raven claw - too strong?

[The Damned]

All right guys , calm down. Ships are just needing to be tested. We should test them , then if they aren't overpowered , we can keep em - i mean its better choise anyway. With them ppl can choose from 11 VHF lv 10 (if i add the Hammerhead as a VHF its 12). So yeah. We should test them.

About BS adv - he has great advantage agianst regular BS. We should test them too. It's a beta so its a part of our job to see that they are fully tested and reported.

Ill use this place here to summarise several post of min for the FL vhf :

1) About moving the avenger's shield mount on its belly or somewhere on an unbrakable part , so its not so easy to loose it.
2) Wrath and Werewolf , i think have 5 guns and 1 turret. But the turrets are backfireing. Backfiring turrets have also the Titan and Eagle. Maybe hammerhead too. Anyway the idea is to make them forward firing - now that talon has 6 guns and fwd wiring turret , i think it will be a good balance issue. Of course this will need a lil highering the ships powerplant , but just a lil so it can support the additional gun.
3) Yeah maruder said it about the Sun in omega 47 , if u use aoutopilot it drives u trough the hazzardaus area - meaning radiation , and its very strong one too. Its like walking into sun corona. We learned that the hard way.. Oh and the atmosphere of eden is a bit big. When trying to land through the mooring fixture u eneter the atmoshpere(luckily no incidents) , but maybe it should be backed up a lil.
4) About swarms - thy cause lag , but i think the idea for energy-related missle launcher is great. So i propose that the thing is totaly re-worked. Given other name , and refire of max 1.0. Damage of max 2000 hull. Tracking capabilities of a normal missle (not stalker class , but cannonball , lancer ..etc.) The current effect of the missle is fine. So its a good alternative if u dont want to spent $$$ on ammo. Oh and it should be a missle gun class - so u can mount it on a gun/missle slot.
5) Oh and the sidewinder missle launcher may get another effect. Its like a firestalker now. Maybe just switchig the colour to blue or green will do the job.
6) Guns. About the second house guns being lv 9 too. Maybe introducing more buable lv 10 guns , not only colada. Lets say salamakna mkIII , wyrm 3 and kraken 3. The houses can have interely new guns for lv 10. Just keep the coluors of the guns appropriate for the house - white for bretonia , green for Rheiland , blue for Liberty , and yellow for Kusari. That wil be nice.
7) BH ships may use red engines too - Hammerhead , Barracuda and Pirahnia - they have white now.
So far this is it. Im continuing bug-hunting :D

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"Comm. Adama:
-Starbuck whadda 'ya hear?
Starbuck:
-Nothing but the rain sir!
Comm. Adama:
-Then grab your gun and bring in the cat!
Starbuck:
-Boom , boom , boom!"

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- =BSG=Starbuck ; Maj. Kara Thrace(fighter pilot)
- =BSG=Galactica ; Commander Lee Adama(Battlestar)
- =BSG=Helo ; Lt. Karl Agathon (bomber)
- Colonial 795 (trader)

- [Phantom]The_Damned (oopps a baddie)

[Igiss]

1) I think it's possible to do this, will try.
2) They are back-firing because of their location, and I'm intended to make Talon turret back-firing too. Power of this ship seems to be enough without forward-firing turret.
3) Any problems with other suns in new systems? Can you test them too?
4) I wonder - does Swarm really cause lag? Some assure me it doesn't, some assure me it does. Seems that actually it does, so I'll have to do something about it. Lower refire rate probably... homing capabilities seem OK to me right now, regarding cost of this weapon.
5) Are there original weapons with other effects? Please direct me to them...
6) That's about 4.80.
7) Are you sure that red is better for Bounty Hunter ships? Waiting for other opinions on that...

And these posts are more suitable for Bugs & Suggestions thread, so I'll move it there soon.

[The Damned]

1) I think it's possible to do this, will try.
2) They are back-firing because of their location, and I'm intended to make Talon turret back-firing too. Power of this ship seems to be enough without forward-firing turret.
3) Any problems with other suns in new systems? Can you test them too?
4) I wonder - does Swarm really cause lag? Some assure me it doesn't, some assure me it does. Seems that actually it does, so I'll have to do something about it. Lower refire rate probably... homing capabilities seem OK to me right now, regarding cost of this weapon.
5) Are there original weapons with other effects? Please direct me to them...
6) That's about 4.80.
7) Are you sure that red is better for Bounty Hunter ships? Waiting for other opinions on that...

