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Hi, I just have some questions

1. With the Shadow ships, how fast will they be going. As in will they be going as fast as they went in the show?

2. Will the Vorlon PK be used in battles? Or will it be a background thing?

3. Omegas How will you get the front guns to fire, 2 different weapons?

4.Shadow PK? will it be used? NOOOOO!!!!! IT'S TOO EVIL!!!!

5. Are the First Ones going to be included

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Hi, I just have some questions

1. With the Shadow ships, how fast will they be going. As in will they be going as fast as they went in the show?

2. Will the Vorlon PK be used in battles? Or will it be a background thing?

3. Omegas How will you get the front guns to fire, 2 different weapons?

4.Shadow PK? will it be used? NOOOOO!!!!! IT'S TOO EVIL!!!!

5. Are the First Ones going to be included

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Originally posted by G.I jim0
Hi, I just have some questions

1. With the Shadow ships, how fast will they be going. As in will they be going as fast as they went in the show?

2. Will the Vorlon PK be used in battles? Or will it be a background thing?

3. Omegas How will you get the front guns to fire, 2 different weapons?

4.Shadow PK? will it be used? NOOOOO!!!!! IT'S TOO EVIL!!!!

5. Are the First Ones going to be included

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Why the hell am I answering these anyway? Well, here are my opinions on how they should/probably will be:

1. Compared to the other ships yes, but not _quite_ as fast as in the show(i.e 1000 km/s or so )

2. They have made a model for it, as I understand, it will appear only far away from the battle, but it will be a real model.

3. They either have 2 turrets in the same spot, or 2 weapons in the same turrets, my guess is 2 separate turrets, but who knows...

4. My guess is as a backround, or a black nebula that you fly in.

5 Yes, but much later.

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quote:

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Originally posted by G.I jim0
Hi, I just have some questions

1. With the Shadow ships, how fast will they be going. As in will they be going as fast as they went in the show?

2. Will the Vorlon PK be used in battles? Or will it be a background thing?

3. Omegas How will you get the front guns to fire, 2 different weapons?

4.Shadow PK? will it be used? NOOOOO!!!!! IT'S TOO EVIL!!!!

5. Are the First Ones going to be included

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Why the hell am I answering these anyway? Well, here are my opinions on how they should/probably will be:

1. Compared to the other ships yes, but not _quite_ as fast as in the show(i.e 1000 km/s or so )

2. They have made a model for it, as I understand, it will appear only far away from the battle, but it will be a real model.

3. They either have 2 turrets in the same spot, or 2 weapons in the same turrets, my guess is 2 separate turrets, but who knows...

4. My guess is as a backround, or a black nebula that you fly in.

5 Yes, but much later.

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That 3. is easy to answer :]

Omega class Destroyer has in front on both sides 2 cannons. One for the beams one for the "particle?" cannons.

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That 3. is easy to answer :]

Omega class Destroyer has in front on both sides 2 cannons. One for the beams one for the "particle?" cannons.

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If you look closely, there are two small firing points adjecent to each other. One fires a Heavy X-Ray Laser (beam), the other fires the Long Range Pulse Cannon.

Although this is probably wrong LOL

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If you look closely, there are two small firing points adjecent to each other. One fires a Heavy X-Ray Laser (beam), the other fires the Long Range Pulse Cannon.

Although this is probably wrong LOL

D.

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X-Ray Lasers and Heavy Pulse cannons. We've already gone over indepth how that will work. Do a search - this board has a great search system.

Shadow ships will be subject to balancing. I don't know what we'll do. Pretty powerful, pretty fast, but if we do it wrong than it will just look stupid and be no fun at all.

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X-Ray Lasers and Heavy Pulse cannons. We've already gone over indepth how that will work. Do a search - this board has a great search system.

Shadow ships will be subject to balancing. I don't know what we'll do. Pretty powerful, pretty fast, but if we do it wrong than it will just look stupid and be no fun at all.

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There's one turret for beam and one for pulse, that makes two turrets on left and right sides of Omega's hangar.

Double or triple barreled turrets does not work properly when they are equipped with more than one different weappns.

This may change when someone makes necessary changes to the source howewer.

But then again AI is the problem, it requires new lines of code that determines what weapon type to use against what kind of targets.

Edit: See Ice's post above... one minute *grrrr*

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There's one turret for beam and one for pulse, that makes two turrets on left and right sides of Omega's hangar.

Double or triple barreled turrets does not work properly when they are equipped with more than one different weappns.

This may change when someone makes necessary changes to the source howewer.

But then again AI is the problem, it requires new lines of code that determines what weapon type to use against what kind of targets.

Edit: See Ice's post above... one minute *grrrr*

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In the show both pulse cannon and beam come out of the same barrel but in the mod there will be separate barrels mainly so that the AI can cope with the armament. BTW, how will TBP arrange it so that the beam and pulse cannon from the same side are not fired simultaneously?

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well that's not really a problem anymore with the source

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well that's not really a problem anymore with the source

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