Oh man the wyrm looks sooooo sweeet

Man this thing is gonna be badass

*can't wait till Kreeargh is finished the Liberty Superdread model*

it will be fun to see one of these wyrms pitted against one of my Liberty's.....

although, the liberty would probably win due to its sheer firepower

Mansh00ter,

Just dropping in to say "hi" and thanks for commenting on the "ASK" thread.  I appreciate your help.  Any word yet on a Xin vs Atlantian War?  Hehehehe....would love to see that my friend.

Good luck, keep going, and let me know if you need anything.

DANMAN

O deer, You've gone and made the PDTH canon. Nothing good can come of this, mark my words!

...

On a more (MOAR) serious, yet nipicky note, I've never fully understood the fascination with singularities.

... Yes, its cool to be able to make black holes on command, and shout I KEEL YOU WITH BLACK HOLES NAOW! at your enemies, but a gravity gradient less steep - something that will produce say, a neutron star given enough matter - is far more damaging in the short term; all the matter you're eating away from your target is there in super-compressed form giving away piles of hard radiation and other violent stuffs, rather than handily stored away wherever matter in singularity goes.

Turning your enemies into superheated degenerate matter and letting it explode back at them has always seemed for more ... stylish than simply playing hungry hungry hippos with their consittuent atoms.

... yeah, just thought I'd share that, ain't ya happy.

Having an aritficial gravity gradient strong enough to pull your ship/station/blah into atoms thrust onto you would you make you piss with yourself with fear (for a very short amount of time) no matter how strong it is, I don't think there's any argument there.

I think it would be more destructive to have the matter pulled from your target remain in the real world, spewing out lots of energy at it as it eats it. With the sort of reactions you're looking at in those cases, you'd be blasting everything in the area with a pretty full-on energy blast.

I think I'd dig very much going "blip" on an enemy frigate and turning it into enough superheated matter and energy to ahnilate the shields and melt the superstructure of anything inside x kilometres. I can see that being a very effective anti-blobbing weapon. Frigate spam? Not any more!

You get that with a black hole as well, but you have to wait for it to completely evaporate to get the final, apocalyptic release, and exact time when that happens is related to how much it ate.

... mind you, according to wiki a 1-second black hole has a mass of 2.28 × 10⁵ kg, so in sins terms it would probably release all it ate as radiation as soon as you turn it off or near enough as to make no difference.

... isn't fanta-physics fun?

... also, pre-petitioning to have the black hole weapon do an AoE anti-shield damage effect centered on target when it swiches off

Well, that was just the wiki figure for the mass of a 1-second-lifetime black hole, but yeah, what you put in eventually (very eventually in terms of stellar black holes, let alone primordials) comes out after a direct mass->energy conversion.

To name it brutal is to be exceedeingly euphemistic - blackholing a cobalt and then letting the micro blackhole evap probably produces enough gamma rays to wipe out the shields of a whole fleet, turn all of the hulls facing it to molten slag, and irradiate any biological entities in the ships which havent been thermally cooked hard enough so that assuming they dont just die instantly, they probably will not be living very long anyway and what life they'll have will be excruciatingly painful, assuming their nervous system doesnt simply shut down.

... direct mass-energy conversion of entire atoms produces truly catastrophic amounts of energy. Stellar Hydrogen fusion makes do without converting any particles.

Yah, but here comes the "Game Needs" hammer. I already have a ship that can one shot a cruiser and then some. So, the Wyrm is supposed to replace the Tyrant battleship, and act as a filler for the tactical weakness of the Xin, which is that, compared to the other upcoming factions, they are not very well geared for offensive. Oh sure, their ships can eat puny TEC tincans for breakfast any day, but the Xin favor thick armor and strong shields as opposed to big guns - like the ones Remnant have. Not to mention the Hegemony.

So what I need as a special ability for the Wyrm is something that can nuke a ship in one shot - but not so that it renders the Overlord Siege Ship obsolete. Hence the black hole (nevermind that it would probably go straight through and out on the other side and cook the ship in the process). Its like a curse. Once embedded in a ship, it will slowly eat it up until its structural integrity fails or the singularity evaporates. Lets just say you're going to need quite a few wetnurses for that stricken ship if you want it to survive after being hit. And there it is -  a nasty, unique sounding weapon that's fun to use and is not a reiteration of the Mighty Smiter that is the Overlord.

Now, if I could only add a buff which acts as a channeling reverse Repulsion....

Not yet. This weeked I'll pretty much have my hands tied doing websites, so I'll probably start on that sometime next week. Got the Wyrm up and fighting, need to do a few more particle effects and sounds and its all set!

The lack of a dev version for Entrenchment 1.02/SoaSE1.16 is really starting to bug me. Can't test stuff properly without it.

Oh and sorry for not saying hi Danman,  got a head so crammed with this stuff I'll forget my name next.

I only found this Mod yesterday but read through all 45 pages of it. I looks far better than anything else I've found. Awesome Job. Absolutely Mepic!!!

Holy crap!  Great work!

Mmmmmaaybe?

Also, noooo, my gamma pulse! /o\

Actually, that remains to be seen. I always intended to introduce some actual core changes to the game which go beyond just new models and visuals. Dynamic Battle System is one such change... minefields and starbases introduced in the Entrenchment also make it a lot easier to place a lot of my originally planned features in the mod.

However, I also want to avoid "forcing" people to purchase Entrenchment just to play my mod, even though that has been an accepted practice in the modding circles if the expansions brought in a better overall experience and enabled a higher level of content for the mod (and even though I personally think Entrenhcment is very much worth the ten bucks pricetag).

Right now, I intend to release an open beta which will be for Entrenchment only. But, I also plan to release a modified vanilla Sins version of the Episode I as a sort of a thank you for all the support I had over the last year.

Episodes II and III will, however, very likely be Entrenchment exclusive.

 well maybe by then the three mini-expansions will come out in the handy little single expansion everybody wants and will be available in stores...

Just a quick update, got a lot of work doing websites this week so I had to put off the Leviathan - I'll try to cook up some sexy renders by the end of the week.

Danman, sure thing, if you want to send me a copy of your entity files for the black hole effect, I'll send you the workable black hole which destroys ships when they get too close (because that's what Leviathan's superweapon basically is).

Gamerking, considering that the Episode III should be out sometime by the end of next year, I'd say it a pretty good bet that the big all-in-one bundle is going to happen by that time.

Oh, and before I forget, a couple of screenies of the Wyrm ingame, busy shredding a Kol to pieces.

Excuse the fugly yellow texture on the spine, its gonna get a little beautified when time allows, but the priority is to actually finish the Episode I, then worry about cosmetic touch-ups.