Race Gates

[JeffreyT]

One of my favorite single player missions was the race in dublin. They are just sitting out there and nobody uses them. I for one would love to figure out some way to incoporate them into disco. Not sure how to incoporate it other than a server wide race event, but I someone here is smart enough. In fact, I am going to make a freelancer with participating in high speed races his exact purpose. Start rping and maybe it will catch on.

I remember vanilla playing on old wireplay the mods would offer like ten million credits to race from omicron theta to new york. Something like that could be neat too. We don't have to make a new faction, but maybe a new freeport or something where people who want to meet can. Or, heck, just designate hood as the meeting place (though not as central as most would like).

Just shooting off ideas.

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[Tovig]

You can race in Connecticut.

And by the way, I tried to do some race with friends but... Freelancer don't have real ships fitted to race. I mean, you just have to be first in the 5 first second, then you just have to fly normally, the people behind you can't beat your ship until using CD... Means they lost the cruise.

[Bobthemanofsteel]

I had a race with a couple of people from... about colorado to Narita.

Good fun, considering they were in Hegemons and I was in a train.

Lot's of cursing as we missed the lane trying to speed dock, shooting out the lanes as you go through them.

Just a cuthroat race to make a lot of money, really. ;D

[Lump Lorry]

You can race in Connecticut.

And by the way, I tried to do some race with friends but... Freelancer don't have real ships fitted to race. I mean, you just have to be first in the 5 first second, then you just have to fly normally, the people behind you can't beat your ship until using CD... Means they lost the cruise.

It's true that you can race with friends in connecticat but there is no way to check if somebody misses a gate. Some kind of server application that check if one or more racers misses a gate is something really needed to make gate races possible. I don't really know how hard would be to incorporate something like that in the mod. Waiting for modders opinion on the topic...

Lump Lorry out.

p.s. I did the Connecticat gate track many times with My Talon... there are many ship in Disco that can use the racetrack very easly.

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[hribek]

I was thinking about having my IMG character organize the races in Dublin (cause connecticut is boring and non-RP races aren't that much fun for me), with some movie makers/referees around. I would start the race with a nova torp or a SN shot, the effect should be better than using chat for starting, I think.

I was considering a "standard" race and then a "grouped" race when racers must have some sort of neutral-ish IFF (none/IMG/Freelancer/Zoner) and have the other IFFs non-hostile for their own sake. The racers group up and can use formation to catch up, but must still avoid missing any gates.

I think a camera ship or two watching over the race will ensure that people don't try to cheat too much, since they could be caught on tape and RP-fined/disallowed to participate again. (but it's a RP race so dumping CM flares in your pursuer's face might be a not-so-dirty-to-be-disallowed trick)

[Cris]

The race stuff has been discussed a hundred times and one, the outcome is a dead end. Unless someone serious and commited to it organizes the event with equally serious people, this wont go anywhere.

But, its a good idea

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[masternerdguy]

I was thinking about having my IMG character organize the races in Dublin (cause connecticut is boring and non-RP races aren't that much fun for me), with some movie makers/referees around. I would start the race with a nova torp or a SN shot, the effect should be better than using chat for starting, I think.

I was considering a "standard" race and then a "grouped" race when racers must have some sort of neutral-ish IFF (none/IMG/Freelancer/Zoner) and have the other IFFs non-hostile for their own sake. The racers group up and can use formation to catch up, but must still avoid missing any gates.

I think a camera ship or two watching over the race will ensure that people don't try to cheat too much, since they could be caught on tape and RP-fined/disallowed to participate again. (but it's a RP race so dumping CM flares in your pursuer's face might be a not-so-dirty-to-be-disallowed trick)

battle race, like wipeout in space. Or better yet make a system wide track somewhere in the Taus that could be epic.

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[hribek]

battle race, like wipeout in space. Or better yet make a system wide track somewhere in the Taus that could be epic.

Will you do that?

[masternerdguy]

Will you do that?

pfft id enter my crow in that. Would be fun.

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[Alex.]

It's true that you can race with friends in connecticat but there is no way to check if somebody misses a gate. Some kind of server application that check if one or more racers misses a gate is something really needed to make gate races possible. I don't really know how hard would be to incorporate something like that in the mod. Waiting for modders opinion on the topic...

Not only will this need to be in the mod, but have a new plugin for the servers - /summon Cannon.