Demorian
Fleet Admiral
Galactic Navy
Joined: October 06, 2001
Posts: 3406
From: Charlotte, North Carolina
|  Posted: 2002-07-16 23:28
* Logging to "GCQL_[-GTN-]Demorian_2002.07.16.html" ...
* [=AoD=] = Immortal = [FL] has entered the room...
02:04:00 [PS]Dr Evil: "first off, I hope everyone has read the news about Got Game, our official publisher"
02:04:43 [PS]Dr Evil: "we're very excited and terribly afraid about this news at the same time...."
* [-GTN-]Demorian nods. Aaaaaamen.
02:05:00 Gideon: "I'm thrilled!"
02:05:00 [PS]Dr Evil: "excited that we'll be getting more players... and terrorified of getting more players..."
02:05:11 [-[A]-]|2eason: "Just woke up,  "
02:05:16 Coleen: "As free week has shown us.. "
02:05:18 Gideon: "i thrive on this kind of chaos!"
02:06:47 [PS]Dr Evil: "chaos it will be, hopefully Faustus can keep up with code side and we can stay one step ahead of the masses"
02:24:32 [-GTN-]Demorian: "If I may, I have a proposal regarding post-release servers."
02:07:26 [PB]tragicx: "I didn't see any est date... is it too far off to tell?"
02:07:27 [PS]Dr Evil: "sofar, we capped out at 266 online players today, hopefully we'll bust the 300 mark tomorrow as trial week goes on."
* lkmwangi has entered the room...
02:07:47 [PS]Dr Evil: "Sept is the word I have"
* Coleen runs from the room, grabs her sketchbook, and runs back in
* lkmwangi has entered the room...
02:08:18 codyh: "hello"
02:08:21 [PS]Dr Evil: "I warned you Coleen  "
02:08:21 Gideon: "I have heard Septembar."
02:08:25 Gideon: "September"
02:26:02 [-GTN-]Demorian: "As we have all seen, DarkSpace game servers tend to lag when the larger populations enter them, like when 50+ people are present...I think that several more servers should be started and their max capacities lowered a little, to give people places to play when one server may be laggy. Comments?"
02:08:42 Coleen: "Warned me about what? :looks confused:"
02:08:52 Gideon: "I want more long term subscribers..."
02:09:13 Coleen: "Sounds good to me, Dem.."
02:09:16 [PB]tragicx: "So have a couple FA servers, newbie servers..etc?"
02:09:18 [-[A]-]AgentFritz: "Sorry for being late everyone.."
02:26:42 [-GTN-]Demorian: "yes tragicx"
02:26:44 [-GTN-]Demorian: "exactly."
02:09:25 Gideon: "This won't help much with the MV..."
02:09:37 Gideon: "But for scenarios, I think it's a good idea."
02:09:40 [PS]Dr Evil: "better get drawing, work those fingers to the bone... you've got alot of work to do in a short time coleen "
02:27:01 [-GTN-]Demorian: "No, not MV"
02:27:03 [-GTN-]Demorian: "just scenario."
02:09:45 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "afk for a sec guys"
02:09:47 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: "Good Idea Demo"
02:09:58 Coleen: "Ohh. Right Evil"
02:10:00 Gideon: "WE are working very hard on things, thank you!"
02:10:10 Coleen: "You should read his fiction "
02:10:15 [PS]Dr Evil: "that will be addressed as the player base increases Dem"
* [-GTN-]Demorian gives Coleen a few sympathetic pats on the head.
02:27:44 [-GTN-]Demorian: "Thats what I meant, Evil"
02:27:46 [-GTN-]Demorian: "I said post-release "
02:10:48 [PB]tragicx: "FA East, FA West, something like that?"
02:28:16 [-GTN-]Demorian: "That might be interesting too trag "
02:11:11 [PS]Dr Evil: "right now most of the servers are run on 3 multi processor comps, as the player base increases, we'll be moving entire systems onto single boxes to handle the load."
02:11:25 Gideon: "Good"
02:11:28 Gideon: "That will help alot."
02:11:42 [PB]tragicx: "3 multi processor 286's.. hehe"
02:11:49 [-[A]-]AgentFritz: "lol"
02:11:54 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: "lol"
02:12:00 Gideon: "Ouch..."
* [-GTN-]Demorian winces.
02:12:17 [PS]Dr Evil: "all the servers listed are run on only three comps, they're 2-4 processors each"
02:30:02 [-GTN-]Demorian: "ds1, ds2, and ds3 "
02:12:45 [PS]Dr Evil: "the MV and player caps will grow with the demand, so we've got it covered."
02:13:01 [PS]Dr Evil: "yep"
02:13:25 Gideon: "okay, good."
02:13:50 [PS]Dr Evil: "we will no doubt have growing pains, but that's to be expected as we face hardware/software limitations"
02:14:29 [PS]Dr Evil: "Traigc, not sure if we'll be expanding to regional servers, but I hope we get big enough to do so."
02:32:03 [-GTN-]Demorian: "We all hope."
02:32:07 [-GTN-]Demorian: "and at the same time we all dread. "
02:15:11 [PS]Dr Evil: "sofar the plan is region defined as NA and EU"
02:15:29 [PS]Selvarian: "howdy"
02:15:34 [PS]Dr Evil: "Next... the manual..."
02:15:38 [PS]Dr Evil: "hey selv."
* Coleen snaps to attention and salutes [PS]Selvarian...
02:15:43 [PS]Selvarian: "There's also an Asia region"
02:16:08 Gideon: "Faustus mentioned Asia..."
02:16:18 [PB]Smokey: "yeah i was just going to say something about that"
02:16:20 [PS]Dr Evil: "if you haven't looked through the manual yet, Dem has been adding screenshots to it, sofar it's looking pretty good."
02:16:27 [PB]Smokey: "asia, aussie"
* [-GTN-]Demorian smiles.
* [-GTN-]TheGriffin pats [-GTN-]Demorian on the back
* Gideon begins applauding [-GTN-]Demorian...
02:17:21 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "very nice dem "
* [-GTN-]Demorian bows.
* Coleen begins applauding [-GTN-]Demorian...
02:34:53 [-GTN-]Demorian: "Thank you, everyone. It was nothing, really."
* [-GTN-]Demorian is flattered by all the attention.
* [-[A]-]AgentFritz begins applauding [-GTN-]Demorian...
02:17:46 [PS]Dr Evil: "Demo, Pizza, Grif and I knocked out the manual on sunday right after the staff meeting."
02:18:10 [PS]Dr Evil: "Kortoz, you and Quorthon have full access to the FAQ and Manual for translation, feel free to start at any time."
02:18:16 Gideon: "And a lovely manual it is, too.!"
02:35:40 [-GTN-]Demorian: "Including a full revision of "The Defender of Cephid" fiction that Pizza and I did together "
02:18:26 [-GTN-]Kortoz: "its up already then?"
02:18:56 [PS]Dr Evil: "Faustus has changed the access rights so anyone with the Edit flag can now work on it directly."
02:19:17 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "altho I woulda revised it to... "This is the personal account of Admiral Owen, at the time Ensign, and his lone successful defense of the Cephid system during the Third Colonies War against the K’Luth. Found K'Luth ship... *static*"
02:19:20 [-GTN-]Kortoz: "Ill get on it tomorrow and hard during the weekend"
02:19:33 [PS]Dr Evil: "yep, it's up, 95% done, still a couple sections that we're waiting on info for."
02:20:00 [PS]Dr Evil: "good deal."
