ship to be sorta in the way, but i suppose then you wouldn't know which deflector goes to which part.

Anyway, if you guys have any other ideas let me know, but I probably won't build anything until shipmaker 3.0 comes out because of the whole incompatibility thing.

Maybe I'll try to build something small for once while we wait for it.

Da_Higg · Post by **Da_Higg** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 3:23 pm

Kazuael wrote:Maybe I'll try to build something small for once while we wait for it.

we'll believe that when it happens.

Kazuael · Post by **Kazuael** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 7:20 am

Sorry guys, I tried really really hard to make something that wasn't obscenely huge and it didn't quite work.

It's not uploaded yet as I'm still trying to tweak a couple things, but I'll update this post when it is up.

It's quite a bit more well armed than my other ships and has really nice broadside salvos. I wish you could link turrets together so they would fire in tandem but for now I guess I'll just hope they fire in the same direction, cause it looks nicer that way.

There's also still the little error where mirrored parts have strange depths and stack funnily, but that's mostly a cosmetic thing, the ship still works.

Thanks for the feedback guys, comments and criticisms are welcome as usual.

Post by **Arcalane** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 7:24 am

Kazuael wrote:There's also still the little error where mirrored parts have strange depths and stack funnily, but that's mostly a cosmetic thing, the ship still works.

Be on the lookout for duped turrets!

Seriously, the bug can dupe turrets if you're not careful.

Looking good, though. And looking significantly better armed, too!

Kazuael wrote:I wish you could link turrets together so they would fire in tandem but for now I guess I'll just hope they fire in the same direction, cause it looks nicer that way.

Me too. I'd love to be able to attach two railguns side by side so that they rotated around a point between the main rotation points of both guns, for a proper twin-linked twin railgun.

Boba Fettuccini · Post by **Boba Fettuccini** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 7:34 am

Kazuael wrote:This isn't the ship I was building, but just something I felt like building for fun.

reminds me of the Wolf Pack from Conqueror's Heritage.

Ixranin · Post by **Ixranin** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 8:32 am

The newest battleship seems sorta lightly armed for a ship its size. Well... compared too all the other large ships the other people around here make, heh.

Post by **th15** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 2:18 pm

That's a really sweet ship

Kazuael · Post by **Kazuael** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 2:59 pm

=O Praise from the master himself! I am thoroughly humbled.

In all seriousness though, thanks a lot for the comments. I'm glad you guys are enjoying the ships as much as I enjoy making them.

I forgot to upload it earlier, so here it is for all of you who want to play with it.

http://www.wyrdysm.com/battleshipsforev ... memnon.rar

th15, if it doesn't require a ridiculous amount of code to do, could I suggest the ability to link turrets together for v3.0? It'd let us do all sorts of cool salvo-ey things. Also, would it be possible to rotate the turret independently from its firing arc just so one could position the turrets a little nicer? This is purely aesthetic and thus a silly suggestion, but I thought I'd throw it out there anyway while I'm ranting on.

Anyway, this'll probably be the last big ship I build before 3.0 (I know, I said that after the last one), but I really will try to build something small this time, maybe fighters or escort cruisers for this battleship.

Thanks again all.

RogueThunder · Post by **RogueThunder** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 11:14 am

Well. I throw my abomination into the ring for big-freaking-ships.

The Gaia Titanus.

Named after the Titan of earth Gaia, it is a massive giga-battleship (super just wasnt enough. Tempted to say tetra XD...) built more like an aircraft carrier of old than a ship-that is its more of a floating platform. However, unlike those of old, it is actually decently fast-and very quick to accelerate due to its massive engines. Unfortunately, nothing could be done for its so ability to menouver-i mean it IS larger than some small moons.

I would post a picture, but ah... My poor computer kinda... can't load it in sandbox... >.>''

But here it is! Enjoy, if someone wouldn't mind throwing a pic up for me it'd be wonderous.

http://www.wyrdysm.com/battleshipsforev ... usZX00.rar

Kazuael · Post by **Kazuael** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 2:34 am

Just for fun I threw these two guys against each other.

The Enigma lost horribly as the Agamemnon has almost enough deflectors to cover an entire side of itself, but it was still cool anyway.

I also rearmed the Agamemnon to be somewhat more realistic. In other words, let's detect the enemy four light days out, fire a billion missiles two light days ahead and hope they hit something while our wall of point defense keeps us alive. If they don't fire more until we get into kinetic weapon range, at which point we throw high velocity slugs at each other, and finally if it really comes down to it, short range pinpoint energy weapons.

I replaced the blasters with railguns just because blaster shots travel a bit too slowly for me, though ideally I would like to have blaster-esque sprites traveling at railgun speeds as kinetic weapons really wouldn't leave any trails in space. Then again, most energy weapons would be invisible too and that would be way less cool.