Ok i know its been suggested before but more missions. Ones that, as suggested on a post before, suit what we fly like bombers, caps.
But also i think it would be cool to have really hard ones that require a condition to be met before you do them. For example one condition could be form a group of 3 caps 2 bomber and 3 fighters. The mission could then be take down a hard space station with caps etc.
Another example. The condition is form a group of two fighters and a transport. Mission is transport the precious cargo to location b, pirates/enemy are expected along the way.
Im not very creative but you get the idea. Big rewards and something similar to a post level raid would be good too.
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I am all new to this Forum and I don't know, if some of this recommendations already have been made before for upcoming version of the mod.
However, I want to share these ideas with you, and welcome any kind of productive criticism.
You find the suggestions here..
New Gadgeds:
-Cruise Jammer
A generator that generates a powerfull energy charge, that prevents any ships within a range of 3k from engaging Cruise engines.
Costs a lot of Cargo. (200-300)
Illegal
Suggested Price 20,000,000 $
-Radar Scrambling Device.
Upon Activation, this Gadget will render a ship almost invisible to scanners. (to about >3k) It will also completely shutdown energy regeneration for the time it is activated. Cruise enginges have to be disengaged.
A nifty tool for every pirate.
Costs some Cargo (50)
Illegal
Suggested Price 5,000,000 $
-Deployable Towers
Stationary Defense Towers with limited lifetime that can be used only once. Avallable in different colors and flavors...
Suggested Price from 500,000$ - 3,000,000$
-Sensor Probes
Stationary Satellites which show any ship that enters a 10k sphere on you radar
Suggested Price 200,000$
-Ray weapons
Weapons that do a continuus damage over time but drain energy quickly. (Phaser-like)
-Radioactive Ammunition
Missle type that create a small irradiated and contaminated globe/patch that damages hull over time.
Illegal as hell.
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-Missile Jammer
This advanced electronic countermeasures device broadcasts subspace interference waves that confuse the seeker heads of incoming missiles, causing them to track less accurately. Be forewarned, though, that torpedoes seem unaffected by such jamming.
They are installed on Weapon hardpoints.
Suggested Price 10,000,000$
-Shield Capacitor
Shield capacitors are energy storage modules that can increase the maximum shield capacity of any ship by xxx.
You have to sacrifice cargo Space in order to install them.
Suggested Price
10,000 Units - 70 Cargo - 10,000,000$
50,000 Units - 400 Cargo - 35,000,000$
125,000 Units - 1000 Cargo - 100,000,000$
- Shield Booster
A shield booster is a dangerous and highly illegal ship upgrade, available only on seedier planets. It routes drive plasma directly from a ship's engine core to its shield generator, increasing the rate of shield regeneration. (Charge: +xx%)
Pirates and high lvl Bounty hunters only?
-Fighter Bays
This self-contained launching bay includes all the equipment needed to launch, recover, repair, and rearm a pair of NPC Fighters (or maybe bombers?)
Suggested Price around 100,000,000 $ and 1000 Cargo
Only on certain Transports, Liners, and Dattleships
Mission Variety:
I've seen a lot of missions, but they are all quite the same.
Now i know what you are thinking:
This has been the problem to the original Game and on an RP its up to you to find interesting peaople and encounter interesting situations.
But fact is: to get the **** (ship) you want to fly you often have to rep for several hours which has nothing to do with roleplay AT ALL
And this part could be made more interesting, even with some little adjustments.
Take the anti capship missions:
Right now they are not to well balanced.
I think at this time there is a poor variety and in these missions either you got plenty of fighters,
or several ossies to fight against.
-Add some anti capship missions for other factions apart from BHG and Corsairs/Outcasts. Other factions have capships too, or they would not be bulding/selling them.
If you are repping for RM, why dont you throw in some missions, where the hessians have captured some gunboat like ship and you have to destroy it.
-Add some different Station models. For now we have the Large Space staion and the weapons platform. Isn't it possible to add some other models that have different charactersistics like HP, hotspots, towers.
-Add some rewards: More Money or Maybe one of the stations has a storage full of cardamine!?
-Add some easy to code missions like:
-Cargo dump. Waste disposal (could be done with a "/") Maybe into an asteroid field or into the sun...
-Prison Transport/VIP Transport wildly getting attacked by npcs but well paid.
-Escort freighter.
-Espionage (take some pictures of a certain base)
-Sabotage-Destroy a depot near a NPC main base)
-Jack Bauer Mission - Bring an bomb to a Station and get the hell away before it blows up, and kills everybody..
forever!! *beep**beep*
---Or it least it makes docking impossible for a certain amount of time and displays to every player which played dropped the bomb.
This will place a bount yon your head.
Concerning the ongoing war, it would be interesting to have some destructable / damageable stations.
I am thinking about some of the border stations, like this captured Battleship in Orbit of Kiel (which name it forgot)
Destroying or damaging a station would ruin you rep permanently.
