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Ufirvwo Hargoonis
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Posted - 2010.06.02 16:00:00 -
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I was thinking the other day... fighters are supposed to be manned, why don't we actually man them.
But I'm not suggesting we man them with capsuleers. I was thinking it would make a really great addition to DUST 514. Instead of just ground combat, DUST 514 players could have the option to pilot an EVE player's fighters.
I guess the only way to make it work really is that the carrier pilots would use the same system used to hire DUST 514 players for planetary ops. The "contract" would be open for a set amount of time. once the period starts, players will have the opportunity to join your "mission" and begin waiting in your drone bay.
When you decide to launch them, their screens will ask if they are ready to launch. Any fighters launched without player pilots operate as usual. The normal drone commands send the equivalent to suggestions. when you tell them to attack a particular target, it's just like assigning a primary target in fleet ops. the one command that should be an exception is the return to drone bay command, you don't want to loose your property because a manned fighter is trigger happy. when a fighter's fighter is destroyed they return to your drone bay and are prepared to launch in any back-up units. if you run out of reinforcements the contract ends... even if you intended to reload at a POS or something.
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Kahega Amielden
Minmatar
Reckoning.
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Posted - 2010.06.02 18:14:00 -
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Edited by: Kahega Amielden on 02/06/2010 18:14:55
Wont work, the lag generated would be beyond bad unless they used EVE's control scheme (double click in space, hit orbit...) which I don't think DUST players would like.
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Flying ZombieJesus
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Posted - 2010.06.02 19:05:00 -
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While its a cool idea, it would not be possible with the current framework.
Even if it was technically possible, you'd have people that don't know / dont care what they're doing flying around shooting the wrong ship just for fun.
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Simeon Tor
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Posted - 2010.06.02 20:13:00 -
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And they'd basically have only two commands, orbit and fire. I think that would get boring pretty fast.
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pwym NO
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Posted - 2010.06.09 13:13:00 -
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How about deploying fighters onto planets?
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mkmin
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Posted - 2010.06.09 13:36:00 -
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Sounds good in theory, but:
After waiting in your drone bay for you to launch them for an hour they wake up just enough to hit 'ok, launch' when you want them to launch.
After launching, 90% of your fighters would turn around and attack you. Why? Because it's funny.
After your fighters realize they can't actually hurt you, they fly off to belt rat.
They realize belt ratting is really really boring, and warp back you to.
They see whatever you're doing is really really boring too, so start spamming local like a 3 year old.
They get bored again and go orbit the first stargate they can find and go afk until a red jumps through and pops the fighter.
OP realizes he has never even seen a carrier before much less flown one, gets can flipped while jetcan mining in a 0.9 system and emoragequits EVE.
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