What do you thing of player-controlled 180degree rotating gatling turret? The idea is that if you have the gatling active it will follow after the center of the screen (the crosshair in the middle) not the front of the ship. With this you could provide a fire around the ship (but only on the top side of ship, the bottom will be vunerable).

I think it's worth considering since the large ships are no match with fighters and with this implemented one single fighter will have to work hard to take out a centurion (but two of them could do it as easy as now). The one will be a decoy, and other (attacking from other side) will take the centurion..

Also any convoys will be more secure.

Ahh turrets. Are they the first or second most common suggestion now? I lost count.

Ah contemptuous sarcasm. Is that Celebrim's first or second most common reply now? I've lost count.

At least he spelled "turrets" correctly. That's unique enough to be notable.

I'm eager to see those too. Sometimes ya just wanna relax and shoot stuff without having to worry about flying. I'd like to see a 360 degree rotation though.

Right now trading ships are very vunerable to any fighter attack. With such an improvement at last we could taste a little what the "Bigger ships" can do.

As for my english - well it's far from perfect, but i'm trying :)

I was wandered about another suggestion: the cargo on the ship has it's weight - so.. the more cargo the havier the ship is (which cause slower reactions, worse acceleration, more power-consumpse (?) and such).

"Ah contemptuous sarcasm. Is that Celebrim's first or second most common reply now? I've lost count."

First. It used to be the third most common, but I've gotten tired of 'Try reading the boards/FAQ/product description' or 'Here's my thread on the subject."

Incidently, I found a turret thread on page 3 and one that touched on the subject on page 4, and a thread on cargo/gizmo mass on like page 4, 5, 6, etc.

And here's my thread on the subject:
http://vendetta.guildsoftware.com/?action=msgboard&thread=2975

I'll try not to be hard on people, but sometimes I just wonder how stupid they think people are. What do you want me to say?

"What an amazing idea! Gee, no, noone has ever considered a turret, shields, mass based configuration system, flares, chaff, landing on planets, lasers should travel instantaneously, having more sectors, factions, guilds, or mining!!! We should put all of that in the game tommorrow! It seems so obvious, I don't know why anyone thought of that!"

I know I can be pretty darn sarky, but I feel when people make trivial and unoriginal suggestions that they have contempt for the intelligence of the developers and the other people on the board. The least they could do is preface the suggestion with, "I'm sure this has been thought of before..." or "Will there ever be...", or heck they could put more than 5 seconds of thought into the suggestion.

BTW Ciuciu, this rant IS NOT directed at you in particular, you just happen to have caught me in foul mood. FM is right, you actually have signs of looking alot more intelligent than the average n00b that starts a thread like this. This is just collected angst.

Anyhow, welcome to the game. I'm sincerely glad you are enjoying it enough that you are excited enough to post suggestions to the board.

why not a 360 degree gattling turret?

Thank you, Celebrim. Though I understand the urge (and often agree) it is important to remember that there are over 16 pages with no "search" button *cough-suggestedseveraltimes-cough* some people either don't have that much time or that much patience (especially if it's me, course if I have an idea/suggestion it'll slip out of my good ear by the time I hit page 2).

Celebrim: Ok. I know whats your point and I agree with it. But what i wanted to do is to make a signal, that is could be some improvement.(think of it like a vote)

I will never made any suggestions about developers inteligence or something (If I do, kick me) . They did (and still doing :>) good job. Without it I wouldn't be here now :)

zoid fuzor: Why not 360? Because you can put a turret on only one side of the ship (for example on top or bottom side) and that particular turrent could cover only 180degree wide angle above (or below) the ship (it cannot fire thru ship - it's obvious i think) that's why i called it 180 not 360... (of course it still can fire in any direction)

TraderVix: As for me.. at first i didn't noticed them (soory). And i thought that the suggestions are only on that particular page. Mostly in similar projects (i mean - closed source projects) a few people attend on such forums, because they don't feel their impact on product's shape

erm.. If you look at the prom, and take the length as X, the depth as Z, and the height as Y (yadda yadda, bear with me) then the turret at the bottom would have a 360 arc around the Y axis, (sweeps the whole X-Z plane) and a 180 arc around the Z axis (sweeps the bottom of the ship in Y-X plane)


So both are correct, as this would describe a half-sphere around the bottom of the ship.