* [-GTN-]Demorian gives [-GTN-]Kortoz a few sympathetic pats on the head.
02:20:39 [-GTN-]Kortoz: "its gonna ge a long weekend...."
02:38:11 [-GTN-]Demorian: "but a damn well appreciated one, Kortoz"
02:21:12 Gideon: "You will be remembered with honor!"
02:21:35 [PB]Smokey: "btw you all should check to make sure the stuff you post is correct... i saw a few things in the FAQ i just fixed..."
02:21:36 [-GTN-]Kortoz: "thx, one is glad to be of service"
02:38:59 [-GTN-]Demorian: "(Gideon you make it sound like hes gonna die from it)"
02:21:57 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: "lol"
02:22:14 Gideon: "Well, it is mind breaking work..."
02:22:25 [PS]Dr Evil: "we didn't touch the FAQ, vinco said he had it covered"
* Coleen growls in frustration and chews angrily on her drawing pencil
02:22:48 [PB]Smokey: "yeah just double check yourself... "
02:22:48 [PS]Dr Evil: "heh"
02:22:50 [PS]Selvarian: "Vinco will be out until August 11"
02:23:51 [PS]Dr Evil: "yep, I'll go through the FAQ this week, make sure it's up to speed."
* [-GTN-]Demorian gives Coleen a pat on the back.
02:24:14 [PB]Smokey: "i only say cause someone was asking about something yesterday that was revised wrong.. anyway"
02:24:35 [PS]Dr Evil: "understood"
02:25:08 [PS]Dr Evil: "speaking of drawings and fiction, how is the work progressing Gid?"
02:25:53 Gideon: "Well, I have submitted the hariest part of the fiction to Faustus. The technology."
02:25:58 Coleen: "... I've decided I hate drawing hands. ... "
02:26:07 Gideon: "This was the area of greatest misunderstanding between all of us."
* [-GTN-]Demorian looks at Coleen, smiles, and lets out a gratifying AMEN.
02:26:30 Coleen: "hehe"
02:26:34 [PS]Selvarian: "Did anyone read the "story" that covers the proposal to fix the gate camping problem for good?"
02:26:35 Gideon: "Aside from that, the fiction is coming smoothly, and I am thinking I will write a story about the Sirius event."
02:26:57 Gideon: "No, but let me guess: Safe zones around all the gates?"
02:27:07 Gideon: "I have another idea: Teamwork."
02:27:13 [PS]Selvarian: "Read my post in the PMF on the topic."
02:27:13 Coleen: "The K'Luth pictures are progressing, and I hope to have some inked by this weekend. (even if it kills me) "
02:27:36 [PS]Selvarian: "No, Gideon, I have always spoken against the safe zone idea."
02:27:38 Gideon: "Read that as some MORE inked in by this weekend."
02:27:40 Coleen: "Oh, and once those are done, I will be submitting some ICC and UGTO concept sketches to Faustus, as per his request."
02:27:42 [PS]Dr Evil: "very cool coleen "
02:27:43 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "we wanna be naked bugs..."
02:27:50 Gideon: "Okay, then I will have to look it up."
02:28:01 [PS]Dr Evil: "with big teeth "
02:28:08 Gideon: "Well, that might get kinda cold in the hard vacuum of space..."
02:28:14 Coleen: "Faustus nixed the 'naked bug' sorry Pizza. His concept was very much like ours.. they wear clothing and bear weaponry"
02:28:18 [PS]Dr Evil: "what's the movie coming out now? 8 legged freaks? "
02:28:33 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "I'll be a streak then =P"
02:28:59 Gideon: "Just so everyone knows: All K'Luth will have have clothing and equipment, as per Faustus's request."
02:29:07 [PS]Dr Evil: "ah  nothing more satisfying then ripping something apart with your bare claws...."
02:29:14 Gideon: "They arn't giant, brain-dead, bugs."
02:29:16 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "<-- I am loved..."
02:29:23 Coleen: "that's what the melee weapons are for, Evil.."
02:29:31 Gideon: "He specified that he didn't want them to look like big insects."
02:29:36 [PS]Dr Evil: "Ice Pirates "
* Coleen draws double bladed daggers in all four hands and looks menacingly at the humans in the room
02:29:56 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "but ther eships already look like big insects...."
02:29:58 [PS]Dr Evil: "I was shooting for the shadows from B5..."
02:30:14 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "and named after insects.."
02:30:15 Gideon: "No their ships look like....K'Luth ships..."
02:30:24 Gideon: "They really have no likeness outside of that."
02:30:26 [PB]Smokey: "hehe"
02:30:40 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "and the infantry and larve..."
02:30:40 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "but they all smile at you"
02:30:43 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "like an evil grin"
02:30:46 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "just look at em"
02:30:47 [PS]Dr Evil: "can't wait to see some artwork on it"
02:30:51 [-[A]-]AgentFritz: "So they are a form of humanoid bugs??"
02:30:53 Gideon: "And as for the Shadows...well the K'Luth still carry equipment, so they arn't advanced enough to have tech like the shadows."
02:31:27 Gideon: "We have already passed sketches and biology descriptions by Fasutus."
02:31:53 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "I still think you should run some by the staff for comments..."
02:31:55 Gideon: "And he has approved of our work enough to make us the official artist and fiction writer respecivly."
02:32:08 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "guess that's up to Faustus tho.."
02:32:11 [PS]Dr Evil: "sweet "
02:32:20 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "gratz "
02:32:21 Gideon: "Disclaimer: So far nimby is working on the MIR. So, as of this point the design is up to him."
02:32:32 Gideon: "Faustus as the FINAL word on everything we produce."
02:32:44 Coleen: "Right"
02:32:48 Gideon: "So, we are trying to bring his vision to life here."
02:32:55 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "would be kinda weird that when we finallysee al the kluth are are some bvig burly guy with a beard holding a hammer....."
02:50:30 [-GTN-]Demorian: "LOL"
02:33:14 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "lol"
02:33:15 Coleen: "No, not that "
02:33:26 [-[A]-]AgentFritz: "roflol"
02:33:28 [PS]Dr Evil: "cool, Nimby is moving out west near me, I'll have to get him good and drunk and influence him "
02:33:37 Coleen: "hehehe"
02:33:51 [PS]Dr Evil: "hypnotize him and make the MIR really really Evil "
02:33:55 Coleen: "I am sketching my personal K'Luth 'avatar' right now"
02:34:02 Coleen: "I plan on having it inked in soon"
* [Evil]PizzaTheHut will still be KLuth =P
02:34:16 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "ahhh evil you just want your own race dont you...."
02:34:48 Coleen: "Gid is afk cooking fish but says: He has one last thing to say before he's done"
02:35:09 Gideon: "Sorry about that, the salmon reached a critical stage."
02:35:12 Gideon: "Okay"
02:35:14 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "he should do that wasabi sauce i mentioned to him it was yummy"
02:35:16 Gideon: "One last thing"
02:35:20 [PS]Dr Evil: "no prob"
02:35:42 Gideon: "I am also going to be mocking up some basic models in gmax for Faustus for things like K'luth infantry and structures."
02:36:00 Gideon: "We shall see what he thinks. It's sorta somthing I am working on in my spare time."
02:36:05 Gideon: "By no means official."
02:36:05 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "gmax?"
02:36:11 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "bodies are hard to model..."
02:36:13 [-[A]-]AgentFritz: "that should be cool, "
02:53:33 [-GTN-]Demorian: "cool. you mean to reduce the infantry model and structure models?"
