Now that i am quite finished with my rebalance project (although there might be an update coming next week) i have turned my eye to the ships abilities.

Even with just editing the files directly and not with the forge tools, there are really a lot of abilities and i am currently playing around with what is possible and what isn´t.

I am currently making a few abilities that i´ll be using in my planned TC once the game is out. Even if the system is not final yet, its still much fun to play around with.

I have made a very nice self destruct ability (will be a ultimate capship ability) with which you can sacrifice the cap but damage or destroy anything in the vicinity.
The capital overloads its phase engines inside a gravity well and the cascade failure creates quite a shockwave.
After a fuse of 10 seconds everything in close proximity to the cap is damaged severly and everything further away still gets quite some.

Both enemy and your ships are being destroyed by this huge explosion.

I would like to make some videos to show you, cause it looks really nice ( i can´t edit particle systems yet, but i have rigged a few of the ones currently in use to produce some really nice effects

Sadly my gamecam makes SINS crash and fraps only produces corrupt avi files.
Any idea what capturing program i could use other than those?

Also give me your ideas for wacky or cool abilities you´d like to see.
I will make them and if you like create new files for them or make them instead of an existing ability so you can try them out ingame with your installation easily.
So give me all your ability ideas you like to see.

Once my video capturing works i can also show you the abilities you requested in videos if you don´t want to alter your sins installation (just create a backup you pussy )

That way we can also see what possible and what not and thus give the devs input in what we modders would like to see in the final