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Equipment conventions - Qunitinius~Verginix - 01-10-2007
Ugh everytime I see a new player in NY, they almost always ask that. I know that I did when I first joined. The Desctiption in TLR said that all Story Jumphoels and gates were open so I was confused when it was not.
Verginix Out
Equipment conventions - Dab - 01-10-2007
Win at all cost loadout: 2 cannonsballs, 2 tizzys, 2 Wildfires, Nova AM Cannon, Eagle.
If anyone sees someone who uses this, feel free to call them win-at-all-cost [Insert inappropriate word].
Personally, I don't get mad at people who use out-of-faction weaponry, as there isn't all that much choice in the matter. If your faction doesn't have good guns, thats it you don't have good guns.. Bundschuh only have level 8 guns, which is why I use 4 Salamancas to go along with the Outcast ships they use.
Ships, however, I do have a problem with. Unless you have a valid reason to be using it, you shouldn't. Such as Corsairs with the RH Bomber, or Corsairs with Outcast huggies, or Corsairs with Osiris.. (Corsairs screw up alot of **** eh?) Not to mention, the fact that everyone and their damned mother has an RH bomber. I have one. I've used it three times. Thats it. All the sudden this massive bomber boon is here. Now I don't want to use it, as thats all I ever see others use. Bomber here, bomber there, bombers everywhere.
Its not a good thing when you have a group of 4 with 1 a fighter and THREE bombers. A normal configuration should be 3 fighters and 1 bomber. This is like the Viper incident. Most of the new guys using the RH bomber, while alot of the older veterans don't for the same reason that the others do. This is bad for those that genuinely like the bomber. Korrd has had for a LONG time, and it was he who convinced me to get one. Same thing happened with the Ravenclaw. Some of the older people, Caylith and Romer for example, really liked that ship. Then everyone got one, and it got nerfed because of it. Now its not nearly the craft it was before.
All these problems are being caused by the fact that no one is RPing enough to fly their faction's ships. SF is pretty good about it, only Liberty, Bretonia, and Civilian ships including the Bstars. (Sold by Zoners, therefor part of the civilian class.) Rheinland is strictly Rheinland ships.
But all the new players barely do it, if at all. How many Corsair-tagged and IDd ships have you seen running around with ships other than the Corsair GB or BS? Cruisers, I can understand, as the Corsairs have none, but GBs other than the Corsair one? Only time that should happen is if there was a Corsair FACTION, and had RP reasons for it.
The point of this all is; We need stricter ship restrictions.
Equipment conventions - Lt.Cmdr.Olsav - 01-10-2007
I sasy that the system admin has to approve the rp-backstory before you buy an out of character ship.
Equipment conventions - Lump Lorry - 01-11-2007
' Wrote:I sasy that the system admin has to approve the rp-backstory before you buy an out of character ship.
Maybe... even if I guess that admin are already quite busy... I'm not sure that asking them to approve a lot of rp stories could be a good idea. Maybe we should ask them. My guess is that there would be two cases
a) very restrictive rp restrictions on ships => almost everybody would ask admin to approve an out of rp ship. Huge load on admins... I don't think it's fair... they have also a life outside Disco.
b) very loosely rp restrictions... => as if there are almost no restriction. Nothing really different from now.
Equipment conventions - Lt.Cmdr.Olsav - 01-11-2007
How about this, a communal review of the ship selection and backing rp?
Equipment conventions - pchwang - 01-11-2007
Some ships just need to be moved...
Equipment conventions - Yngen - 01-11-2007
' Wrote:How about this, a communal review of the ship selection and backing rp?
I've thought of this before. However the review panel should be selected by the admins... Say 5 non-admin players willing to look at RP with an eye to keep standards up. These would be well established members of the community who care for the good of the server over personal concerns.
I would expand this to include faction creation as well.
Equipment conventions - romer - 01-11-2007
@Dab...you're dead on there...hit the nail right on the head.
Can the reps be used to lockout certain ships they same way it does weps? Maybe, it does already...can't recall. If so, it needs to be raised.
As an aside...I'm proud to announce that I have a Corsair tagged character flying a...drum roll please...TITAN! Imagine that would ya. Probably get vaped in Pvp, but that's not the point really.
Equipment conventions - onca - 01-11-2007
Argh! ya beat me. Mine's still in a Legionare:$
Equipment conventions - Nightfall - 01-11-2007
' Wrote:@Dab...you're dead on there...hit the nail right on the head.
Can the reps be used to lockout certain ships they same way it does weps? Maybe, it does already...can't recall. If so, it needs to be raised.
As an aside...I'm proud to announce that I have a Corsair tagged character flying a...drum roll please...TITAN! Imagine that would ya. Probably get vaped in Pvp, but that's not the point really.
You're not the only one, and just so you know, I nearly survived a Rh Bomber (and I nearly destroyed it) if I only had all 6 guns on it would have been dead. True, the Titan flies like a brick but it has a few tricks up the sleeve.
Congrats on the choice!:)
Also, I think the rep level to buy a ship can't be restricted.