Posts by Red Katipo

Thx for that Wavey. As I have not been involved in one of these before I was not quite sure how it would work.

Looks like I might need to sit out from the fighting for the first couple so I can do the organisation.

Hopefully if all goes well I can get some others to take turns with the boring bits.

How does the cash prize work, do I supply that as well?

As for more events and/or moving the time around, I think we need to make sure that we can get the first off the ground.

Remember it is easy for us to make suggestiond etc, but the most work still has to be done by OP. For it to be worth trying I feel that we need more players interested than have replyed here so far. I know that I do not always check all the posts on CF all the time and I am sure that is true of other players.

If you have a chance, when you are chatting to players online about the time we have suggested, It could be useful to to mention this thread to them.

OP, do you see any technical difficulties in the suggested event so far. I have assumed that it would be reasonably straight forward to take a frag snapshot at 08:00 and one at 09:00 to work out the winner etc. As a software developer though I know that no code change or inhancement is ever easy. The other thing that would be good to know is what sort of support you would like to see here before you think it is worth setting up a trial.

As far as people cheating and rule enforcemnt goes I see no great problem. The are very few rules so it is hard to cheat. Any dodgy schemes that people come up with can be dealt with by the other players at the time.

Anarchy after all is just trial by public opinion.

I think removing the Bat/Bot restriction is a good idea, It was one I was not sold on myself. Anyway the only bad thing about dieing is it stops you killing for 30 secs or so while you respawn.

Pushing the time forward does not work for me as I have two young children and I work. The children get my time until around 07:30 GMT. Also 08:00 GMT is 8pm for me but only 5pm for the East Coast of Australia and any earlier would probably rule most of them out.

Starting with a 1 hour event is a good idea as it may help to get more people involved. After all just because the counting stops doesn't mean the fighting has to.

Although I dont use missiles myself I would not like to see them banned from the event as I feel the less rules we have, the more people can come up with their own stratagies etc. I have no problem with people turning up in destroyers or even battleships. After all we can all hear the system chat and if a cap ship is doing too well people can always take it out.

Rather than have to start at the planet we could just start counting kills at 08:00 and stop at 09:00 so people could hide anywhere in the system they want for start up.

Thanks for the good ideas, please keep them coming.

Is a Death Match the same as a Blood Bath?

My time zone is GMT+12 and so I tend to play at an off time from most others. I have heard people online with me refer to this as the twilight zone (good name I thought).

Because of this I cannot make it to normal server events (I work). To this end I would like to see if it would be worthwhile starting an event for our time of day. Here are my thoughts;

TIME : Wed 08:00 GMT
DURATION : 2 hours

Concept : Free for all PvP in Arena, winner is player with most kills by 10:00. You can die as often as you like so this is different to Top Gun. Winner will get the title "Twilight Serial Killer" (or hopefully something less tacky).

RULES :
1) Must start from Isis and sell all bots and bats before taking off.
2) All talk to be in System Chat only.
3) Late starters can use Bats and Bots to get to Isis but cannot use guns etc until they take off to start playing.

People can use any ships they want.
People can use any weps they want.
People can fight in groups(only one person will get the kill) or solo(people will know from the system chat).

If this goes ahead I will try to organise a cash reward as well.
It would be nice if normal PvP cash rewards/costs were relaxed for this event but I do not know if this is possible.

Anyone who is interested or with good ideas for improvement please post here.

NO SPAM PLEASE

Ahmos, I will always do my best to help and keep people in my time zone. Its a no lose situation;

If they become Police I can work with them,
If the become Traders I can guard them,
and if they become Pirates I can hunt them down, kill them and scatter their ashes amongst the stars.

I think I prefer the third option, how about YOU doing some recruiting?

I am happy to help out with a guided tour or to be a wing man on missions if he wants it.

Mine are also gone, but I expected that.

A clan member has told us, on our forum, that it should under 24 hours "from woe to go". I hope he is right.

You have all made a lot of very good points.

Loyalty has always been very important to me which is why I was not going to try to join another clan. Op you are right, Something worthwhile is worth fighting for. Thanks to both of you Taz and Osiris.

