Discovery 4.80 features, bugs & suggestions

[DarkOddity]

Here's an odd one:

Reputation of players with The Order. It seems that all the old characters on the server have max rep with the order. Those that had no other max rep seem to have gotten the Order tags or at least have green rep and can even take missions at Battleship Isis (haven't tried one yet).
Newly created chars get -3 squares rep with the Order and whatever you do, it stays there. Only thing I didn't try yet is getting the Corsairs friendlier.. but the char which I got the tag on is nearly hostile to the Corsairs and green to IC..
Makes no logic sense whatsoever.
I've seen some more players with Order tags. How can you buy Order ID if the rep doesn't change?

*Note by Order tag I don't mean Order ID, I mean showing ingame like 'Order - [IND]Athena'.

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I also have a problem, I've done everything in my power to killing tons of nomads, xenos and whatnot and becoming friendly with Corsairs, nothing has changed my order rep (and I'm new to the server so it would stand to reinforce Nightfall's post.)



Also: For the Battlestar Advanced:
Twenty Turrets is an appropriate number for that ship, 14 is FAR too few for the size. Now I personaly am quite in favor of having 6 of the twenty being low level. But level 1 is far too low. I primarily fly a Battlestar Advanced and I have found that with my looadout, using any of the level 1 turrets is COMPLETELY useless. For a capital ship you need certain values to exist in your turret weaponry. Let me list some examples:

Level 1 Turrets have the following attributes:
Usually Shorter Range
Decent Refire Rate
Poor Damage
Low Energy Drain
Slow projectile speed

Battleships Need (For Low Class Turrets):
Moderately long ranged weapons
Decent Refire Rate (8.33 is an OK fire rate, like the Justike Mk I's)
Poor/Moderate Damage
Low/Moderate Drain
Fast Projectile Speed
Longer Range


As it stands now the only weapon able to be mounted and be effective to any point in the class 1 mounts is a Justike Mark I. I propose that the class 1 turret mounts be raised to AT LEAST class 2, if not they should be raised to class 6.






Also: Battleship Weapons
Damage refire and whatnot is all perfectly fine on these weapons; However I do feel the range should be increased.

Battleships usually dont sit right up on eachother and open fire, theres usually alot of long range fire.

I suggest changing the battleship weaponry to have at least of range of 5 Kilometers and a cutoff range of 7 Kilometers.


5-7 Kilometers with the same projectile speeds leaves distance so cap ships can fight eachother effectively, utilize more strategy with the variable of distance. Leaving the cap ship weapons at the existing projectile speeds as opposed to changing them to be faster also makes them less accurate against fighters at ranges farther than they are now.


Input on my ideas please. :)


Also back to the Battlestar: If the battleship turrets are increased in range, having even up to turret class 8 as only fighter class turrets exist for those class levels. Thus making anyone who has up to class 8 weapon equipped on their Battlestar, those weapons would be severely hindering in a cap ship fight because they would not have the required range under the new rules (For instance, 5-7k distance on cap ship weapons out ranges a Chaingun (1499ish distance) in range which a battleship equiped fully with the chainguns is EXTREMELY deadly, which should not change might I add.




In a Nutshell (overview):

Cap Ship Weapon Range Increase to 5-7k
-- Enables long range, strategic battles, enabling manuvering tactics to be used more

Battlestar 'Sub'-Weapon mounts increased to at least class 2, preferably class 6 or 8
-- Enables them to have "Point Defense" turrets so to speak, for combating fighter vessels within the vicinity of the battleship with ease, and also having a full loadout of regular battleship turrets for fighting against real battleships. Adding versatility unique to the battlestar and making it more like it is in the movies.*


Definately if the mod starts going in that direction "Point Defense" mounts for turrets class 6-8 should be mounted on all BATTLESHIP class ships

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