Mobile Suit Gundam: Soldiers of Sorrow

No, no it’s not. Did you even read the post?

You ‘Can’ make mobile suits. You ‘Can’ animate the limbs by substituting them for weapons on hard points. It is ‘Not’ just about “a handful of fighters and capital ships.”

Actually, the scale is dead on. In fact, the Gundam above is on the high-end in terms of how big they are; the more advanced they get, the ‘smaller’ they become. They’re also specialized at close-quarters fighting, as opposed to high speeds like fighters, giving both entirely different roles on a battlefield. They would, in fact, be distinguishable within the Freelancer engine.

That’s not to say that I would be following Freelancer’s scaling system. As I said in the main post, planets and moons will be oversized objects if possible, not standard Freelancer fare. Hence, the system map would look something like this:

The scale obviously isn’t “realistic” since it would take months to get from A to B. However, since the Gundam series does involve activity as far out as Jupiter, that distance is rendered. This involves dead, open space. At the speeds I’m anticipating, since there clearly are no trade lane rings, it would take, at the very very most, Three Hours, real time, to get from Earth to Jupiter. That’s a spit in the bucket for Discovery traders, except that there aren’t any friendly ports of call for hundreds of thousands of kilometers, and if you’re an invasion fleet, well, good luck; with an ammunition system in place, you’d better move in force, and gain a foothold. In short: the distances are just prohibitive enough to encourage the Martian and Jovian players and groups to bend their strategy around those distances. That’s Logistics.

I’m more than willing to elaborate on specifics. I have just about the entire thing mapped out down to the gun description. Having the music and sounds is just a bonus. The problem is that I can’t work with Freelancer code for the life of me, to say nothing of modeling. I doubt there would be a large enough, and adequately skilled team to pull this off, since I’m under the impression that those people already did their bit for king and country years ago and moved on. All I’m doing here is getting it off my chest, since this is one of the few places I never posted about it. After having the Gundam community itself more or less blow me off in favor of games already on the market, I didn’t exactly have a lot of hope for this, even if I could sit there and play it in my head for hours on end.

Why would I lop off the bulk of the best parts of Gundam just to suit you and start it off that late?

And what of 6km?