02:36:23 Gideon: "yeah, the free version of 3DStudio Max."
02:36:28 [PS]Dr Evil: "its the free 3d studio application for working on game mods"
02:36:31 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "unless you use coleens sketches"
02:36:34 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "hmmm"
02:36:39 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "oh, I think I have that..."
02:36:43 Coleen: "Just so you know: I'm doing my best to NOT make the K'Luth look.. well.. lame. "
02:36:52 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "nm it wouldn't be that hard then...."
02:37:03 Gideon: "If he want's me to actually do for real models for things, then I will concider shelling out the bucks for actual 3D Studio..."
* [PB]tragicx wonders where my full 3dsmax version came from..
02:37:11 [PS]Dr Evil: "faustus has assured me that he will not allow you to make the Kluth look lame "
02:37:27 Coleen: "heheh"
02:37:27 Gideon: "Heh, yeah, they arn't lame."
02:37:28 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "i have the full ver of lightwave...."
02:37:38 Coleen: "I suppose we're always our own worst critics, aren't we?"
02:37:38 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "little parallel port key and everything...."
02:37:41 [PS]Dr Evil: "same here Sky"
02:37:45 Gideon: "Picture giant pink bunnies with weapons that look like daisies...j/k"
02:37:54 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "its only 5.5 though"
02:37:58 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: "lol"
02:37:59 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "showing its age"
02:38:06 [PS]Dr Evil: "I'm running 5.0"
02:38:09 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "can we make ICC look lame?"
* Coleen snatches Gideons beer and looks at it hard: whats he DRINKING??
02:38:23 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "oooo evil i got some questions for you then...."
02:38:24 [-GTN-]Kortoz: "lol pizza"
02:38:45 [PS]Dr Evil: "I got rid of 5.5 when all my plugins stopped working "
02:38:49 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "i can picture kluth as giant pink bunnies holding a grenade launcher...."
* [-[A]-]Ramius slaps [Evil]PizzaTheHut in the head...
02:38:59 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "well, they should look a little thinner/weaker than UGTO.."
02:39:07 Gideon: "Actually..."
02:39:10 [PS]Dr Evil: "....and cheap sunglasses..."
* Gideon flipps through the notes...
02:39:13 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "oh"
02:39:20 Gideon: "The bunnies are faction 5."
02:39:22 [PS]Dr Evil: "can't forget the cheap sunglasses for the bunnies"
02:39:29 [PS]Dr Evil: "ok, moving on..."
02:39:34 [PB]tragicx: "Are there any topics... or are we just gonna discuss pictures we haven't seen?"
02:39:42 [PS]Dr Evil: "so how is free week going for everyone?"
02:39:53 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "I hate free wekks :"
02:57:15 [-GTN-]Demorian: "Going well, aside from occassional lag complaints"
02:39:58 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "weeks even"
02:39:58 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "hectic for me atleast"
02:40:01 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: "*grumbles*"
02:40:12 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "but thats just me being lame"
02:40:12 Coleen: "I'm working on it tragicx. Give me a bit.. "
02:40:15 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "and frustrated "
02:40:20 Gideon: "I just spent 2 hours giving personal instruction to a virgin player. It was excellent."
02:40:22 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "so either then that im just peachy"
02:40:30 [-[A]-]AgentFritz: "Not bad, got a couple of the kids who come into the store I work at to give DS a stab. "
02:40:33 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: "I am a bit upset with the sabotage issue"
02:40:41 [PS]Dr Evil: "since demo accounts have full access to all the servers, expect a repeat of what we had this morning with MV sabotage"
02:40:59 Coleen: "Lovely"
02:41:09 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "Can we get a full MV reset after free week..."
02:41:12 [PB]tragicx: "I'm trying to get darksapce a plug into some local radio stations..."
02:41:13 [-GTN-]Kortoz: "me too griff"
02:41:22 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: "24hr ban is not good enough, me thinks"
02:41:30 [PS]Dr Evil: "if you guys are chilling in chat, take a min and join the MV and check out your factions planets for missing items. "
02:41:44 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: "rgr"
02:41:49 [-GTN-]Kortoz: "I agree griff"
02:42:22 [PB]tragicx: "Also, in game muting.. is that not supposed to be an option?"
02:42:27 Gideon: "It seems that the UGTO is "winning" the MV. If they dominate it completely we should concider a reset..."
02:42:29 [PS]Dr Evil: "well, we're not 100% positive we have the right culprit, until we have more info, we can't go much further."
02:42:50 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: "understood"
02:42:59 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "clan locks come to mind..."
02:43:18 [-GTN-]Kortoz: "still this could easily happen again"
02:43:19 [PS]Dr Evil: "the UGTO is winning the MV right now because of flux, kluth are very tired of getting one shotted to death"
02:43:24 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: "i like, but its a bad idea overall"
02:43:37 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "flux and dictor..."
02:43:48 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "....."
02:43:54 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "why is clan lock bad at all?"
02:43:59 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "just think of it as payback "
02:44:09 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: "Pizza you seem to like my supply ship  "
02:44:13 [PB]tragicx: "In the pmf, it was explained how a supply with flux was taking down siphons.. what gives?"
02:44:16 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "the way it was, clan leaders could work any planet anyways..."
02:44:23 [PS]Dr Evil: "sheepy killed me twice last night in FA with a flux modded heavy supply, killed my siphon twice. "
02:44:27 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "I feed on your endtrails "
02:44:40 [PB]Praetorian: "Ouch"
02:44:49 Gideon: "Well, whatevery it takes to get some opposition, I am for it."
02:44:56 Gideon: "So long as it doesn't chase my team off."
02:44:59 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "hold on"
02:45:02 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "supply with flux is just wrong :"
02:45:04 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: "a supply? hmmm never thought of that"
02:45:05 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "im trying to find a good planet idea"
02:45:06 [PS]Dr Evil: "yeah, 2 flux, 1 flux beam, he had them hot keyed and would fire them seperately, so all internals remained damaged"
02:45:09 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "i saw it and now its gone...."
02:45:14 [PB]Smokey: "can do that with a scout too... practically every ugto i've in countered has 1 or more flux... as well as in the scenerios too..."
02:46:01 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "flux needs to be fixed to certain ships, like before"
02:46:02 [=AoD=] = Immortal = [FL]: "."
02:46:06 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "with EMP*"
02:46:07 [PS]Dr Evil: "add in a reactor and he can flux every 8 seconds, no way even with dual auto repair to recover from that"
03:03:36 [-GTN-]Demorian: "I think the <(-_-)> account should be banned until the end of the free week.....but thats just me"
02:46:17 [PB]Smokey: "yep"
02:46:18 Gideon: "What I want to know is: How well do Flux ships work against the ICC..."
02:46:23 [PS]Dr Evil: "yep, I'm chasing faustus on that issue"
02:46:35 [PS]Dr Evil: "they don't, shields stop flux nicely"
02:46:54 [PS]Dr Evil: "only the 7 flux BD can do serious damage"
02:46:57 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "flux goes thru shields... it's the armor that stops it"
02:47:01 [PS]Dr Evil: "..against the ICC"
02:47:02 Gideon: "So, is the problem instead with the K'Luth, and not the Flux?"
02:47:21 [PB]Praetorian: "That just seems wrong, energy stops engery, not matter..."
02:47:28 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "but ICC and UGTO don't fight in MV where it counts..."
