As Twex said, I went to the unknown system off gamma, nomads are attacking in groups of 8 to 10, I destroyed 24 of them but none dropped any weapons. Also I was in sigma 13 right after a reset, the nearby wrecks were not reset, sounds like some kind of a bug.

On the nomads, when I was there, the first two batches didn't drop anything, then the third dropped one cannon, the fourth didn't drop anything, then the fifth dropped 6 weapons (4 cannons, 2 blasters). Quite irregular, be persistent, they will drop.

I'm on for more games on Brow, but I can't usually get on the server before 8 or 9pm CST, by which time most games have been over.

So it sounds like there is interest in games, but they would need to be later. Start sending emails, I would need a list of names to give to Brow to justify restricting the server.

I, being on the WEST COAST, would hold the games at a time of my convenience, usually around midnight est....9pm for me, 10 or 11 for you twex. Sound fair? WHat should we do first - Stardier..err...star flier racing, or a rabbit chase????

Sasha, its all good. I dont indiscriminantly (sp?) go around blasting noobs...read back - it happened to me. When I do blast noobs, I pay for losses - kind of a pay-to-play thing. I don't typically blast noobs on the simple fact that it happened to me, and that I didn't enjoy it. It was fun being chased by you too...nice eagle. Next time, though, announce that you are fighting instead of just blasting...I took that part a little personally. I thought you had more honor than that.

Hail Ceasar! Leader of the Free Peoples of the Holy Roman Empire, defender to the lower ranked and faith, lover of monkies (but not those DAMN DIRTY APES!). God Save Ceasar - or the screamer behind him will! Hail Ceasar!!!

The whole nomad thing - I have gone in there and had to blast them for 10's of waves before getting anything. I have found that it is best ot go in there in teams, makes the waves faster and more repetitive. Also - you tend to get more weps in between the planets instead of in orbit at Gammu or Primus...just imo.

Justinian

Hail Ceasar! Leader of the Free Peoples of the Holy Roman Empire, defender to the lower ranked and faith, lover of monkies (but not those DAMN DIRTY APES!). God Save Ceasar - or the screamer behind him will! Hail Ceasar!!!

On the Nomad thing: I intentionally upped the number of Nomads in each group from the default of 1+3 to 1+9 (1 leader and 9 fighters) quite some time ago (many weeks). Their weapons drop has not been altered in any way.

Justinian, I will answer your direct question when I get a chance to sit down and think. Also, I've been trying to email you back another question you had about the server specifications but it keeps getting sent back. Is it my end or your end?

Browclops

Some of my recruits were blasting nomads, and we got 4 blasters and a cannon in the first wave alone. Weird stuff.

Nomads aren't the most powerfull guns in the game, but they have the bonus of using no energy, I'm currently using 5 SalamancaII's an el cid and a Salamanca Turret on my Eagle, all class 9s (can't find any wrecks for class 10 guns that haven't been cleaned out already). If anyone has any better ideas for good guns class 9 or 10 do tell.

We need to schedule dueling tournaments at various times including after 9pm eastern time. Rather than using D8 as our location, we could go to the Colorado Jump gate and head about 5 or 10k north. This will put us into a politcally neutral area. There are no NPC's outside of the Politcal zones, so no NPC interuptions.

Let's see if we can get the old Browclops culture going again. Hopefully, this will help defaultuser and others to feel better about everything.


Edited by - Regulator on 14-07-2003 22:47:03

Mark,
I have a good supply of class 10's and other weapons if you want to try some out.
Regulator

Sounds good to me Reg, is there anyway we can send server wide messages? Brow, can you automagically pipe messages sent to console to the server (or messages starting with some special key?)? Or anyone know of anyway to give everyone a countdown to an event, other than using the mighty brow?

Nomads are clearly the most powerful guns in the game, but they might not fit into a particular players style regarding speed, range, refire and single-shot damage. This leaves the issue a matter of opinion. I prefer to have a high refire myself, and the combo of 2 blasters/2 cannons gives roughly 6 shots a second (first set is simultaneous, followed by 2 cannon and 3 blaster shots - non-simultaneous). I've been toying with the idea of finding a ship to equip with weapons bearing the same speeds but with differing refires of 3.03, 4, 5.88, and 8.33 for a grand total of ~17-18 (unsynced) shots in a second. Call it a little project. The damage wouldn't be great, but it might be an interesting combo on a class 5-7 ship.

As for the role-playing idea it is hardly dead. It has just undergone some birthing pains. That it sprung up suddenly in the first place indicates a niche for that sort of play. For the most part, it died just as suddenly due to an overly ambitious implementation policy. I predict it will be back, as the current vacuum once again requires it's existance. Eventually it will fall into balance, as overly ambitous clans fail, and less-ambitious implementations take on greater meaning and grow. We have only seen the first sputtering of it's existance, and i guarantee there is more to come.

as soon as i figure out why i cant connect to the global server ill start hosting dueling competitions again like i used to

love that monkey brow and jaguar

Gung_Ho,

It has never died, I agree with you, it will not die completely. GOV is still working and growing. Some people may think it died, since the topic has been moved to United Systems of Browclops. It will fall into balance and begin to fill the vaccuum that you mentioned. Thanks for your support for role-playing.

Regulator