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Made an idea for a planet-blamming weapon, was a few months ago. Called it the Planet Cracker.
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Heyo, while I was busy orbiting through an asteroid field, I thought about NPCs. What if we get to make them, and not like make their face, as in from head to toe with custom parts. For example, you build a guard that has cybernetic limbs or replace their arm with a built-in rifle. Bit of mad scientist work here, but can't know what floats or sinks without blowing it to hell. Thinking about making guard tanks inside my ship the size of bumper cars just so they can roll around. I'll be able to make them when this Arkship reboots and gets me out of Alpha Centauri.
Someone send help please...
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Heyo, it is Legate again, been a bit since my latest activity, been busy with school, social, and planning more ships for this game, up to around 15 btw.
When I checked the kickstarter (already great progress when I saw it begin), I was browsing through the perks and found Life-Time Subscription for Ruby+ (I think). This got my engines running, will there be life time subs after the kickstarter event or is this more of a one time deal that we have to leap on faster than using warp drives? If we can get it afterwards, then I got some saving to do, if not, then it's back to grinding enough currency to last me at least another eon worth of playtime.
One random guy that still sits at school sleeping with a book as a sheid and a bludgening tool:
-Legate
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I always loved fried squid...
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I usually sketch my ideas on paper, then develop a more detailed image if it seems good.
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Beautiful designs...must, use, everything...
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I actually discovered this on pure accident. I was wandering the dunes of the internet browsing through anything space based, found nothing. When I went to Amazon, I happen to get information on it via a review of a random item. Forgot that for a while and continued my search. When I was searching google for some information, I found the suggestion and remembered the review. So I gave it a visit and now here I am. Weird eh?
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Space trai...wait
Space railways!
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I'm now thinking of the WH:40K World Engine
It would be cool to make a planet into a ship...but one problem. How does one navigate their way through a planet ship?
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I think for player factions, it can be handled by their council. i.e.: a faction decides to imprison a person for a said amount of time varying each crime, multiple crimes stack up time. There can be prison ships and planets that hold the criminals and their ships when their time is complete. If a rival clan really wants to get their person back, they can either pay a bail (made by the council considering the crimes) or break them out.
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let it die plz lol
Yes please.
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Losing track of how many people make these kind of topics.
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I think my arkship will get stuck in Alpha Centauri Bc...oh wait.
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I think we got here all a bit confused. So that we here all on the same line a little explanation.
For ships we have three important categories.
The ship class:
Normally used to refer to the ship series, to which the ship belongs. The series is usually named after the first ship in the series.
So for example we have the Bismarck-class or the Essex-class.
The ship role:
These are the classical "classes" that you want to use here, but these aren't determined by the size of the ships rather then by the pupose and abilities of the ship.
For example a battleship is normally one of the largest ships in the fleet but its sole purpose is to act as tank and heavy damage dealer.
Frigates and corvetts on the other hand are meant as swarm ships and their purpose is to overwhelm the enemy with their number and even between this two roles are significant differences noticeable. Please notice this roles can change depending on the fleet in which a ship is, in one fleet could it be a battleship and in another just a mere frigate.
The ship type/classification:
This is what you want to determine in this thread, irl this is incorporated with the ship roles, but that is only because there are certain limitations how big a ship can be. So there is now real need to classify ships outside of their roles, but here in DU it is something other because we have no real limitations how big a ship could be, so we need a classification system that is continous.
So here is my suggestion for this:
We could use a alphanumerical code for it, this is determined by variables like size, weight and purpose. For each of this variables we would create categories that will describe sections within the variables, For example:
I like that idea.
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...I was mostly hoping that we can just name our ships, the classes themselves are just more of a side thing compared to the names to add some depth to it.
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Would be nice to have music playing in my ship as I fly around.
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Interesting idea.
I'm thinking more along the lines of Star Trek and Battlestar Gallactica.
But, I look forward to seeing what the devs come up with.
With the naming, I see it more as a community thing, but I hope this takes notice of the classes.
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"Hilarious! You stole the post and title from my sleep last night.
Coincidentally, I was thinking of some nomenclature for vehicles (not just ships), and hasta la vista, someone beat me to it!
Overall, I think the classing of vehicles is quite important, not for fun only, but for prospective market reasons. Shouldn't the vehicles also be named based on the size?
Typically, Flagships>battleships>battlecruisers>cruisers>destroyers>corvettes/frigates(depending on the size and preference of the manufacturer). It is important to note, that ships might not make a big entrance at the beginning of the game, to be sincere, the only ships we might be mass producing in beta might be marine based crafts. Nonetheless, I find your classifications quite worthy of debate and further thought!
Pax Vobiscum.
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What a coincidence. Glad to know I wasn't alone on this.
Also, the list will be updated with more ships as I go along with it, the categories you mentioned will be added eventuall.
