Tonight I was riding an escort Trident and a player attacked it, unloading his entire load of flares into the trident, assisting the turrets with removing it's shields. The player then DOCKED WITH THE TRIDENT, reloaded and undocked and RESUMED FIRING on the trident, ultimately destroying it.

Cap ships need to fight back when attacked, and should not rely on standing alone to decide who gets to dock.

yea you shouldnt be able to dock to a hostile ship like that.

I didn't know this, but it is certainly a massive breaker of game immersion.

Considering CAP ship reactions to Bots, surely this can be translated toward aggressive players?

eg. Inflict a dedicated amount of fire, you are locked out and it returns fire. That and your Faction rating plummets 20 - 40 points.

Right now, it seems like these gorgeous mass convoys are merely Pirate Pinata Parades.

Having tried my first escort and literally fought incessantly for 3 out of 5 jumps against bots, watching the convoy defend itself was grand. They should do so against traitors and Pirates.

- T.

I see nothing wrong with pirate pinata parades. Not like theirs any trade in grey to pirate, I know I know it's coming soon(tm). But it's been over a year since the turrets were introduced. And now you complain about one of the few things that give the pirates much of anything to do but duel and fur-ball in b8?

I agree that docking with a hostile ship is very much a problem.

Impavid - I think the way around that problem is to increase the volume of voys, rather than leave this issue unresolved.

http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/2/22274
I think something of this sort may already be in the works.

Aye, saw the update, to which this thread predates. Good to see the issue picked up on so quickly :)

top stuff Devs.
Taele.