Greetings,i realise that this is already planned and will probably be implemented either way however i must note something concerning the use of turret steering on fighters which is quickly becoming popular with the former gunboat and cruiser captains.The reason for that would be that when using it,it basically becomes possible for the former BUGS which was the 90 degrees mini razor and such to be used at will while maneuvering,before the said BUG was used without being able to maneuver except for the strafes but this makes fighter combat completely different and makes it possible for a small group of fighters to dodge out and just fire at will even if the enemy is at their backs and still win even if outnumbered,using turret zoom makes things even further out of balance,if i remember right a zoom configuration was not at all an uncommon reason for a perma ban in the past,and this is way further than only that....if there is a way to exclude fighters and bombers from the turret steering and turret zoom i urge you to explore the option...because quite simply this changes the essence of fighter combat
Best regards Ivan aka [XTF]_Achilies
' Wrote:-Fighter Bays
This self-contained launching bay includes all the equipment needed to launch, recover, repair, and rearm a pair of NPC Fighters (or maybe bombers?)
Suggested Price around 100,000,000 $ and 1000 Cargo
Only on certain Transports, Liners, and Dattleships
This gave me an idea!!!
I realize that making cap ships dockable to players may be a very difficult thing to implement.
But what if instead of (or in addition to) being able to dock on them, cap ships could dispense (spawn) npc fighters? this would completely change the feel of a cap ship as well as the strategy for taking them down. no longer would a cap ship just simply be a giant floating boat that turns like a brick and has lots of hull and lots of guns. But now the cap ships would be formidable opponents to everyone! PLUS HOW COOL WOULD THAT BE HONESTLY!?!?!
you could do it like missle launchers. it would take up a weapon slot, perhaps some cargo space, and the "ammo" would be freelancers/mercenaries/recruits that you could buy from a planet!
you could even make it so that different cap ships spit out different npcs depending on their faction!
i'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet but i had to post it. i got the idea and suddenly got really excited of the thought of me spawning 30 fighters to cover me while i destroy planet Manhattan HAHA
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they will make carriers, its planned. will most likely be released in 4.86 but might go in 4.87. though I'm not sure of the capacity to dock NPCs in your hold.
LIBERTY IS THE STRONGEST OF THEM ALL!!! oh wait, that's 4.84
Now you'll see. I'll predict the future. in 4.86 Gallia will launch a full scale attack on the houses! guess how I know.
I'm not sure if this has been suggested, sorry if it has.:)
Anyways, My idea was to customize ships in either increasing their Speed, Power House, Turn Rate's Etc Etc with buy-able upgrades.
But to stop people just stocking up on crazy amounts of upgrades, Limit the amount that they can buy by only have a limited amount of space to put them, like hard points.
EG: Say a light fighter can only carry 4 upgrades you could arrange them either:
I wish that the 4.86 comes with or similer to these.
1-Hell, I want More Battleship destroying missions ,and for every faction.
2-More type of Missions ,like suggested below
(i)Escorting missions
(ii)Combat Assisting missions
(iii)Cargo,supply,crew or Vip taking,droping missions.
(iv)Base Destroying,yes i know there are such missions ,but hell give them more hull then a light fighter.
(v)Race Missions:crazy:
(vi)Saving Missions ,like saving liners,stations, crew ,vip transport or indivdual saving.
(vii)Rescuing Mission ,like some one missing,lost or kiddnaped by someone and you have to rescue him/her ,maybe his/her ship become wreck in middle of no where and when you found him you have to tract the pod and back.
(viii)Illegal cargo taking transport or convoy destroying. Yes in current missions just ship destroying not a transport or convoy
(ix)Transport,convoy,liners escorting missions.
(x)summgler ,theif,Mining ships destroying missions.
(xi)Multi objective missions?
(xii)chasing and then hideout destroying?
(xiii)Alien hunting or nomad,wild ,specially Nomad BS hunting.(with a Npc BS convoy)
3-Is this possible to make sheilds look like same as in starlancer when we hit them ? Now i dont think so it looks like that their is a sheild ,protecting and covering the vessel
,when we shoot at them.
And also can we make weapons visuals more better, when they hit target ,make a explosion or something intresting. Now only mortars are doing this cool job.in other weapons case it looks that the target vessel just obsorbing the weapon hits and no extra visual effects.expcept tinies
4-Huge caps like barge:crazy:
5-New caps for every faction,i mean for each and every faction.
6-New stations, huge:crazy:
7-and ofcourse new weapons with cool effects and explosions.
8-dynamite type weps with self destruction or remote control.
9-Nuke Missile launcher(Forword luncher for caps with even greater explosion then havey mortar and long lasting and missile must look a big one not tiny)
10-can we make the caps destruction more time taking ,intresting with long lasting explosions. And blown in more pieces then current and process must be a slow one.
