(09-29-2017, 11:17 PM)Thunderer Wrote: Of course it causes trollish harm to everyone it interacts with. I dare say, albeit without ambition or exaggeration, probably decisively more trollish and especially harmful, than any other feature whatsoever that has been added since the beginning of the mod, except Red Hessian capital ships. I suppose the way it was implemented wasn't your original idea for this feature? What was?
The original idea was the Vagrants to be different from the K'Hara who had the perma-cloak, which is/was so to speak their perk for hunting. Since the Vagrants are not evolved to hunt but to survive, they evolved to be able to use jump drives on all Vagrant shells. Using those jump drives, the Vagrants returned to Sirius, and should be able to use them to jump from place to place. I'm actually surprised myself about the ability to jump away other people, as I never thought about this ability. When we concipated it, it was more of an alternative to reach any point of the map quicker, as the K'Hara, back then when we formed the Vagrants, had the Iota gates. The specifications about the ability to jump with multiple ships was more of an addition to allow us to bring in cloaked ships as well as to make sure the jump spread wouldn't be too high (especially in terms of unfocused jumps). That was the original purpose from our side.
To avoid the creation of Orewu, I do think we limit this on our side to that only, and leave the ability to separate human targets for special circumstances where players should be able to handle it without crying too much. I do, however, anticipate this experiment and the results. If anything, Foxglove and I will discuss about this while watching how this turns out to be.
Then again, it is also a question of when people are just mad at the nomads for having this little tool and when they are justified in being mad about its abusal. I rarely see human players complaining about how the Nammu is not able to instakill snubs like human gunboats can, or even compete with other gunboats, etc.
