Nice new pretty ships, yet... [spoilers!] (since .99)

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The IAV's and manticore are found only in the arena...
The charon frigates are only in relationship to korolov missions...
The shiney new Britannias only pop up in the few missions you get them for...
The xenophobe ark and the dragon slaver each make but a single entry... (but perhaps this one is ok, for they are afterall bosses... Though I don't see why we can't have weaker versions in the late systems of the game)
The stations and refugees way out in the hostile fringes of the quarantine zone are still flying EI100's, when FAR superior EI200/500/7000's are avaliable, and Antares II's and V's at least could get a little more screen time even just past st.k's as regular freighter types...
The corporate explorers pop up only twice as two special ships... The CH has no interest in exploring other areas? ;)

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I can't tell you how jazzed I was to get the ferian warriors as a ship that actually comes out randomly in the game, as just another normal ship, and not restricted to a single set of events! I love to see new faces around (friendly or enemy), and with the work it takes to make such great models, why not show them off? :D

Of course, I'm not necessarily advocating having them appear with the same balance: it would be rather silly to see an arena light IAV valiently defending a militia station only to get blown away within moments by a passing sung ship, or rather... absured?... to be flying along, minding your own business, before being blasted out of the sky by a slew of projectiles from way off the screen, only to find out that what hit you was a dragon slaver or xenophobe ark once you could read the score on the main menu.

I plan of expanding their prominence in my own TX2, but I think that they should get a little more screentime in vanilla T too. :wink:
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That Xenophobe Ark genuinely scares me........I've had it up on the menu screen a few times to see if any of the ships that normall turn up could swarm it......so far, nothing's managed it. I've never got that far in RC.1 to actually fight it myself, however.

And the ferian warriors are really nice new ships......I agree that it's great to see new stuff :D
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In theory, the CSC Terra should theoretically kill it... then again, it could get really lucky and kill the Terra too. :lol:
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i love watching the menu screens. in all the previous versions the xenophobe defender would always win.. i dunno if the menu screen 'unlocks' more things as you progress as i've never watched it for too long.
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Hint:
if you press 'n' (SOME SHIPS CRASH THIS IN RC1.0!!!), you can scroll through the various ships...
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Wolfy wrote:Hint:
if you press 'n' (SOME SHIPS CRASH THIS IN RC1.0!!!), you can scroll through the various ships...
I know :D

However I never seem to get many ships except by doing this.....probably coded, but i'd love to see everything (except the iocrym, which beats EVERYTHING ELSE) in the menu screen...

Psycholis<---I thought the Dragon Slaver did that more often in 0.99c? Whenever I've not used the N key, it eventually sticks on that for a few minutes, until something like the Volkov Wolfens swarm it.....Defenders tend to die after a while....


And one thing I really don't get.....why don't Charon Frigates turn up *in* Charon? Surely you'd have one or two gurading the fortress (which at present just needs a large missile stock and a NAMI to beat. Frigates wouldn't change that, but would make it a *little* tougher)........not just Corsairs and Vikings (and perhaps 1-2 drakes)......
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i must not have watched the screen as often.. i don't think the dragon come out til .99? before that the green triangle was unbeatable.
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Psycholis wrote:i must not have watched the screen as often.. i don't think the dragon come out til .99? before that the green triangle was unbeatable.
The dragon came out in .99, yes.
There were ships which could defeat the defender, its just that they occurred so rarely...
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The Xenophobe worldship comes to mind. The green asparagus head, huzzah! :roll:
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The new ships are now playable here
They have only 20 facings and I've tried to keep the equipment and stats as accurate to the non-playable versions as possible. Therefore they are not as balanced as the original player ships.
I have included unique shield images for each of them.

edit: thx Wolfy, I missed that. :oops:
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Prophet wrote:The new ships are now playable here.
Formatting fixed. Cool stuff.
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I'd like to see some of those IAV ships as proper player ships (large selection icon, custom-fitted armor displays). They seem like perfect candidates. Perhaps the Manticore as well.
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Aeonic wrote:I'd like to see some of those IAV ships as proper player ships (large selection icon, custom-fitted armor displays). They seem like perfect candidates. Perhaps the Manticore as well.
They would need 40 facings too.
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Wolfy wrote:They would need 40 facings too.
This is exactly right, and without having the 3d mesh, it is not possible. Creating the large image for the ship select screen is also not possible without sacrificing a great deal of the image quality.

I do agree that they are very nice ships and have played with most of them. They are not balanced 100% for play because I tried to keep their original equipment and stats.
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