On 2005-10-10 08:41, Shigernafy wrote:
Did you modify your plan from what you'd posted on the other (borked) thread? There are certain things that Ent quoted which I do not see in your plan.

I like it.

On 2005-10-10 19:44, Diabo|ik wrote:

If the jump-gates can be used by both factions as to avoid pilots fleeing in a friendly jumpgate to avoid being destroyed.

Another thing, you shouldn't be able to do multiple node jumps using a gate, only using shipyards should you be able to do that.

Also, a timer may be needed on SY multiple node jump usage as to avoid seeing the enemy jump from one front to the other almost instantly.

Although I didn't expand on it, I stated that they were 2 types of Jump-gate. One forming part of the factions own system: used closer to home to give the faction the 'advantage' of being able to retreat in safety. The other forming part of a neutral, pre-exiting jump-gate system situated towards the centre of the map; that would remove that advantage for both factions. I think the difference would make it harder for a faction to encroach on the Home-systems of the enemy factions.

IMO that undermines the entire transit system and forces a heavy reliance on the SYs, which were supposed to be optional and merely of tactical use. Forcing a player to exit at each node (jump-gate) only to have to turn around go back in and select a distination again; would be unnessecarily time consuming and irritating for the player.
It would also allow camping; and by that I don't mean tactical camping that results in 'holding the fort', just plain old fashion 'sitting at a gate in enemy territory waiting for randon players to fall out of the transit system then spamming them with alpha's' type camping.

Sure; a damaged player could jump out of a battle, flee into the transit system, jump multiple nodes back to the shipyard, pull out a new ship, jump all the way back, exit the transit system and jump in to rejoin the fight... I on the hand, would just jump to a depot planet and save time!

Instantaneous travel is bad bad bad for gameplay. Instantaneous travel from the home systems to the outer systems = OK, instantaneous travel from the outer systems to the home systems = NOT OK and from outer to outer = NOT OK either.

Say you fired upon a ship, he flee for repairs, you check in the system if there's an enemy supply ship, none, ok, is there an enemy planet with depots in the system, no, so he will go to the gate to neighbooring system X, jump to gate ( maybe too late, maybe on time to have a little skirmish, you get the other guy adrenaline pumping a bit and maybe he escapes through the gate and jump to a depot planet on the other side before yo ucan do something or he may be just too late, too slow and you can catch him... ). That's dynamic, that's fun. Seeing the enemy go thru a gate and you don't know where the heck he went, he could as well be halfway across the MV from you as it is now, is NOT fun.

On 2005-10-11 14:11, c0ldfury wrote:

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Say you fired upon a ship, he flee for repairs, you check in the system if there's an enemy supply ship, none, ok, is there an enemy planet with depots in the system, no, so he will go to the gate to neighbooring system X, jump to gate ( maybe too late, maybe on time to have a little skirmish, you get the other guy adrenaline pumping a bit and maybe he escapes through the gate and jump to a depot planet on the other side before yo ucan do something or he may be just too late, too slow and you can catch him... ). That's dynamic, that's fun. Seeing the enemy go thru a gate and you don't know where the heck he went, he could as well be halfway across the MV from you as it is now, is NOT fun.

I haven't time for a full reply atm, but I'll answer this. If you did see that player go into the gate and that gate was faction owned: That player just ruined his factions chances of winning in that system, since you could easily just destroy the gate. After that, he wouldn't be coming back in a hurry. You would then have your fun, tracking down the rest of his fleet (and they would not have such an easy time escaping).


[ This Message was edited by: c0ldfury on 2005-10-11 14:15 ]