Liner RP

[retnuh]

1. is it allowed to RP a hijacked liner? or would you need special permission?

2. side question: do CDs not work on certain ships? if so is it ships over a certain size or what?

[Petersen]

to question 2: if the engines of a ship are very far apart from ech other and the centre of the ship other cds than the train cd are more or less useless. the train cd has such a large blast radius it disrupts nearly anything besides a juggernaut and a rheinland bs without any aiming at all. for jugggernaut and rheinland bs you need to aim to be able to disrupt them.

[retnuh]

thanks for the answer, when you say aim is that when you select different parts of the ship in the target window? (i.e. thruster in this case)

[Weedalot]

1. is it allowed to RP a hijacked liner? or would you need special permission?

2. side question: do CDs not work on certain ships? if so is it ships over a certain size or what?

could you be more specific what does it mean.

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[Cellulanus]

thanks for the answer, when you say aim is that when you select different parts of the ship in the target window? (i.e. thruster in this case)

Or shoot when sitting behind the ship.

[retnuh]

could you be more specific what does it mean.

i mean like a luxury liner that was boarded by pirates, vips sold into slavery, valuables stolen, ship captured instead of destroyed. or a prison liner where the prisoners managed to overpower the guards, possibly with help from outsiders trying to free their commrades, most prisoners then left but some had no-where to go so remained on the prison liner. - those are along the lines i was thinking.

Or shoot when sitting behind the ship.

ok thanks for the info.

[Cyro]

I find this a good idea, if RPed good. (pirates owning hijacked liner)

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[NerdRage]

hmmm, i went over this when i was deciding to make a Cardi-Cola company main ship and party liner, then i thought:

1: how would a OC get a liner?
2: what would i do in-game?

tell me, what do you have in mind, you obviously want RP confirmation to do somthing, or just for the sake of discussion?

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[retnuh]

I find this a good idea, if RPed good. (pirates owning hijacked liner)

thanks for the support

hmmm, i went over this when i was deciding to make a Cardi-Cola company main ship and party liner, then i thought:

1: how would a OC get a liner?
2: what would i do in-game?

tell me, what do you have in mind, you obviously want RP confirmation to do somthing, or just for the sake of discussion?

in terms of how they got it, i was thinking a hijacking scenario. What would i do in game? been thinking about that myself i was thinking that pirating would be kind of difficult as in terms of shields and firepower larger transports can match you and even best you in the case of a kusari transport (12 turrets) so if the trader did choose to fight in some cases it would be a lengthy battle by which time they could have thrusted to a station or somthing. Other than that shipping contraband between pirate bases when there aren't many people online to pirate. As for i.d. i was thinking either genric pirate or outcast maybe as that's the area of space i'd like to occupy i think as i've already explored most of corsair space.

[Knucklehead]

I could definitely see the Outcasts being able to pull off such a hijacking, especially since they already don't like Orbital Spa and Cruise. Actually getting the ship could be a bit of a problem, as you would need to be at least neutral with OSC to get it (at least for the Luxury Liner).

Complications may arise should the ship ever be lost in combat. I can see one hijacking as being successful, but the security would certainly be strengthened to avoid a repeat.

The other complication is which ID's allow transports. I'm sure this isn't a huge issue, as there are only a few I know of that don't allow them. This could also change in 4.85 (I don't know for sure, I just heard that there are changes in the works for the IDs)

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