Capital ships like in Star Wars/Star Trek ?

Bacalao

Bacalao
From newsletter 29:

We do intend to release small, free updates after launch, but expansions that include significant new features and content will be charged for separately. For example, our current roadmap is to add (in no particular order):
  • Landing/ driving / prospecting on airless rocky planets, moons & asteroids
  • Walking around interiors and combative boarding of other ships
  • Combat and other interactions with other players and AIs in the internal areas of star ports
  • Accessing richly detailed planetary surfaces
  • Availability of giant ‘executive control’ ships to players

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EUS said:
It was an awesome (I rarely use this word) sight to witness a farragut drop into the system, almost on top of me.
The sound, the lightning, the doom cloud, completely amazing.
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Just got a Corvette and fit it out for combat, my system has been in civil war and I decided that now I had gotten my required rank I could just go mindlessly slaughter rebellious independents. I hopped into the HiCZ nearest me, "capital class signature detected"....it was amazing (the perfect word to describe it), went to select a side, "ceasefire"....NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
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Seeing "Back off commander, you do not have authorization to be close" pop up on the comms from the capital ship whilst in your shiny new Corvette really puts the fear of god into a fresh rear admiral.
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Can't wait to see it happen in VR.
 

Chris Majere

Chris Majere
BlackDragon1032 said:
Well you could use it as an foward base of operations like mentioned by racthet5000.
I can see a big advantage for an explorer who just needs to go back to his/her capital ship transmit the newly found planet and colonise it from there.
Pirates can use it in a simillar way only difference is that they can sent out scouting ships and they can signal the mother ship about a juicy prey and they start stalking it.
Hell we can even get trader wings and forming up an armed convoy to get cargo safely to a planet, besides standard fast fighters they can have one capital ship fixing and refueling these fighters.
Bounty Hunters can use these ships to capture targets alive and lock them up in a onboard prision and transmit the capture to the home planet and bring all these prisioners to a home planet. Or a clan/group bounty hunters can work together and share a capital ship where their bounties can be brought to and have a bulliten billboard stating the status of a certain bounty.
I just mentioned a couple of things but imagine the possibilities that we can have if we get these ships.
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I like the wayyou think and I'm all for this....+1.
 

Chris Majere

Chris Majere
Bacalao said:
From newsletter 29:

We do intend to release small, free updates after launch, but expansions that include significant new features and content will be charged for separately. For example, our current roadmap is to add (in no particular order):
  • Landing/ driving / prospecting on airless rocky planets, moons & asteroids
  • Walking around interiors and combative boarding of other ships
  • Combat and other interactions with other players and AIs in the internal areas of star ports
  • Accessing richly detailed planetary surfaces
  • Availability of giant ‘executive control’ ships to players
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If so, I guess the time those expansions will be released will be like this:
  • Landing/ driving / prospecting on airless rocky planets, moons & asteroids (2016)
  • Walking around interiors and combative boarding of other ships (2017)
  • Combat and other interactions with other players and AIs in the internal areas of star ports (2018)
  • Accessing richly detailed planetary surfaces (2019)
  • Availability of giant ‘executive control’ ships to players (2020)

I am not sure the nerd in me will be able to "endure" the wait!
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Edit: Cap ships aside, if they just manage to implement "Walking around and combative boarding of other ships for the next expansion...it would be a HUGE content addition. Dammit Bacalao you are making me go nuts!!
 
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William J Smith

William J Smith
Brimstone said:
God it sends a shiver up my spine each time I see a capital ship jump in. Glorious :D
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May you be lucky one day and see 2 jump in.

Most glorious sight you've ever see is a farragut and a majestic battle it out surrounded by swarms of ships and a few brave pilots prepared to take a stand against the empire.

Jeez that battle was intense as a wing of feds and a wing of impies swirled and danced around the respective ships until the impies all died and all the firepower was expended on the majestic
Which ran away

Bill

We need more 'incidents' like that one heh :cool:
 

Ignition

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Imagine a massive alien capital ship with their own weapons and fighters. Only can dream.

I remember the kha'ak from X3, those were really original. Also the Xenon. This game needs more stuff asap.
 
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