Idea''s to give to Starfyre Studio''s

Fri Jul 25, 2003 2:11 pm by Bricard

Hope you don't mind me making this thread but i thought people could give you idea's that you could possibly implement in your Quite exceptional mod.

Here's a few of my own;

1. Regarding the shadow ships, how about (if possible) designing a sort of upgrade that allows shadow ships and certain other high value ships to create their own jumpholes, a sort of slipstream drive if you will? obviously there would be pro's and con's to this but i think the advantages would be worth it. Imagine this, your flying around in your ship with said drive and you receive an sos from a friend who has been jumped and is fighting a losing battle, how spectacular would it be if you could just imediately jump to that friend and help him out.
I suppose if such a device was possible you would have to limit he places you could jump to by only being able to jump to places you have already visited and you can't jump in system also perhaps making it a 1 use only giving the player reason to do trade runs and missions so he can keep supplying himself with this drive.

2. i mentioned this one elsewhere and other people have thought of this but how about fleet battles? mp missions? you take a group mission with you and few others flying what ever ships you deem fit and go up against groups of active battleships dreadnoughts and cruisers each with their own compliment of escort ships. You could also make factions do this to?

I have a few more ideas but they are too thin to write here, i need to think about them more.

anyway, what do ya think?
If this thread is not appropriate then just delete.

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Fri Jul 25, 2003 2:14 pm by Bricard

I forgot to mention, another reason for the slipstream drive is being able to jump an enemy clan/faction.

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Fri Jul 25, 2003 9:18 pm by Iron duke

That would be cool for about 10 seconds, right before everyone had one. Then, like the supercruise, no one would fight each other anymore, once a player was damaged, they'd jump out of the system. I think the nexus gives the person enough ability to get around quick. This would also be incredibly difficult to implement.

Sat Jul 26, 2003 1:55 am by Bricard

I agree it will probably be hard to implement but the idea still has merit but like i said there would have to be rules in using such a device to limit it's use such as making it a sensitive device meaning if you were attacked the device would shut down until you were safe. Also perhaps making it unuseable if you have a full cargo. The reasons for such a device being made would be purely for tactical strikes against the enemy which i don't think has been covered by any mods for freelancer (if im wrong on that please correct me). Think about it, You are the leader of a clan and you are holding a meeting somewhere in space with the rest of your clan members and a rival clan jumps in on you or vice versa, just imagine the chaos!! And besides i read in the update for 1.5 that they have put in random shadow attacks, how would the shadow ships do that with out jumping in?

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