02:47:36 [PS]Dr Evil: "no, the problem is the flux, it needs to be limited to 1 per ship"
02:47:48 [PS]Dr Evil: "yep, UGTO are chasing kluth because flux makes them easy prey"
02:47:58 Gideon: "Oh we will, I just think that after the last 4 times the K'Luth dominated the MV the ICC and UGTO got sick of it."
02:48:01 [PB]Praetorian: "Same as it used to be..."
02:48:14 [-[A]-]AgentFritz: "thats the thing, the ICC have no real way of fighting kluth...... while the UGTO does, if they use it."
02:48:40 Gideon: "So, uh, what is the topic again?>"
02:48:46 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "ICC has mines out the wazoo... they do a nice number on K'Luth..."
02:48:50 [PS]Dr Evil: "actually, ICC do quite well with torps and sabots, kills kluth fast"
02:49:00 [-[A]-]AgentFritz: "Yeah, but they need to be reloaded"
02:49:07 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "true"
02:49:08 [-[A]-]AgentFritz: "You can flux and flux, and never reload it."
03:06:32 [-GTN-]Demorian: "*AH-HEM!!!!!* Guys, not to stop the current discussion..."
02:49:16 [PB]Praetorian: "This is true, UGTO has mad advantages Vs. K`luth, EMP cannons being standard issue on some ships attacks us quite effectively."
02:49:18 codyh: "Im a complete newbie can you all answer some qs"
02:49:23 codyh: "cause your faq just isnt cutting it"
02:49:31 [PS]Dr Evil: "yep, ICC is ammo dependant, UGTO isn't "
03:06:51 [-GTN-]Demorian: "*AHEM*.......but I would like to re-orient us for the sake of structure.....what is the topic?"
* Gideon opens a pilsner and waits for the discussion to get back on track...
02:50:21 [PS]Dr Evil: "would someone take cody aside and give him a hand please"
* [PB]Praetorian has no beer...but will correct the situation at a later time this night *
* [-GTN-]TheGriffin goes grab a shiner bock and sits eith Gideon
02:50:43 [PB]Praetorian: "Can-Do Bob"
02:50:56 codyh: "yes please"
02:50:56 [PS]Dr Evil: "anyway, I have a new fixit wish list up in the PMF, please feel free to comment on it"
02:51:05 [PS]Dr Evil: "thanks Prea"
02:51:12 Gideon: "Already have. "
02:51:12 [-[A]-]|2eason: "Oh, I know I will be Evil..."
02:51:36 [-[A]-]|2eason: "Started working on a whole new Badge/Prestige system last night at 1:30 in the morning, "
02:51:42 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "I will later when I have time to read into it... been busy offline lately..."
02:52:05 codyh: "can some one please help cody"
02:52:08 [-[A]-]|2eason: "Hopefully now that I am home, I can hammer it out by tomorrow"
02:52:23 [PB]tragicx: "What kinda badges you gonna add?"
* [-GTN-]Demorian still wants to see some Faustus input on his new ranking system idea.
02:52:38 [-[A]-]|2eason: "Hmm?"
02:53:06 [PS]Dr Evil: "Cody, please join Praetorian in room Praet"
02:53:36 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "I want FF badge... almost gold "
02:53:44 [-[A]-]|2eason: "I was reading in the PMF and I gathered some of the ideas, such as the Platinum addition, as well as positive and negative badges, And I am trying to work on getting path"
02:53:52 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: "lol Pizza"
02:53:59 [PS]Dr Evil: "and we need the Planet Magnet badge for Robymal"
03:11:26 [-GTN-]Demorian: "LOL"
02:54:10 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "lol"
02:54:11 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "lol"
02:54:18 Gideon: "Say, speaking of badges, I think I will draw some..."
02:54:18 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "i can't believe a person has so many deaths...."
02:54:21 [-[A]-]|2eason: "erm, Getting a path oriented to follow, so you cant just go all combat and get FA and all the ships...."
02:54:27 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: "I should have Gold Res Lost Badge "
02:54:47 [PB]Sheepy: "Testing moderated thing"
02:55:03 [PS]Dr Evil: "cool reas, look forward to checking it out"
02:55:16 [-[A]-]|2eason: ":)"
02:56:02 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "testing kick..."
02:56:05 [-[A]-]|2eason: "I want to make it so that prestige isn't the KEY thing to try to achieve...."
02:57:05 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: "whats the topic?, and Whats the next topic?"
02:57:10 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: ":)"
02:57:29 [PS]Dr Evil: "another bit of news from the dev team, faustus has put selv and I in charge of game balancing, he's been refering players to bug us instead of him for balance issues, so any comments or if you need to direct players somewhere, have them chase selv and I down"
02:57:53 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "sweet"
02:57:55 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: "cool"
02:57:59 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "so waht does that make faustus now?"
02:57:59 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: "MUHAHAHAH"
02:58:03 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: ":)"
02:58:04 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "head game adder dude"
02:58:06 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "?"
02:58:06 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "may I be the first to bug you "
02:58:09 Coleen: "Right on"
02:58:11 Gideon: "I have been spreading the word that Selv and Sylea are working on the balance."
03:16:03 [-GTN-]Demorian: "Roger that, Evil. I'll keep that in mind *smile*"
02:58:59 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "how is that going selv?"
02:59:06 [PS]Dr Evil: "yep, selv has a team of play testers who will be beating on DS. "
02:59:06 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "you guys find anything interesting?"
02:59:40 [PS]Dr Evil: "selv may be AFK, he's had a very long day."
02:59:55 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "oh"
03:00:09 Gideon: "Unconcious at the keyboard?"
03:00:16 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: "hehehe"
03:00:19 Coleen: "aheh"
03:00:21 [ C `]otsunashi: "bit late, sorry bout that"
03:00:38 [PS]Dr Evil: "no prob ostu "
03:00:53 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "my node is going to explode...."
03:00:53 Gideon: "The icon man, himself!"
* Gideon backs away from SkyLanders node...
03:01:17 [PS]Dr Evil: "ok, that's it for me for topics tonight, anything you guys wish to bring up?"
03:01:24 [PS]Selvarian: "No.. just a long, BAD day.."
03:01:33 [ C `]otsunashi: "=P perfect timing I see"
03:01:38 [PS]Dr Evil: "...before we open the floor for general comments?"
03:01:39 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: "I do, a small one"
03:19:05 [-GTN-]Demorian: "No Evil, I'm set."
03:02:00 [PS]Dr Evil: "fire away grif"
* Gideon looks at the ice cream lustfully...
* Coleen eyes Gideon strangely
03:03:04 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: "I had a player questioning the rules about being in the enemy safe zone, the question i was kinda stumped on was on maps with Kluth gates but no Kluth is that stiil wrong to be their?"
03:03:27 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: "I would think yes"
03:03:35 [-GTN-]Kortoz: "I think yes too"
03:20:58 [-GTN-]Demorian: "Yea"
03:21:04 [-GTN-]Demorian: "Even more so than when the gate is an actual entry gate"
03:03:46 [ C `]otsunashi: "agree yes"
03:03:54 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "ahhh freshly brewed pepsi"
03:04:10 Gideon: "it's the use of a safe zone to give you an advantage over the enemy, any enemy will do."
03:21:26 [-GTN-]Demorian: "because that is taking advantage of a bug rather than something that has been properly put into the game."
