Battleships

[Gowron]

I was looking to enquire about purchasing a battleship etc....can someone please tell me how this is done and how much.

Thank you.

[Maverick]

You will have to find a [VOID] who is willing to beam you to one of the planet ports. This is the only way to the ports, since they are closed pending the further development of the Caps. Once there, you can only buy either a Cruiser or a Gunboat, the others are off-limits for now. The current prices are around 10 mill or slightly under, expect these to go way up as soon as the last work on them is done.

Good luck and have fun.

[Burn]

I have recently heard a rumour regarding the release of a newly developed Void mod in the upcoming weeks
I was also told that the Cruisers and Gunboats have been fixed so in my opinion it would be wise to wait a while and familiarize yourself with this mod (as in exploring this place)
Time will tell if the rumour was good intelligence or just misconduct.

[[Saint]-Blasphemy]

new mod  :x - that would be just awesome !

[Maverick]

Edited - Mav.

[Zebulon]

Never liked them as being "player available" - they are thirsty on cpu and are frankly a PITA.  When everyone starts flying their Battleships I will be curious to see how problems with lag and such go.  Sorry to cast a downer on it but I cant stand the things - they are about as useful as a chocolate fireguard - but thats just me.... Truth is I would wait further developments before wanting one too badly.  If your still set on having a Cruiser or Gunboat let me know in game - but I rarely give them out for the above stated reasons.  As far as I am aware there is still a moritorium on the whole Battleship deal.....

[Asmodeus]

I think the best way is if they are introduced into the mod is to make them so expensive that only a few players will be able to afford them.
It will also make peeps think about Do they want to spend all there hard earned credits on a grate big lumbering chunk of scrap iron.

[CrazyEyedPanda]

I have to agree with Zeb on this. I've been to a few servers that had Caps, gunboats and cruisers available, and they always caused massive lag. Granted, they were costly(Money cap minus maybe two mil), but there were always the determined few who, good sportsman or not, would play endlessly in a trader until they had the funds and then simply bully individuals in lesser fighters.

It was a simple matter of getting a few clam m8s together with their Cap killer fighters, but taking three or four fighter casualties was usually what it took to take one down only to have him respawn and do it all over again. It killed some of the RP on those servers simply because everything became a Cap race. Think about trying to fly a common trade route with a Cap armed with 12-20 class 10s sitting not 2k from a dock point... Not all that entertaining.

I, for one, love giving Pirate fighters a run for their money, diving around planets, taking out of the way routes to get to my destination, and always sending gf or nice shot when I am gunned down. Perhaps if the MOD team did include Caps, cruisers, gunboats or what have you, they could simply limit the class of weapon mounts to 8 or 9. Or treat them like the ATs and not give them shields at all, but still have massive amounts of armor to account for torps. That way, they still pose a big threat, but they are by no measure unbeatable.

[Asmodeus]

Also I think they should only be available at a limited number of places.

[Gannon]

My thoughts on Battleships and large vessels


i Have always been a firm beliver that every ship you see in a mod should be flyable

Zeb has a great point battle ships are cpu thirsty and can cause bottlenecking

asmo has a good point they should be expensive they should be a symbol of a clan with a clan owning one

they shouldent be something that every freelancer is flying

i have had alot of requests for the big transport to a port i have been holding off for a few reasons

people green me claiming other void's admins have told them they can go   yet i think   if they said that then why didnt they send you in the first place

why so you can hav a good laugh at my expense    nope i wont beam you to a port  cause someone else says its ok

if i beam you to a port and people ask you who sent you there and you say    " it was gan "   then i get 10 million requests from everyone else for the same courtesy

and when i turn them down in an as$#@!%hole



the ships will be fixed    im not sure when ! relize that the programming team have a billion things to do everytime this server coughs

when they are fixed and the docks and moors are open  then its time  for priceing    and they shouldent be cheap

gunboats should be  250 million and up
cruisers should be 500 million and up
battleships should be 850 million and up

call me harsh but i noticed alot of level 90 players

thats how i feel


but like i said before  always a firm belever of 100% flyability on a mod

[eagleone]

well m8 you just need to be patient for just a little longer. they will be here in no time as strail is working very harded on having them all debugged. to be honest you just being new here, probly wont have the money for a little while longer, to purchase one.

also remember this cap ships are limited in their docking sites as it has to have a moring station. last i checked there were roughly about 40 of them out of 2500+ bases. but hey if strail has them in and you want one as a nice little " lookat what i got" piece then be my guest, but you will need to wait for the mod update.

[Verminard]

As far as I'm concerned, you can have a battleship when you can fly to the base to get ti, until then don't ask me it isn't happening, seeing as players just can't be trusted to stick to the rules and feel the need to mount the weapons that they have been told not to.

[Babieca]

There were many posts about BS in the past. And many opinions.......

But the only facts here (and in others mods) are that BS only get troubles (check the situation now), lag (everbody saw that), and unbalance (one BS should not being gunned down by just one VHF, that is the concept of a BS, so imagine the unbalance and moanings that we can get IoI).

FL was not made for PPL with BS,  the concept of the game is different. That is my opinion.

Anyway I can be wrong, we would see