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Size matters

Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 12:41 pm
by ghhyrd
What are the biggest fan-made ships in freespace 2 and how big are they?

Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:45 pm
by karajorma
The largest ship in the engine is probably the Death Star from the Star Wars mod. There are a few real sized planets for backgrounds but as something you can actually interact with the Death Star wins it.


To be honest the general feeling in the community is not bigger is better. If you can't blow the ship up or affect it's fate in a significant way bigger and bigger ships amount to little more than a penis measuring contest.

It's a common mistake by new modellers to attempt to make a new Uber ship which could beat the Sathanas. What they fail to ask is why no one has done it much before them. The fact is that big ships tend to make for not very interesting missions unless the ship is designed around the story rather than the other way around.

Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 2:34 pm
by Flipside
You'd do well looking at Inferno if you like Big Ships, those things were something like 9km long and were the largest non-canon Shivan and GTVA ships that I know of, not that I play as many campaigns as I would like, admittedly :)

Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:28 am
by Vader_Reloaded
Don't worry, don't feel bad 4 that. After all, ure not the one who plays less.If that's you worry, pass it on to me, I haven't played AT ALL since this year's begginning. :( :(

Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 4:02 am
by Taristin
Even longer than that for me. 90% of the ships Ive made I have never seen in game, because I dont play :p

Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 12:12 pm
by CIH
Must be 2 years since I last played FS. Hell, untill recently, the pc wasn't switched on for >6 months.

Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 12:49 pm
by Top Gun
Roanoke wrote:Must be 2 years since I last played FS. Hell, untill recently, the pc wasn't switched on for >6 months.
:o...Thank God you've come to your senses. I have to spend more than 50% of non-school time on this thing daily. :P

Come to think of it, though, it's been a little while since I've played FS myself. I really need to go investigate all of these zeta VPs and 7-10 patches and RCs and such.

Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 6:41 pm
by CIH
it's Max and Thief2 at the moment for me.