07-06-2013, 08:48 PM
First off, I know that the idea what pop to my mind will never happen and is very hard to accomplish, but I want to share it anyway.
As everyone of you know, there are games where you can be a soldier and when you find tank or copter, you can drive it.
When there are two players, one can drive a tank and another can use it is main cannon.
With 4 people, one can drive it, 1 can use canon, and 2 can use heavy machine gun ( same with copters and other vehicles ).
So idea pop to my head, why not make it in freelancer, but instead of soldiers, you have players in subs, and instead of vehicles, you have caps.
Here is how it would looks like.
You make capital ship, lets say, Liberty Siege Cruiser.
And next you make Guardian fighter character, and you put in in siege cruiser.
If you will fly with this Siege Cruiser alone, it will work just as it work right now ( and when it is destroyed, it will re-spawn on base you left it off ), and you will abandon exploding capital ship in fighter, so even if capital ship is destroyed, you can still use fighter again your enemy.
However LSC have 3 player slots, if there are 2 other players in fighter or bomber with you, one of them can dock on your cruiser and take slot of heavy gunner, thanks to this, you can drive your cruiser and shot FG and light turrets, but another player will control your heavy turrets ( and he will increase heavy turrets damage and reduce energy use ).
If two players dock on you, than you can drive drive LSC and aim with your Foward gun ( what get damage buff and energy use reduction ), while another player use your heavy guns, and last player use your light guns ( also giving them bonus ).
As result, 3 players will make 1 LSC very powerful.
Now lets say you patrol liberty and you see 1 pirate fighter, than one of players on your cruiser can un-dock and have fighter duel with him.
Lets say your cruiser is destroyed with 2 players on it, as result in place of 1 LSC, 3 fighters/bombers pop out, and capital ship fight can easy turn into subcraft brawl.
Thanks to this instead of having like 7 LNS ships attacking lone sub-craft what will escape them anyway, you can have 1 LNS Carrier with 6 players on board, players what will undock form carrier to attack enemy fighters, and if enemy capital ship arrive, they will dock back on carrier and hit him hard with heavy guns.
The system is easy:
Gunboat ( 2 player slots, 1 for pilot who can use FG, and 1 who use all other guns ).
Cruiser ( 3 player slots, 1 to fly it and shot FG, 1 to use heavy slots, and 1 to use light slots ).
Dread ( 4 player slots, 1 to drive it and use FG, 1 to use heavy slots, 1 to use primaries, 1 to use light slots ).
Carrier ( 10 player slots, 1 to drive it,1 to use heavy slots, 1 to use primaries, 7 to use light guns ).
Thanks to this capital ships will become more rare but more powerful and important, and every player will have at least 1 fighter or bomber.
I know this idea will never happen, but I still wanted to share it with all of you, please comment what you think about it, and my apologise if my grammar is to poor for you to read.
As everyone of you know, there are games where you can be a soldier and when you find tank or copter, you can drive it.
When there are two players, one can drive a tank and another can use it is main cannon.
With 4 people, one can drive it, 1 can use canon, and 2 can use heavy machine gun ( same with copters and other vehicles ).
So idea pop to my head, why not make it in freelancer, but instead of soldiers, you have players in subs, and instead of vehicles, you have caps.
Here is how it would looks like.
You make capital ship, lets say, Liberty Siege Cruiser.
And next you make Guardian fighter character, and you put in in siege cruiser.
If you will fly with this Siege Cruiser alone, it will work just as it work right now ( and when it is destroyed, it will re-spawn on base you left it off ), and you will abandon exploding capital ship in fighter, so even if capital ship is destroyed, you can still use fighter again your enemy.
However LSC have 3 player slots, if there are 2 other players in fighter or bomber with you, one of them can dock on your cruiser and take slot of heavy gunner, thanks to this, you can drive your cruiser and shot FG and light turrets, but another player will control your heavy turrets ( and he will increase heavy turrets damage and reduce energy use ).
If two players dock on you, than you can drive drive LSC and aim with your Foward gun ( what get damage buff and energy use reduction ), while another player use your heavy guns, and last player use your light guns ( also giving them bonus ).
As result, 3 players will make 1 LSC very powerful.
Now lets say you patrol liberty and you see 1 pirate fighter, than one of players on your cruiser can un-dock and have fighter duel with him.
Lets say your cruiser is destroyed with 2 players on it, as result in place of 1 LSC, 3 fighters/bombers pop out, and capital ship fight can easy turn into subcraft brawl.
Thanks to this instead of having like 7 LNS ships attacking lone sub-craft what will escape them anyway, you can have 1 LNS Carrier with 6 players on board, players what will undock form carrier to attack enemy fighters, and if enemy capital ship arrive, they will dock back on carrier and hit him hard with heavy guns.
The system is easy:
Gunboat ( 2 player slots, 1 for pilot who can use FG, and 1 who use all other guns ).
Cruiser ( 3 player slots, 1 to fly it and shot FG, 1 to use heavy slots, and 1 to use light slots ).
Dread ( 4 player slots, 1 to drive it and use FG, 1 to use heavy slots, 1 to use primaries, 1 to use light slots ).
Carrier ( 10 player slots, 1 to drive it,1 to use heavy slots, 1 to use primaries, 7 to use light guns ).
Thanks to this capital ships will become more rare but more powerful and important, and every player will have at least 1 fighter or bomber.
I know this idea will never happen, but I still wanted to share it with all of you, please comment what you think about it, and my apologise if my grammar is to poor for you to read.