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Geroenim0 [2018-07-29 19:10:03 +0000 UTC]

I think there's limited ways to do it properly, given the sheer size of the ship. You could scale it down, but that's....that's just not right, that wouldn't be doing it properly imo. 

What you could however do, is make an on-rails ship that starts on one side of the map and slowly moves towards the other side, with low-range turbolasers of say, 1000 range. Make it non-selectable as the player, but with targetable hardpoints on say, the middle of the front of the ship, so you can still "destroy" them. This would cause the ship (either below or above the map) to slowly move from one end of the map to the other, while not a massive threat because of the low range weapons and slow movement speed, you can move into range, fire, then get out of range on the remaining space of the map. You can limit the weapons to just a section in the middle of the ship, and maybe have say, 6 or 8 longer range untargetable turbolasers on the wingtips, so it still can fire over the map, albeit very slowly. I'm sure an on-rails object like this would present a very unique threat in EAW because this simply doesn't exist in the game. It also allows you to keep the ships scale to the full amount, while still having destroyable hardpoints on it, so you're able to take out the ship. 

Or just spawn it in the very middle of the map on a low plane and use it as a static starbase-esk object. That'd be less interesting gameplay wise but it works. Both of these ideas could be doable with a simple script that I'm sure someone in the mod hub would be happy to write for you. I've no scripting skills myself but if you ask around I'm sure people would be happy to help.

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Warb-Null [2018-07-28 22:20:41 +0000 UTC]

Well the model is done but I don't realy know what to do with it. The executor is already to big to be practical in EaW's very small spacemaps and this is three times as big! I thought maybe I could ad it as a planet subtitute, only serving as a backdrop. Haven't decided yet

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Geroenim0 [2018-07-27 12:25:18 +0000 UTC]

Mmmmm, that is way too good to let laying around unused. Thanks for still making content, the community appreciates it. Will you upload this to your onedrive linked on moddb? The eaw community would love to have this.

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