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Posted - 2004.08.23 11:56:00 -
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Why it's needed? I think that it's an enjoyment thing.. it detracts from the game slightly if hunting NPCs or scavenging is your thing. The right opinion is that why in all this futuristic times have we not thought of a way to open them up or fetch them with more ease. I think that fitting an mwd is a viable option (I dont fly BS so ner) but you fire it up and fly past the can cos even with approach you can't stop at the can because ship mechanics won't slow it down for you in time. So you take longer. When you're doing a mission where you need to clear a spawn to open a can (temple stone for instance) you dont want to be hanging around. I think that the option is to open up the range for scooping contents to say 3km or maybe even 5km. I know this will affect ore thiefs but that's a different arguement. The scanner drone is mute i think cos we already have cargo scanners (am i right in saying the work on jet cans?) but perhaps the Dev's could work harder on the salvage drone. Make it a heavy so that you have an inbuilt difficulty (saves time nerfing it later), or vary size so that each size can carry more or less cargo as appropriate. or even just drag the cans to the parent ship.
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Arte
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Posted - 2004.08.23 11:56:00 -
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Why it's needed? I think that it's an enjoyment thing.. it detracts from the game slightly if hunting NPCs or scavenging is your thing. The right opinion is that why in all this futuristic times have we not thought of a way to open them up or fetch them with more ease. I think that fitting an mwd is a viable option (I dont fly BS so ner) but you fire it up and fly past the can cos even with approach you can't stop at the can because ship mechanics won't slow it down for you in time. So you take longer. When you're doing a mission where you need to clear a spawn to open a can (temple stone for instance) you dont want to be hanging around. I think that the option is to open up the range for scooping contents to say 3km or maybe even 5km. I know this will affect ore thiefs but that's a different arguement. The scanner drone is mute i think cos we already have cargo scanners (am i right in saying the work on jet cans?) but perhaps the Dev's could work harder on the salvage drone. Make it a heavy so that you have an inbuilt difficulty (saves time nerfing it later), or vary size so that each size can carry more or less cargo as appropriate. or even just drag the cans to the parent ship.
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Arte
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Posted - 2004.08.29 14:21:00 -
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 Originally by: ActiveX
Loot is something few games to well and sofar none do right.
Eve does it wrong imo. I would rather gut the innards of a blasted ship than pop some magic can of holding. But since that is unlikely, the second best solution would be the add shuttle bays to all ships (not everyone has drone bays).
And you can remote pilot the shuttle (not like the shuttles we have) since it would be manned by part of your 'crew'.
Don't make it something you need to buy though, its just a recovery mission, not a real salvage.
Interesting idea
Variation on the pod perhaps. But what would speed/capacity be?
Variation on a shuttle perhaps? But what size?
Piloted how.. remotely by third person view, from mother ship by guestimate, or automatically by locking can and sending it in?? (aka a drone  )
Could they fit on a frig or would it be limited to cruiser and up
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Arte
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Posted - 2004.08.29 14:21:00 -
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Originally by: ActiveX
Loot is something few games to well and sofar none do right.
Eve does it wrong imo. I would rather gut the innards of a blasted ship than pop some magic can of holding. But since that is unlikely, the second best solution would be the add shuttle bays to all ships (not everyone has drone bays).
And you can remote pilot the shuttle (not like the shuttles we have) since it would be manned by part of your 'crew'.
Don't make it something you need to buy though, its just a recovery mission, not a real salvage.
Interesting idea
Variation on the pod perhaps. But what would speed/capacity be?
Variation on a shuttle perhaps? But what size?
Piloted how.. remotely by third person view, from mother ship by guestimate, or automatically by locking can and sending it in?? (aka a drone )
Could they fit on a frig or would it be limited to cruiser and up
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