Posts by Warlord Bob

No, actualy you all have it wrong. The Tiidan heavy cruiser is the best ship (HW2 is coming...) We who are about to die salute you!

With the speed 1200 mod the drom can almost cruise through fairly dense asteroud fields... not quite as good as the sabre. And if the humpback is worse than the titan I´d say the drom is... oops. almost made a &quot;best ship thread&quot; outa this <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> We who are about to die salute you!

You wana c funnies? Watch Red vs Blue! Halo peeps know what i mean... anyway, I like having a sabre with 7 kracken weapons and a lvl 10 shield... and going to liberty! The rogues make thier threatening remarks and such as they fly around shooting me. I just sit there a while before removing them from existance. Or when on an assination mission the soon to be dead guy says &quot;when i´m done with you there won*BOOM*&quot;<img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Folks hitting manhatan is funny too but thats been said a few times. In SP on the first mission, about a minuit after the Dunnoh (?) blows up king says &quot;oh my god! They blew up the (whatever)!&quot; We who are about to die salute you!

I see your point and it is fun to zoom around in a LF but its also fun to just sit behind your freighter shield and roast people<img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> A cruiser might be fun too... battleships are to big/slow and they take ALL the chalenge out of it We who are about to die salute you!

I had that same problem (?) when I started <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> We who are about to die salute you!

Ok, you are all forgeting somthing else... SLEEPER SHIPS! Read some sci fi and you´l know that a sleeper ship journy lasts hundreds of years. The coalition had probably twice as long to develop as you thought... or decline. Look at all the great empire in history. Nothing lasts forever. The way to make it last longer is to have fast comunication of goods and ideaas to all parts of the empire, thus promoting change. So, if the empire didn´t have good transportation/communication networks, it would fall. If it had those, it would change. Rome became christian! My point is the coalition could be in just about any state imaginable but most likely it is not still hostile to the Aliance (just as we in the US are not hostile to the UK today) We who are about to die salute you!

Ya want an expansion? Try the TNG mod. It is like a whole new game! There are tons of ships and they cost tons of money and weapons too. Makes you work for your money (significant ammounts anyway) and the loot is sooomuch better. Really, itslike a new game We who are about to die salute you!

*also bows to almighty kracken type 2* We who are about to die salute you!

I´d like to kno what the re-balance mod does. As for my 10, I have... less than that <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> 1: Bootstrap 2 (for the map) 2: Speed 1200 (for the transportation without killing yourself hitting rocks) ...thats pretty much it. I´d like to try white star though. We who are about to die salute you!

It is a good point that it depends on your skills, but when you reach the top of the food chain you develop an opinion on the best course of action and it is human nature to share these ideas (for some wierd reason). Anyway, as said before, it boils down to your personal prefferences. There! This thread has served a purpose in reaching that conclusion! Now we must discuss... somthing... else............<img src=smilies/icon_smile_clown.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> We who are about to die salute you!

I agree that a best ship thread should be kept around, but i dunno if it is feasable as it would get quite long. I also agree about the Titan <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> And that people just need to have good manners and use as stated FACTS. Anyway, I think It looks like we ought to have such a thread and not just talk about it. We who are about to die salute you!

No offense, but FLCL is well, stupid! It has no plot! I do like the fat kitty tho... We who are about to die salute you!

Look at that signature there... &quot;could be the CARDAMINE talking&quot;... We who are about to die salute you!

Ok, I have an error somewhere then, because I have tried all sorts of file configurations there. I have the raven for an example so I should figure it out sooner or later. Thank you for all your help, and I´ll let you kno when I figger it out! We who are about to die salute you!

I am a big Sabre fan and a big Titan/Eagle hater <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Also, I´m glad you made this post ´cause i am new to best ship threads. So the titan has better armor. If you get in a battle where they take you that far down those extra few armor points and bots (relative to the sabre) will keep you alive for a few seconds more befor you meet the same death. And why would anybody want a turret that ONLY fires backward? Its half useless! And how often do you take the time to fire youy one gun behind you? In a Sabre you have the equivalent of 7 guns and one of them can shoot backward. BIG difference if you ask me. And manuverability, I confess the eagle is quite agile, but I bet I can A: dodge your fire and B: hit and kill you with the Sabres manuverability and speed just as well as in another eagle. (and I know I´m not the best pilot here, It´s just an example) Plus, the Eagle and Titan have a tendancy to desintigrate when damaged. Not the Sabre! I´ll keep my fancy guns thank you. So whats the decision? I chalange somone to show me how the Titan or Eagle is irrifutably better than the mighty Sabre! We who are about to die salute you!

Ok. I must be missing sonthing. The shiparch config. file I mentioned does not require bini de-compresion and doesn´t have .ini at the end. Is it the right file? Shure looks like it. BUT even with every precaution I can think of, I can´t get the game to stop crashing!!! Did this work for you? If so, please post the two lines of code in question from the modified patriot file... the data/ships/&quot;yourgroup&quot;/etc... and NOTHING else is changed? Right? Just those two lines? And deleting the &quot;simple&quot; and &quot;colision&quot; groups. Here are the two lines from mine... DA_archetype = shipslibertyli_bobshipli_bobship.cmp material_library = shipslibertyli_bobships.mat The cmp is in the liberty folder ina a new folder called LI_BOBSHIP and the mat is in the liberty folder We who are about to die salute you!

Shure <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Its really cool actualy. Did you make a material in Milkshape? If not, first, select your ship hull (everything except the 2D triangles) you click on the materials tab and click &quot;new&quot; or sonthing like that. There are two buttons there that say &quot;none&quot;. Click on the top one, and find your .tga file. Than click apply. Now rt click the 3D window in and select &quot;textured&quot;. Ugly huh? Soooo select your ship hull if it isn´t still selected (everything except the 2D triangles) and open your texture coordinate editor (cntrl T). There should be your tga picture with a wireframe of your ship stretched over it. Now is the fun part. Select and move vertices around until the color you want only on your engine nozles say, is on the faces that represent those and NOTHING else overlaps that color. Contort your ship however you like, it won´t mess up your model. You may have to adjust your graphic a little but you can do almost anything with just one cleverly designed square. gl We who are about to die salute you!

When making the .mat utf file, you need the name of your texture. does this mean the name of the material in milkshape, or the name of the tga file? Ex: my &quot;square&quot; is named &quot;bobship2b&quot; but in milkshape the name of the material is just &quot;bobship&quot;. I know from your tutorial picture where &quot;bobship2b.tga&quot; goes from seeing &quot;antioch.tga&quot; but didn´t know about the other 1. Ok, another question. I have a file named shiparch.ini.FLMMBAK and a read-only configuration file named shiparch. If I destroy or scramble the FLMMBAK file it does nothing to the game. If I do anything to the config. file it causes the game to crash. What do i do! <img src=smilies/icon_smile_sad.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Edited by - Warlord Bob on 24-08-2003 18:15:05

Thanks Sodrak. I was wondering if I needed to extract it to the MS dorectory (which I stuck in my documents with all the other stuff... others with bad ideas use my computer<img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> but this is even better. Slow progress... anyway, I bet that there are tutorials out there for weapon modling, but all I have seen are ones for weapon making, using existing skins. Look in the compilation by Imagine, It has several things about weapons. Plus its better than the other compilation <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> We who are about to die salute you!

Woa! Britain isn´t just England??? <img src=smilies/icon_smile_clown.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> We who are about to die salute you! Edited by - Warlord Bob on 24-08-2003 03:16:52