03:04:17 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: "I just wanted a agreement on it"
03:04:22 [PS]Dr Evil: "yep, I was online when it happened"
03:04:48 [PS]Dr Evil: "basicly you are at no time supposed to be in the enemy safe zone, the RoC covers that pretty clearly"
03:04:53 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: "yup, different player tho"
03:05:29 [PS]Dr Evil: "I'm all for the safe zone damaging enemy ships that enter it just for a deterant"
03:05:33 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: "Pantera is always questioning the RoC "
03:05:55 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: "I like that idea"
03:05:58 [PS]Dr Evil: "yep, I know, he also openly challenges any authority"
03:06:15 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: "like hitting the sun BOOOM "
03:06:23 Gideon: "So, kick him randomly? Just kidding..."
03:06:28 [-GTN-]Kortoz: "well, I have accidentally jumped to eney gates, you dont see them in the map"
03:06:33 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: "lol"
03:06:43 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: "true"
03:06:50 [ C `]otsunashi: "except you might not know the gate is there"
03:06:52 [PB]tragicx: "I have too.."
03:06:54 [-GTN-]Kortoz: "I was jumped and entire fleet in one, only saw a kluth dread and jumped, didnt know it was the gate"
03:07:06 [PS]Dr Evil: "yep, you jump after a fleeing enemy, we've all done it, but as soon as you realize you're in their safe zone, exit it immediately. "
03:07:09 [-GTN-]Kortoz: "I would have my entire fleet for a mistake"
03:07:27 Gideon: "Damage zones might be exploited."
03:07:41 [-GTN-]Kortoz: "have damaged"
03:07:41 Gideon: "Get damage, jump out, repair, jump in, get damage."
03:07:53 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: "sit their and yell out Come and get me "
03:08:02 [PS]Dr Evil: "it doesn't have to be massive damage, but enough to get the player's attention that he's going to die if he doesn't leave soon. "
03:08:07 [-GTN-]Kortoz: "yes I exit immediately, but the damage thing"
03:08:50 [-GTN-]Kortoz: "ok"
03:09:05 [PS]Dr Evil: "another option is no damage but start the self destruct sequence.... "
03:09:18 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: "lol"
03:09:24 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "lol"
03:09:30 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "that would suck if you are flying in at full speed"
03:09:34 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "then its all like NOOOOOOOOO"
03:09:39 [-GTN-]Kortoz: "lol"
03:09:39 [ C `]otsunashi: "basically enough damage per sec to stop an autorepair"
03:09:43 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: "yes it would"
03:09:47 [PS]Dr Evil: "ctrl D...ctrl D.... ctrl D..."
03:10:02 Gideon: "How about having the offending ship boarded by smurfs?"
* [Evil]PizzaTheHut slaps Gideon in the head...
03:10:37 [ C `]otsunashi: "hmmm, 2kgu diameter at 600gu/sec about 4 sec straight thru, but if you stop you'll never thrust outa there"
03:10:51 [PS]Dr Evil: "oh well, do your best to keep the peace, the majority of the players are fair and honest, it's the ones that are not that we have to worry about."
03:11:01 Gideon: "hmmm"
03:11:03 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: "yup"
03:11:13 Gideon: "A repulsion field?"
03:11:25 Gideon: "That pushes all ships out of the gate at a steady rate?"
03:11:25 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "hehe"
03:11:34 Gideon: "Like a tractor on push."
03:11:35 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "lol"
03:11:40 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "jump in and see how far you go"
03:11:47 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "and then get launched out =)"
03:11:47 Gideon: "When you reach then end, you stop instantly..."
03:11:48 [PS]Dr Evil: "tractor field or dictor field... lots of options.."
03:11:56 Gideon: "It would be too weapon to counteract a jump drive..."
03:12:01 Gideon: "True..."
03:12:03 [PB]tragicx: "Here's simple fix, make a the safe zone a dictor ..."
03:12:20 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "yeah trag"
03:12:27 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "but what about people that accidently jump into it?"
03:12:30 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "or through it"
03:12:30 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "home gate = dictor love it"
03:12:34 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "trying to get to a planet"
03:12:46 Gideon: "By the way, we must have some KILLER seatbelts on borad these ships. The interdictor field would be brutal otherwise..."
03:12:50 [PB]tragicx: "well, too bad.. find another route.."
03:12:53 [PB]tragicx: "=)"
03:13:01 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "make home gates visible to all like regular gates.."
03:13:10 [PS]Dr Evil: "anyway, there are no major plans to change it as far as I know. "
03:13:16 [PB]tragicx: "That would work too pizza.."
03:13:29 Coleen: "Oo.. that's gonna leave a mark...."
03:13:38 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: "well any other topics of Importance? (*thinks of food*) "
03:13:47 [PS]Dr Evil: "anything else from the staff? "
03:14:11 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "nada"
03:14:20 Coleen: "Well.. has anyone given any thought to hosting 'events' during this week for the new players?"
03:14:21 [PS]Dr Evil: "I've had a couple requests from the players.... "
03:14:22 Gideon: "Nope..."
03:14:22 [PB]tragicx: "I have one.."
* [Evil]PizzaTheHut slaps [PB]tragicx in the head...
03:14:34 [PS]Dr Evil: "fire away tragic"
03:14:39 Coleen: "I know on the other online games I've played, Staff driven events are always big draws.."
03:15:07 [ C `]otsunashi: "training may be a very good idea"
03:15:10 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "what kind of events would he hold though"
03:15:10 [PB]tragicx: "Well, I was wanting to know if there was any more development on this new moderator mode."
03:15:15 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "yeah otsu"
03:15:21 [PS]Dr Evil: "coleen brought that up a few mins ago, I think it's a good idea. "
03:15:23 [-[A]-]Ramius: "um can we talk now?"
03:15:59 Coleen: "Good one otsu!"
03:16:03 [PS]Dr Evil: "we can hash out a few scenarios in the PMF and host 1 or two a day"
03:16:07 [PS]Selvarian: "Haven't gotten any more word from Faustus about it"
* [ C `]otsunashi gusses he follows greatness then
03:16:29 [PS]Selvarian: "-> Tragics"
03:16:32 [PS]Selvarian: "x"
03:16:44 [PB]tragicx: "k, thx selv"
03:16:54 [PS]Dr Evil: "would anyone wish to volunteer to run tutorials a couple times a day?"
03:16:58 [PS]Selvarian: "I'm hoping it will be in the next big update."
03:17:08 Coleen: "I would, but I work "
03:17:09 Gideon: "I hope so too..."
03:17:21 Coleen: "I'd rather host a tutorial, to be frank. "
03:17:27 [-GTN-]Kortoz: "I could but only on weekends... work"
03:17:36 [PB]tragicx: "How about a radio event for new players?"
03:35:07 [-GTN-]Demorian: "oo trag! "
03:17:46 Coleen: "That's a good idea!"
03:35:09 [-GTN-]Demorian: "me like!"
03:35:12 [-GTN-]Demorian: "i will help with that "
03:18:06 [ C `]otsunashi: "very good idea tagicx"
03:18:13 [PB]tragicx: "They can listen and find out how to do things while playing.."
03:18:22 [PS]Dr Evil: "we have alot of new visitors, anything to keep them here is a good idea. "
* Coleen bows to tragix
03:18:52 [PB]tragicx: "Heh, I haven't done radio much lately.. time to bust it out again..."
03:18:56 [PS]Dr Evil: "anything else before I open up the floor?"
03:19:20 Coleen: "Am I hallucinating, or is Faustus online?"
03:19:24 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "didn't you say that some players had questions evil?"
03:19:38 [PB]tragicx: "looks like he's in lobby"
03:19:40 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "he's on..."
