f2k,Jan 25 2006, 05:08 AM Wrote:A few bugs and suggestions
This is probably a know bug, but I thought Id mention it since Ive recently been affected by it. Large ships, like the Large Train Im flying, have severe difficulties undocking from smaller stations. Recently, I had big problems getting away from Freistad Base and Breisen Mining Facility, both in Omega-7.
I've seen this in a few places, but not where you're talking about. It's not as Severe as you make them out to be. I've docked at Cambridge Research Facility more times than I care to count (even a few of the freeports), but the only difficulty i've ever had was in DOCKING.. not undocking.
Quote:Ive also got a few suggestions for new equipment.
Shield Capacitators: increases shield strength.
Energy Capacitators: increases the ships available energy.
Im not too sure about the Shield Capacitators. A capital ship with lvl 7 armour upgrade and upgraded shield would be a truly fearsome opponent. But when flying fighters, I really could use a slightly bigger shield.
The Energy Capacitators, on the other hand, I dont think would unbalance the game at all. The big ships already have plenty of power, so this would only help the smaller ships like fighters or traders with big weapons onboard.
Don't like the shield caps but I do like energy capacitors. Anyone who's flown a battleship with Orsiris weapons in Alaska/Unknowns/Delta knows how hard it is to kill a Nomad Battleship, let alone by yourself in a over-powered ship. I'd be for the Energy capacitors, but the shield ones would be a problem, I think
Quote:Finally, is it possible to implement a Disruption Pod? Having flown in a Gunboat instead of my usual Large Train for a while, Ive been reminded just how disgustingly effective cruise disruption weapons can be. Even with Advanced Countermeasures, I got disrupted nearly every time a missile was fired at me. It would be nice if a ship could be equipped with some sort of Disruption Pod that functioned like a permanent countermeasure. If it cut the amount of incoming missiles down by just 1/3, perhaps then the countermeasures could do the rest?
Eh. the cruise disruptors are only effective if they hit you from behind, i've discovered, or if they hit you dead-on. Not sure if this is a good idea or not. :)
Quote:A suggestion that Ive made before: in the name of role-playing, make it so large ships (Freighters, Gunboats and bigger) can only be bought at shipyards. It makes no sense, to me at least, that a Freeport could build a ship like the Large Train. Ships like this should only be build at a suitably large shipyard.
Not a bad idea..
Quote: I would either increase the cargo space of all ships by a factor of two or three, or implement a Supertanker ship with around 10.000 to 15.000 in cargo capacity.
Now this, i'm very much against. on a typical VIP/Alien Organisms run from Cambridge to Kurlie/FP9, i make roughly $15 Million per run. This is on 4,000 units. If you increase it to 10,000 units, I'll make, (by my estimate...) almost $40 million per run. That kind of spoils the game in terms of trading. Making a super transport would solve this, but increading the existing cargo hold, I don't think is a good idea.
Between us in the 8492nd, we probably have upwards of $500 million collectively. If we all had large trains with a 10,000 cargo capacity, We'd all break the $900 million mark in two days of convoy duty. That, to me kinda ruins the fun. Makes it too easy.
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