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[keptin]

I really enjoy this mod, the ships have a lot of personality and are a ton a fun to pilot, kill, and be killed by!

Also, the sprites are fantastic!

[mendonca]

I really enjoy this mod, the ships have a lot of personality and are a ton a fun to pilot, kill, and be killed by!

Also, the sprites are fantastic!

You are far too kind, of course! 

(Thanks!)

[medikohl]

I recognize a chunk of the Valkyrie on that phase ship

[medikohl]

actually I see a lot of familiar chunks on it... damn i've been kitbashing this game far too much

[mendonca]

Well, there were a couple of spare Tarsus and Valkyrie hulls kicking about, it didn't make sense to build it all from scratch. At least we went to the trouble of giving it a lick of paint.

Although that's mainly because we have about 3 decades stock of blue and red paint to get through that we found on a decompressed Venture floating somewhere around Kapteyn's Star.

Our engineers are not proud people, but they ARE pretty smug about getting remote phasing technology working.

[robokill]

it would be cool if you replaced the phase modules with cargo bays, some hangar space, and a flight deck

[Wriath]

Clams have gotten more annoying than ever but in an entirely good way, they do an incredible job of taking on ships with energy weapons and just generally outlasting their opponents.
EDIT: Also pretty glad you never got around to changing the name of the mod, nothing wrong with being junky if you do it with style.

[Lopunny Zen]

what happened to the fighters bigger gun..now all it has is a machine gun and it seems they can barely do anything now...and at 3 at a squadron

[robokill]

i think this mod needs more fighters

[Rybread]

That phase ship. That accursed pile of incredibly effective scrap.
It is absolutely brutal in the best way possible. The A.I. handles it well, and it really does change the course of the battle. I have to play much smarter than the typical "Guns Blazing" approach now.
Awesome job in actually making me think about how to tackle a ship for once. It's a foreign feeling to me.

Cheers!

[mendonca]

what happened to the fighters bigger gun..now all it has is a machine gun and it seems they can barely do anything now...and at 3 at a squadron

I'm not sure I know what you mean? The Spike still should have a Light Dual AC and a Vulcan ...

That phase ship.

Ha ha! I'm happy that you are struggling! 

[mendonca]

In trying to get to the bottom of any strangeness in my mod apparently crashing U's C, I've been spending a small amount of time tweaking things.

I've confirmed, as best I can, that the Clam can successfully use Fortress Shield (watching it flicker on and off for an AI piloted clam under 'player' control) and also got Turbot phase drones deploying by allowing them to 'free roam'.

I've also added a nice weapon which I think fits the mood - a 'grapeshot' launcher. It fires a canister of shrapnel which is explosively discharged in the direction of an enemy fleet. Works great against talons and unarmoured folk, and can do a decent job of overwhelming shields.

It's a medium mount currently, although having hacked together the MIRV with the Harpoon medium mount, it maybe comes out a bit big. I'd appreciate some balance comments if anyone had a chance to have a play, I have set the ammo quite low deliberately to limit the thing being 'spammed' - but it seems quite effective. It might be a touch OP - but then it is completely negated by decent shields.

[Uomoz]

I'll replace all JP content in U'sC with fresh files, just to get sure it's not all a copying error on my part.

[Alex]

2026328 [Thread-6] ERROR com.fs.starfarer.combat.D  - java.lang.NullPointerException
java.lang.NullPointerException
   at org.lwjgl.util.vector.Vector2f.sub(Vector2f.java:208)
   at com.fs.starfarer.combat.systems.String.Ø00000(Unknown Source)
   at com.fs.starfarer.combat.systems.String.ØÒO000(Unknown Source)
   at com.fs.starfarer.combat.systems.String.int.new(Unknown Source)
   at com.fs.starfarer.combat.systems.OOoO.öÒ0000(Unknown Source)
   at com.fs.starfarer.combat.entities.Ship.advance(Unknown Source)
   at com.fs.starfarer.combat.CombatEngine.advance(Unknown Source)
   at com.fs.starfarer.combat.F.ÔÓÓ000(Unknown Source)
   at com.fs.A.oOOO.new(Unknown Source)
   at com.fs.starfarer.combat.D.super(Unknown Source)
   at com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher$2.run(Unknown Source)
   at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)

I am running several other mods, but I'd seen people having a similar issue so I thought it might be worth mentioning.

Saw this in the U'sC thread and looked into it. This could happen when the EMP Emitter is activated and targets a ship that has an engine or weapon slot outside its shield radius, *and* the shield is a full 360 degrees. (If the shield is less than that, it'd still crash, but in a different place). Changed core code to make this not crash - though it's technically still a data error.

No telling whether the offending ship is Junk Pirates related.

[mendonca]

Hey, thanks Alex. To be fair, that sounds pretty much like it could be Clam related.

I'll nudge the shield out a bit to try and avoid this.