Hmmm... it didn't show. If you want to see the screen, go to voodoo extreme's poll for best strategy game. You will see it.

Kryo, I really wish you would make the pic poster easier to use.

If you want to put an image in your post, you need to have the actual URL of the image itself, not a webpage with the image on it. If that's all you have, use a link instead.


In any case, if you're using the DA templates, most of those use the "brick" hull, which (if the way scaling is handled wasn't changed from DL) will result in all of them scaling to cargo hull size in combat. This is because the game scaled ships based on the filename of the hull model, so it'll only scale if you use a "real" hull rather than the brick.

Dude, remember the DA preview pics? It shows huge hulls dwarfing small size hulls.

Well, it looks like Stardock has screwed us once again...

Etrius

Don't go nuts, here. Saying that Stardock has "screwed us" over cosmetic tweaks that were never advertised as a feature of Dark Avatar is way, way over the top.

"Real" hulls are the stock ship hulls that could (potentially) stand on their own without much tweaking, but that you usually deck out with all sorts of jewelry pieces. The brick hulls are just tiny, untextured blocks with four attachment points.

Anyways, I'm kind of hoping that the scaling values could be offloaded into the xml files or something like that. I know that I'd load to see dramatic scale differences in the ships I design... the built in scale differences from using the different "real" hulls is not very dramatic at all.