Dead eh?

[Dab]

i'm new to discovery but i'm not new to role playing.....

-docking in combat makes perfect RP sense especially in a home system.

-rearming and repairing(getting a new ship) makes sense too, your attacking someone's home base so it shouldn't be easy. Saying they shouldn't be able to dock and come back out would not make much RP sense...attacking a fully fortified and populated base and not expecting to run into defenders resembling a swarm of bees is not realistic.

-In other space RP games (EVE-Online) they dealt with death by having Clones which would make sense RP wise. at the home base you could have a clone of yourself and you could say that everytime you take off your memories are downloaded as a backup incase you die.

-having your opponent dock in battle seems like it would make it harder to dominate their home system which makes sense and it would make it an even sweeter victory if you can completely drive them back to their homebase and keep them there for an extended amount of time blasting them everytime they undock.

am i making sense?

i don't argue that it's frustrating to have an enemy almost dead just to have them dock. maybe pick your battle ground a bit better next time...either way if an opponent runs count it as a win and run yourself...chalk it up as a skirmish and try drawing them away from dock.

- maybe one thing to help with the docking problem is not enable the instant docking (with stations or planets) to me instant docking with stations or planets doesn't make RP sense either unless you want to take damage and possibly blow your ship up anyway. to safely dock it needs that sequence.

i hope i'm not talking out of my butt, i just had some ideas i thought i'd throw at ya

You use the examples of EVE-online, yet your also talking about legalizing the dock and repair method. I play EVE-online. There are ways to keep people from instant docking and repairing. One of these methods is to set up warp disrupter bubbles around the station. They would have to rely on afterburners and MWDs to get to the base, which can be stopped by the enemy using stasis webifiers. In Freelancer, you can't do that. The only way to stop someone from cruising to the mooring point is to cruise disrupt them, which can't be done once the other ship is in cruise. And there is no way to stop them from going just on thrusters which if they are a fighter, is 200 m/s (gets there quite fast enough..), or 130m/s for GBs/transports/Cruisers.

Yes, it SHOULD be allowed to dock and repair, except that the game does not allow us to have any form of stopping them from doing it. We can't stop them from insta-docking a mooring port. Because of this, battles WOULD NEVER END. Everyone would just keep docking and docking. 'It would make it an even sweeter victory if you can completely drive them back to their homebase." No it wouldn't The other team would just keep undocking and instant-docking until you were dead. The amount of time it takes to kill a ship in FL would stop you from being able to kill them instantly every time they undock. Though this isn't a pvp server, its an RP server, alot of it is still pvp. RP-fights are everywhere. If this was done, those fights would be won by whoever has the right to dock at the base thats 5k away. There would be no pvp on this server AT ALL.

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