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ISO: big ship
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 2:32 am
by daimianptp
im lookin for a void crew member that can set me up with a cruiser or a gunship.
post or pm me on how this goes down, ty
Re: ISO: big ship
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 2:52 am
by Maverick
I am not a Void Crew member, but I can tell you a little about it.
You need a [VOID] or an [ADMIN] to beam you to one of the ports at the moment. The reason for this being that the ports have been closed for normal docking, as the last capital ships are being worked on in terms of un-bugging. Even if they were open, you would only be able to dock with a port using a capital ship, except for only one port in the mod, where you can dock using something else than a cap to get your first big ship.
The capital ships have only been made partially available because a lot of people kept asking for them. Like you mentioned, the only ones you are allowed to buy are the Gunboats and the Cruisers. The Destroyers, Battleships and What more are off-limits as it is now.
The last couple of months a lot of players have been wanting a capital ship, and asked Voids to beam them to a port to get one. When they did, they told the players they were only allowed to buy either the Gunboat or the Cruiser, nothing else. Unfortunately, a lot of players switched their cap to something else then these two, breaking the agreement and causing additional stress to the server. Another problem was players mounting other weapons than the ones designated for their ship, like mounting Battleship Turrets on their Cruiser, also causing additional server stress.
This resulted in a number of Voids refusing to beam players to the ports, as a good amount of the players had shown they couldn't be trusted with this simple agreement. I know for a fact that a number of Voids will not help you out, if not all.
*Edited out to prevent confusion* - Mav.
So here is the current status on caps. I am sure that as soon as there is any news on the matter, Strail would inform us about it, since the cap ships seem to be quite popular. In the mean time I wish you the best of luck finding someone to help you out and have fun in your cap if you can get your hands on one. Please make sure you do not mount other weapons than the ones your ship comes with.
Hope this helps, tc - Mav.
Re: ISO: big ship
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 10:34 am
by eagleone
well m8 as has already been said most of us are not beaming for cap ships now do to the abuse by players to not stick to the right ships. however strail is working and testing the cap ships for the next update and it should have the cap ships ready to go. also most of the ships are unable to be flown at present time and even the few that can be still have problems.
i do believe that maverick is incorrect tho on the ports and docking unless strail change it. i was able to dock at every port before the ports were closed. now if strail has changed that i have not been made aware of it.
also last thing i was told by admin was that any cap ship wep is ok on any other cap ship, they can not however be mounted on a fighter or they will be banned.
i want to encourage all of you wanting a cap ship to be patient, cap ships are not really part of the game so to get them to work with the mod is no easy task. however like i said last i heard strail is working very hard to have that ready with the next update. and no i do not have a time or date for that update.
so be patient, till then have fun with the mod we got right now, it is a real good one.
Re: ISO: big ship
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 11:14 am
by daimianptp
kk, i can w8 longer, sum guys have been here way longer so...
Re: ISO: big ship
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 3:31 pm
by [BLK_LGN][X]Zeus
It would be nice to hear for sure in regard to the type on guns on caps topic.
Re: ISO: big ship
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 3:39 am
by eagleone
like i said zeus the last thing put out to the staff in a post was that any cap ship wep can be used on a cap ship. but they are not to be put on fighters. i will look for any other post but i have not seen any, and i check the forums at least 2x a day.
here is what strail has told us, i have not heard of any changes since this.
"Currently its ok to change equipment about, so thats not a problem.
However, its not ok for fighters to be flying with big ship guns - although I dont think that can happen now"
this was an answer to the very question of cap ship wep i asked strail myself. so unless you have seen a post saying different by admin then it still stands.
Re: ISO: big ship
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 9:54 am
by Maverick
thanks for the heads-up E1. Although I can't relate that to the message I have seen on the uni channel, if that is the last update you got, we would have to go with that.
I edited out the part about swapping weapons in my initial post.
Re: ISO: big ship
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 9:37 pm
by eagleone
all i can tell everyone is what i am told. and strail is very good at letting us know if he is going to make a change normally. and since i have not seen one i must assume this police still stands.
glad i could cleared this up for everone. :)
Re: ISO: big ship
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 10:43 pm
by tyrael
thankyou E1 for that, much appreciated