On 2010-07-03 20:02, BackSlash wrote:
Buying rank = not going to happen.

Friendly fire = you hit yourself with splash damage.

We're not going to undo ships damaged given to armour/shield damage. As well as adding their damage to ship damage calculations we also added them to friendly fire, so overall they have the same ratio as hull damage, although at a lower percentage.

We added this due to no-one getting prestige in combat, and to promote it more - which was hugely successful.

On 2010-07-03 19:27, Lord Xanatos wrote:

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On 2010-07-03 19:16, darkcow300 wrote: most ideas seem quite interesting but the prestige only when hulled I don't like much. Point being that people usually jump when outgunned or outmatched giving no prestige at all to the lucky player that was there to shoot at him for a few moments. I personnaly like the current system. and would lose a lot of interest in the game if it turned back to it's old system

The lucky player who was only there to shoot at the target a few moments shouldn't be considered to do much damage against the target unless they are a big ship and even if they did and the target jumps away, that's where hunting and tracking come into play. Follow the direction they jumped. Never has been a problem for me. However, many players will stay in battle for a while even when their hull starts taking damage. I find that with the ships damaged awarded from hull, it highly promoted the use of strategy and tactics to destroy the enemy before they jump in the first place and also promotes more use of aiming skills to continuously puncture only a certain area of the shields/armor to get to the hull.



[ This Message was edited by: Lord Xanatos on 2010-07-03 19:35 ]

On 2010-07-03 21:10, SpaceAdmiral wrote:
First off you remind me of half dead mmos run by corporate snobs that are milking players by allowing them to buy everything.

1.Buying ranks and ai ship types:
Would result in game unbalanced, the vets feeling cheated, and mass QQing followed by mass quiting. You would have about 50 people who bought everything still playing The money flow would look like this:
medium(current)-large-medium-none

2.Ship damage and friendly fire:
Realistically if you hulled an enemy your superiors would be happy, for instance you managed to hull the dread but had to pull back, what would your superiors do? award you no prestige even though you made an enemy very vulnerable? Same with friendly fire, superior officers don't care at what hull strength you shot your ally, all they care is you shot your ally.
And about splash to yourself as friendly fire, commanders would think you're stupid to destroy your own ship (no longer problem as qst have little splash now)

But the best thing about your post was creatures, we do need more of em

On 2010-07-03 21:10, SpaceAdmiral wrote:
First off you remind me of half dead mmos run by corporate snobs that are milking players by allowing them to buy everything.

On 2010-07-03 21:28, Lord Xanatos wrote:

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On 2010-07-03 21:10, SpaceAdmiral wrote: First off you remind me of half dead mmos run by corporate snobs that are milking players by allowing them to buy everything.

Forgive me if I sound crude, but those "half dead mmos run by corporate snobs" are actually doing several times better than darkspace itself.

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Going back to ideas. I would also like to propose the idea of a "full on" ice nebula.

Ice Nebula: I've been through nebulas before. You go into them and you can still see your ship and everything around you. Other than not being able to fire your weapons in some of them, they don't really do anything. I propose a map (or at least a very large portion in space) be made into a ice-like nebula that acts like a real fog (a step up from the ice nebula in sag...or at least I think it was sag...). The player can barely see their ship or the opponents ship, but can fire weapons. In addition, throw in a significant number of space creatures. Perhaps even throw in floating ice shards. It was a thought I had been toying with for a long time of making a nebula that is actually both scary and mysterious....one where the player fears the unknown and unexpected and doesn't know what lies inside.



As a side note, I have also found a promotional video for darkspace on youtube and was curious as to the idea of why darkspace doesn't look like this anymore...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5xyg-5yE9U&feature=related
[ This Message was edited by: Lord Xanatos on 2010-07-03 21:36 ]

On 2010-07-03 22:43, SpaceAdmiral wrote:
The only reason corporate snobs make more money is this:
deal: $100 to kick everyone's arse, 100 people buy
Those 100 people kill every non-buyer
non-buyers get mad and make the stupid decision of wasting $100
new buyers take out their anger on more non-buyers

Called the "We know they are milking us but we wasted alot of money, might as kell kick some arse cycle"

P.S.-a month later they make sumthing stronger for $110
some $100 buyers rage quit, some upgrade and start again

On 2010-07-03 18:57, Lord Xanatos wrote:
Here's the thing, though. A new player could buy their rank, but with the new ships, they wouldn't know very much about how to fly them or the skills required to fly each one. Therefore, it would kind of be a fallback compared to those who are the veterans of those ranks. Say you have a person to payed for their rank and are flying a dreadnaught and then you have a regular player flying a dreadnaught. The regular person would likely do remarkably good while the person who paid would probably fair badly and die easier in battle for the reason of jumping rank without going through the experience. Basically, getting a good weapon with no idea how to use it.

[ This Message was edited by: Lord Xanatos on 2010-07-03 18:59 ]