I think that Discovery is a Well balanced mod and completely diffrent from others and carrying the original story with great balance , Except some features
If Disco add these features ,it become the one and only ultimate mod for freelancer ever made. Features who made it more realistic ,like
1- Make all astroied fields like in 88 flak ,in which even big astroieds are floating ,not like a nail in the wall.it makes the game more realistic ,intresting and easier for all type of caps to move through astroied fields .please add this feature now or in future .:)
2-Increased AI skills.
3-Wingmen Purchasing for Caps
and please add other good features from other mods which are unique and marge them into 1 ,Discovery:)
Thats all for now
I guess, crying for more developments are not the best idea, if the current or 4.86 will be fixed and balanced thats a victory.
My Idea would be that the capital ships would cost more, since every little boy buys one and uses without thinking. Like the one who is shooting every red contacts on radar....
I hope that the docking system will be great, I want to see that. I don't know how they'll solve it but that is a good feature.
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well, my 5 cents
1. Support the idea of expanding the game in the missions. Convoy escort, siege, blockade, assault, destruction of databases and so on. Increase their complexity and cost for them. Plus, place the heaviest missions, upgrade armor with NPC.
2. Question. Why aircraft carriers, battleships armed with much more? There is a view that the battleships, the main hold them busy with a generator, which generates a lot of energy for the cannons. At the same aircraft carriers another task - to deliver fighter jets. That is, hold is engaged in the courts and space for the generator should be significantly less than that will affect the firepower of the ship. There is a proposal to lower the power of aircraft carriers in exchange for a greater capacity for small vessels and vice versa for the battleships.
3. I noticed a large gap between the houses and other factions regarding combat power. Namely, the use of capital ships. There is a proposal to introduce a new type of ships under the name of the small landing ship or large landing ships for homes.
What's in it?
Small fractions of the game that clearly does not have the resources to build battleships, cruisers and probably have too rough for the fire power of the court, but they will give a little multi-purpose vessels capital houses.
For a small fraction of landing ship:
- Be able to take on board some ships
- To provide a bigger firepower in battle than the gunboat
- Increases the fraction of total power, while respecting the history, that the faction did not have the resources to build heavy ships.
- Be able to provide fighter cover, at the expense of a larger armor than the gunboats having a place for missile turrets.
In history we can write that was built on a custom faction for any (civilian) shipyards
Figuratively Let us estimate the small landing craft option:
Armor 230 000 - 300 000 (no more than the heavy cruisers)
Firepower 1 million - 1.7 million
Turrets in the mixed type of gunboat (8th grade) and cruisers (grade 9)
Self-propelled
CD, CM
number of turret 8 - 10
Maybe two torpedoes on each side of the vessel
Shield - cruisers, 250 000.
Hold - 4000 (given that the bomber will take hold in 2000, very heavy fighter will take hold in 1300, and heavy - 900, you get 2 or 3 heavy bomber fighter or 4 heavy Fighter)
In fact we get a mixture of gunboats with the cruiser, but in larger sizes than the cruiser and capabilities of small aircraft carrier, but the category of an aircraft carrier will not fall because of its poor design. This example is taken from real life, when some countries have no ability to support and build large ships, but they have a court "support", which can be used to resolve various problems, ie in fact a lot of target vessels. This group can use them as a trading style and as a combat-boot of small vessels in the hold.
Purpose - a quick method of delivery of small craft on the battlefield to support them in battle.
The next option - it is the large landing craft. Available only for homes or very large fractions of both Outcast and Corsairs (possibly a variant of Nomads of the vessel under the title "mother").
Armor - 500 000 - 900 000 (heavily armored)
Firepower - 2 million - 4.5 million (heavy)
Turrets mixed type of cruiser and battleship (heavy)
self-propelled
no CDs, only the CM
number of turrets - 8 - 15
ability to set the torpedoes
Shield - the battleship with a capacity of 450 000
Hold - 10000 - 18000 (heavy type)
The essential difference is that this category of the vessel (the only one of all others, given the major competitors - the aircraft carriers) will be able to dock a gunboat. Of course, and the size of the vessel must be in the proportions in order to hold back the gunboat.
For example gunboat will take hold of 4000-5000, so the hold capacity of 10 000 is available for download two gunboats or five bombers, etc. This type is suitable for Bretonia or Liberty.
In a very large landing craft capacity 18000 - download three more gunboats and small vessels. But at the same time it will ship more and more slowly in control. This type of vessel suitable for Kusary, Gallia and Rheinland.
The main purpose of these courts - to fill the void between the gunboats and battleships small fractions of large fractions in the arena of battle. And the acceleration of movement of the entire fleet of commercial lines or through the asteroids, confirming the name "landing craft".
The main difference is that they are capable of taking on board a gunboat, in contrast to carriers that would carry only small vessels. But this will give the armor and firepower of aircraft carriers, whose size and strength to be significantly superior to amphibious ships.
Our offers to hold the same aircraft carrier as a landing craft, only without the possibility of docking the gunboat. That is, players have to choose or more armor but less able to download courts, or less fire power and armor, but the greater the hold and the ability to download gunboat.
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