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Custom Battleships - Igiss - 03-07-2006
Freelancer has no carriers. And no faction would be able to collect a 16-20 ships strike force at one time, let alone it will cause immense lag. Every ship has to be self-sufficient in a way. So I see no problem that top-level fighters, especially bombers, may become trouble for battleships. Though I will reduce power of fighter anti-battleship weaponry.
Custom Battleships - Retread - 03-07-2006
yep, lag is always an issue in multiplayer. True, there are no true carriers in Freelancer. (well, not in the SP game anyway).
I've seen a mod that uses a "strike carrier". But, you dont see any ships coming out of it...period...(it's NPC btw) the fighters spawn right after the carrier passes by, giving the impression the fighters are launching off of it. Max number of fighters, gunboats and battleships I've counted so far in this scenario was about 18 units.
I recall the biggest furball I've been in was somewhere around 12-18 fighters (gamers) not including npc's that got caught up in it....all going at it with missles and guns. (What a free for all that was). Battle lasted over 3 hours.
Custom Battleships - Wolfpack98 - 03-07-2006
Retread,Mar 7 2006, 02:04 AM Wrote:Battle lasted over 3 hours.
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3 hours? Geez.. that's allright..
Try six hours, man. 30 players all fighting eachother in a melee free-for all. We did something like this on one of the Vanilla Servers for the gaming clan [SFC] (Met and I are both part of the clan.. StarfleetCommand).
Took us nearly 6 hours to finish the game.. we had unlimited respawn and half way through it we broke into groups and started pounding other players. Spilled from system to system till we went around the map (Rheinland, Bretonnia, Kusari, Liberty, Omegas, Sigmas, Taus...)
Six hours and we went to bed. Mind you, me and my girlfriend at the time were literally laughin our @$$es off over the way it went.:)
Custom Battleships - Retread - 03-07-2006
that's the best kind.
Custom Battleships - Titus - 03-08-2006
Lol, try making a battle with fighter "melee" :P , sngle way of damaging to be punching into the other ships, while you damaging yourself :P :P
Custom Battleships - Retread - 03-09-2006
eh, is that like Starflyer Soccer?
Custom Battleships - Virus - 03-09-2006
That sounds like a fun game..... A Starflier with engine kill on, and a bunch of people in VHF's or something. ;)
EDIT:
BATTLESHIPS CAN BE THE GOALS! XD
Custom Battleships - Korrd - 03-09-2006
Virus,Mar 8 2006, 11:01 PM Wrote:That sounds like a fun game..... A Starflier with engine kill on, and a bunch of people in VHF's or something. ;)LOL
EDIT:
BATTLESHIPS CAN BE THE GOALS! XD
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Although i dont like football soccer, I would really like to play that match!. the goal line would be 2 lined battleships per side.
2 teams, 4 players per side. All ships equiped with low level weps...
We can do it with the starfliers after the event. It would be fun..
Custom Battleships - Virus - 03-09-2006
I was thinking more like.... Smash the Starflier into the BS and you score. ;)
You cause the Starflier to explode(without weapons), EXTRA POINTS! XD
Custom Battleships - Retread - 03-09-2006
and the battleships could also be the goalies. LOL