Hey guys,
Ok, I dunno when the Mod's gonna make it out. Just thought I'd let you know right off the bat.
Elreicht:
If you're using Rebalance 3.40 then there are a couple of patches that can fix a couple bugs with it. If you're able, try to download the Rebalance 3.4 Patch 2.1, that should help with some things (I forget what though). If you're feeling brave, and are willing to check out a beta version, there's always the option to switch to Rebalance 3.5 beta3, but that's up to you and your internet access limitations.
Regarding the Balistner, there are no mine slots, I guess, because it's a battleship, and they're not really intended to run from a fight. They're intended to blow the bejeezus out of everything in the vicinity
And just as a sidenote, the Damocles is my personal favorite of the ultra-large battleships, and the Tempest and Javelin are my favorites of the not-so-huge capships. Then there's my Nightshade 2 (in the Rebal 3.5 beta3), I've uploaded a fixed version for release with the full version of 3.5, also there's the Wrath, meant as a Nomad slayer.
Also, to my knowledge, which I think by now is pretty decent, there are no pilotable Nomad ships in the game right now, but maybe I or Ro9ue will see about some pilotable ships to help alleviate that, just don't expect anyone else in the Sirius sector to be too happy with you if you're friendly enough with the Nomads to be purchasing their ships
In the current beta3 I've noticed a few faction bugs where you can actually become friendly with the Nomads by killing certain groups... Once I know a bit more about how to setup up factions, I'm going to suggest making that impossible. Reason being is that the Nomads aren't friendly with anyone, other than one or two of the new factions that Ro9ue has added to the 3.5 final, so they shouldn't be affected by what any of the others think of you. In essence, if you want to get friendly with them, you'd better not attack them, or go get friendly with their associated faction. But then... Who'd wanna get friendly with a group that wants the genocide of Humanity?
Ok, btw Elreicht, your configuration for your ship sounds decent, though I'd switch out those battleship weapons for something a bit less energy intensive
You may as well get used to using normal weapons, because using capship weapon on fighters is going to be just about impossible in the final version of Rebalance 3.5. Just a heads up
A loadout that I like (if you upgrade to the beta3), is a nightshade mk II with a loadout of klingon disruptors and disruptor turrets, plus quantum torpedos. But watch out for friendly ships, they really don't like being in the overspray of the torpedos. Matter of fact they can get downright hostile about it. I guarantee that you'll be able to take on any ship with that loadout, as long as you keep moving. Incidentally, I'm planning to provide a new CMP and shiparch.ini entry for the nightshade mk II, that will bring it up to spec (how I intended it to be initially), I may also provide a seperate DLL containing updated infocard data, I'll have to look into that. Failing that part, I'll just do it another way, as a small addon mod. This depends on how soon Rebal 3.5 final is released, of course. If it's released soon, then there's no need for the ship mod.
Anyhoo, this is getting to be a book, so read ya all later
ArchKaine
Some say ignorance is bliss, I say they're just too blissful to know better.
Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:05 pm 