How about they add frigates, cruisers, and battleships to the game. When a frigate is launched from a ship yard(found only in select sectors) You pilot the craft until others dock and request to be part of the crew(members of your guild are automatically accepted)

Frigate=5 crew, 10 small ports, 7 large ports
Cruiser=10 crew, 15 small ports, 9 large ports
Battleship=25 crew, 20 small ports, 11 large ports

Each will cost a lot of money, but at least they will be cool!

Any supporters? Thanks,

techfreak

already suggested many times and there are already ships of that size. you just cant fly them just yet

how about adding capital ships to this game then.... or frigates.... or just really big ones with lots of guns....

Sounds good.

25 crew... That's more people than we see logged on at the same time at some instances. Also what would you do if you were crewmember 22, in charge of BigBastaCannon-rear-left. Nothing you would get bored.

I really don't see how being a crew member of a huge ship can be made interesting in game. One person can do it all, fly, aim, shoot. Hell make it two, like in Halo one drives the other shoots, and there is nothing else left to do.

Have you actually been on one of the caps? I remember one particular battle right after the Tridents were given user-accessible turrets, where it was two fully-staffed Itani Tridents vs. one mostly-staffed Serco HAC. It was awesome- everybody was occcupied shooting down fighters or targeting the enemy cap ship(s). It would hav been more awesome with a human pilot, who would (hopefully) realize that a broadside does more damage in a HAC than a head-on assault, but it was still great. In a big battle, having every seat filled is a necessity.

Oh man, I remember that :D

Oh how I miss the days of 500+ pings and 2 fps.

any ship with more than 2 large ports will be used for mining.

I'm pretty sure that Cap ships will have a separe set of "extra large" ports.

I think the "Capitol Ships" thread should automatically be started by guild every month or so.
You can make a script do that right.......

Capital Ship, not Capitol Ship :P

And how can you guess that we want that? :D

Capitol ships would be nice, too, though. Moving headquarters, yay!

Just sticky a good cap ship thread.

"Capitol ships would be nice, too, though. Moving headquarters, yay!"

Isn't Capitol exclusively used to refer to the WDC complex, technically speaking? It's not even technically an HQ... just a collection of government buildings - the HQ is in rather than a part of that complex.

Capitol

So are you talking about Capital ships or Capitol Ships?

'Cause "Capitol Ships" don't exist as of yet in the English language.

Could be a VOism...