some dreams i had / still have about FL

Tue Mar 04, 2003 5:03 pm by nose

as i used to play Escape Velocity (an old mac game - 2d space sim) i always hoped FL to be the same but 3d.
Well theres still something im really missing:

- first of all and most important _all_ ships should be buy/flyable ... but someones harder to get(?)

- for the really big ships you would have to hire a crew ... perhaps make it possible to find "friends" by special missions that do join your crew for free so you can save money. (based on rumores i heard about FL)

- as in EV making boarding ships possible .... in shooting them disabled and then steal the cargo, fuel, money or even the ship and use it as yours or your free escort

- making hiring escorts possible - i.e. hiring freighters to expand your max freight load usw

- perhaps even attacking planets / bases and if you win get a steady amount of money per hour or buy cheaper ... but of course this will decrase reputation heavily

thats all i think

if anyone plans to build a mod anytime perhaps think at me - would be amazing

mfg nose

Tue Mar 04, 2003 5:48 pm by ExoCraft

I dont like the following:

If someone makes a mod where u/your clan can get a space station ppl can steal the "station"
Same for the ship, i would not like someone to steal my Titan or Cruiser, would u when you had saved up to buy one and 5 min later they come and steal it?

Tue Mar 04, 2003 7:50 pm by Tachyon

Nose, I think your ideas may be too difficult without an SDK.

Tue Mar 04, 2003 7:59 pm by shadow2003

its a great idea but it won't work player owned bases is cool but im think its gonna be impossible with the curernt map because then there will be so many ppl who wants one maybe if there was a clan function (but to get that you need to reach the hardcoded part) then you coulb buy a base/battleship with a big clan and make a base VERY VERY expensive

and then you can halfly destroy it like you can destroy the weapons and docking stuff and the clan has to wait like 12 hours before dockin is repaired and buy new def weapons.

Tue Mar 04, 2003 8:03 pm by nose

sure .... but like i said -> dreams

and the problem with stealing the ships: you could limit that function to npc's ships only ...

and the problem with the playerowned bases:
just look at neocron where is a limited number of outposts, too.
thats just the good about it, so there will always be a lot of fighting arund them
sure those bases have to be indestructible ....

Edited by - nose on 04-03-2003 20:05:21

Wed Mar 05, 2003 3:04 pm by shadow2003

on a normal server there wouldn't be any NPC left in the game in a couple of minutes

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