Hi. We do not appear to have Luck. I told ray to give NPC wingmen to the cap ship, which has apparently opened up a new rats nest of problems. I imagine it will be ready soon enough, but it might not be before monday. All my fault, sorry :).

hehe silly incarnate.

*sigh* whats 2 more days?

Well, it's two days we won't hear "The cap ship needs wingmen"

um...i know this isn't what you've said you were gonna do, but...

could you possibly give BOTH sides an AI cap ship?

The scores would be capships killed by serco/killed by itani

just makes it more interesting cos both sides can the attack AND defend.

Would it be any harder to spawn a second ship on the other side of the WH (or wherever it is) to the serco one?

Souless1 i belive the purpose of the serco having cap ship is some extension of the storyline or something. Can any devs/people/fm tell me more about the story behind why serco are getting a cap ship?

mac: because they are getting lsaughtered and plastered in ctc :D

no, probably because as been told before, it is their counter to those goliath cannons defending the borders. And maybe even a preamble of a serconian invasionforce?

Bah! An invasion force?!? Heh, if we had thoese cannons in game, we wouldn't have to worry about an invasion. Although, an invasion would give us something to do besides ctc. Then we could do REAL boarder patrol missons.

you only survived the last invasion because of those cannons don't forget. Well that and the order of akkan coming to your aid.

So as I envision it there will probably be a possible start of the frig classed ship taking out the cannons and then an invasionforce of the serconans. And depending on how the invasion is going, there might again be some new nuclear weapon introduced to battle this capship(the old nuke). Probably by the order of akkan. (check backgroundstory, itanis still go for defensive armaments but have put nuclear innovations on a halt after the bombing of the skycommand station)

cheers

im just thinking that, aside from the story, in GAME everyone is gonna want to have a go at both ways round, and it'd be silly to deny them when you could just spawn two ships and make everyone happy.

I know i want to have a go attacking (maybe the rag will have a use!) but i don't want to have to join the itani to do it. ;)

well in an rpg you can't have everything, thats the reason why you choose a side. To be different from the rest.

But probably itanis will get a capship, but it should happen later, and in reallity as a response on the development of the serco capship.

Besides itanis are scientists, so it is kinda logical that they will find something in a very short timeframe.

As much as Id like to see the Itanis wipe the Sercos butts with their own fingers once we cut em off I have to agree with Ren here. The Serco have always been the innovators and forerunners in space technology since the big war way back when they first obtained space craft. Remeber the NightHawks? Anyway I think the Serco should get the cap ship. As much as I despie their mutated corpses lying at my feet theyre still just a step ahead(ship tech wise anywhoo). However no matter what the Serco make the Itanis can make it better. Use the UIT to get whatever info they dont get from blowin the snot out of the Serco and then build a cap ship of their own. Thats just how its worked so far.

actually the serco had practically no space ship development to begin with, even the nighthawks were just a last minute thing - they never developed cap ships, the itani had them first, but the serco followed close behind - its in the backstory

Still, i think its a little late to say that cap ships are only just being invented (given that the backstory is history) so its fair to say that both sides have cap ships now.

I was just thinking it'd be another cool contest like CtC where you have to balance your own side's defence with attacking their ship. Scores would be based on who got the most cap ship kills, and maybe there could be some kind of reward like CtC has...

The itani would not try and build a ship like a cap unless they were forced to. They are scientists and are content with the weapons they have.
While Sercos military would try and build bigger and better ships.
It makes sense you see :)

kaos im sorry thats illogical. the weapons industry is wall to wall scientists and engineers, and science and engineering schools are replete with money from war departments.

How bout the UIT are the ones with the cap-ships ;)

As a UIT I think we could use the defense. All those factions picking on us and we dont even get benefit of the ctc.

But if the Serco were the only ones with the ship then they would have to much power. The Itani arent likely to produce such a powerful warship. The UIT dont have much need for such a large ship.

So it would likely be an extra faction (doubtful) or some ship production group. These would be high class military vehicles so perhaps a group is formed to keep the war from getting out of hand.

bleh, UIT have no need for a capital ship, they are at war with nobody, and not even a real nation, more a sub-faction like corvus, or TPG with no real power, a senate if you will...

And as your all Serco anyway it does stand to reason you will be seeing the first flag ship being Serco.

Im sure if we were still in contact with old earth, they would be Serco too by now.

@ananzi.

I usually dont feed trolls, but your point is kinda valid in the game called real life, but in 2000 years or so from where that game is based will that still be the case? And is anything in that game right? I mean, look at it, you download it, install it on the host, and then there are so many things that could lead to a crash soo badly that the host system is totally unusable except maybe as spare parts for another host? In vendetta things are fixable at least....

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live in the now =D

"bleh, UIT have no need for a capital ship, they are at war with nobody, and not even a real nation, more a sub-faction like corvus, or TPG with no real power, a senate if you will..."

Bah! It's only the majority of spacebound coporations (and thus the majority of economic power that matters to non-surface worms) that's under the UIT's protection. Not to mention the fact that without our Xithricite mining industry, your flotilla of flying bricks would have to be made out of cardboard. It may be the Serco who will ostensibly own the new Capital Ship, but there'll always be UIT members behind the scenes pulling the strings.

me is tempted to take this to role playing, hehehe...

OK, Imek, sometimes the UIT are right, but that is simply because they are Serco anyway!

Not until I'm flying a red ship and saluting to Lady Serco, I'm not...

First stage is denial, and that is ok, its the first step on the path =D