Benulobiweed.inc: New Company, New Ships...;)

Captain Hesperus · Post by **Captain Hesperus** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 6:45 pm

LOL

! And I'd expect no less from the CEO of that illustrious Inc.
If Benulobiweed are intending to take legal action against the brain-dead malcontents who published those scurilous rumours, my Moray-Medical-Boat-chaser solicitor is happy to take up your case. Hell, he got me off some twenty Narcotics smuggling charges with the closing statement, "Ladies gentlemen and fat furry felines of the jury, take a look at my client. Is it not possible that he in fact can inhale twelve tonnes of Ontiat Bio-resin through those exceptionally large nostrils. Therefore, I conclude that constitutes 'for personal consumption'. The defence rests.".

Captain Hesperus
"HOW MUCH per hour? By Giles the Creators' keyboard, that's an entire year's smuggling profit!!"

Judebert · Post by **Judebert** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 3:39 pm

Okay, time for someone to design a ship -- a big, nearly-weaponless, TOUGH ship -- and name it the Moose.

Nice press release. But I always wait for the Intergalactic Consumer Reports review before I purchase any craft.

Charlie · Post by **Charlie** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 12:26 am

A good shister-solicitor may come in handy.

Hmmm... 'The Moose' That could be fun

-: Updates - Updates - Updates :-

- All Benulobiweed.inc's ships have had some small tweaks & corrections.

- The new versions have a 'bonus' .oxp.
( I was going to sneak it in & see how long it took to be noticed, but thought better of it )

- Now: To the main event -
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'nuff said.

As usual I'd appreciate feedback. I'm trying to go for increasingly 'far-out' designs but am aware that it's increasingly likely I'll miss the 'sweet-spot'.

TGHC · Post by **TGHC** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 10:51 am

Fantastic, at last real mountain and sea textures for planets, soon we'll be able to land on them as well I hope!

BTW what's the blue thing just above the mountains?

Charlie · Post by **Charlie** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:53 am

Blast - my cunning ruse has been rumbled.

Dr. Nil · Post by **Dr. Nil** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 3:13 pm

Charlie wrote:
As usual I'd appreciate feedback. I'm trying to go for increasingly 'far-out' designs but am aware that it's increasingly likely I'll miss the 'sweet-spot'.

I looks great as usual.

The Benulobiweed crew are doing a great job mapping out the frontiers of ship design with their wild things.

Captain Hesperus · Post by **Captain Hesperus** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 6:18 pm

+++++NEWS FLASH+++++

An as yet unsubstantiated source has reported that GalCop have purchased several squadrons of Merlin, Kestrel and Swift Space Superiority Fighters for use in some of the more affluent Corporate States. When approached by this news reporter, the GalCop Public Relations Officer was characteristically tight-lipped saying, "It may be that we are running field tests of these new models of fighter craft, simply for the safety of the citizens of the Galactic Co-operative of Worlds. There are as yet no plans for them to be commissioned into the active GalCop police fleet". It was worth noting that the PRO was smirking when he left the room.

We also spoke to the Benulobiweed Inc. Media Executive who said, "Hell, yeah! The GC's creds are as green as the next man, woman or black bony lobsters. When they come back, we'll sell 'em a load more. With a hefty mark-up, of course.....Uhh, I mean, we can neither confirm or deny any involvement with the police fleet of the Galactic Co-operative of Worlds, however, should they choose to equip their highly-trained and incorruptable officers with our fighters then they would be making a wise decision. Now if you will excuse me, I have a large bag of Benulobiweed, I mean, important meeting waiting for me."

Well-known *erm* entrepreneur and trader, Commander 'Captain' Hesperus is quoted as saying, 'Giles on his Keyboard! It was fast. I was being handed by ass by a pair of pirate Asp II's when this purple came up on my scanner. Only it couldna be no Viper, 'cos it went like a bomb. Next thing I knows there's two debris clouds that mass the same as two Asps behind me". We could not get any more information from the 'Captain' since he was being arrested at the time.

In conclusion, as rumours of an increase of militant Thargoid activity sweeps the galaxy, are the police taking ever more extreme measures to safe-guard the security of our homeworlds? This is Kaite Addy for GalNet News.

+++++END OF NEWS FLASH+++++

Captain Hesperus
"It was a plant! That Megaweed wasn't in my manifest until after I was arrested!!"

Charlie · Post by **Charlie** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:19 pm

Charlie · Post by **Charlie** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:40 pm

Anon:

Rumor has it that Benulobiweed.inc has been working on yet another ship in secret.
Possibly under contract from a higher authority...

It is unlikely to be a rumor for much longer...

Q.
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A."You silly s*d! When making an anonymous leak to the press it is a good idea NOT to sign it!"
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A."What do you mean the dictation machine is still sw..? Oh bugger."

Charlie · Post by **Charlie** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 8:28 pm

- Breaking News -

In an unprecedented move the Usceedian System Station
was closed to all incoming traffic for 36 hours recently: 'to
allow for essential maintenance'.

While such occourences have happened in the past they are
more common in unstable low-tec systems where resources
aren't always available to prevent major system failures.

The exact nature of the problem is not known as GalCop
had enforced a news blackout in the system. Ships leaving
Usceedian at the time are reported to have been searched
and in some cases have had their logs erased.

This is all most unusual but one of our reporters, who happened
to be at the scene, obtained the above image from a person he
believes to be 'a disgruntled Benulobiweed.inc executive'.

We apologise for the poor quality of the photograph. It was
hidden in the reporter's underpants for several hours while
local police searched his ship on route from Usceedian.

Jane's StarCraft.

Charlie · Post by **Charlie** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 10:25 pm

Benulobiweed.inc presents:

The Condor

Big is Beautiful

Why should the Police have all the fun?

Benulobiweed.inc
By Appointment to
--- : GalCoop : ---

Captain Hesperus · Post by **Captain Hesperus** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 12:07 pm

How big!! That thing looks like it could give a Behemoth a run for it's money!

Captain Hesperus
"The escalation of the arms race is only good for the guy selling the guns!"

Charlie · Post by **Charlie** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 2:21 pm

Huge!

The clue is in the picture of one jammed in the docking port of a space-station.

Um:
Behemoth 416x160x750

Condor224x151x574..ish
...and is available as a player ship - if you can afford it!

I've also gone a bit nuts with the lights & animated sub-entities.

If this proves popular I have a variant about ten times bigger!

Oh, and I'm working on an .oxp for the Usceed system...
( Finnished but the bits to add fripperies to every other system are proving tricky - lack experience on my part ).

P.S.
The Condor I posted on Oosat is broken. All the other ships are the latest versions.
Most up-to date versions on the link below while I'm waiting for Oosat to refesh.

LittleBear · Post by **LittleBear** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 2:26 pm

You could use a planetnumber greaterthan 127 in script. There are 255 planets in each Galaxy, so that would add the ship to half the Systems in the 8 Galaxies.

Charlie · Post by **Charlie** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:34 pm

Thanks LB...

Updates. Updates. Updates.

All six ships have had some tweaks:

- In all cases the textures have been reduced!!
I play Oolite in 1680x1050 & can't tell the difference, so what the hell - lower requirements.
Further processing done to keep things looking pretty.

- Falcon: Now I'm getting the hang of subentities I've added the missing blasters & dish ( was getting on my nerves )
Also some small tweaks to shipdata.plist

New ships on the way...