Is now live. Please let us know how it goes. The EC-89 (the new bus) is now in there, as well as a bunch of other changes described in the newspost.

"Universe Inventory branches are defaulted to closed"

THANK YOU THANK YOU!

omg i love you guys this is a great update

-Miex

Awesome update! trying out the border skirmish now!

The border skirmish looks pretty amazing :). I can't wait to get more stuff like that in the game. Please give us feedback on how well it works for people though, and if any problems crop up.

Those new guns by the Teradon are freakin amazing lookin from a distance, got a few good screenies myself. I wish those were implemented into the HAC and Tridents too.....

I think there should be a few more cap ships, the battle seemed, somewhat, short.

Those guns are damn cool. I've been waiting to see what kind of heavy weaponry the capship might get. Can we get some numbers on those guns? They certainly seem to take out player ships fast enough if they are unlucky enough to be stating down the barrel of the Frigate's guns.

any possiblity of getting in the border skirmish as UIT? IIRC, the BP missions are available to serco/itani only...

will be testing shortly :D

the big gold guns do 12,000 damage apiece (four on each teradon), and go 90m/s. I should come up with some sort of interesting name for them, other than "john's wacky sphereoid of golden death".

I came up with the effect some months back, but couldn't really use it very well at the time. I saved it for a possible heavy-cap weapon, and it's worked out well in timing. Eventually I'd like some sort of grandaddy of that effect for the Goliath Cannon.

the effect is pretty graphically intensive, but it seems to be running ok for everyone? Even shape was on fighting the caps just now, and he has a pretty slow computer if I recall. I've tried to limit the number in the scene at any given time through a low rate of fire. eventually though I would like teradons to focus mostly on targeting other cap ships, and that might make for some pretty intense scenery. We'll see how it works :).

Well done, that rules, not only are the Teradons actually fun to fight (and dodging all the stuff its firing when it has all its turrets can be difficult, but its not a case of ZAP yer dead, its FUN), but my load times rule, and the occasional lag spikes I have been having also seem to be cleared! Woot!

AWESOME! The Cap fights are insane, beautiful, intense, AWESOME!

You mentioned something about having certain weapons bias toward shooting at certain things. It would be really cool to set up rules that each turret follows about how they act. Then when we can fly our own cap ships we can configure all our turrets strategically and cap ship warfare will be way cool.

hmm.. the bug is a bit thinner than I expected from the screenshots... it seems to handle better, too; maybe that's just because that horrible annoying whine is gone; god how I hated that whine..

...didn't get enough of a chance to see any of the other new stuff, yet, but this looks like the nicest update in a while :D

Great update

"Universal Inventory is sorted by system name."

Best... Game... Fix...... EVER!

I didn't see any new news post though. Should I be looking somewhere other than the news link for that :P

BS is awesome. And please keep the frequency low otherwise it will get boring too soon.

Got only a few shots from the first shootout and the quality isn't too great. I was a little to busy getting nuked afterwards. :P
http://home.arcor.de/famscheffler/ven/bs/

And yeah .. IMO the more nasty grey space gets the better.

The big golden weapons didnt slow me down at all, and the Teradon is AWESOME!

my god, what did you people DO to the poor servers??

before, I was at least able to read a sentence and a half or so of loadscreen text... now I'm lucky if I can even read the first WORD!! :o

*claps*

The fast load times are just because of an improvement of overall throughput to the individual user. It doesn't induce any added load on the server (aside from burst bandwidth usage, that is, but that's ok for now).

Can someone make a pic of the EC-89 for me? I'm at work and won't be home for houuuuuuurs!

Edit: Found one.

Quick Q: are there any other ship-design firms in the universe other than TPG? They seem to be behind every new design from the Moth onward.

*Dances with Joy*

Must pop on before my account expires!

and look at those Big Balls of Fire =D