Capital Docking can be done!

[hypermauler]

What happen when the fighter inside the carrier undock while the ennemy shoot nova torpedoes or cap missiles on the docking bay? K-Boom.

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[tansytansey]

You're a little slow... Player carrier ships have existed for some time, and the bugs have mostly been worked out.

The reason we don't have it is not because it's not possible, it never has been.

I also think it's stupid, closed minded and stubborn to say "Oh, another mod already has this idea. Oh well, we can't use it then."

It's not like they've copyrighted the idea.

As long as our developers did all the coding work for it themselves, then there is nothing wrong with using such a generic idea like allowing docking on carriers.

But I'm sure the Devs have their reasons for not implimenting it. Most likely time constraints, imagine how much longer we'd have to wait for 4.86 if they had to spend months programming and debugging a playership docking tool?

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[Luis]

*points to his post*
*points to seth's post*

Dude, lock?

It is clearly in there, and people can read. There is nothing else to say, but have spammers. :|

[CzeReptile]

I hate the non copy part.
Also, only viable argument aside from that is the abuse prevent. I so adore players who seek every opportunity to abuse stuff to gain advantage they otherwise couldnt have.

So all this falls down on players.

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[Friday]

Ultimately - the question is this:

Is any extra fun factor the mod brings superseded by any headaches it also brings?

The main drawbacks for this mod are:

1) Fitting it into the existing rule structure - namely dock = flee = death.
Solutions?
A message announcing a dock/undock procedure could be sufficient evidence of any rule breaches. Hell, its more than what we get when ships dock/undock with bases right now.

2) Exceeding base limits in systems.
Factions will have to be prepared to sacrifice a base in overloaded systems. I am sure that a faction say, the Liberty Rogues, would be prepared to lose their dockable Destroyer in New York - in exchange for being able to FLY a dockable Destroyer into the system...

3) PvP role of Carriers and other ships. Certainly in terms of carriers - they can only pack 'light' hardpoints and anti fighter defense weaponry. IRL that is all military carriers have anyway - no heavy cannons for certain!

Ultimately - I sense that if the community gets an agreement in principle from the developers - they would be prepared to wait.

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[JIVA]

since so many people appear to quote that "we don t copy stuff" thing...

care to post a link where igiss said that? - cause i really cannot remember seeing it said/written by anyone who has the authority to decide. - but i am quite tempted to consider it a self fulfilling prophecy. - if the majority believes in "we don t do what other mods do" - why not prove them right?

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[xxrockstar992xx]

+0

So many threads about this.

inb4lock.

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[12:51:19 PM] Sean: Actually, Alex is cool, I forgot 8-)