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If FE2 and FFE the equipament's space had to be subtracted from the inner space. The hull auto-repair system took 40 tons worth of space; add to that engines, lasers, shields, fuel, avionics, etc. and you find it could only be installed on large traders.Killer Wolf wrote:i believe there was some repair system available in Frontier, nanobots or some cryptic excuse, that would be canny as a (fairly expensive) upgrade. say, repair 1% damage in 3 secs or so, just to keep the tension going a bit, or make it run off your power like the cloak does so that the benefit of repairing yourself is offset against time and/or power management concerns.
Your typical 'Brown Trousers Moment', then.....Cmdr. Maegil wrote:That meant that you could find yourself having to make a Newtonian approach on a high-G world with atmosphere without atmospheric shielding nor bottom and main thrusters, what we could call a "reversing grilled fat escargot".
Nah, anyone who's claimed to be any use at playing Frontier can't uphold that claim if they've never got to their destination with their main thruster damaged.Captain Hesperus wrote:Your typical 'Brown Trousers Moment', then.....Cmdr. Maegil wrote:That meant that you could find yourself having to make a Newtonian approach on a high-G world with atmosphere without atmospheric shielding nor bottom and main thrusters, what we could call a "reversing grilled fat escargot".
What might be nice is sub-entity hull sections with 'damage skins' underneath. So you shoot off, say, a forty foot hole over the engines and with a flash of an explosion, the innards of the engine are suddenly exposed!! Wouldn't be that hard to do, you'd just need to build a main body with the damaged skin, then clad it in sub-ents bearing the more normal hull design.LittleBear wrote:@Killer Wolf. If you like bits breaking off your victims as you hurt them, try Ramon's Dark Wheel Cobra OXP. This Cobra is the same as the normal cobra 3 in every way, its just a nicer model. (Based on the Cobra 3 on the orginal box of Elite). As its sub-ents are frangible, as you blast one, its antini masts and so on get blown off!
From the EBBS, Jannah had (under the "Jonathan Bluestone" pseudonym) some impressive blueprints for the Cobra MkIII and the Eagle Long Range Fighter, but I don't know if they are still on the net as her sites are always going kaputt...Captain Hesperus wrote:What might be nice is sub-entity hull sections with 'damage skins' underneath. So you shoot off, say, a forty foot hole over the engines and with a flash of an explosion, the innards of the engine are suddenly exposed!! Wouldn't be that hard to do, you'd just need to build a main body with the damaged skin, then clad it in sub-ents bearing the more normal hull design.
Hand-brake/Boot-legger turn?TGHC wrote:Well done, I don't recall seeing those before, some really good stuff. I didn't know you could dock a Cobra mkIII sideways though
More fun with shootable subents --LittleBear wrote:@Killer Wolf. If you like bits breaking off your victims as you hurt them, try Ramon's Dark Wheel Cobra OXP. This Cobra is the same as the normal cobra 3 in every way, its just a nicer model. (Based on the Cobra 3 on the orginal box of Elite). As its sub-ents are frangible, as you blast one, its antini masts and so on get blown off!
The Wolf Mk II, the Cat/Cougar, LB's Pirate Renegades, the Cobra Rapier...Cmdr Wyvern wrote:And there's a couple of others that I can't recall right now.