I've been playing this a litte, still only done Mechanist stuff on the initial Patrol ship. Thoughts so far: - The Nabul T1 is disgustingly good, too good even. You can use it to pummel from long range or when you're running away. It's straight up just better than the other weapon the ship comes wit...

Congratulations, guys.

I also just found a Korolov bug, if you escort a freighter, and it takes damage but remains intact and you get it a again on a second mission right after the other one, it still has the damage and did not repair, which it should.

In the main menu screen, where it has the 'demo' of the game, you can press 'k' to kill a side or type of ship. But when both sides have the same ship, pressing 'k' will kill both sides, is this supposed to happen? I think it'd be better if only the side you used it on were killed.

There's also other problems you'd have to deal with to use a repair thingy as a weapon, such as bypassing shields and it being able to recognize which pieces of armor are damaged. So perhaps there could be a flag or something to put in the XML to tell the repair weapon to go through shields, though ...

I could see where that could be useful. You could have a new auton class which would repair not only you but allies as well.

Also, I'm not very familiar with Transcendence scripting but couldn't putting in a negative variable work for this? Or would that just make the game angry?

No no no, on the repair devices thing, I meant stations that repair damaged devices you have. Sorry for any confusion, I wrote that post at 4 AM in the morning, heh.

Two more ideas: A galactic star map, similar to the one found in the Escape Velocity games: You would press a different button to access this screen, and it would only show what systems you've been to so far and how they connect to each other. The ship would show as an icon on top of the system and ...

http://filesmelt.com/dl/shipinterface.png Just a little quick MSPaint of what the ship construction/purchase screen could look like. 1. Ship tab, used to click through ships, shows a picture of the ship and displays the name under the picture. 2. Scroll bars, used in case there is too many ships to...

Alright, since I've bee a way, and I've been doing some thinking: A slot system for weapon installing and uninstalling: This system would allow for better customization of weapons and their locations. It would use a specialized interface for installing and uninstalling weapons (and perhaps, other eq...

I'd personally like to see a Babylon 5 ship like the Sharlin, Warlock, White Star, Omega, and/or the Nova.

It's a better time than ever to come out of the closet, eh?

Anyone else notice how the Tripoli destroyer is bigger in that screen shot than in game now?

Wow, I have been gone for a long time.