03:19:42 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: "hes in English"
03:19:54 [PS]Dr Evil: "yep, big F is in chat, probably inviso"
03:19:59 Coleen: "hehe"
03:20:00 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "call him in so we can hassle him =P"
03:20:15 [-GTN-]Kortoz: "afk for 5 guys"
03:20:25 Coleen: "he's gotta approve my pictures.. no way am I hassleing him!"
03:20:38 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "lol"
03:20:38 [PS]Dr Evil: "ok, all non staff, the floor is now open, please whisper your topics you wish to bring up to me and I'll invite you one by one to speak."
* Room is no longer moderated...
03:21:25 [=AoD=] = Immortal = [FL]: "*rubs his mouth* did u have to pull the tape off so quick?"
03:21:38 [=AoD=] = Immortal = [FL]: "sorry"
03:21:46 [PS]Dr Evil: "Go ahead Ramius"
03:22:19 [-[A]-]Ramius: "this has gone on for long enough. the combat dread. its a piece. it needs to be redone."
03:22:46 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "oooooo"
03:22:48 [-[A]-]Ramius: "it needs at least some short range weaponry."
03:22:52 Gideon: "Well, it is good if you swap out absolutly all of it's heavy weapons..."
03:23:03 [PS]Dr Evil: "agreed, right now it's only a glorified missle dread, I'll see if I can corner faustus into changing the load out on it to something more combat worthy"
03:23:05 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "yeah but Gideon"
03:23:06 [-[A]-]AgentFritz: "Its not good even if you do that Gideon."
03:23:08 [-[A]-]Ramius: "gideon the problem is their firing arc"
03:23:09 [~TK~]Admiral Jimmy: "Try doing that in scenario sometime, Gid."
03:23:11 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "its totally worthlessin the scen games"
03:23:16 Gideon: "but stock, it stinks..."
03:23:27 NovaM: "Very much so"
03:23:29 [-[A]-]Ramius: "they're virtually all forward firing if u make it short range"
03:23:33 [-[A]-]Ramius: "its dead in no time"
03:23:39 [-[A]-]AgentFritz: "You can only fire forward. Its kinda lame."
03:23:53 [PS]Dr Evil: "almost all of it's weap arcs are forward only, it needs to be looked at. "
03:23:59 Gideon: "Hmmm...I must be hallucinating again, then..."
03:24:05 [-[A]-]Ramius: "second bombing..."
03:24:09 NovaM: "Aye, some of the IT's should be switched to Torps, and made into Full Mounts."
03:24:09 SirMac10: "Perhaps not so much that its lame, but its opponent does not have the same restriction?"
03:24:11 [PS]Dr Evil: "thanks Ramius, noted. "
03:24:12 [-[A]-]Ramius: "is this dead?"
03:24:18 [-[A]-]Ramius: "sorry"
03:24:19 Gideon: "What bombing? Or is that the point?"
03:24:22 [-[A]-]Ramius: "one topic at a time..."
03:24:37 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "I think that right now"
03:24:41 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "bombing is also uselss"
03:24:44 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "I mean"
03:24:46 [PS]Dr Evil: "go ahead ramius"
03:25:09 [-[A]-]Ramius: "yes. right now since bombs were limited to its slots, its virtually impossible"
03:25:17 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "actually, I have a lot of Combat dread suggestions that I was going to post when I get some free time..."
03:25:28 Gideon: "Faustus stated that the only way to take a planet is with troops, and that bombing alot should have some personal ramifications."
03:25:35 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "from that ship meeting that didn't go as well as I would have liked "
03:25:37 NovaM: "Exspecially for someone who doesn't have the Gold Bomber badge."
03:25:38 Gideon: "Like your friendly planets going rebellious on you."
03:25:42 [PB]tragicx: "my supply is weak, can I get some cl 2k's on that stock?"
03:25:58 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "dont get me into supply...."
* [PS]Dr Evil slaps [PB]tragicx in the head...
* NovaM slaps [PB]tragicx in the head...
* [~TK~]Admiral Jimmy rolls his eyes at [PB]tragicx
03:26:01 Gideon: "Personally, I think this is not the best game design decision...but, who can say?"
03:26:05 [PS]Dr Evil: "shush you! "
03:26:08 [-[A]-]Ramius: "its just death star planets that make me POed"
03:26:27 [-[A]-]Ramius: "small planets with no inf slots, that have 185% shielding, and 17 defense/fighter bases"
03:26:55 [-[A]-]Ramius: "look at the mv systems, you'll see pockets of enemy factions within systems that are planets with no inf"
03:27:02 [PS]Dr Evil: "Lesser Boonie is a prime example..."
03:27:15 [-[A]-]Ramius: "take a look at luyten"
03:27:21 [~TK~]Admiral Jimmy: "I think there's at least one in every system"
03:27:23 Gideon: "Well, there are simple and hard ways to fix this."
03:27:33 [~TK~]Admiral Jimmy: "I can't think of a system that DOESN'T have one..."
03:27:34 [PS]Dr Evil: "you can still take them, we do it all the time in the MV, it just takes brute force"
* [PB]Smokey rememebers nimgy saying something about making planets bigger... but it never happened....
03:27:39 [ C `]otsunashi: "yup I had to scrap a fighter base on that planet for a factory earlier today in fact"
03:27:45 [~TK~]Admiral Jimmy: "And lots of bombing."
03:27:52 Gideon: "And Faustus doesn't seem to like any of the ideas."
03:28:00 [PB]Smokey: "nimby not nimgy"
03:28:04 Coleen: "How do you go about making planets bigger? Feed them more ships?"
03:28:13 [~TK~]Admiral Jimmy: "lol"
03:28:16 [-[A]-]Ramius: "it takes cloud bomb, and i dont thik that was the original intent of bombs"
03:28:18 [PB]Smokey: "increase the size..."
03:28:18 [ C `]otsunashi: "lol"
* NovaM smiles
03:28:35 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "how bout ability to drop troops *on* buildings.."
03:28:50 [PB]Smokey: "i think that was mentioned before..."
03:28:52 Gideon: "REjected"
03:28:58 [-[A]-]Ramius: "sorry... i've had a bad day. ill shut up now."
03:29:04 Gideon: "size...rejected"
03:29:05 NovaM: "The ability to "Capture" buildings perhaps?"
03:29:06 [PS]Dr Evil: "Pizza, that's on F's list, just not very high right now"
03:29:11 [PS]Dr Evil: "thanks Ramius. "
03:29:14 Gideon: "number of population required...rejected"
03:29:16 Coleen: "Sorry.. couldn't resist.. bad Coleen.. no biscuits for you.."
03:29:27 [PS]Dr Evil: "ok, Admiral Jimmy has the floor..."
03:29:42 Gideon: "I can only think that Faustus has something else in mind..."
03:29:52 [PS]Dr Evil: "any other player who wishes to bring up a topic for discussion, please whisper it to me. "
03:30:00 [~TK~]Admiral Jimmy: "This is just a brief announcement...I posted in the Mod Feedback forum, and I would like the Mods to take a look at the thread, and if possible, reply to it"
03:30:10 [~TK~]Admiral Jimmy: "Thank you. *steps back from mic*"
03:30:31 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: ":)"
03:31:00 [-GTN-]TheGriffin: "gtg for a bit guys bbl"
03:31:01 [PS]Dr Evil: "thanks Jimmy, we'll look it over. "
03:31:05 [PB]tragicx: "If your not sure you should, you probably shouldn't.."
