Posts by Drakon

Congratulations on your ongoing and successful achievements. In keeping with Midwest tradition there must be a celebration - the photo below demostrates how excited I am, albeit I'm not wearing bratwurst and the focus of my jubilee is this joyous occasion rather than the Green Bay Packers winning the superbowl (which, incidently, will forever be remembered as a travesty). Cheers, OP; I hope that you are able to accomplish everything you have envisioned for 2009 and have a good time all the while.
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Originally posted by Spiky-
what happens with the people who are docked ... Oo?

Well, if I had to rationalize how this would work...

In the event of station destruction or an in-system singularity event, one's ship could stay in that station or planet until after launching. This is because the blast and wreckage did not necessarily take out the hangar in which your ship was docked, and it could still have found a way to break free of the rubble and escape into open space. Realistically a base is not obliterated so much as severely damaged or disabled beyond functionality, so if anything the planet or station you were on shielded your vessel from the brunt of an otherwise lethal attack! Without any jump gates, one would need to use a jump hole to depart the system. Hmm...

Black Hole (n):

1. The gaping chasm penetrating the thickness of a ship's wing and/or fuselage after being struck by a railgun - most often resulting from the pilot of said craft displaying extraordinary, dastardly behavior in the vicinity of a Ragnarok-class gunboat. A black hole is almost always fatal to ship functionality, and increases its genus by one.

2. See "Planet Pittsburg."

Well, if it doesn't have shields I honestly look forward to hitting one with a CD and imagining the expression on the pilot's face.

Interesting as many of these points are - just out of curiosity, what kind of result should come from this thread? I don't really care to weigh in on any of the concerns, but... heh. It's good that people can read it all, but I'm hoping somebody is doing something behind the scenes to find resolution or nothing productive will come of this. :\

@CA: I think OP is presenting this bomb as a multi-component item, the individual pieces being 2B perhaps... forcing the player to get a part, then trade to get another part, ect. Edit: nvm, he posted first xD

@Hole Discussers in General: From what I've heard a black hole is not even a hole, but rather a tremendous amount of mass compacted into an area smaller than that of a neutron star. It's gravity is so great that it appears to be somehow different, but rather it is just so powerful as to draw in things like light in addition or bits of debris, gas, ect. If more mass gets drawn in to a black hole, the mass of the black hole itself increases (as it comes to rest and is compacted onto the surface of the object). Or at least so says the astronomy professor here at the local college - might be wrong. O.o

Going back to the original post - will somebody be keeping tabs on the use of this weapon to make sure that its use is being detered by the high cost (that is, to make sure that a few billion is actually keeping clans from using these frequently)? I suppose more important of a question - is a system permamently destroyed after firing such a weapon? This could get very interesting, but I fear the consequences of anonymous destruction of clansystems, systems vital to the CF storyline, those linking sectors or containing certain ships or ship upgrades, ect. possibly leading to very vehement conflict... The action would be good serverside, but there might also be quite a deal of disgruntled posting on the forum. Of course, maybe this is just me worrying too much. I tend to do that. Hopefully everything will be fine. xD

I've heard rumors of this concept before - many months back I think. Sounded intriguing at the time. With any luck it will blossom into a promising feature. Does this somehow tie into destructable stations, by any chance?

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Originally posted by Cronik
Lol I just noticed that they took concepts from other mods. So thats why the Unknown gate is called the "Monkey Docking Ring" in Discovery. That was from an old mod called the "Monkey Universe".

...perhaps better if left unsaid, but isn't that from vanilla?

@Portal - if you make a contribution of over a hundred USD, perhaps 20 of it could be kicked back in the form of a CF calendar made via Walgreens' website.

Good luck on the SWAT development then, OP. Hope everything turns out well.

Going back to the first post, I think I recall there also being a TAG weapon system in Battlezone and Red Odyssey going by the same name even.

Drifting back onto topic, Freespace is one of the later games in teh Descent line, yes? I seem to recall Descent II very fondly from my Mac days in the 90's. Think I played the Freespace demo once, and a lot of features were very familiar... er, or am I thinking about something entirely different and have no clue what I'm talking about?

Good luck out there Bethany - perhaps someday you will be able to return again. We're all going to miss you in the meanwhile. :\

*bows*

There's no need for that. I'm sure Discovery has a good group of people. It'd be nice to have more people by the way... but as-is there is a certain small-town feeling to this mod that is charming, too. Sometimes it's very refreshing to log on and recognize the character names of everybody playing. The number of people online and the quality of those players is always relative though. Gameplay is however good the players make it, and while the mod certainly helps its potential cannot be truly fufilled if the community does not live up to it. To mess with a JFK quote in a very lighthearted way, "Ask not what your OP can do for you; ask what you can do for your OP." Have I vaguely touched on every subject in the last couple of pages of posts now?

It depends on the strength of the ships you plan to introduce into the game I think. With RazorBack I agree entirely if there is going to be a balance of all classes of ships (LF, HF, freighter, VHF, capital ship, ect.). That said, I have noticed in CF that with most of the fighters having relatively tough armor compared to vanilla, the effectiveness of vanilla munitions has been notably decreased (though not eliminated altogether). If you were to introduce high-powered explosives into your mod, my advice would to be to find a way to severely limit the kind of vessels that can weild such a weapon. Perhaps unmanueverable, bomber-type VHFs or larger warships, for instance. Not sure if that's possible, or how one accomplishes that, but it might be ludicrous to let just anything with a torpedo or missile slot access to such an armament, hehehe.

If I may... Crossfire certainly isn't an easy program to get set up and running, but if one follows the instructions provided here on the forums it is not difficult to figure out. As one who has botched Oblivion mods frequently, I have still been able to get various versions of this mod installed without much difficulty. Also, I have found ways in the past to keep my saved games from SP with other mods and/or vanilla safely stored elsewhere on the PC... so deleting them is not necessary. If it is not any bother to you, by the way, it'd be appreciated if you changed your user name to something more suitable. It is hard to expect people to be helpful and cooperative when one gets such a name as their first impression of a person. :\

Hey, I think it's a charming sig!

Dash of Wing Commander IV, Privateer 2, and Prophecy, too...

What about the Ragnarok, what's that from?

If you search in Gurm you will find interesting things. One of these will likely be more interesting than all the other things in the system.

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Originally posted by Jack Bauer
Well the way Dragon said it, it sounds like USA is getting ready for a war *again*. Recruitment recruitment recruitment.

Many people in the United States feel insecure, and often see any cuts in defense spending as traitorous and unpatriotic. Public perception is that we are always acting in self defense, while the reality is that my country is usually on the offensive like other empires have acted historically. Meanwhile, the country has a lot of serious problems internally. Many citizens want more of everything but also lower taxes. It's not that the people are bad or war-loving, see, it's just that they are often ignorant.

There's nothing wrong with the Air Force sponsoring something. I see recruitment ads in MMORPGs sometimes, too. They probably didn't take into consideration that it could be seen as innapropriate in an international setting. Corporations can experience similar problems with their advertising. I don't expect people to be happy about it, but this was the choice of a few people... not the United States or its military as a whole. Personally I don't like it, but MOTY is still MOTY. An event and its sponsor are not the same thing.