Now I did get to see it in alpha, quite a few times, but seeing it in this universe was an experience, now, its not going to look exactly like this(I think), but this screenshot shows a behemoth, and a valk (you might need to zoom with gfx veiwer to confim, as i had to back off quite a bit) the valk is slightly closer to me, the behemoth within weapons range of the frigate

--> http://yd4.netfirms.com/images/dump0016.jpg wont post it as an image as its 800x600 would have done larger, but the system i took them on has been having uhum, gfx issues on higher res.

WOO! Does anyone else have screenshots from when incarnate was flying it?

wow now thats a big ship!

This isn't as good, since it's from the pre-beta era, but it is useful:

http://roguelazer.com/vimages/Roguelazer/frigate05_firing_guns.jpg

Each of those turrets (the little round things with a blue center that are shooting the gatling turret bursts) is about the size of an EC-88.

*passes out*

Wow that is freaky cool. Pretty ballsy to drive it into an asteroid field too :P

You might like some of the stuff in my directory of really old screenshots too. http://www.roguelazer.com/vimages/save/

I took some screenies last night too:
http://members.rogers.com/static.studios/excelsior01.jpg
http://members.rogers.com/static.studios/excelsior02.jpg
http://members.rogers.com/static.studios/excelsior03.jpg
http://members.rogers.com/static.studios/excelsior04.jpg
http://members.rogers.com/static.studios/excelsior05.jpg
http://members.rogers.com/static.studios/excelsior06.jpg
http://members.rogers.com/static.studios/excelsior07.jpg
http://members.rogers.com/static.studios/excelsior08.jpg
http://members.rogers.com/static.studios/excelsior09.jpg
http://members.rogers.com/static.studios/excelsior10.jpg
http://members.rogers.com/static.studios/excelsior11.jpg
http://members.rogers.com/static.studios/excelsior12.jpg

That last screen is solution trying to dock with it :D

Any word on why it had foward-firing gauss cannons instead of its turrets? And what is this I hear about beam cannons?

No, but it was Inc. teasing us with a real incomplete model, he tunrned up to duel Aon, hehehehe

John and Andy were playing on the test server while ray was fixing a shader bug.

They had many frigates with beam cannons killing each other off. Let me find teh quotes:

Mar 01 02:31:01 <Incarnate> jesus.
Mar 01 02:31:11 <Incarnate> we just had this massive cap ship battle with like 29834932 frigates
Mar 01 02:31:48 <Incarnate> andy and I were messing with the caps while ray was fixing the shader thing.
Mar 01 02:31:50 <ViciousNanite> what does this have to do with getting the cap ship into update?
Mar 01 02:32:08 <Incarnate> vicious: well, I had to test the changes I made to its mass and engines
Mar 01 02:32:32 <qmdude> what weapons will it have?
Mar 01 02:32:38 <qmdude> still those uber-turrets?
Mar 01 02:32:43 <Incarnate> qmdude: honestly, I'm not sure. it has the turrets for the moment
Mar 01 02:32:49 <Incarnate> we were using them with beam weapons
Mar 01 02:32:58 <Incarnate> not.. flying them, but spawning them and then watching them battle
Mar 01 02:33:14 <Incarnate> it was pretty scary. frigates exploding left and right
Mar 01 02:33:17 <Incarnate> flying through the middle of it
Mar 01 02:33:22 <Incarnate> if I had FRAPS on this box I would have recorded it
Mar 01 02:33:25 <Miharu> you gotta start doing stuff like that on the game server
Mar 01 02:33:34 <Miharu> so that we can see this
Mar 01 02:33:35 <Incarnate> miharu: well, that is the idea :)
Mar 01 02:33:40 <qmdude> how well can bot AI battle itself? I mean in light ships
Mar 01 02:33:42 <Incarnate> I mean.. it's totally cool
Mar 01 02:33:58 <Incarnate> qmdude: pretty well. the old sectors they did that constantly. we stopped it because it took up so much CPU
Mar 01 02:34:06 <Incarnate> qmdude: we're moving back towards that though.
Mar 01 02:34:10 <Incarnate> now that we have a lot of CPU
Mar 01 02:34:12 <Incarnate> (s)
Mar 01 02:36:28 <Incarnate> we can spawn them from /roper commands, so.. who knows
Mar 01 02:36:33 <Incarnate> we could do that on the production server.

(parts snipped for continuity)

WOOOO! That transcript makes me drool! MMMM oh sweet sweet necture!(aqua teen hunger force joke)

man, looking at those pics of roguelazer's i miss those old stations :\

but man, the frig was soo cool! wish it still had those furies as the fighters, but when it blew up, all of those precious minerals or metals or w/e it was made me a lotta money!

but man, when the devs were in the frigs, man it was like chaos! i tried to ram Incarnate but ofcourse, i issued on to him ^_^ ahh... those were the times. i think that was in the old sec. 9, not sure...