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CAPITAL SHIP!YOU WANT ONE - stewcool - 10-07-2008
I hit more rocks in a fighter than a battle ship!
I think I win for sucking at flying fighters
CAPITAL SHIP!YOU WANT ONE - Seth Karlo - 10-07-2008
*Smiles dangerously*
Good Angelfire... good boy:)
CAPITAL SHIP!YOU WANT ONE - n00bl3t - 10-08-2008
' Wrote:Deja vu
http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=17571
Same thought.
This thread is not flame material, it is not prevalently against capital ships, it is advice for players who are thinking of getting them.
CAPITAL SHIP!YOU WANT ONE - Lupusy - 10-08-2008
all very good points by Patriot
could be stickied so new players understand
his english doesn't bother me. i'm sure our french is many times worse..
ps - and Seth Karlos ideas on the RP potential of capships are very true. they are huge and lots of fun to imagine just what would you do/think with so much power under your heels.
CAPITAL SHIP!YOU WANT ONE - Seth Karlo - 10-08-2008
Wow, so many people agreeing with me... cool:)
CAPITAL SHIP!YOU WANT ONE - Akina - 10-08-2008
GoodDay all,
I also got me a ship of capital class and must say, it was the best decision for my roleplay ever.
I got some nice to uber-great encounters in my trader ship, but when it comes down to my Battleship; heck, iam playing my whole ship (1 captain, 7 Officers, 80 Soldiers, 120 Crewmen) and also talking as my officers in-character.
So it can happen, that the captain is giving order, the Navigation officer copied, is setting course, etc...
I must agree with Seth about how to play such a big ship.
Besides, also my Gunboat and my train have a crew (gunboat=1 captain, 4 officers, 20 crewmen), (train= 1 captain, 3 crewmen)
And it works well for me.
Only problem i got is, that some players think it is a great job to kill a single battleship or a single cruiser with a couple of bombers... after the fight, the bomber pilot think they are the greatest heros, but what they did wasnt really a good showoff of roleplay, as i think it would be normally suicide to attack a battleship with 2 bombers (lets compare a bit: 1 bs = USS Iowa , 2 bombers = 2 torpedoboats => who do you think will win?, the torpedo boats with their torpedos or the battleship, with its main turrets, its anti-ship rockets, its close-range chainguns and such...)
I also didnt wrote any story for my ships, but iam about to do so, and untill they are finished, I will try to show in-game i can manage this ships.
See you around. And be nice, we have big guns and love the law.
[And if you see us and just come for your kill and you wont roleplay, expect from us that we just dock, give our crew a break (and just dont play with you, because iam like more to save my ships instead of letting it get destroyed).]
CAPITAL SHIP!YOU WANT ONE - Jihadjoe - 10-08-2008
' Wrote:So it can happen, that the captain is giving order, the Navigation officer copied, is setting course, etc...
I must agree with Seth about how to play such a big ship.
Besides, also my Gunboat and my train have a crew (gunboat=1 captain, 4 officers, 20 crewmen), (train= 1 captain, 3 crewmen)
And it works well for me.
Thats quite interesting, as I have always imagined a GB to have a crew no greater than 5 or 6. When you look at the scale of them, it seems to me that they couldn't hold many more people.
In terms of roleplaying a cap ship. I find it mighty annoying that most people seem to roleplay it as one dude sat up there controlling everything and being the only 'voice' on board.
Also last night I got the RoS's OC dready stuck in omi beta for about 10 minutes, I have mwerte laughing at me and saying "shall we just blow him up? It'd put him back on malta faster". Man I hate flying those things...
CAPITAL SHIP!YOU WANT ONE - Athenian - 10-08-2008
Every ship offers excellent potential for RP. Even my new piranha is fun. I even managed to scare a corsair praetorian out of New London with it. Guess it was so long since he'd seen one he was kinda puzzled. I also like the prison liner - the feel that it is a large ship with crew and different sections devoted to separate purposes.
I reckon the problem comes when people acquire them for killing and nothing else. Nothing wrong with the killing part of that; it's the "nothing else" that causes the pain.
CAPITAL SHIP!YOU WANT ONE - bearlee89 - 10-08-2008
Invading USA with one battleship will get you laughed at....THEN blown up.