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Total Members Voted: 1432

[SainnQ]

I look forward to this, 8a is so starved of ship/armament variety IMO.

[Cycerin]

Yea its strange to go back to just the vanilla set after being used to the endless variety of heavily modded SS.

[RandomnessInc]

Still waiting for space monsters 

[Tartiflette]

Still waiting for space monsters 

http://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=7842.msg131046#msg131046

[Cycerin]

Still waiting for space monsters 

It will take a lot of time and effort, but I think the framework of the game is getting to a point where its possible to do something like that. I still want to do it, I just don't know when I'll have time.

[adimetro00]

Still waiting for space monsters 

It will take a lot of time and effort, but I think the framework of the game is getting to a point where its possible to do something like that. I still want to do it, I just don't know when I'll have time.

Will you do it like the [REDACTED]?

[Sy]

Sentinel drones are meant to be mostly defensive, so it's not really a problem if they hang out around the mothership a lot and act predictably.

you can easily do that with the new fighter mechanics as well though. vanilla Mining Pods' engagement range is set to 0, so they do not leave the carrier at all (or rather, not further than fighters that are set to Regroup, which i think is about the same range as most drone systems used to have), and Xyphos are set to "support"-behaviour, so they can escort an allied ship at 4k range but do not follow an Engage command onto an enemy target.

so a built-in Bulwark drone 'wing' could be made to always stay close to the carrier, even as modular fighters from said carrier engage enemies at long range.

(i can certainly understand not wanting to mess with all that now though, and having to come up with suitable replacement systems.)

Here are the new fighter sprites so far:

those look amazing! O:

[HELMUT]

While i do like the Taipan and Mosquito, i'm not sure about the Nadir, the two large ACs looks weird. The sprites "works", but feels a bit strange to me, kinda like your older BSF Blackrock sprites. Maybe some more conventional, thinner barrels instead of the fat arms? I'm not sure.

[Sy]

Maybe some more conventional, thinner barrels instead of the fat arms? I'm not sure.

i think they look good. the style of these arms signals "tough & defensive" more so than "big gunz!!1", to me.

[Axisoflint]

Still waiting for space monsters 

http://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=7842.msg131046#msg131046

I'd never seen that... thing before.. and now I can't unsee that it looks like something I wouldn't talk about in polite company.

[Cycerin]

Accidentally caused a chain reaction in this script

[Psycho Landlord]

Accidentally caused a chain reaction in this script

Even in death, BRDY will *** you up with unsafe science.

[Hazard]

It's not a bug, it's a feature.

[Mr. Nobody]

The only logical conclusion to this is a ship specifically made to exploit this behavior by suiciding into enemy lines

[Sy]

i'm disappointed that only a single piece of each new split continued the chain reaction.