Yeap. You heard it here first! Cap ship was introduced into the game once again. And it nerfed the system once again. Im not sure how long it lasted the first time but it seemed to be going strong at first this time. Blew idiots out of the sky left and right. Task force was of course on the scene also attempting to keep order. However even with all the hightened security, several of the cap ships turrets somehow managed to get blown up in all the rucus. It didnt last too long though. All the fun soon ended when the cap ship went poot. Yes poot not poof. All anyone was left with was questions and a bad taste in their mouth. Will the cap ship be back? If so, when? And will we have this problem again? Can the devs even find the problem? Can they fix it? All these questions and more are yet to be answered. Only time can tell now.

Hehehe, and dont all you Serco go thinking *hey, im Serco, I can shoot stuff, and it will back me up* think again, hehe, I attacked an admired Itani, damn thing turned its AGT turrets onto me, hehe.

Sweet...

After the cap ship crashed the server a1k0n told the sector that he thought he knew what the problem was, and that the problem could be fixed.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! *bashes head on ships console* I missed the cap ship again! Damn my time zone damn it! Meh oh well, at least a1k0n thinks he knows what it is and how it can be fixed. Maybe this second testing was to see what would happen. And then maybe it helpped him figure out what to fix. Whatever, i'll continue to wait.

Can anyone who saw it do a quick sketch and post it? Does it look any different from the original screenies? How many turrets did it have? how long do you think it is? Did it have weird patterens made with gaffer tape to hide its true shap ala pre-release cars?

Regards

Serco "Mail on Wednesday" reporter V...

http://stud.ics.p.lodz.pl/~ligowski/capship/
(not mine)

Thanks for the snapshots Rogue.

This thing is *huge*.

720 meters in length.

no SS of it shooting yoda? :(

I wanna see it firing!

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<a1k0n> woo.
<a1k0n> there it is.
<a1k0n> yeah. it's gonna patrol around from now on. provided we don't have a repeat of monday night.
<a1k0n> in which case i'll be able to make a much more informed diagnosis.
<a1k0n> no, it patrols over to geira rutilus. no invasions just yet.
<a1k0n> ow
<Forrest> not really, it just killed a1k0n
<a1k0n> yeah, it sits for two hours, then makes a tour over toward the deneb wormhole @ geira rutilus for a while, then comes
back
<a1k0n> not too exciting yet. :(
<a1k0n> sure.
<a1k0n> no docking.
<a1k0n> any good ore in there?                                          <--- a1k0n's playing with a scanner
<a1k0n> heheh. scanning! nrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeowwwwwwww
<a1k0n> the aerna seekers are much more effective than the turrets are. man.
<a1k0n> 2 million or so                                          <--- cap ship's hit points
<a1k0n> the turrets should be easier to kill but i haven't had much luck yet for some reason
<a1k0n> *ahem* that was one reason
<a1k0n> no, it doesn't go to itani space
<a1k0n> yeah, it totally should go into deneb. i don't really understand why it doesn't.
<a1k0n> what weird sound bug?
<Phoebe Caulfield> a1k0n : but but but arn'y you a dev?
<a1k0n> yeah, but ray did the frigate thingy
<a1k0n> are you near the capital ship?
<a1k0n> hmm. it has a deep bassy engine noise but i don't think it has a turbo noise
<a1k0n> john says it's a heavy assault cruiser
<a1k0n> weight - really really heavy. thrust - F=ma
<Alamar> a1k0n, thanks that helped. =)
<a1k0n> okay guys.. the server isn't going to survive much more of this.. found the problem

It lasted for 30:38 before the sector hung and I got disconnected from the server.

erm ... a ship called Nemesis ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0253754/ ) of the Excelsior class ( http://images.google.com/images?q=excelsior&tab=wi ) ?

uh oh O.o

so eventually this is going to be player contorled? or is it always suspose to be a npc?

Actually, I didn't get the name from Star Trek at all. There's been a couple of real ships called the Nemesis. And it actually isn't an Excelsior class.

From what I hear from Andy this morning at 3am, he found the problem and he's pretty optimistic about fixing it. So perhaps later tonight or this weekend, we'll be able to put it in again.

Yes, we will eventually have player controlled capital ships, including this one, but we have to work out these various problems first. Sorry for the delays, this has been a pretty major unforseen server-architecture bug that's never cropped up before, and we weren't able to reproduce on our test server.

Thanks, I know you guys are bending over backwards trying to get the ship up and running, I was just curious what type of plan you had in the future, because it would be so cool to be able to work with like 6 people or so in a single ship, the other reason I asked is because you mentioned the copilot so I was curious as to why thre was a co pilot update if the pilot was the computer to begin with. Again, thanks so much for the work your doing, and as long as you keep me posted as to your progress I'll never have a complaint no matter how many delays/bugs crop up.

Come now, mr_spuck. Surely you didn't think the word Nemesis was introduced to the English language by Rick Berman in 2002?

http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_063800_nemesis.htm

It was more of a joke anyway.
Just thought it was a funny concidence.

And too bad for the Excelsior, which reminded me of my English classes...

There in the twilight cold and gray,
Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay,
And from the sky, serene and far,
A voice fell like a falling star,
Excelsior!

"Brick Top: Do you know what "nemesis" means? A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent."
-- Snatch

I'll have to check in while I'm at my lan party tonight to see if there's any capship action.

You missed out these bits hoax...

<yodaofborg> its shooting me?? hehe#
<Forrest> hahahahahah
<a1k0n> it'll shoot if an evil itani comes near it
<yodaofborg> im serco, hehe
<yodaofborg> i voilated nfz though
<yodaofborg> its got gat turrets =D
<a1k0n> good point. heh.
<yodaofborg> gah, why is everyone here serco protected, hehe
<a1k0n> i'm not!

and so on, I know, its eye candy ATM, but sweet.

[Edit]

It does look just like the alpha frigate, only its upside down

http://yd4.netfirms.com/images/frig.jpg

Isn't -everything- upside down in the new universe?