The War In Leeds - The Battle for Stokes Mining Field

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Without the re-engagement rule being dropped, it would have been "Kusari kills Bretonia, we're done here" in a matter of minutes. Being able to go back again and again loosened things up a lot. I had a blast.

However, the point has been raised about the Crusader being a turd... but that can be fixed as well as the loadout standardization in one fell swoop.

You know how NPCs have copies of a ship? Well, if I'm not mistaken, you can make a copy of the Crusader with different stats, and more precisely matches the intended loadout.

The biggest problem, however, was how all the b/b and ordinance ended up on one side or the other. When the Dragons have mines and the Crusaders don't, things tend to swing pretty consistently. Making special weapons that aren't sold anywhere but come on the ship (I think you can even make them hard-mounted so they don't appear on the equipment screen, I think this is how some Star Wars mods do hundred-gun capships) that have ammo that costs 0 credits would work. Though /restart'ing every time is another workaround that didn't occur to me.



Get the ships used on par with each other, and get some workaround for the b/b and stuff all ending up on one side, and it'll be perfect. The other people in the system either knew what was up or just say "underlevel" and didn't do anything stupid, and it was kinda fun to see the KNF decide "we have momentum! CHARGE THE GUNBOAT! BANZAAAAAI!".

As for RP, that felt more like a war than the pitched battle events. It really did. A constant struggle for ground, lost or gained in a single slip. Absolutely brilliant. We did tons of chatting, if you got shot while talking- who cares? Just hit respawn and charge back in!



As you can tell, I loved it even with the problems that came up. I'll be on the lookout for more of these, absolute blast this was...

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