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Code available on Github (contact Scott with questions, feedback).
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Discuss at the Metal Express forums and Pair O' Dice Games.
Quickly and easily build ships for the game Silent Death.
Silent Death is a space combat miniatures game. This ship builder implements the Starcraft Design System found in Silent Death: The Next Millennium. You will need the rules to play.
The focus is on automating record-keeping to ease the process of designing ships. Additional features such as limited record-keeping during play might be nice to have in the future.
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Browser-based, no install required.
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Design ships in all the standard classes: fighters, scouts, shuttles, freighters, and gunboats.
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Arm them with all the standard cannons and warheads.
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Add basic ship options.
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Select crew skill levels (or optionally turn them off to see the cost of the ship without crew).
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Damage tracks are generated on the fly with every change you make.
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Ship designs as URLs can be saved and shared.
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Seamless offline mode (in modern browsers).
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Front-only firing arc when crew is one is not enforced in IE(8).
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Ship options are not sorted, after being deleted they return to the select in the order they are deleted.
There are plenty of features yet to be implemented:
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Warhounds.
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Ship quirks.
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Changing from design to play mode to lock down designs and allow damage to be tracked.
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Track ammo expenditures and stat adjustments (from critical effects, etc.) in play mode without changing construction stats.
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Saving designs in cookies or local storage.
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Optimizations and loading speed improvement.
In order to work with the code and contribute to the project, you should be familiar with:
- Prototype (included).
Silent Death: The Next Millennium is a trademark of Mythic Entertainment LLC.
Copyright (C) 2009-2011 Scott Drake.
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