It's weird to think that Starship Troopers just barely broke even when it released. The film is so beloved now it's hard to believe that it didn't perform well, even if I can remember how unpopular it was on release. I remember Verhoeven and Neumeier saying years later that the film's biggest...

That article seems kind of nebulous in that it lumps together a bunch of designs that don't have much in common other than carrying aircraft, under a name that Google suggests is barely used anywhere else. Even it describes the Invincibles under a separate heading as "cruisers in name only"...

To me it sounds like a joke playing on the Confederation-Confederacy thing: somebody saw that and thought it would be amusing to slip the name in. Possibly Brooks Wachtel? The script draft is no longer online. I remember reading it years ago but searching the news archive only gives me a link to...

Something I keep forgetting whenever this topic comes up: there already was a CSS Manassas! And it was the navy's first ironclad. That seems as good a reason to name a ship as any, it just scans oddly because the name wasn't reused repeatedly later, like Virginia or Tennessee (but just like...

Aren't carriers technically cruisers? At least that's what every navy calls them whenever they don't want to say they have them for political reasons: the British with their "through-deck cruisers" and the Russians who call theirs "aircraft-carrying cruisers" so they can get around international...

It's a town too, isn't it? One with a reasonably large number of notable people, judging by Wikipedia (Wikipedia, always willing to go into the most excruciating detail for the most obscure localities and personalities). So it could support the fiction that's what it's named after, rather than...

It'll only load, apparently. https://github.com/xenia-project/game-compatibility/issues/1719 I mean I can see where he's coming from; the marketing was dreadful and failed to communicate what its reason for being was, to the extent that it even existed at all. Most people probably still have...

So when are you going to watch Space Battleship Yamato? :p

I remembered doing the same thing in 3DS Max years ago but it was actually for the destroyer! A shame none of the production sketches for the cruiser survived.

You should check out Conquest Frontier Wars!

Did it really?

I'll get to the rest of this thread at some point but I get the impression that good programmers are becoming rare and so such cheats are becoming the norm, not just for AI but at all levels of design. You want the simulation but it's too expensive both in effort and processing, so you end up...

Eh, is it really? Rebel Galaxy Outlaw uses the same engine and nobody has ever said that it looks similar.

That's not necessary, the CIC has private copies of the source for both 1 & 2 (though apparently parts of it are incomplete)

Beautiful! This will be a godsend for the wiki ― we have the booth images for instance but they're screenshots rather than asset rips and they're nowhere near as clean.

I was thinking the same, but for the original Wing Commander cover (or maybe End Run!) The odd looking part is having it cube shaped ― I've seen similar acryllic dioramas but they're usually a stand with one acryllic in front of the other.

Also, I'd really like to get more into this because I find the subject of specific ship design detailing really fascinating, just as soon as I figure out what the question to ask is. (Maybe it's "what's a split line?")

You wouldn't even have to do it yourself!

Thanks for all that. Intellectually I feel like I shouldn't be surprised, but they really do look so similar. It sets off my internal Occam's razor, even if the conclusions it leads to don't necessarily make sense, because unfortunately cynicism makes it simpler to assume some level of...

No Children? After the miniseries I can't imagine it any other way, and it does actually complete the narrative arc of the previous book.