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Op,I have

some new questions.

When i first played FL i was hooked at that game in a second

because it reminds me to the old ELITE ( on my amstrad !). Later i had the chance to find

StarLancer but i did not enjoy it maybe because of the military structure of the gameplay (

and the joystick ! )

If i remember your ship was in funtion of your progression in

the military top. The choise was very limited and upgrades or transfer of weapons where not

possible. Right ?

What are you proposing in SL-R ?

- same ships with some

ajustements but with standard weapons and no swapping of weapons ? ( except missiles ) [ i

think i read that in 1 of your post ! )

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yes thats how it was

planned
weapons are fixed mounted - only missile launchers can be

bought

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- we have no choice of the ship ( nor armement ) we will use,

except those forecast by promotion ?

you start with a simple shuttle and

do missions until you have enough money for a small fighter
better fighters will be damn

expensive and hard to buy this way

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- how about the ranking, the missions, the

rewards, the extra equipement ( if any ) ?

missions can be done to make

money... not much... its also possible trade or loot asteroids
most money can be done by

destroying presetted targets

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- shall we be organized in military units,

squadrons with leaders etc ... ? and what about freelancers ( if any ), what will be their

role in the conflict ?

clans will be organized in a military way...

freelancers are volunteers that will assist the clans with their attacks or support them

behind the lines

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- how to gain controle over a zone if no pvp ?

ive never said something about taking control
i said about destroying objects

(stations or sattelites) to get special equipment or money

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- what to

compensate the presence of ion cannons on
one side ?

there was a

station of alliance rogues in SL - it also had an ion cannon

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- shall the

importance of the missiles not be to great and spoil the fun of the fights ?

missiles wont be too important in pvps... they are more important for missions or

destroying enemy bases

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- who will decide about the missions, with who, where

and WHEN ! ?

dunno i expect that ppl will organize in groups automatically

... do the attacks and share the profits

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- what shall be the influence of the

AI in SL-R ? ... only for ennemy ships ( npc) , .... for some missions ... for some

unexpected events ?

mainly transports, battleships, missions and a few

fighters guarding special points

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- how are you planning to equilibrate the

number of players on each side if one side has to much inscriptions ?

dunno yet... but coz of the fact that i only let choosen ppl to the server it should

be possible to control this

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- what is for you the minimum of ppl needed to

play SL-R at the start ? ... and on daily bases ?

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ill try to contact argh to help him to find out how to create planets in the original

way... this will reduce the size of SL-R and will make the planets look more

detailed

im not sure if we can make it but ill try the best to find out what the prob

is

this is one of the new stations which will be part of SL-R (many FL stations will

remain in SL-R because there are not enough station models for

SL-R)

ive done some

changes on the planets (as you can see earth has real clouds now)
i also was able to

compress some

textures

as stated

in the mines concept i was working on making "tactical mines" which dont only do a little

bit damage
the result is this mine
after being dropped it will activate after

30seconds... it will not move so you need to place it infront of jumpgates/stations
it

has a very high damage and explosion range
you can only take a few of them with

you
you will have to stay close to the mines (5k range) because i was not able to prevent

the disappearance

the idea is if you expect an attack of the opposite faction on a

system then you can place a few of those mines infront of the gate
the first opponents

which come through will run into the mines and go boom
this does only work if you play in

a team coz u can only take out a few fighters this way and the others would kill your weak

minerdropper ship without a

problem

in SL-R you will find 6 factions (more is not needed)

Earth Defence Forces - [EDF]

(neutral to all)
Coalition - [CNS]
Alliance - [ANS]
Colonial Smugglers Guild -

[CSG]
Deep Mining Syndicate - [DMS]
Sol Pirates - [Pirate]

Systems 80%

finished
Models 70% finished
Interface 98% finished
Music 90% finished
News 40%

finished
Effects 85% finished
Artwork 100% finished
Scripts 20% finished