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Equipment conventions - Yngen - 01-09-2007
Please post your opinion. Should there be a new server rule requiring weapons appropriate to your ID on your ship? Should there be a server rule requiring your ship match your ID?
=BSG= is using Outcast weaponry on nearly all of its vipers. We kill alot of corsairs in Bretonia so Outcasts like us very much. No bribery or funny reputation hacking is done for these weapons. However planetform is pretty much hostile to all pirate factions. =BSG= is/was interdicting drugs in Bretonia-a slight on Outcast interests. Should we be using Bretonian class 9s instead?
CORRECTION: 2nd question first poll should ask: Should reputation and equipment match?
Equipment conventions - Aeon - 01-09-2007
interesting.
i was rather confused by the first question set... but i voted anyways for "ID and equip should match"
the second i voted "make up a story"
and the third i voted "friendly weps only"
Equipment conventions - Nightfall - 01-09-2007
My opinnion on this is very well known, match the stuff, I'll give you an example:
besides my Sabre, which is all Outcast and a bit more, I have an Avenger which is LSF tagged and IDd and has Liberty class 9 Vengeances and Magma Hammers, believe me, I'm not worse in it than in the Sabre or the Nephthys (which has Order weaps and eq.).
But that should not be only me...
Equipment conventions - Nussebull - 01-09-2007
ID and reputation should match (friendly weapons only) - This would improve the RP status.
The whole "win at all cost" thing is lame, I've met Rheinland bombers full of pulse guns
and 2 novas... They hurt.
ID and ship should match - Junkers in Rheinland ships and Hessians in Titans? Think it's better
to get the ships your NPC faction flies.
Might get a little tricky for pirates/terrorists (coalition?) who wants capital ships.
Nuss
Equipment conventions - Fellow Hoodlum - 01-09-2007
I'm quite happy with option two across the board, as your roleplay is entering a new phase now ...
Its 'The use anything at all costs' brigade who are bringing us to this type of poll. Up till now most of us have
pretty much worked on trust, and if someone has taken the piss a little, its been pointed out politely ...
I admire Nightfalls complete dedication to the art, but a little leeway for some of us is fine.
Allies are there to help with not just the fighting, sharing of technology would enter into it, if it was beneficial to
all sides of the alliance.
Hoodlum
Equipment conventions - Lt.Cmdr.Olsav - 01-09-2007
' Wrote:ID and ship should match - Junkers in Rheinland ships
if you are saying this in way of the helghast, i can assure you that we follow rp to the T. I was allowed an exception due to the nature of my entry to the faction, and the fact ihave outlined my reasons for rheinland ship choice many times over. If you would like fulll explanation i will be posting an ongoing rp thread when i get the chance.
As to the voting options, i said that it should be friendly weps only, and that for ship type, it should be an rp reason. AS to the BSG, i feel they are fine roleplayers and need not worry about it. though it is odd about the outcast thing. Though i have noticed that they dont powergame, and for a relatively new faction they should be commended, as i have seen hordes of new players tagged as navy and flying tottally corsair outfitted outcast sabres. (hyperbole and exageration but i felt it was merited)
Equipment conventions - Frodo - 01-09-2007
I believe that the ship is the most important to match your ID, although if it just matched your reputation that wouldnt be much of a loss either.... But I believe that the ship may be the most important part of the characters identity.
Weapons and equipament are a little trickier I guess..... I'd first say that it would be best if they matched your reputation too, and thats what I usually do, but I guess that one or too weps from another faction wouldnt hurt the roleplay atmosphere.... you can always tractor in your dead foe's weapon or make a peregrination to the omega systems......
I believe that if people didnt exagerated, we could mark all the options as "make a story"....
Frodo out
Equipment conventions - Colm Cillian - 01-09-2007
Dont really like any of the options....when making load outs, I try to pick guns based on how they sound/look when you shoot them. *grins* When you fly Rhienland ships you have to get your ascetics[sp?] where you can.
Equipment conventions - onca - 01-09-2007
I too am a bit of a RP purist when it comes to ship/weps. OTH variety is the spice of life... even if just pretty colours of laser blasts... so I voted #2 for equipment and #3 for ships.
(For example my GMG char flies a Drake... I love the gnat-size thing and lumbering Centurion/Titans can't land a shot.)
It's not unreasonable for allies to share technology after all. As someone pointed out elsewhere FL is not a RTS... you don't pick a unit and get stuck with one weapon, HP, etc. You have the freedom to pick and choose.
But we probably need to level the playing field WRT weapons. The new Class 9's for each faction are brilliant but there is still some uneveness. IMG weps (my favourite example) still lack ~160 dam/sec over similar weps but consume the same energy. OTH Outcast weps consistently outdo all others. Then of course there is the infamous Tizona. Unless we do this the incentive to use OPW ("other people's weapons") just to stay in the race will be too great.
I know the reason why pirate, esp. Outcast weps, were made more powerful is because they are "harder" to get... either you have to kill pirates or go to far-flung systems to get 'em. That reasoning might be ok in SP but its bunk in Disco, where any char worth his salt can roll through all of Sirius.
As for ships, well I reckon a good RP story will suffice. And I don't mean: "I WOZ IN NEW BRELIN BAR GOT PILOT DRUNK STOLE HIS KEYS AND TOOK HIS BOMBR LOL ROFL!!1!11!!!1!1!"
o.
Equipment conventions - Virus - 01-09-2007
' Wrote:>snip<
"I WOZ IN NEW BRELIN BAR GOT PILOT DRUNK STOLE HIS KEYS AND TOOK HIS BOMBR LOL ROFL!!1!11!!!1!1!"
>snip<
Not a bad idea...:P
Might try that... Only way more explainatory... (And I'd steal a Phantom or Wrath).