Picture this, you start a fresh new character on the server and you notice a handy little /restart Nomad command. You think, hmm, this used to be closed, worth a shot.
"/restart Nomad" + Return BAM
You have a Nomad IDed Morph on the Nomad City in Omicron Iota, repped all Nomad and such, with no tech cept the ID, Scanner and shield.
The Nomad ID handily lists a nice amount of guidelines for you;
"Nomad ID - You are one of millions of Nomads, have fun.
* Can engage any non-freighter or transport
* Cannot leave the Omicrons
* Cannot attack Outcasts or Wild
* Has to follow orders by Keeper IDd players (Possibly? Too much? Cheers AnonUser)
Allowed ships: Fighters, Gunboats, Cruisers, Battleships" (open for debate)
You think, "WOW, I can finally be a Nomad without any work!"
The Nomad ID also has no tractor beam so Indie Nomads naturally have a disadvantage and it can call be done with FLHook coding (sorry Cannon) with no need for a new mod update.
Pros: More Nomad activity, stuff for the Omicron Zoners/Order/Core/Factions to actually fight there
Public use of Nomad stuff, people can be free!
Fun for everyone.
More balanced sides in Omicron battles
Everyone thinks they can play a Nomad better than the Nomads, prove it
Lots of Omicron Combat
Omicrons are finally as dangerous as they're made out to be in lore
No more Keeper Elitist (lol, that doesn't even exist now, the Keepers are just scared of the possible outcome)
Cons: Public Nomads?!?!?!! - 1
Lots of Omicron Combat - 2
Open Nomad Tech - 3
Restricted to the Omicrons? - 4
No tractor? - 5
Solutions:
1 - Public Nomads can be done. "But people won't act like Nomads" Then they can be sanctioned the same as an LN who pirates or a Zoner who engages everything on sight. 6.10 Biatch.
2 - Is that such a bad thing? There is a three way war between the Core, Order and Keepers (Zoners voyeur and sometimes hop in) that the Nomads don't even show up for anymore. It's getting boring.
3 - Nomad Tech isn't overpowered. Nomad Tech on Nomad ships is fine, the Voidrunner is a bit unbalanced but that's being fixed next version, other than that, the other ships are fine.
4 - The Keepers are the defensive part of the Nomads, the Das Wilde and Aoi Iseijin act as the offensive part, the Keeper war is in the Omicrons, it also massively balances the Public-Nomad concept.
5 - The Nomad ID never had one, can't be changed until next version, could be a nice balance thing though.
The Marduk and Voidrunner could be left off it people honestly think that they're a problem (Marduks are supposed to be far and few, portrayed by the Keeper ones).
Edit: The Scorpion would also not be usable on this ID.
And apparently people want public Nomads and Nomads that actually fight and are aggressive:
' Wrote:I think nomads should stfu and engage without notice.
' Wrote:I'll go with this, at least less of the cryptic 'telepathic mindshare' thing squishies do with humans anyway.
As soon as I start a conversation with a squish who speaks like a retarded child with the inability to form coherent sentences, I lose my interest. I'd rather they just go '***darkname (u die)***' and get it over with.
' Wrote:Vanilla nomads pl0x.
Sorry Akura.
We'd perfer cardboad cutouts tbh.
(Not quite the same context but you get the idea.
But of course, as a footnote. The Keepers already said that it's not happening, and thus their faction is stuck in one place forever, and this'll never happen. But thanks for reading, I'm just saying that's it's possible, granted that people scoop the sand out of their crotches and see the pros.
Have a nice day!
Edit: This is 95% Treewyrms work, I just wrote some words.
I can't believe you're the person who proposed this. And I LOVE it. Though, maybe restrict ships upto gunboats ? I don't really want to see Marduks everywhere :unsure:
' Wrote:I can't believe you're the person who proposed this. And I LOVE it. Though, maybe restrict ships upto gunboats ? I don't really want to see Marduks everywhere :unsure:
I didn't actually, someone else did all the legwork, I'm just thinking it wasn't such a bad idea after all and people should have a chance to talk it over amongst themselves.
Yay, Order could occupy themselves with something more than camping Isis, shooting every thing that enters Omicron Minor or hunt very few bounty hunters left...
' Wrote:What Virus said, Marduk spam would be bad. Irra spam too.
That's what I was thinking, except that Irras are very well balanced and generally suck due to their lack of cruiser speciality weapons. I also think that the Zoners/Core/Order would appreciate at least some kind of cap to fight.
' Wrote:It would certainly be interesting to see if this can work.
After months of intense study in my lab with Shazbot, I came to the same conclusion.
' Wrote:Yay, Order could occupy themselves with something more than camping Isis, shooting every thing that enters Omicron Minor or hunt very few bounty hunters left...
' Wrote:Yay, Order could occupy themselves with something more than camping Isis, shooting every thing that enters Omicron Minor or hunt very few bounty hunters left...
Here here. I really hate that all that Order can do is go and patrol the surrounding space, looking for threats that don't really exist (for most of times.)
True. I would also restrict it to GB max.
And I dont get the tractor stuff- it is a strange disadvantage.
Explain why it is any because except you cannot pick the 18 bots bats dropped by blasted ship in PvP, mines and cds are anyway different then the human ones. Interesting thing is that this will eventually kill the currnet keeper faction if they dont change their attitude, interesting thing is also how should this Nomad IDed lolwuts RP? And what should be considered as rule-violation given the strange nature of the ID/Nomad communications?
(10-09-2013, 10:51 AM)Knjaz Wrote: Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)
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