Interim bugfixes and a new capship. See news. Ray and I are working towards what will probably be 1.7.0 (bunch of UI changes and a new tutorial, see the design wiki). Michael has a lot of cool stuff in the works as well (economy, etc). FYI. Sorry there haven't been a lot of informative news posts lately, I've been really busy.

I dub thee "Connie".

Here's a couple quick 5 MB videos via Fraps.

http://media.putfile.com/Constellation-Capship-1
Google Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4371126879264709571
Me shooting the un-cappy, then watching Incarnate's bus fly past it

http://media.putfile.com/Constellation-Capship-2
Google Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1238381032225053116
Shooting the near-dead itani Constellation, with a teradon in the background for scale, and catching the last few seconds of the Serco Constellation.

I know putfile causes some people problems. Tell me a good place to host these.

EDIT: Added Google Video

It looks really really neat in action, even the vids don't do it justice! But it could do with an extra rear turret, maybe one of them AGT thingies!

It could do with a few, actually. I'd have to get a closer look at the ship to see where they should go though.

Purdy.

Looks like that frigate from Star Wars though.

fooz, why not use Google Video?

Good update.

Some screenshots:

http://www.roguelazer.no-ip.com/~roguelazer/constellation/

More to come Later™

Google Video? Well I thought that...uh...

Alright, I completely forgot, but it's up there now.

Fantastic new ship. Great update. Vendetta is slowly getting there!
Realy, that ship is amazing, and there are even more in the running... Keep it up!

Now thats a radical peice of design.......almost like a fling station

ecka

Erm, or indeed a flying station.....

Heh, soon we're gonna have as many capship hulls as player-usable hulls...

wtf? why does google video let you post videos with the fraps codec, but not me?

I've been trying to get those videos of my shooting at a1k0n's stygian furie hosted for a LONG time, and no video site will let me post them...

anyway, Back on Topic, I think that for 'transports' not only do the things have a lot of armor, but they're blazing fast (or in acceleration at least). There is no way in HELL that anyone could kill one before it got to its destination, even if teamed up with several people with megaposis over the course of 5 or more sectors. The armor needs a redux, and IMHO, the turret armor needs a slight redux as well (although the real problem with the turrets, is that the thing surges forward so quickly and sporadically, that your weapon's auto-aim is ineffective at more than fifty or so meters.. a capital ship should not move like that. It should move slowly and accelerate smoothly.)

*Mouth hands open*

Wahh......

Cunjo: For a ship that size, that kind of is the IDEA, you know. And seriously, yoda reportedly had no trouble killing one or two off--just kill the turret in back and fire away.

I think the thing needs more turrets in back if anything, but I haven't really gotten a chance to play with it because they're not showing up very often (In fact, the only ones I saw were the ones that Incarnate spawned in B-8 after the update).

Every ship has a weakness. Less turrets in the back due to engine interference, mass reduction, etc.

hey neato ship

There'll be harder and softer versions of all the TPG capships eventually. So there'll be civilian Constellations that are mostly for ferrying people and goods, with relatively light armor and defenses. And then there'll be military Constellations for carrying dignitaries, critical resources or other infrastructure, which are much better defended and armored.

Right now we have "the constellation which john could get finished and working by 3:30am, before he fell asleep on his keyboard". It'll be tuned as time goes on (as I mention in the newspost).

"Right now we have "the constellation which john could get finished and working by 3:30am, before he fell asleep on his keyboard".

LOL

I want the super rare A1k0n Class "Oops" varient!