Excellent that we seem to be operating on the same palette - I was a hardcore Star Wars fan in my school days.

I made incredible progress last night, overhauling the flight model and AI of about 10 ships. Combat is really now book/movie style with a fine balance of automated maneuvering and the ability to manual-fly ships.

Without the need to play with anti missile defenses I also can let players use click attack orders. This makes command and control a dream.

Fighters right now fight similarly to the X-Wing Alliance gameplay and are balanced on that plus some movie visuals.

Well I should be able to upload it this weekend. Believe me, you will be blown away at the new presentation

Presently the largest operational ship I have is the MC80 whose flight model is based on one of the books in which I believe, Wedge Antilles was in one that went up against multiple VSDs and won by a war of maneuver to target the Imperials' weak spots.

I've also upped the rate of fire of lasers and tweaked defense and offense values of ships for the movie look. It's bloody fun to see fighters charging through turbolaser broadsides and for capital ships to maneuver to get on each other's 6.

Weapon ranges - presently, capital proton torpedo launchers may fire at 15km but enemy AI can evade it if it is coming from so far away (but when firing head on missile intercept envelope increases accordingly like in RL - eg. MC80 breaks off head on pass to evade VSD missile salvoes then returns fire with own torpedoes, VSD missiles run out of juice on tail chase but VSDs run into MC80 salvo).

For the primary turbolasers of cruisers (not done the superheavies yet) they're divided between long range (22-28km) and secondary (15-19km)

Present converted shiplist:

Imperials

TIE Fighter
TIE Bomber
Corellian Corvette
Carrack
Strike Cruiser
Victory I (minus broadside missiles, intended to be stock old ship)

Alliance

X-Wing
Y-Wing
Corellian Corvette
Bulk Cruiser (which when desperate, overruns enemy frigates)
MC80

Corvettes and cruisers are meant to be fast skirmishing and scouting units while the Victory, bulk cruiser and MC80 use the small capital ship flight model I have (obviously, less maneuverable)

Ships' durability are balanced for optimal combat presentation (movie/book style, in other words) and tested in mission conditions.

Okay, that's all for now! Will drop PMs once I get more stuff done later in the week.