New Ship!

[0zzy]

Okay so I read Faints ship idea and it inspired me...

How about a large ship with 8 holds, it has 21k sheilds and moves quite slowly, similar to that of a vulture.

However, it has the ability to pickup allies (corpies), e.g a bit like following someone on blitz, you enter there ship and u take no damage when that ship is taking damage. The ship owner will be able to see who's in him from the holdings. I think this would work brilliantly on blitz...

- Would allow weak flower ships and barges to go inside, and be taken safely to col.
- Imagine having a few avengers inside, someone attacks the ship, all the avengers come out and kick donkey
- You're on the col, they're about to cap, ur team mates are all low, they hide inside you and you run to port, they disembark when the coast is clear
- Hide corpies.

I think this ship would work brilliantly on blitz, yet to come up with a name for it though.

[Toonces]

sounds like an aircraft carrier or a capital ship

[0zzy]

Air craft carrier, bang on what am onabout.

Would be great for blitz, can imagine it now :L

[GuardianDragon]

Would be great for blitz, can imagine it now :L

agreed

[WhAcKeD]

theres been so many new ship requests but toonces hasnt made a single one. but if he is going to...this is the one

[Mel'Kaven]

Fairly good idea indeed.

[0zzy]

Toonces what do you think of the idea?

[awesomepebble]

i love this idea, would be good for barging on permas too

[KingDemon]

Great Idea.

[Jeb]

I think it's a cool idea... But I don't think it should be able to land on colonies. Having a 21k meatshield that can drop fully shielded much faster and agile team mates? Wouldn't work.

But it is a good idea, here are a few ideas I had about it.

- Make the fuel it uses split between the players -- it wouldn't be hard to pay the first noob coming along a lot of money when you start running out of fuel to barge you wherever you want. Also discourages multiple accounts.
- As I said, it can't land on cols or it'd ruin the balance.
- The energy, turning speed and thrust need to completely suck on this ship for it to work and not completely tank everything.
- Limit the number of ships it can carry. I would think in blitz it should carry more but in a conventional galaxy (if it's even implemented there, as this seems like it'd be more of a blitz ship) probably cap at 2-4.
- Make it bigger and so much slower than the other ships. Huge, in fact. So huge and slow that it makes it entirely impractical to use it offensively.
- A small selections of auto turrets to mount it with that use the ships energy -- player can turn to manual, auto or slow auto (to not burn energy, as full auto would wreck the slowly-regenerating energy)... this is because it's a carrier... It'd be easy to outrun and avoid, but it shouldn't be a complete sitting duck.

[0zzy]

I think it's a cool idea... But I don't think it should be able to land on colonies. Having a 21k meatshield that can drop fully shielded much faster and agile team mates? Wouldn't work.

But it is a good idea, here are a few ideas I had about it.

- Make the fuel it uses split between the players -- it wouldn't be hard to pay the first noob coming along a lot of money when you start running out of fuel to barge you wherever you want. Also discourages multiple accounts.
- As I said, it can't land on cols or it'd ruin the balance.
- The energy, turning speed and thrust need to completely suck on this ship for it to work and not completely tank everything.
- Limit the number of ships it can carry. I would think in blitz it should carry more but in a conventional galaxy (if it's even implemented there, as this seems like it'd be more of a blitz ship) probably cap at 2-4.
- Make it bigger and so much slower than the other ships. Huge, in fact. So huge and slow that it makes it entirely impractical to use it offensively.
- A small selections of auto turrets to mount it with that use the ships energy -- player can turn to manual, auto or slow auto (to not burn energy, as full auto would wreck the slowly-regenerating energy)... this is because it's a carrier... It'd be easy to outrun and avoid, but it shouldn't be a complete sitting duck.

- The whole barge other player ideas is brilliant, why split fuel? Encourages a new way of making money for noobs, I like it.
- Well that goes without saying, energy, turning and speed should be vulture like.
- 8 should be the cap, too low and it limits the large war'esque elements of it.
- Size has no affect on speed? ISC is far larger than a merch but also far faster, and anyway it being large once again goes without saying.
- Something like that would be cool.

I doubt the ship would be overpowered, or even that widely used, more of a niche for certain cols, wars, barging and mainly blitz

[Mr Cow]

hey i know this is old and all, but this sounds like starcraft sorta ship to me, as much as i like it, i agree it wouldnt be able to land on planets and it should be pretty expensive...also think about this 21k shileds + 8 shield capicitators = ouch :/ ...id love to see a new ship some time...-cow