Battleship.

[micheal_andreas_stahl]

Hi,

I would really like to see this ship in the universe. It's my Galaxy battleship. Twelve turrets. fout light/medium guns & weapons. no AB level 9 reactor and Sheild is half level down.

Andreas

[Dilloh]

Hmm, comes quite close to a stock capship. What about the cargo hold and maneuverability? Which factions shall have the ship? At what price?

[zeo1234]

12 Turrets!?

Is that even possible? Since last I heard the turrets had to be a certain distance from each other?

Well, if you do manage it then I think it should be either a Hunter or Confed ship since it will mow down just about any other ship out there with 12 turrets.

Cargo capacity should be very limited but even a small capacity should be fine for a Hunter ship since you don't need much space to hold tractored ejected pilots for bounties.

Though for the Mercs it could be an escort ship since it has no AB it could just stick to the slow escort ship and blow anything that gets too close away.

[Zool]

12 Turrets!?

Is that even possible? Since last I heard the turrets had to be a certain distance from each other?

My sentiments exactly, Is is even remotely possible to get twelve turrets on a galaxy. The GS has five, that's a nice amount and looks good and is a serious butt-kicker in the firepower department. Cover one in plasmas or fusions and Kamekhs don't stand a chance. I could imagine eight maybe nine, one on the rear, one on top and one or maybe two on the bottom but I think that would be the maximum. I imagine that you would have to scale down the size of the turrets, how would this affect things like the rear turrets on centurions, orions and gothris. Do they need to be a certain size to fit the mount? Or would you have a new Galaxy BS that is physically larger, change the scale of the ship so it's bigger and has room for all the turrets.

Anyway, if you can build one, I'll buy it and fly it. The GS is my favourite ship now as it gives me the best chance of completeing the more difficult Oxford and Palan missions. More guns, who's gonna say no to that?

[Dilloh]

Me... it makes life harder in the beginning. I remember cool dogfights in my tarsus when I encountered 2 retro talons. Now they have krants and really kick my but then. Now let a foe fly this... armageddon vehicle and I don't want to play no longer, even if I would get pays as for fighting capships. I still want to fly my demon and don't want to have the universe's model t while everybody else has hondas. And I don't want to hit ctrl+w to pass the campaign. I really can't understand why new ships have to be bigger, more powerful and tougher. I like the ferret. I liked the arrow. Cool ships which fit its roles.

[Draken Stark]

Yes I totally understand this, this is originally what I felt with playing PR. But really it's all about having fun and making PR you're own version. Everyone may be using hondas, but that doesn't mean you can't make hondas "illegal" in your own version. This is awesome in it's open source, but with all games like this some people have to get the Dodge Viper vs. the model-T. lol so yea, I know what you mean.

[Dilloh]

Yeah, but there are restrictions for individual versions. We can only use one units.csv, one masterpartlist, etc. The more mods exist, the lower the possiblity for cross-over compatibility is (due to regularly appearing new versions), so we all need to have a consens, at least until some really smart guy invents what we need - a installer which allows to alter the files with saved lines created by the modder (==> a plugin), something similar to the Bridge Commander Foundation as seen on www.bcfiles.com - If we had something like that, everybody could make a mod without any necessarity for updates in case of a new version of PU, canonHUDs, or other new stuff.

So back to topic again. When I aquired my drivers' license, I had a twenty year old, rusty Volkswagen Golf II, afterwards a Honda Civic II, and after I shot this baby into a Golf III I now drive a Peugeot 206. Guess which was my favorite car?

[micheal_andreas_stahl]

"What about the cargo hold and maneuverability?"

I have not thought about it yet, my mind does not work like that.

"Which factions shall have the ship?"

Hunter, Confed

"At what price?"

Oh, Umm, 1.7 M If you kit it out your self. I be cheaper if you buy it already kitted.

"Cargo capacity should be very limited but even a small capacity should be fine for a Hunter ship since you don't need much space to hold tractored ejected pilots for bounties."

It is for air support and slow convoys in dangerous areas thus bounty missions it would not suit.

"Do they need to be a certain size to fit the mount? Or would you have a new Galaxy BS that is physically larger, change the scale of the ship so it's bigger and has room for all the turrets."

Yes it would be a larger model.

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"Me... it makes life harder in the beginning"

It would appear late in the Civil War. It is intended to be a ship that is made in deperation.

"I really can't understand why new ships have to be bigger, more powerful and tougher. I like the ferret. I liked the arrow. Cool ships which fit its roles."

As i said it is made in deperation. It would also be a ship that is a medium guard ship. I played a game where you had these HEAVY gunship/Battleship like mine. Though mine is lighter.

[Zool]

This could be a short term answer to the small corvette/corvette issue, something almost the size of a paradigm say but more manoeuvrable. I imagine you would have to assign a decent armour level to it as even isometal would be too weak for a ship that size. The 12 turrets would fit the bill for a "small Cap ship". Actually it could very likely end up with more fire power than a paradigm, once you start putting fusions and plasmas on it. What does a paradigm have? About 14 Laser turrets? Have you considered limiting the type of turrets mountable (ie light gun and medium gun turrets only)?....OOOOOhh!! SOOOOO Many things to figure out!!! Whatever you decide I'm sure it will be good.

[micheal_andreas_stahl]

Yeah, tried it on a talon. Was worse than a Paradigm.