If the devs made the transports POS at the departure station, would that help reduce the killing of transports right at launch? I'd like the game to last a little longer.

The funny thing is that a single Itani in a Valk can snatch a triple score of Xith, 21cu, from two determined Red forces. The [CLM] flying 3 hauls in a Prom, all the while being backed up by a [SAF]. That made me grin.
Prom ran when it dropped from 100% to 25%; I popped it outside the station and - oh cargoes! - 21cu Xith. So I changed ships then came the second half of the fun - running the Gauntlet to Divinia, slipping past the CLM and SAF forces.
/me will remember that lucky encounter fondly

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obviously I'm paraphrasing from the earlier posts on this topic...

Funny. I remember some silly itani doing the exact same thing the week before. What was his name..........Foo something.

Except it was 27cu of xith instead.

Complaining on page 1 and gloating on page 2. Maybe that's why the UIT prefer to help the Sercos.

Heh, once a player has the cargo its about impossible to catch them anyways.

The Valkerye Rune is an excellent runner.

Martin, the UIT have seemed to prefer the serco long before there was a foo fighter. Just the mix of players that we have. I'm a little surprised at how angry you sound, everyone gets lucky here and there.

Mynt, my opinion differs, a good cargo runner needs more cargo capacity.

Lol sorry csgno1. Just couldn't resist having a jab at Foo after his post.

I've no idea why UIT generally side with Serco. I suspect there's a large chunk of subliminal effect involved.

"Be Nice"

I use a Valkyrie Vengeance now... not as nice for grabbing, but boy does it run...

Dare I say it, but having played all sides of the CTC it's now pretty close to being balanced.
Serco route is longer and the voys have to go through Sedina B8 (Which hasn't been too bad lately as a lot of pirates have decided to side with the Serco)

Itani Route is shorter but has a nasty choke point on it. This choke point is right outside an Itani station and should therefore be somewhat easily defended. This week, while I've been on, only a couple of Itani returning with cargo have been bailed up there. I don't think a single Itani was killed with cargo in I2 but one decided to space his cargo rather than run the gauntlet (which at that stage outnumbered him 4 SAF - 1 ITAN)

The Prom is a monster, yes, but it's not uber. If you get in front of one it will hurt a lot, but a prom can't chase most ships and definitely can't outrun a Valk or Hog mk2.

The main reason Serco are going to win this week is because they field more players and work as teams. Any imbalance in the routes is of very minimal relevance.

The only thing I'd really like to see is equal sized convoys throughout the day so that when non US players are playing they aren't fighting for the scraps. It's been a big week for me considering the small cargo size that I normally see. However that also skews the balance a bit as it means one player can make a big difference.

Martin: I wholeheartedly agree with you. (I still miss Edras I2 though :)

The serco and their allies worked like crazy to win this week. They defenatly deserve the win. The Itani team also deserves some credit. CTC is actually fun again with both sides trying real hard.

The Itani's numbers have been steadily dropping. Until some very big pro itani guilds (you know who you are :) come and help the cause, we will continue to fight for every cu.

Let me be the first one to to congratulate the Serco team on their win. You really earned it.

I finally want to thank Yoda. Even though he hasn't been on much these last 2 weeks. He helped train and motivate the serco team into what they are now.

(No sarcasm or bull. I really mean it :)

Sorry Jess, you got it all wrong as usual. I may have been the flame that lit the candle, but you were the one that started the fire. I aint trained anyone, and OMG, you guys pwn! You Jess, are the reason us Serco get so much help! You make people dislike you, and you try to dis-credit them for helping others. Then you try to be all cute n stuff, like *oh, but I love you man" and bury the Axe.

Thank you for being an ass!

:)

No comment.. ok true i am an ass but so are you yoda :)

and i do do love you in a manly sort of way ;)

but this is the general forum not rp.

Ummm Foo if your talking about me in that post up there^? I was in a maud, not a prom and Im not red. As for taking off when you started firing, umm of course I did,I had lots of cargo, and you caught me and boomed me, getting the cargo. At the end it wasn't two of us against lil ol' you, it was me against you and yourself...lol. But it was a merry chase :)

What yoda said holds true on the reason a lot of UIT/pirates help the Serco, they just dont like Jess...at all, rp or no rp. But he(yoda) did light a nice fire there, which he can do when he wants to :)

yoda and Mystic are right.

If Jestatis just shut the hell up once in a while maybe UIT would help the Itani instead. Even Itani don't like Jestatis, RP or no RP. He's just too thick to understand that.

yeah.

if there were such things as ass duels, yoda would loose to jess.

uc: by "ass duels" do you mean a contest of how much of an ass someone can be, or how good their ass looks?

"how much of an ass".

i'd assume pirates to have cuter buns than trolls in any case. so yoda would win that one.

you guys have wondered off-topic...
The topic was the balance / or lack-thereof, of the CTC.
I for one agree with DidNae and MSKanaka (Miharu)
Without, however, taking anything away from the impressive efforts of yoda and MadMax's [SAF] team.

If jess bess was a Serco, I might actually like him, heh. But as an Itani? Eh, not fitting at all, I think he made a bad choice...

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An off topic thread regarding CtC, where you been Foo, Guild had 300+ threads about this, tis why they would like some ideas about how to replace it.

Personally I like CTC, theres a few things that need changing though, and instead of a replacement, I would like it fixed, and have its *replacement* as a *new* thing. CTC transports *should* at least be respected by the launch station, so folk can't kill em there, its too easy, as I have always stated.

All jump points in gray space should be like Ukari, IE, no matter where you jump from, you end up in lots of roids, far away (at least 5k)...