1) Yeah , thats nice 10x.
2) Ok. THings are fine then.
3) Will do the check.
4) Yeah , it does lag , but u can do it like i offered an energy missle gun, and change its name.
5) Yeah , check the stalker series missles. I think windstalker had a good - brownish colour effect.
6) So i see we will have new toys - nice.
7) Well the NPC's are using red engines , and i think that red looks great.
7) 1/2 If u are making MKII version of anubis , u might change its engine effects , like the same flames but blue. I think the order needs u mod has done this , and the monkeys , so it looks cool.

Thats all bout now , countinuing bug and feature hunting/suggesting ... just to get my Raid. :D

8) Maybe Hammerhead can use a lil power-up to the power plant - he cant support his guns for a good period of time.

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"Comm. Adama:
-Starbuck whadda 'ya hear?
Starbuck:
-Nothing but the rain sir!
Comm. Adama:
-Then grab your gun and bring in the cat!
Starbuck:
-Boom , boom , boom!"

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My characters:
- =BSG=Starbuck ; Maj. Kara Thrace(fighter pilot)
- =BSG=Galactica ; Commander Lee Adama(Battlestar)
- =BSG=Helo ; Lt. Karl Agathon (bomber)
- Colonial 795 (trader)

- [Phantom]The_Damned (oopps a baddie)

[Alpha 429]

On the matter of weapons i was told that you could only get the Rheinland hornviper mkII from the wreck in omega 49. If that is so then could we maybe think about making it purchasable from an RM BS or something. If it is already sold somewhere then plz just tell me where.

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I know where it is Cortana, I just have to find it. - Commodore Puddles

[Wolfpack98]

Guys, i've fought the swarm, and i've seen *NO* lag.

I don't think it's JUST Swarm. If you're gonns scream lag over swarm, you better scream murder on the chainguns.

I think we need to stopfocusing on a specific thing. It's not the weapons. it could easily be the server hardware.

I'mlooking into some alternatives on hardware so I canactually give you guys a decent server. If all else fails, I have a coloc host that is offering me a server for this.

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[Wolfpack98]

Guys, i've fought the swarm, and i've seen *NO* lag.

Okay.. Clarification.

I'm on the Local LAN to the server compared to the rest of you (The server's hosted here in my office).

Any lag I'd evernotice would be either 1) LAN Slowness or 2) Server related.

When the swarm's fired, I don't see LAN Slowness or Server related LAG until I start seeing Swarm plus a large number of chain guns.

So when you talk about lag, please think about it might be your connection as well. No one has a perfect 0msec lag connection to the server, so there's always lag of some kind.

I've noticed that a majority of lag is generated when you have a large number of NPCs in the area or a large fight going on. This is server-related as the box has trouble keeping up with the number of "threads" it has to process.

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[gezza999]

On the matter of weapons i was told that you could only get the Rheinland hornviper mkII from the wreck in omega 49. If that is so then could we maybe think about making it purchasable from an RM BS or something. If it is already sold somewhere then plz just tell me where.

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[Jamez]

Well if too many NPC's are causing lag shouldn't we cut down numbers of NPC's?

IMO there are way too many. They are just annoying.

Please seriously consider this.

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Andrew Skye
Starflier thrill-seeker

Evangeline Knight
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Shinji Takeda
Renzu Corp ex-COO

[Fellow Hoodlum]

Can I point out one thing here .... We have now had 68 replies on a subject started
by a Newb who appeared on the server possibly once, started a discussion/argument
and then p*ssed off somewhere else.
Just possibly a plant by someone having a wind up over the mod ...... or genuine?
The Raven has now been changed and for the worse too .... and now I have to sell
and rebuy it .... Ah sheesh.
Though the rest of the resulting discussions have been real good .....

Hoodlum :cool:

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[Jamez]

That newb guy was right tho....the new VHF's were unbalanced.

Now we are just waiting on The Damned giving us feedback.

Hood this discussion wasnt a waste of time.

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Andrew Skye
Starflier thrill-seeker

Evangeline Knight
Seasoned fighter pilot

Shinji Takeda
Renzu Corp ex-COO