03:31:09 [PS]Dr Evil: "later grif"
03:31:29 [~TK~]Admiral Jimmy: "Well, I tend to be indecisive about a lot of stuff that later turns out to be a great idea..."
03:49:00 [-GTN-]Demorian: "I have something to say."
03:31:41 [PS]Dr Evil: "anyone else wish to bring something up for discussion before I close the meeting?"
03:31:51 [~TK~]Admiral Jimmy: "Heck, I was hesitant about playing Darkspace when a friend suggested it to me back in October ="
03:49:11 [-GTN-]Demorian: "It is something involving all players, so I want you guys to listen up "
03:32:02 [PS]Dr Evil: "ok Dem, you're floor.."
03:32:08 Coleen: "k"
03:49:40 [-GTN-]Demorian: "A few weeks ago I put up a MASSIVE post in suggestions"
03:49:54 [-GTN-]Demorian: "proposing two significant overhauls to the DarkSpace game system."
03:49:59 [-GTN-]Demorian: "the second one dealt with ranks of all vessels."
03:32:40 [PB]tragicx: "aren't all of your posts massive?"
03:50:14 [-GTN-]Demorian: "no, this is a huge one ;P"
03:50:30 [-GTN-]Demorian: "anyway"
03:50:39 [-GTN-]Demorian: "basically, the system worked like this..."
03:50:47 [-GTN-]Demorian: "ships were more spaced out"
* [Evil]PizzaTheHut takes a nap...
03:51:11 [-GTN-]Demorian: "meaning, that you would spend more time through the ranks in each class"
03:33:54 SirMac10: "wanna snuggle pizza?"
* [~TK~]Admiral Jimmy gives SirMac10 a funny look
03:51:25 [-GTN-]Demorian: "powerful cruisers would not be accessible until the second and first rear admiral ranks"
* Room is now moderated...
03:51:45 [-GTN-]Demorian: "and dreads would not be accessible by any side until Vice Admiral."
03:52:00 [-GTN-]Demorian: "The purpose of this idea was to create more of a balance"
03:52:11 [-GTN-]Demorian: "and I wanted to get some direct feedback on the concept"
03:35:05 [~TK~]Admiral Jimmy: "I thought it sounded good..."
03:35:09 [-[A]-]|2eason: "I plan on including this concept in my Badge/Prestige Overhaul, "
03:35:30 Gideon: "I think it is meerly postponing the inevitable."
03:52:49 [-GTN-]Demorian: "I will be talking with our balance boys *glances at top two names* about it, and I wanted to talk to the players and mods first"
03:35:44 Gideon: "There will be many players at those higher ranks fairly soon."
03:53:14 [-GTN-]Demorian: "Gideon, I thought more about that idea, and while it is partially true, there is more to its purpose than thinning out the current # of dreads."
03:35:58 Gideon: "What then, raise the requirements even more?"
03:36:11 [PS]Dr Evil: "sounds reasonable, something we can definitely discuss. "
03:53:32 [-GTN-]Demorian: "No."
03:36:23 Gideon: "It only treats a symptom, not the underlying problem."
03:53:47 [-GTN-]Demorian: "I considered that argument."
03:53:59 [-GTN-]Demorian: "Yes, but that doesnt mean it can make a permanent change for the better"
03:36:43 Gideon: "That ships under dreadnoughts need a purpose that dreadnoughts themselves cannot fulfill."
03:54:05 [-GTN-]Demorian: "I personally am tired of seeing cruiser/dread battles"
03:36:47 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "all dreads will be VA, will kill dreadspace for about a week.."
03:36:54 [ C `]otsunashi: "there are approx 200 players VA and above with others close"
03:54:21 [-GTN-]Demorian: "i wanna see the frigates and destroyers have more of a role"
03:37:06 SirMac10: "Active players?"
03:37:13 [~TK~]Admiral Jimmy: "I concur, Dem...I want to see more Destroyers!"
03:54:39 [-GTN-]Demorian: "yes, and there are hundreds more under those"
03:37:23 Gideon: "Well, firstly the frigate is poorly designed heap."
03:54:42 [-GTN-]Demorian: "otsu"
03:54:53 [-GTN-]Demorian: "Not when in battle with other frigates, Gideon"
03:37:35 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "holy crap... there are 200 VA and up.."
03:37:38 [~TK~]Admiral Jimmy: "Been flying Destroyer a lot in FA lately...suprisingly, I gain more prestige than when I'm in a Cruiser or Dread =P"
03:37:41 Gideon: "Destroyers have terrible loadouts, except for the Assault."
03:37:42 [ C `]otsunashi: "right, I think it is a good idea"
03:55:11 [-GTN-]Demorian: "Sigh....."
03:55:14 [-GTN-]Demorian: "Shoot me down why don't you"
03:38:13 [~TK~]Admiral Jimmy: "Hey! I like it!"
03:38:14 Gideon: "The Assault Destroyer is a very powerful ship if flown with skill."
03:38:25 [PS]Dr Evil: "you realize in order to implement this, we'd be looking at a full reset"
03:38:26 [-[A]-]|2eason: "Gideon"
03:38:29 Gideon: "I just think that the problem is being looked at from the wrong angle."
03:55:52 [-GTN-]Demorian: "Yes, Evil."
03:38:36 [-[A]-]|2eason: "What is the point of having it in the game if it isn't uded?"
03:38:37 [~TK~]Admiral Jimmy: "Gideon, ANY destroyer can be kick-arse if flown properly"
03:38:37 [-[A]-]AgentFritz: "No Full Reset."
03:38:38 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "full reset woot!"
03:38:39 [=AoD=]= FallenDeath = [FEC]: "RAR"
03:38:39 [-[A]-]|2eason: "erm, Used"
03:38:41 [ C `]otsunashi: "the Bomber Dest is also very good"
03:38:42 [-[A]-]|2eason: "hmm?"
03:38:45 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "hehe j/k"
03:38:51 [~TK~]Admiral Jimmy: "I was doing great in FA with a Combat Destroyer today"
03:38:54 Gideon: "Why punish or limit the dread? Why not expand and improve on the smaller ships?"
03:38:58 SirMac10: "A thought Doc: Set up a test scenario server with these new settings, see how it goes"
03:56:24 [-GTN-]Demorian: "Okay guys"
03:56:26 [-GTN-]Demorian: "for a complete list"
03:39:12 [=AoD=]= FallenDeath = [FEC]: "hey can anyone see what i say?"
03:39:13 [~TK~]Admiral Jimmy: "Because right now, the Dread can do everything the smaller ones can but better."
03:56:31 [-GTN-]Demorian: "goto section two of this post:"
03:56:35 [-GTN-]Demorian: "repeat, goto section two oft his post:"
03:39:18 [-[A]-]Ramius: "its psychological."
03:56:36 [-GTN-]Demorian: "http://www.darkspace.net/phpBB/viewtopi c.php?topic=9117&forum=36&37 "
03:39:25 [PS]Dr Evil: "03:38:58 SirMac10: "A thought Doc: Set up a test scenario server with these new settings, see how it goes""
03:39:31 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "anything else of importance?"
03:39:35 [=AoD=]= FallenDeath = [FEC]: "RAPE"
03:39:38 [=AoD=]= FallenDeath = [FEC]: "C***"
03:56:57 [-GTN-]Demorian: "I would love to see that, Mac"
03:39:40 [PS]Dr Evil: "yep, that's why we have a seperate Beta server install now"
03:39:41 [=AoD=]= FallenDeath = [FEC]: "SLUT"
03:39:41 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "cause Pizza gotta go to bed "
03:39:44 [=AoD=]= FallenDeath = [FEC]: "WHORE"
03:57:02 [-GTN-]Demorian: "FallenDeath, language please"
03:39:47 Gideon: "Then, once again, look at...oh nevermind. I don't really feel like argueing right now..."
