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Coeus
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From: Philly
|  Posted: 2006-12-17 17:57
Its quite simple rather. They can have as many cannons as a dreadnaught, dread level armor & shields, but are far faster & more manuverable than a dread with a much smaller hitbox.
So? They're more powerful than a dreadnaught in the areas that really count, and pack as much cannon power as an assault class dreadnaught. So give them rank & badge requirements equal to assault dreads.
Simple, neh? Then people who wish to fly them as combat vessles can do so, provided they have the gold combat, gold navigation & Fleet Admiral rank. Might wanna give them bronze privateer as well, just to give it more meaning than a fighter spamming station.
[Edit]Oh, and since this is something that could probably be done very quickly & easily without a major update (would it even require an update at all?) it could quite possibly be implimented without having to wait for a patch!
[ This Message was edited by: Coeus the Drunken Elf on 2006-12-17 17:59 ]
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GothThug {C?}
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| Posted: 2006-12-17 18:00
2 problems with that....the Escort Dread would have to have to be bigger than the dessie and 2. i can just see alot of FA n00bs spam pcannons at the enemy -.-
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From: Philly
| Posted: 2006-12-17 18:01
Get out of my thread goth. And if you are going to add your +1 crap, then at least read and COMPREHEND the entire post.
I said give it assault dread REQUIREMENTS.
READ, COMPREHEND, POST!
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| Posted: 2006-12-17 18:03
Hmm, sounds like it could be decent.
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| Posted: 2006-12-17 18:13
It would require an update (patch).
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| Posted: 2006-12-17 18:58
seems fine except, players can get those badge requirements rather quickly. then we wld be back to square one?
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From: happy land
| Posted: 2006-12-17 18:59
Ding, but if it would require a patch might as well temporarly remove it 
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| Posted: 2006-12-17 19:41
This one gets a lawl.
Make it GA though.
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From: Philly
| Posted: 2006-12-17 20:28
Yeah, but in the time it would take someone to get GA, gold combat & bronze privateer they might actually know better than to use it.
How big of a patch? Change one line of code here, one flag of gadgets there... Boom done, next question Alec!
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From: Prancing in the meadows with Jesus
| Posted: 2006-12-17 20:31
Well, in the new patch, bombing will be harder so I assume that 1 month FAs will cease to be. Thus making the Rank boost rather feasable.
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From: Philly
| Posted: 2006-12-17 20:34
After the match it won't matter with the new modding.... I'm looking for a simple stopgap measure in the mean time ^.^
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| Posted: 2006-12-17 21:21
Sounds like a good plan in my opinion. Even though I havent been in the MV as of late (On the span of a few months ^^; ) It would seem like the best quick fix solution to the entire problem. Then once the REAL patch comes out, simple redo the ships back to theyre origional requirements etc.
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Durlan Katz
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| Posted: 2006-12-17 23:01
I doubt that making them higher rank ships would solve anything, as there already is a certain GA with all the badges using said ship and is not liked for doing that.
If a patch was to be made for solving this problem alone, it should be a patch that either prevents switching lasers to cannons or removal of the ship for the time being.
No one needs a PD-boat in current patch anyway.
Oh and why not remove upgrading until next patch while you're at it, i belive standard level ships are far more balanced than in their upgraded state. mirvs wouldn't be so overpowered either(?) This could be done "as simply as" removing the yellow $-sign
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From: close by
| Posted: 2006-12-17 23:45
well if ya wanna fix it just remove it from the game period if its only a few lines of codes to add rank isn't only a few lines of code to remove it?
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| Posted: 2006-12-18 00:13
If it were only that simple -.-
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