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station turrets

Dec 02, 2006 drazed link
/me thinks that space stations should have auto tracking turrets. Especially if them new avalon/nukes are made available. Though they won't be able to hit players what's to stop them from hitting a station and killing all the players? Turrets could take out these, as well as any l-mines players decide to place too close to a corvus station (lol). This would also keep me from loosing lots of faction standing when I accidentally drop one of those l-mines trying to dock at a none-corvus station :)

Such turrets are already available on cappies so adding them to stations shouldn't be too much trouble no? Please also make it possible to go into these turrets when docked at a station (aka, cappie turrets), this would make my dream of becoming an 3l33t station guard one step closer to reality :)

Dec 02, 2006 moldyman link
SUggested and likely :)
Dec 02, 2006 Lexicon link
Yes. Good turrets on stations would really help. However:

What if you are homed at a station and then tank your standing with that gov't? You'll never get out alive in an EC-89, what with turrets AND a SF.

Before turrets are implemented, the faction system will need to be fixed, and the problem of where you go when you die will have to be fixed as well.

I'm all for not being able to respawn in stations where you are Hated or KOS (-600 and lower).
Dec 02, 2006 mr_spuck link
I thought you respawn in odia or somewhere if you kill the faction you are homed at... unless that broke or was changed recently
Dec 02, 2006 Lexicon link
Nope. I recently did it when homed in Deneb O-3, tanked my standing, died, and had to fight my way out of that station in a govbus. T'was... difficult.
Dec 02, 2006 mr_spuck link
Was blue your own faction or were you playing on a non hated yellow or red char?

cause I'm pretty sure I got kicked out on a red char out of red space ... but that was a year or so ago...
Dec 02, 2006 SuperMegaMynt link
I don't know how difficult it would be to throw something like this together, but I imagine that it'd be atleast fun for whoever gets to design the stations... This is one that's been on my mind lately, especially since I'm overly fond of starting new characters alot.

http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/3/14519?page=4#194624
Dec 03, 2006 Lexicon link
It was a blue character, until recently was VERY high "almost-POS", killed another almost-POS in station space, and was homed in Ellias Stand. Had to figure out how to evade SF in govbus to continue using character.

Took 3 times, but eventually did it.