Alliance vs Coalition

[Denier-of-Soup]

Yes, either the Alliance tries freeing a system of the Coalition's control, or the Coalition tries conquering another one.

Looks like everyone is for this idea. :D

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"Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich."
--Sir Peter Ustinov

[xit]

Looks like everyone is for this idea. :D

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That's almost scary considering how we usually argue in here. :unsure: :P

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[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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[Igiss]

You can just explain what values you changed and what the new values were. But a whole shiparch might be useful too.

[Denier-of-Soup]

I remember someone saying that if we were to increase the mass of cap ships, the cruise engines would take longer to charge. I could be wrong though.

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"Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich."
--Sir Peter Ustinov

[Wrath]

Yes, I believe increasing mass does make the cruise engines take longer..... However I think we are all really tired of getting flipped around by ships ramming us. On the other hand, if you make the battleship cruise engines take longer, can you make them faster? It would help immensely with the fact that the Rheinland Battleship is nearly impossible to dock with tradelanes on a regular basis. The osiris is a picnic to land by comparison and it is not the easiest to dock.

Also, I've had quite a bit of trouble with the Rheinland battleship docking with jumplanes, 2/3 times you ram the thing and get mis-aligned. Getting back into a proper approach vector takes some practice.

[Denier-of-Soup]

A cruising speed between 400-500 will be enough. We wouldn't want the ship to go too fast, otherwise we'll have to rely on our normal engines to get us out of those asteroid fields.

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"Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich."
--Sir Peter Ustinov

[Circadian_Lupine]

Cruise engine speed is a universal standard, to increase it for battleships woul dbe to increase it for every ship. Increasing mass shouldn't increase the time it takes to charge cruise engines though, just the time it takes to accelerate to 300 once they're on. If speed was a factor it IS possible to chance the standard travel speed of individual ships... Bumping the regular engines up to ~120 for battleships would help shorten transit time between points too close to cruise to, since we don't have thrusters.


I'm working on something of a project in-server to prepare for the [AL] vs [CO] war (coalition all the way baby! :cool: ), so i probably won't have numbers for you on rebalancing the cap ships mass until then.

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[Denier-of-Soup]

Don't you think [C] and [A] tags would be better? I mean, "CO" sounds like we're some sort of corporation. >_>

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"Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich."
--Sir Peter Ustinov

[Circadian_Lupine]

Too late for me, i just made my [CO] account and dropped 40 million dollars into it i guess just a plain old [C] and [A] would work just as well for people that want to do that too though.

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