Capital Docking can be done!

[Sand-Viper]

I vote that carriers have the highest level npc fighters from each faction guarding them. Guardian spam anyone?

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[Nathan]

Well theres obviously gonna be some issues. And then there needs to be a long cool down or something before you dock once more. But why remove carriers when you put a bit more effort in to utilise them once and for all?

[JIVA]

before the tale spreads any further - "just cause someone else has it" is completely irrelevant when it comes to decisions if we can have it or not. ( unless its forbidden of course ) - no idea how that rumor started anyway...



about docking


yes, its great, yes its an awesome feature etc etc etc.


but there may still be bugs about it.

- what happens when the carrier ship dies?
- what happens when the carrier ship disconnects?
- what happens when the carrier ship suffers tremendous lag?
- what happens when both, the carrier and the fighter initiate the docking sequence at the same time - will one of them end up in an endless sequence?

- how is it handled when there is docking during a pvp?



lets say - everything works 100% fine! ( from a technical point of view ) - and lets say, its not too much work to do ---- in other words - lets assume it has been decided to be included.



- discoveryGC has one of the tightest rule corset possible - for an action shooter anyway. - will our rules ruin the docking anyway? - will players feeling at a tremendous disadvantage for not having a faction that owns a carrier? - which ships are carriers anyway....

personally, i don t fear the technical side much - i know it can be done with minimal bugs..... i am more concerned with the community jealousy, which occurs whenever a faction has something the other faction has not got - sometimes its justified, sometimes its not. but it always tears the community apart a little.

and in the end, we get rules that make every little bit a lot less fun than it could be.




mind you - i m all for trying. the worst thing that can happen is that we get plenty of arguments and complaints on the forum - and there s nothing new about that.

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[Birdtalon]

Dude how long have you been here?

This is discovery; if another mod has it. We can't.

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[Ingenious]

Dude how long have you been here?

This is discovery; if another mod has it. We can't.

Nobody's even made an official statement equating to what you've asserted there. I haven't been here very long and I've seen a lot of posts like these with 0 evidence to back it up. I'm certain there are balance and rule problems with player docking on carriers.

instead of +1 pessimism...Here's an idea instead which might be completely silly or actually feasible:

NPC bays - a hardpoint which deploys top-notch NPC fighters at a very low rate. While piloting the carrier, you activate the "deployment bay" hardpoints to spawn a Navy NPC in a Guardian, or an equivalent. When there are no hostiles, these custom NPC templates will return to your ship and "dock," or disappear. The deployment bay hardpoint would take a small amount of energy to use and I restate that the "refire" rate would be very low to prevent spamming/lag. However, I think this is a nice way to employ carriers.

The questions I have regarding that line of thought include whether these NPCs would carry regens, pilots, etc.. Maybe even mount some armor upgrades on them to have them survive longer.

In any case the mounted "weapon" would most likely be called "Liberty Navy Guardian Bay" or "LSF Avenger Bay" or something like that.

[Birdtalon]

Not exactly supporting my statement there, but Igiss has confirmed that Capital Ship docking wouldn't be happening because of too many complications such as;

What happens when the Cap dies when players are inside?
What happens when the Cap docks while players are inside?
What happens when the Cap logs off while players are inside?

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[Ingenious]

Not exactly supporting my statement there, but Igiss has confirmed that Capital Ship docking wouldn't be happening because of too many complications such as;

What happens when the Cap dies when players are inside?

Players could be moved to wherever the Carrier respawns.

What happens when the Cap docks while players are inside?

Players could be moved to wherever the Carrier has opted to dock.

What happens when the Cap logs off while players are inside?

Players could be moved to wherever the Carrier was docked last.

Note that it would be important to be able to move players somehow without kicking them... Not sure how.

[Dart]

i'd vote yes if and only if this was used for events that are hosted on the event server

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[kindred]

Void and Flak88 have also implemented docking with capital vessels & your mum, therefore DiscoGC will never follow suit.

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[Ingenious]

Void and Flak88 have also implemented docking with capital vessels & your mum, therefore DiscoGC will never follow suit.

Do you have any backing to support that statement? I suspect you do not.:$