There will be an Ultimate Capital Ship Battle (5)Saturday, June 4, 2005, at 10pm GMT. Use Daylight Saving Time (where applicable) to translate the time. We will be using Scenario 1 for this battle.

The final rules can be found here:
http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/7/10404

I’m canceling the battle for this week for various reasons. Basically it doesn’t seem like anyone is having fun anymore. The bots kill the cap ships to fast, even if we do keep our ship alive long enough to start the battle. Also its a holiday weekend in the states so I know people are not gonna want to play as much this weekend.

Like I said I understand this is a test of the cap ships, but the amount of effort it takes to plan these battles and spend hours escorting our ships seems unreasonable. Unless some changes are made to the cap ships it doesn’t seem worth the time or effort to have a weekly event. See more here:

http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/3/10446#119961

I once again want to thank the developers and guides for their help. Without them we wouldn’t have a game at all.

If you want the time changed for the next battle let me know. And I’ll post here again closer to the battle.

I'm only posting here so everyone sees it. As always your suggestions, comments and opinions are welcome here:
http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/7/10477

Agreed, JB. I'll be headed to the frozen tundra this weekend, anyway, so I would have been out. I should be back for Capship battle #5, ready to escort the IDV "Itanic" down to B8 again.

Sorry it's happening this way. There's just so much going on behind the scenes that the devs can't make the needed changes to this yet.

I know FM. I realize the cap ships are a test. Like i said before i just forget when they acually make it to b8.

And we will definatly have one next week even if there are no changes made.

(hmmmm ... acually if a dev could be present for the next battle he could warp the cap ships closer to the right position. like 1 jump away. and that would only take less then 5 min.)

(and i know, the devs are busy but that would help the battles alot :)

JB

So is there one tonight?

Just reminding you :)

If you want the time changed post here:
http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/7/10441

I'm only posting here so everyone sees it. As always your suggestions, comments and opinions are welcome here:
http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/7/10477

JB

Edit:
For ghostieboy: Saturday, June 4, 2005, at 7pm GMT :)

Ok I'm changing the time of the next battle to Saturday, June 4, 2005, at 10pm GMT. Thats 3 hours later then usual.

The final rules can be found here:
http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/7/10404

JB

Cool. Hopefully more people will make it this time. Anyone who needs to figure out when this is locally:

http://www.eddingschronicles.com/fansite/timezone.htm

I'll see you all at 5pm central. Hopefully I'll be prepared to help ensure the event goes smoothly; I haven't been shown how to use my dev powers, but I should be able to figure it out from the source code by then:)

the new dev speaks!!

Thank you all for participating we had a great fight. We only had 21 official participants. But over 30 people participated in the battle. The UIT won the battle again :(

[06/04/05 19:02:24] [205]<Jestatis Bess> START NOW
[06/04/05 19:07:58] [100]<Joyce Sanders> Protaris is down!
[06/04/05 19:19:46] [100]<Jestatis Bess> UIT SHIP DEAD :)

UIT: 17:22
Serco: 5:34
Itani: disqualified

The Itani ship died in a storm again. This time it warped into an asteroid. :( (Developers you really need to help us here.

Only prize money was given out to those who registered. No guide was online to hand out Combat XP :(

Special thanks to “Guide66576” for spawning the two sets of cap ships. Also thanks to Joyce Sanders and Dr. Lecter for leading the UIT and Serco respectively.

See you for the next battle. I’ll post the next date and time here.

Posted to VO Roleplaying forums:
http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/7/10477#121568
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LOL LeberMac LOL

When I started the cap ship battle I knew the ships was in its testing phase. But as always you are right, it’s ridiculous. We were doing quite well till Edras I7 (It think). There is NO WAY A CAP SHIP SHOULD DIE IN ONE STORM. Not 2 or 3 storms just 1 storm. And only 2 people with the ship. I know the cap ship is useless and so does everyone else. But still 1 storm and BOOM!!! That’s crazy.

I would like to plead with the developers: Please fix the darn ship ASAP. Like we said 2 weeks ago, it’s no fun for anyone if our ships can’t get to the start of the battle or if our ship dies in a storm immediately (happened 2 weeks ago).

Please, Please and PLEASE fix it now. I see no point having the cap ship battles if the UIT always win by default. (By default I mean the Itani ship dies early and the Itani are ALWAYS going to kill the Serco ship first. ALWAYS!!! The Serco can’t win even if they did have the numbers)

We as players are adding content (I would say good content) to your game (I might say our game). We need your support to make this work. I know you are busy, but if you aren’t going to fix the cap ship path finding at least come in game and help us out. DevWarp the cap ships to their ready position for us. It will only take you 10 min but it would really mean a lot to us. And instead of wait 1 to 2 hours we could start immediately.

Support goes both ways. We support you, can you please support us too.

I more thing :) Guides where are you? The cap ship battles can’t work without a guide online 1 hour before the battle till its conclusion. I/We need you too. Where were you? I still thank “Guide66576”, but s/he didn’t stay for the conclusion to award combat xp :(

I said my peace. I will continue the cap ship battle weather we get any help or not. But I would like some help here.

As always your suggestions, comments and opinions are welcome.

JB

see here:
http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/3/10446#121577

JB