I have absolutely no idea of this subject/ship has ever come up but.....Is this little ship gonna be in the game?? If not, I'm hoping someone makes a mod.

Anyways....I personally found this ship interesting because of the borg tech that was incorporated in to it, i.e. borgified torpedos. Its bigger than a shuttlecraft and somewhat of a recon/fighter vessel.

Thoughts anyone

Sorry to disappoint you, but there will be no shuttles or fighters in the game.

First of all you could put it in yourselve in a mod, by asking a modeller who made one to give it to you. If he/she agrees then you are free to go. With gmax you can do alot without any problem and it's free.

btw. Don't use models without permission of the creator.

Just as a query, why aren't there going to be any shuttles/fighters in the game?

Well, here's my interpretation.
Shuttles are small and can't achieve high warp, therefore they must be based on larger ships. A large ship carrying a large number of smaller assult vessels brings us to the "C" word
(carrier)

Maybe that's the reason...

In any case, they are small and, basicaly, insignificant.
And honestly, in a game of galactic conquest who cares about shuttlecraft Chochrane?

there's a term games creators use - it's called feature creep.

it's used when the game becomes so bloated with "features" that it is an almost unintelligable mess. for some time, my biggest fear in regards to this project is just that - feature creep.

ask yourself - what purpose would having shuttles in the game serve besides the "oh wow, they've even got shuttles in there." if the serve no important purpose to the overall game, there's no real need, imho.

tactical combat must even be handable, and with big ships in between shuttles just would slow down speed and difficult to command

maybe these litte sulobon vessels would be interesting, like a swarm and command as one ship but... as scatter said, dont overload

those sobin pods are the sobins only ships but they rock they fly all over you and they shoot you from everywhere!

I suppose in the future we could make a mod some shuttles though, as iwulff siggested

If ground battles are playable in a future release then shuttles will be in at that point I have no doubt

umm, Shuttles vs Plasma Grenades .

Be good if we could have a 3d Half Life Engine for the 3d Combat

I think Jig said once that anything smaller than a Oberth/Defiant/B'rel/Shrike would be pointless from a battle point of view, because the ships would be too small to see!

Remember that the 'battlefield' will be around 3 times larger than anything in BOTF, so sizes and distances will matter far more ingame.

Afterall, it's pointless having a ship that is too small to see or fight!

lol, if its too small to see and has a couple of good rocket launchers it's gonna do a fair bit of damage

That may be so, but it won't be very impressive when they impact against an enemies shields!

"Oh look, I swatted a bug...a rocket-launching bug" 8O

Depends how crap the shields are. In TMP era - 2 or 3 photons and the Shields were down