' Wrote:I very much like that idea, afterall, if a ship is lost, it shouldnt be seen from miles round, it should be invisible, a hint is in the fact that the ship is LOST, if everyone knew where lost ships were, thy would be examined and towed back to a base long ago.

I am all for this, it would make a lot more sense, and make wreck camping harder.

' Wrote:I believe this would make wreck camping easier. Once you find the hidden ship, you'll camp there and log that puppy right out, no matter what. This will only make it harder to find for non-campers. The only thing that would make wreck camping harder if the modders go back and move the ships around every time the server restarts...

' Wrote:While I think that this is a great idea, I actually think that if you made Codename weapons lootable from missions or high-level NPCs, it would be even easier for people to acquire them.

Just do all the missions in a destroyer.

If you can manage to do 7-8 special missions, thats 7-8 codes. Far easier than wreck camping. So, even if you made the special missions rare and hard to find on bases...

...it would still mean that more people in general would have access to getting a code.

While earlier, it required wreck camping, or going out and finding wrecks specifically, now, all it requires is taking a mission off a base that offers high-level missions, or simply running a "boss" NPC where you can loot this "elite" weapon off from.

So, what I propose is this: Do nothing. The current system, while flawed, is manageable. After all, is any solution perfect?

' Wrote:Aren't code-names abandoned or lost prototypes? It makes more sense to me that they are in wrecks not equipped to NPCs.

I have another suggestion. What if we make wrecks undetectable on the map (like new objects in the game like the Shrine) and once every now and then shuffle the location of codenames via the DSUpdate?

' Wrote:You know, I think this is a good idea. Not only would it mean that you could just fly over to a wreck and get your guns, with some level 21 coming in and stealing them half of the time before you get there, you could actually have to work for something this hard. A boss is a very good idea, especially if you'd have to work collectively to take him down. Mind you, when the guns come out everyone's going to be fighting over them.

' Wrote:Sorry, but I like the Ace idea better.

Hiding the wrecks would just make it nearly impossible for a non-dedicated codename harvester to find, thus hugely increasing prices for them, increasing the need to powertrade.

1. I agree with the permanently static wrecks being removed, so no conventional farming/metagaming as it is used to be may take place.
   
   
   
2. Having wrecks appear at random spots after a server reset would either mean some fancy FLHook programming that repositions the objects (I don't know if that is doable) or manually place them in other systems, which would imply ini modification and thus slows down server reset.
   
   
   
3. What is still flawed with even the random spawned wrecks is, that they are still "once per character" lootable, so as soon as somebody found their position, it is going to be swarmed by the other characters from the finder and/or the friends/Faction that also have access to that. To prevent multiple farming, I'd give the wreck so few hitpoints that they would explode, regardless of how minor a weapon was used to shoot. Thus the loot is limited to the first player ONCE to find the wreck which was randomly placed, until the next server reset. I guess that would be genuine treasure hunt.
   
   
   
4. To take this a step further, if we speak about randomly placed wrecks, it depends on the possibility. If FLHook can take care of the repositioning, then its fine. If not, and if it has to be done manually, I'd suggest that only a few wrecks appear each server reset. Mind how many there are out there, and mind how much time it would need to replace them. Sure, the ini files could be modified beforehanded and then "just a few2 simple pastes would solve it all, but its still the same work to be done with... plenty of wrecks. I'd rather see only a few of them, making the mere sight of a wreck even more of a *cough* "mindblowing" event.
   
   
   
5. Though the mission idea is somewhat decent, it becomes a repeatable option, and with luck, you might even receive more codenames than you normally could even grasp in a single day. you just need to switch the room to switch the locals and their missions, and a simply undock / redock resets the missions from the black board.
   
   
   
6. And now for something completely different; I am not all-too-certain anymore about the creation of patrols, but I'm thinking about those super-ace NPCs not as mission spawns but as truly random RANDOM spawns that appear at a simple patrol with a very low chance. Those Top-Aces would naturally be found in more remote places. If that is possible, we have a random factor that does not require any FLHook or manual admin placement, and the chance to stumble upon one of those ships is scarce, and getting the codenames out of it is not guaranteed even.
   
   
   
7. I don't know if that fits in here but; I have a slight issue with the spreadsheet of "what equipment which faction can use" when there are codenames nowhere listed. its like "oh look what i found!" and your local engineer says "dude... the powercoupling is so way off, you'd need a totally different ship to mount that". Perhaps I'm on the complete wrong side, but I certainly can think of some Factions that would not allow a use of Codename Weaponry just simply out of RP reasons. But well, thats another story, sorry for mentioning and confusion.