For anyone who knows or played the PC game Homeworld

I have fond memories of salvage corvettes.

munroburton wrote:I have fond memories of salvage corvettes.

You too? Although my memories are only a year or so old (since the last time I played)

What's really fun is salvaging all 100+ Ion Cannon Frigates in the Bridge of Sighs mission. It takes forever, and I end up recycling about half because the wall just gets too damn big later on. Especially when you throw in all the heavy cruisers, missile destroyers, and destroyers I've *also* been capturing along the way.

Yeah, salvettes were a bit overpowered, but it's still fun.

For a long time, I was making paper models of the Homeworld ships. People had figured out how to extract the models from the game and put them into Pepakura, which, after some playing around that I never figured out, allowed you to make physical models of the ships after printing the parts on cardstock:

http://www.ericksmodels.com/paper/model ... #Derelicts

http://mirrors.arcadecontrols.com/paper ... engun.net/

The finished product isn't bad, but it suffers from the lo-res (by today's standards, anyway) textures that come from doing something like that, unless you are skilled enough to make and apply your own textures. And of course, it chewed through printer ink like it was popcorn.

MaxxQ wrote:

munroburton wrote:I have fond memories of salvage corvettes.

You too? Although my memories are only a year or so old (since the last time I played)

What's really fun is salvaging all 100+ Ion Cannon Frigates in the Bridge of Sighs mission. It takes forever, and I end up recycling about half because the wall just gets too damn big later on. Especially when you throw in all the heavy cruisers, missile destroyers, and destroyers I've *also* been capturing along the way.

Yeah, salvettes were a bit overpowered, but it's still fun.

The Bridge of Sighs is hilarious. With forward deployed carriers, those enemy frigates are quickly collected. Perfect example of defeat in detail. But what's staggering is the story implying there were numerous such hyperspace inhibitors and this was simply the most vulnerable one. It's easy to miss that tidbit, given the size of the Karos Graveyard's background...

One beef I always had with the game was the unit build cap. Usually meant I never got to build one of my own race's heavy cruisers, as by the time that was possible I had captured more enemy cruisers than could be built.

munroburton wrote:The Bridge of Sighs is hilarious. With forward deployed carriers, those enemy frigates are quickly collected. Perfect example of defeat in detail. But what's staggering is the story implying there were numerous such hyperspace inhibitors and this was simply the most vulnerable one. It's easy to miss that tidbit, given the size of the Karos Graveyard's background...

Yeah, well "quickly" is a relative term. It still takes quite awhile, especially without the time warping that became available in Cata.

munroburton wrote:One beef I always had with the game was the unit build cap. Usually meant I never got to build one of my own race's heavy cruisers, as by the time that was possible I had captured more enemy cruisers than could be built.

Same here. Except for the banana and the smaller 'vettes and fighters, I might as well have been playing Taiidan rather than Kushan.

How did or what ships did you use to pass the little fast ships hiding in the garden?

I always ended up with Destroyers, everything else was always killed. Every time.

Did anyone else play the other side so you could capture all the kushan ships and eventually have so many more Kushan ships?

Anyone else always pick the assault frigates over the ion frigates? I still hate ion frigates. Although the cataclysm ion frigate multi shot one was fun.

Lord Skimper wrote:How did or what ships did you use to pass the little fast ships hiding in the garden?

I always ended up with Destroyers, everything else was always killed. Every time.

Did anyone else play the other side so you could capture all the kushan ships and eventually have so many more Kushan ships?

Anyone else always pick the assault frigates over the ion frigates? I still hate ion frigates. Although the cataclysm ion frigate multi shot one was fun.

The Kadeshi are easy. Go for the fuel pods first, then wait for their swarmers to run out of fuel. Fuel-empty swarmers can even be salvaged easily(but you will have to worry about refuelling them). Multi-gun corvettes are useful, IIRC, but not essential.

Ion Frigates have a specific job - killing capitals and frigates. They're not good for much else, at least until the multi-beam IFs come along.