03:39:57 [-[A]-]AgentFritz: "Fallen, watch it.."
03:57:15 [-GTN-]Demorian: "he left"
03:40:07 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "ban him =P"
03:40:07 [-[A]-]|2eason: "yeah..."
03:40:11 Gideon: "Darn the new kick."
03:40:20 Gideon: "I couldn't get him in time."
03:40:29 Gideon: "I am going to set a ban up on him."
* [~TK~]Admiral Jimmy chuckles
03:40:43 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "I'll back ya gid "
03:40:50 [=AoD=] = Immortal = [FL]: "NO"
03:40:56 [PS]Dr Evil: "I banned him already"
03:41:06 Gideon: "It is done."
03:41:06 Shigernafy: "No? He asked for it. He came in with the express purpose of being a nuisance."
03:41:07 [=AoD=] = Immortal = [FL]: "ugh"
03:41:10 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "lol"
03:58:25 [-GTN-]Demorian: "Okay guys. Listen. http://www.darkspace.net/phpBB/viewtopi c.php?topic=9117&forum=36&37 <-- its in that link. While the argument that it is in part only a temorary fix is partially true, it will still improve the diversity of vessels. If you want to tweak frigates and destroyers alongside this, go ahead!"
03:41:26 [PS]Dr Evil: "fortunately the room was still moderated"
03:58:48 [-GTN-]Demorian: "But my main point is, It will make Dreads more of a thing to strive for as they are the second largest hull under Stations"
03:41:34 [PB]Sheepy: "Yeah gunna say i didnt see it"
03:41:40 Coleen: "Cool Dem.. gonna have to read that"
03:41:40 [=AoD=] = Immortal = [FL]: "dive me a reason! u just banned an important member of my fleet!"
03:41:43 [~TK~]Admiral Jimmy: "I think we need to fix the ratio of light to heavy ships"
03:41:45 [=AoD=] = Immortal = [FL]: "give*"
03:41:55 [PB]Sheepy: "What did he say? Saw all you guys start warning him and im like ok, i dont see anything"
03:42:01 [~TK~]Admiral Jimmy: "I've always thought that every dread should have 3 destroyers escorting it..."
03:42:07 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "he spammed a few rather choice words there immortal.."
03:59:24 [-GTN-]Demorian: "Immortal > ban is only 24 hours"
03:42:13 [-[A]-]AgentFritz: "Immortal, he came in here and started swearing."
03:42:19 [=AoD=] = Immortal = [FL]: "ok ok......"
* Room is no longer moderated...
03:42:32 codyh: "can anyone answer some more qs of mine had to go and the guy helping me was very slow"
03:59:50 [-GTN-]Demorian: "Shig......."
03:59:58 [-GTN-]Demorian: "Get the HELL....off my leg......."
03:42:41 Coleen: "'Rather choice'? Pizza? I'd get my mouth washed out with soap for those"
03:42:43 [=AoD=] = Immortal = [FL]: "ill talk with him and i apologise for the way he acted"
03:42:46 Shigernafy: "Dem....."
03:42:58 [~TK~]Admiral Jimmy: "LOL"
03:42:59 Shigernafy: "Took you long enough."
03:43:14 [-[A]-]|2eason: "hahahaha"
03:43:34 [Evil]PizzaTheHut: "ok, I really must get going..."
* [~TK~]Admiral Jimmy waves bye-bye to [Evil]PizzaTheHut...
* [-[A]-]AgentFritz waves to [Evil]PizzaTheHut...
04:01:22 [-GTN-]Demorian: "Anyway, thats all I have to say."
03:44:05 Gideon: "Via com dios..."
03:44:13 [PS]Dr Evil: "ok, if there are no more topics, we'll officially close the meeting"
03:44:22 SirMac10: "Might want to consider that these ships Dem talks about changing are the ones new players will first use. If the game is more fun, we will retain more players"
03:44:45 [PB]tragicx: "Hey, any possibility supply prestige gain will get nerfed?"
04:02:02 [-GTN-]Demorian: "Exactly."
03:44:53 [PB]tragicx: "I'm worried. =)"
03:44:58 [~TK~]Admiral Jimmy: "lol"
04:02:23 [-GTN-]Demorian: "so am i"
03:45:05 [~TK~]Admiral Jimmy: "You and your supplies =P"
03:45:07 [PS]Dr Evil: "rgr Dem, we'll follow it up in the forums, get some player feed back and then the three of us can hash it out."
* [-GTN-]Demorian clutches his admiral rank.
03:45:10 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "heh tragicx"
03:45:16 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "i've been yelling about that for a week now"
03:45:17 [~TK~]Admiral Jimmy: "I just wanna see more Destroyers in FA and MV"
03:45:32 [PS]Dr Evil: "already did sheepy"
03:45:37 [-GTN-]SkyLander: "now that you have 6 supplies everygame"
03:45:42 [PS]Dr Evil: "flux wave is at the top of my fixit list. "
03:46:01 [PB]tragicx: "Sky, hmm.. If they do, I hope they fix it to where the FUTURE gain will be less, not what we have already gained.."
03:46:21 [PB]Sheepy: "So what they doing to flux wave then?? Come on a complete scrap of it"
03:46:33 [PS]Dr Evil: "agree gid, you don't acidentally join a staff meeting in progress and start swearing and expect a simple apology to fix everything"
03:46:48 SirMac10: "Tragic : we both know that would be easy to code and require a second database, but thats simply not fair to a newbie "
03:47:09 [PS]Dr Evil: "it'll go back to the old emp weap, limted to 1 on a few select ships on UGTO"
03:47:24 [PB]Sheepy: "YAY"
03:47:38 [PB]Sheepy: "And so ends this horrible GTN slaughter in the Mv"
03:47:44 Gideon: "Faustus won't like that..."
04:05:01 [-GTN-]Demorian: "Really Evil?"
04:05:03 [-GTN-]Demorian: "OLD EMP?"
04:05:06 [-GTN-]Demorian: "500 range?"
03:47:54 Gideon: "He desparatly wants it to do system damage."
03:47:55 [~TK~]Admiral Jimmy: "hehe"
04:05:12 [-GTN-]Demorian: "kills scouts directly under you with one hit?"
04:05:15 [-GTN-]Demorian: "just one slot per vessel?"
03:47:59 Gideon: "Not hull damage"
03:48:14 [~TK~]Admiral Jimmy: "Know what I think? Stick with the EMP cannon"
03:48:15 [PS]Dr Evil: "nope, it'll stay at 250 gu "
04:05:35 [-GTN-]Demorian: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"
03:48:27 [~TK~]Admiral Jimmy: "But be like Star Wars, and call it the Ion Cannon ^_^"
03:48:29 [PS]Dr Evil: "only 1 on a few select ships like the old emp weap"
03:48:32 Gideon: "Correction: Not only hull damage."
04:05:49 [-GTN-]Demorian: "NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO thats not the OLD EMP, thats the one that started after Faustus started down the accursed road to EMP Cannon"
03:48:40 SirMac10: "System damage would be nice, does it not do that now?"
03:48:54 [~TK~]Admiral Jimmy: "it does do tha
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