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Possibility for an ingame contest.
The Abstract:
You always thought you were good with rails did you not? Here could be your chance to prove once and for all that you are the best railgun user in the Vendetta Universe.
The Plan:
If enough people choose to do this, the plan would be to find a suitable, MOSTLY empty sector in which the event would take place, preferably with a few asteroids for ease of measurement. From there, an asteroid would be chosen as the center of activity. Selected ships (most likely Centaurs or Ragnoroks) will be in charge of laying mines, one at a time, for the contestants, who will retreat to a distance of 1000 meters from their mine. Shooting will commence on the Judge's signal (that would probably be me), and one at a time, the contestants will shoot at their mine. There will be 6 (six) rounds. At the end of the six rounds, if a tiebreaker round(s) is/are needed, they will be taken until there is a definite First Place winner.
Scoring:
Scoring is out of 5 points for each round, totaling 30 for the contest. The reason being that for every miss you make, a point is taken off for the wasted ammo. If you run out of ammo at any time, you are disqualified. (You may use more than five shots to destroy a mine, however, you will still recieve a zero for that round and you will have wasted some of your subsequent round(s) ammo.)
Firing Rules:
Players will take turns, the order of which will be detailed in the next section. When it is your turn, move 1000 meters away from the selected asteroid with the mine in the center of the rear radar. When the Judge gives the go ahead, you may commence firing at the mine. Attacking, verbally abusing or harassing the Judge, mine layer, or other contestants is not allowed. Doing so recieves immediate disqualification. If a hostile party enters the area (or shows themself within the firing range) it is the duty of the other contestants to destroy the hostile. For this reason, a Vulture or Itani Border Guard Centurion is recommended. (Keep in mind that if you link your weapons and fire two rails at once, it will count as two shots.)
Signing up:
First, we want your pilot's name. Second, we want to know his charid. This can be found by typing "/verbose 2" into the console and going into an empty sector. Two charid's will appear. The one that is not "0" is your charid. Write it down and post it along with your pilot name. The order of firing is based on the numerical order of the charid's.
Places you can get rails:
Almost any Corvus station for lower than normal levels, and anywhere else for varying levels (Serco and NT stations have them for decent levels).
You always thought you were good with rails did you not? Here could be your chance to prove once and for all that you are the best railgun user in the Vendetta Universe.
The Plan:
If enough people choose to do this, the plan would be to find a suitable, MOSTLY empty sector in which the event would take place, preferably with a few asteroids for ease of measurement. From there, an asteroid would be chosen as the center of activity. Selected ships (most likely Centaurs or Ragnoroks) will be in charge of laying mines, one at a time, for the contestants, who will retreat to a distance of 1000 meters from their mine. Shooting will commence on the Judge's signal (that would probably be me), and one at a time, the contestants will shoot at their mine. There will be 6 (six) rounds. At the end of the six rounds, if a tiebreaker round(s) is/are needed, they will be taken until there is a definite First Place winner.
Scoring:
Scoring is out of 5 points for each round, totaling 30 for the contest. The reason being that for every miss you make, a point is taken off for the wasted ammo. If you run out of ammo at any time, you are disqualified. (You may use more than five shots to destroy a mine, however, you will still recieve a zero for that round and you will have wasted some of your subsequent round(s) ammo.)
Firing Rules:
Players will take turns, the order of which will be detailed in the next section. When it is your turn, move 1000 meters away from the selected asteroid with the mine in the center of the rear radar. When the Judge gives the go ahead, you may commence firing at the mine. Attacking, verbally abusing or harassing the Judge, mine layer, or other contestants is not allowed. Doing so recieves immediate disqualification. If a hostile party enters the area (or shows themself within the firing range) it is the duty of the other contestants to destroy the hostile. For this reason, a Vulture or Itani Border Guard Centurion is recommended. (Keep in mind that if you link your weapons and fire two rails at once, it will count as two shots.)
Signing up:
First, we want your pilot's name. Second, we want to know his charid. This can be found by typing "/verbose 2" into the console and going into an empty sector. Two charid's will appear. The one that is not "0" is your charid. Write it down and post it along with your pilot name. The order of firing is based on the numerical order of the charid's.
Places you can get rails:
Almost any Corvus station for lower than normal levels, and anywhere else for varying levels (Serco and NT stations have them for decent levels).
nice contest (though I'm no good at rails) ... want to add moving targets to that?
Rails still twist... even with autoaim off. Not only do you need to point your gun in the right direction but you need to be in exactly the right place, and... ugh. It hurts my brain...
Good idea but the practicalities of it with this engine... aren't.
Good idea but the practicalities of it with this engine... aren't.
"Moving targets"
/me jumps in his kamikaze bus
/me jumps in his kamikaze bus
Moving targets! Get vBot back up and we could use IT as a moving target :D
-Eloi
-Eloi
Horgrathi worked on a Vendettawards thing. He did quite a bit before he left. I would have given you his works... but I did rm -rf /public_html/ with out thinking :)
I'd do this, except that I've done extensive testing on the "rail-twisting" issue, and believe that it makes any kind of game like this highly unfair.
Rogue, I've hit busses from 1100m out, the max range of the rail when neither parties are moving. If someone wants to volunteer a ship... a Rag perhaps?
Read the bumped thread in Bugs.
get 2 teams of normal centurions and arm them with rails... and let the fight begin! weeee
HEY! Me and silentsuicide came up with that idea in the old s9 :op
"great minds think alike"
-hahaha :p *jest
-hahaha :p *jest
sniping wars behind the old Earthly Summers holo boards with the big tubes around it :D
The ONLY good fighting is Gravitons with autoaim off. That is the best duels EVER.
Back in my day rogue, Blue Ions/lazers were the best duels EVER. Other than level 2 rockets of course.
i ear that phoenix... i almost could best yu
I remember blue ion duels... But we ain't got thsoe no more. We do have gravs, though, which are like blue lasers.