I have been looking for a queen to test my skills on for a while now and to date, I've only zoned into a sector once and saw a queen. Unfortunately I was very weak at the time only having a centurian at the time and did not want to risk it. Now, however, I would like to and have no way of finding them. I've asked in /100 and no one ever seems to answer. It would be really nice if they at least gave a "last sighted around this system/sector" kind of info in the "news" tab at stations, just to give a general idea of where to start looking for her and her minions.

If there is already a way of finding this info out would someone please enlighten me of it. Thanks.

Awesome idea, I've killed only one queen and it was only because I was going sector to sector looking for different roids and what not. Found her after about 15 or 16 sectors. I'd like to have some intel on where some queens were sighted!

So get together a group and go find one. with 6 players you can scan the majority of a system in about 5 minutes. You only have to look in the sectors without asteroids.

If the queens were easy to find, I think that it would take some of the fun out of hunting them.

yes but not finding them at all is NO fun, I dont' want to have to rely on 5 other people to go find a queen. Eather make it slightly easier to find or add more of them to the game in essence making it easier to find.

There has to be SOMETHING hard about the damn game. Even if it is something as stupid as finding the damn queens.

I would rather be able to find her and die tring then not find her at all, I'm not suggesting they tell us exactly where she is, just a rough estimate. say a 4x4 secter guess, she's constantly moving anyway, that's enough of a challenge to find her, the real challenge should be killing her.

I wonder if she could be made harder, as it stands she has the worst maneuverability of any ship, and her weps don't really make up for it.

I was fighting one head on, and just doing strafe circles (up,right, down, left...) and she was kinda a joke.

Right now, the main danger comes from her escort. Which you just take down gradually, strictly speaking you shouldn't get hit at all.

Maybe use the Queen as a testing platform for large ship autoturrets.

It would also be nice if the bots realized that the greatest potential for hitting me, didn't come from all of them aiming directly where my ship is supposedly going, but at a few points around that spot, just in case I dodge :).

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oh boo freakin who, this game is nerfed enough already you dont need a bloody map to find them. when the universe starts getting expanded you'll probably cry that wormholes are impossible to find!

-I can't fight at a station
-I can't kill anyone without risking losing standing cause some of their levels don't line up with mine
-I can't even catch anyone cause you can turbo forever
-I can't kill my own nation if i feel like it, not saying i would but if one day i'm having a really crappy day and want everyone i see to die i should be able to make it happen

when the crap Can i do something!
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take your rant elsewhere, this is a legitamate suggestions, though you may not like it, I think more people would hunt the (edited) if they could actually (edited) find the damn things!!!!!!

Well, I think it's in the devs longer term plans to have things a bit more tied together. For instance it's been mentioned that collector bots might fill up there cargo holds and then warp to the queen to deliver. This would add a nice dimension to queen hunting as you could track bots too the right sector.

I suspect that this is one of those cases where the devs already have an idea of where they want to go with this.

>I was fighting one head on, and just doing strafe circles
>(up,right, down, left...) and she was kinda a joke.

Yeah, you don't even need to fight the escort if you don't want. The only hard thing is finding the queen. She should have like 8 gatlings or a frigate turret or something.

Using the earliest vult with a heavy (Mk III?) and neut 1's, you can just hold back, spin, strafe and fire, keep your distance and walla dead queen. Her explosion will seriously dammage her escort making them an easy cleanup.

Note: I still really do enjoy killing the Queen!

Downside, you end up with stats like 3/6/2/x/x. Yehaw light weapons 6 ... doesn't seem to be a point to having a higher light or heavy skill than combat. They should be part of the combat skill tree not seperate (different thread for that I guess) Or at least add the queen to the advanced combat mission list as a bonus bot.

johnhawl218, I'm not usually a very mean person, but I just can't hold back any longer.
While all suggestions are fairly valid to some extent, your suggestions are the least valid of all the suggestions I've ever seen. Every single thread of yours leaves me searching for my jaw on the floor and wondering if this is some sick idea of a joke. Add to that your 'Every other post must be by me!' mentality and I can physically feel my eyebrows moving into the 'mean bastard' position. The unsavory language's just the last straw.

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I like the idea of having the bots fly back to the queen, if that were the case they you would be correct in that they would not need to be added to the "news" tab. Has this been implemented or is this just something they were thinking of doing?

Mind you, collectors already warp when they fill up their cargo holds via scanning roids. It's just that they appear to warp to the closest wormhole. But the don't! Mystery!

I think this is a good suggestion. The News system has many different possibilities that bear exploration, and this is certainly one idea.

I also suggested a while back that the collector bots take their cargo to the transport when they fill up, and the transport flies back to the queen when it fills up. See thread:

http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/3/7196