Alliance vs Coalition

[Circadian_Lupine]

Ok 2 further explanaions directed towards Igiss. I was kinda hazy when i covered these in my rambling posts.

1.) i had no intention of letting people change thier account names, the idea was that if you wanted to participate in the alliance vs coalition war you make a NEW account with the [AL] or [CO] tag on it and transfer credits/equip to it from another account to jump start it. Just listing who's on who's side on the forums isn't good enough. There will be times in the heat of battle or in a surprise coflict where you need to know exactly who's on who's side in a moments notice. This is intended to simulate the war between the alliance and coalition factions, these two groups shared a deep brooding hatred for eachother and always fired upon sighting a member of the opposing faction. They did NOT offer a kind but guarded welcome and then scamper off to check the forums to see if they could shoot thier target.

2.) The handling i was refering to in my post about battleship weight is directly linked to the mass of the ship. I've played around with these extensively on my private testing server. Increasing the battleships' weight by an order of magnitude or two dramatically reduces the effect of random fighter impacts (a good thing) but adds a fair amount of inirtial drift and decreased acceleration (not TOO bad a thing, it IS realistic). If you were interested in making the changes i could refine my tests and send you a new shiparch.ini to look at.

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