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Hello everyone. Just got back from vacation, while resting in my Arkship while waiting for the WiFi to reboot, I was thinking about what would you name your ship and what catagory would it fall under. Mike wanted to help, couldn't find him when he tried to refuel the ship. He did leave me a pencil and a notebook, so I just write down some ship names when I think about them and where they fall under. I created my own list of ship classes for my business...if my Arkship ever lands...
Here is the list of catagories I made, feel free to add on your own classes of ships. I will share some of the ship names, but not all of them...
DRONES
- A.C. - Artificially Controlled: These drones usually go as missiles, small fighters, or just a scanner. A.C.s are meant to be remote controlled or put on a set course.
- L.A.C. - Large Artificial Craft: These drones are larger than their A.C. counterparts. Instead, these ones are designed as large fighters, turrets, and mining bots.
TRANSPORT
- L.T.C. - Light Transport Class: This category is meant for personnel, cargo, H.V.T. (High Value Target)/V.I.P, or prisoner transport. These ships are meant to travel long distances while carrying a small amount of cargo.
- M.T.C. - Moderate Transport Class: These ones can carry more than the L.T.C., including vehicles, drones, and S.L.Vs (Mentioned later)
- H.T.C. - Heavy Transport Class: The largest, but slowest and least mobile (jump wise) of the category. These are meant to carry military-grade S.L.V.s, Mechs, Fighters, and even L.T.C.s (depending on the ship)
- P.T.C. - Planetary Transport Class: Meant for either planetary evacuations or ICBMs. They are meant to carry a medium amount of transport at high speeds, but have low fuel.
FIGHTERS
- A.C. - Artificially Controlled: MENTIONED ABOVE
- F.C. - Fighter Combatant: These ships are built to be aerodynamic and swift enough to deal damage and get away from threats at a fast speed.
- S.C. - Stealth Class: This brand of ships can be applied to any of the ships in this category
- D.F.C. - Defense Fighter Class: These ships are heavy, pack a lot more firepower and can take more. At the cost of mobility and jump range.
CRUISERS
There are only 3 cruisers allowed to be made public at this time. More information will be disclosed. Some ships may be restricted from being viewed at any time.
- Cruiser - Gerven: A mid-class cruiser meant for military escorts, blockades, or peace keeping operations. This ship can hold 500 gunenrs and 30 pilots.
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Cruiser -
[REDACTED]: This cruiser is meant to carry personnel that cannot be lost by any means, CEO[REDACTED]has one stationed in his base in case of compromising of base or full operation. They're the smallest class of cruiser, but almost as armed as Gerven - Cruiser - Revere: An assault cruiser that can cover numerous areas at once due to it's long range weaponry and huge chassis. It can house over 900 Gunners and 70 Pilots.
HEAVY
- D.C.S. - Destroyer Class Ship: These would have been classified as Cruisers, but are too heavily armed to be as mobile as a cruiser. Example of this is the Flak.
- D.C.S. - Flak: A massive space cannon that can be towed by Gerven. This cannon is capable of blowing a hole through a capital ship. The ship itself is REALLY slow and cannot do even medium jumps.
SLV
- Suitable Land Vehicle: This category is for planetary-based vehicles.
- S.L.V. - Hound: An ATV meant for rugged terrain, equipped with a turret on top to fend off drones and smaller fighters.
- S.L.V. - Fiend: A light tank built for subtle terrain, can be equipped with an artillery cannon for long ranged combat.
MISC.
- Planetary Annihilator - Black Sun: This massive station is too big to be called a ship, yet it somehow moves. This station is meant to lock into a planet via pegs.
- Mechanized Suit - Prometheus: One of the largest Mechanized Suits to be currently build, mostly used by Planetary Defense Forces. The suit is capable of grounding larger fighters using EMP fields.
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Are you stating this as fact? If so sources please. If not, please rephrase as it can definitely be misinterpreted.
I'm just answering a question, not stating a fact.
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And if player logs of normaly (without combat) does the ship vanish? Even if it is multicrew? And will the buildings on planets (which you builded) vanish as well?
The ship will vanish of said player is NOT in combat. More of a way to keep people from escaping combat cheaply.
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I vote the vanish, but with a combat timer. To keep people from bailing on a battle. If the person leaves during a fight, they will either auto-die or the player will be logged out, but their ship will remain in space, awaiting boarding.
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One of my shipmates went over to Jupiter before the Neutron Star was heading for us, the last report we received was an odd 2 minute video of coins flying around. They were all red last time we checked. Wonder if Jupiter makes it's own coins. Either way, our team never heard from that crew again.
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The title might be really off putting, but listen. I know we will be able to customize our interiors, but I'm wondering what ideas we can come up with for these ship interiors. Some ideas I thought of were:
- Taxidermy animals
- CHAIRS
- Weapon Displays (For rifles and such)
- Customizible paintings (We can create our own or upload them from google)
- Ammo Crates (for either personnel on-board or the ship's weapons)
That's all I can think of, due to it being very late for me and getting very tired.
What kind of Community is this?
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Hope for both peace and war, can't sell my ships without either.