I wonder: Is there a game like this in terms of ship customization and location-specific damage, but instead of rts-style, you control only one ship with arrow keys and with bind-able weapons keys?

Oh? Out of interest, where'd you get that info from? Last I heard th15 basically flipped kaelis off and walked away from BSF, so this comes as quite a pleasant surprise.

Also, what sprites by sws are you talking about? From what I can remember he made a few sprites for some of his ships, but nothing particularly spectacular.
Well technically speaking you can do this in BSF. It works well and there's a variety of movement modes so it's fairly easy to get used to. The problem is the lack of anything you can do with the missions.

As for the venomous community, well it's far too dead to be venomous, but even when it was alive it wasn't as bad as it's made to seem. Sure, there was a lot of elitism but there was validity to a fair deal of it. Basically as long as you didn't make irritating posts or piss off a specific few, you'd do quite fine.

I think he's talking about SWA, or TheShipwrightArms.

Doubtful as TSA's the next name mentioned