People say use escorts. Sorry but escorts are useless to stop a ship from death. They can scout ahead,but not keep a ship alive. Just look at what happens to a BS when 5 bombers show up. You can have 10 fighter escorts,but the BS is dead. They may get 1 or 2 before,but not all.
As for RP to get a new ship other then barge it is simple. BASES SELL THEM!!! They are not rare like a barge is,nor as big.
If they are sold at a base then they will be abused,and people will F1,and/or scream bloody murder upon death. You know i am right that some people will buy 1 to trade,and scream when all that Cardi/Hfuel/diamonds or what ever go's boom. Also thinkof what a piratewould demand based on what they ask miners for. I can see it now. "100 mil or dai" PEW PEW!
Ryoken your post says to us Q_Q there are pirates.I don't fly battleships but on the BGH/Order event I killed more then 5 bombers in solaris osiris at once.People here discuss the barge and what to do with it.If you have nothing to say don't say anything.
On the topic now:
I actually will like to see more of this ships flying around and RPing. If the barge is used as storage depot in the faction Guard system hidden from everyone it is much more storage depot then any ship. According to this I would add the Topic made by Cross. I never flown one but I guess that if you make it free for all you must state that this ship is not good for alone trading and if the player dock at the planet admins will not save him. You can add a warning note in hold when you buy the ship. It will be nice challenge to pirates to rob/kill such ship actually.And you must rise the price to 700-800 mill.
I don't know but prise rising by trading ships works and makes them rare- see the Kusari cruise liner or prison liner /luxury yacht for example.
(10-09-2013, 10:51 AM)Knjaz Wrote: Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)
' Wrote:why not just make a smaler version of it say a super train with a cargo hold of 15.000
and keep the barge as a SRP ship
Because SRP don't work well- it tooks too much time to get the ship and the admins are swarmed with requests.
And adding 15 power-trader ship will not gonna happen.
(10-09-2013, 10:51 AM)Knjaz Wrote: Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)
Barge can only be used as a station with ability to be move occasionally. Any attempt to use it for trading will result in loosing sanity and planet/sun diving.
' Wrote:I don't know but prise rising by trading ships works and makes them rare- see the Kusari cruise liner or prison liner /luxury yacht for example.
' Wrote:.......and people will F1,and/or scream bloody murder upon death. You know i am right that some people will buy 1 to trade,and scream when all that Cardi/Hfuel/diamonds or what ever go's boom....
:(
But that is what I would be hoping for..a swarm of either of the Hispanics blowing up a GMG miner and all their ships tractoring in as much fuel as they can before making off with it. Current game mechanics don't allow for that with the immortal miners we have right now. But if that H-fuel extraction thing that Friday cooked up makes it in I'll be able to have that barge filled up in no time with a little faction help. The fuel sells in both their spaces too so their is some profit in it for them too.
I was toying with the idea of having a space colony in Manhattan orbit using a barge with a neutral ID and no IFF. I mean hell, it's an Island-3 colony.. And with the neutral ID the random lolwuts who would blow it up would get sanctioned, and with neutralized IFF I'd have no bots on me. But I'd never end up getting an SRP for that..
Make the hull price 800 million, nerf the cargo capacity to 25000, and make it only purchasable out in Omega-49 on a Zoner base or something, some place where it isn't overly easy to get. Just don't make it overly hard to get either, only being sold on The Temple of the Revelant.