I have withdrawn my resignation from DC.

It took me a month to decide to leave but less than a day to decide to stay. That must say something for my feelings for DC.

I have made a commitment to myself, and told DC, that I will stay in DC until I leave CF. I will not even concider leaving CF for at least another month. As I love this Mod you will understand my commitment to making the RP more exciting.

Just to clarify a couple of points;

1) Op your power is intrinsic to your position, I have never seen you misuse it and did not mean to imply it.
2) I have never had a problem with CFPD.
3) I am not Australian.

This is getting more difficult than I thought. At the moment I have only swapped out one DC char and started one FL char. I will (with the permission of DC) fly my DC chars for a few more days while I give this even more thought.

To be fair I will give you my thought processes so far and let you know the RP I was intending doing.

Firstly DC was not a Police clan when I joined. When the discission was started on our new role I tried to get us to go Pirate and stay in the CSF (I could not see how we could be both CSF and Pirate). I majority of our clan wanted to go Police and I was asked by the command staff to try it out as PiA was to become more agressive as Pirates. As I spent a lot of time playing with some PiA members this sounded good. When we declared ourselves Police my first thing I did was to start hunting Pirates but was told I needed to catch them in the act, warn them and only then take them out. PiA then left and no-one seemed to be doing any Pirateing.

On the other hand there was KRT taking out low level players and generally being arrogant. As I was in another Police clan I felt powerless to just take them out.

My new RP was to be as a Vigilante taking out corrupt Police without consultation (therefore making me a criminal, hence the Pirate tag) while avoiding were I could honest Police and only engageing them as a last resort in defence. I nad no intention of smuggling or taxing and was to spend the rest of my time helping out Noobees while "Watching the Watchers".

Giving myself the Pirate tag in this Role I believe was only fair to other players.

Whatever path I take I want to throw myself into RP "Boots and All".

I have in fact spent most of the last 2 months helping out new people and trying to get more people on the server and into DC. This includes spending hours doing trade runs to strenghten DC.

Seriously, I do not actually believe in running from problems and in fact am going to face a problem I have here on the server without dragging DC into a Clan war.

If you do not find someone wanting to change thier RP acceptable please let me know. I would have thought the easy "running away from problems" solution would have been to go to a new server rather than to try and make the most of what was here.

I really enjoy this Mod and I think you have done a fantastic job developing it and keeping it going especially concidering some of the recent difficulties. I must say though that I do not understand your need to belittle peoples decisions, concidering your position of power.

Due to the lack of action in my time zone with the departure of PiA, and other issues with "Police". I have resigned from DC. I am going to become a freelance Pirate and will be swapping my chars over the next couple of nights.

The DC have been great and I have nothing but good feelings towards them all as a clan but it is just too quiet for me.

Some of the Pirates appear more honest than some of the Police. Maybe LP could give KRT some lessons in morals.

The last time I saw a low level Pilot gunned down was 2 nights ago by a member of KRT. No explaination, no remorse. Even the Police need policing sometimes. Who will watch the watchers?

And I would also like to apoligise publicly to StingRay. That was me the other night. Too much time with too little action is my only defence. I had been hunting you for 1/2 an hour when i finally caught you and I got lost in a rush of blood (yours unfortunately)

I helped Zaose last night get started. If he was banned for getting too higher level to fast it was probably the 1.2M I gave him.

That took him to level 30 if I remember right.

The other option is of course to hire a Merc. We can help point you at good trade routes as well as provide an escort. This for a small % of your profits.

For a slightly higher fee we also offer the service of revenge.

BTW. If you are going to pay me in goods then a few cases of 12YO Single Malt is always a good way to start the negotiations.

Global server workaround.

Read above

And our prices are very reasonable

I experience a crash about once every 10 hours of playing.

Being GMT + 12 there is usually only about 12 or so on while I play. Most crashes I see are when are when a group of us are in the same system nomad hunting etc.

OP, thx both for getting the mod back up and running and for keeping us informed while it was down.

I have been playing on a vanilla fl while cf was down, and what a bland universe the original seems after using your creation.

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