Believe me, your not the minority. The only people who don't like to screw around, have never been introduced to the Mod Releases section.

Then why do I seem to be the only one supporting an Ypsilon that annihilates everything instantly? I honestly don't care about balance issues, since I don't play multiplayer and I don't really play single player with any kind of objective or fairness. I just want a superweapon that is totally omnipotent and looks awesome.

Because that'd be boring. Instakill of everything on the map would be too quick and not flashy to be enjoyable.

That's basically what the Ypsilon did.
Except it didn't do it instantly to make it look as cool as possible.

1. Obviously
2. You could just use the SetDeath count string
3. Either the Final attack is a choice, it's either over sol, or activated sol + missile rape.

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I vote for a Fraxyn ship next.

i do love my fraxy great art style.

also, Re:super rape cannon of doom - just go look up the old ypsilon. it already does what you want it to. im more interested in a superweapon that i'd want to use more than once.

Yeah, I love me a fine Sol Diffuser... so, all I can think about is painters, and sending out mini satellites, and they do something.

Maybe you could just make that Ypsilon cannon a craft you can control, making it fire on some stuff. Then put a huge omgwtfbbq reload that takes ages so the enemy can actually come out and blow the hell out of your cannon before you blow the hell out of them first.

Edit : Just saw that it was actually what Geti and FZ said a few posts ago, my bad.

keep the beam(or have the beam and its variants) fire similar to now, but with less digging power. possibly a sweeping motion that would make the beam move across the map.

ideas

the beam should fire constantly and should deploy for free, however would constantly drain your funds, and when your funds reach zero it stops firing.

make an actor on the ground(invisable dropship kind of thing) which the station would fire at but would not damage. this would allow the player to move where the beam was shooting at.

Target painter weapon is my personal favourite, do that.

As for the weapon, I am a big fan of the orbital laser, maybe you should
- drastically reduce the amount of time the laser burns for
- remove the stupid kill all on map shockwave
- keep terrain eating.

so you go
1. soldier with painter
2. shoots target
3. quick countdown, 2 seconds maybe?
4. VZAP
5. quick burst blasts a nice, deep hole in the target.

So it's more of a bunker-opening device, or turret/sniper killer.

I did, but it looks like AAL Experimental Tech was a B22 mod, so it doesn't work...

I guess I have to wait until this is done to see the legendary Ypsilon cannon for myself.

I had an idea for your cannon (or one of the several weapons the ship will use).

Basicaly after setting a marker (in one of the ways you said) a giant beam will blast down, which will cut through terrain and one layer of concerete (i'm not sure if this would require lua or would be do-able without, im a bit of a newb when it comes to modding).
There is then an explosion at the point of impact, sending horizontal particles that would destroy actors but not terrain or walls.
Effectivly this would be a bunker buster weapon, easily creating an entrance to the base and killing any guards inside.

Make the laser blue, and also, vaporize the bunker as well as the guards, and we have a deal.

Not the bunker. War is about controlling areas, not destroying them.

You could set up a control script on an invisible actor fairly easily with Lua; I could whip it up if you so desire.