View Full Version : Quick Question about Tactics
Vazuras
09-10-2008, 01:41 PM
Ok...I don’t know if there is a thread about this or not. If so can you please link it for me. Since our ships are going to be more tactical fighting which is cool btw.....if they run into each other...will both ships blow up? I personally would love to have that. If a fleet admiral needed someone to sacrifice them self for a turning point in a war/battle I would do it. That also brings me to one more point. Can we set up our warp core so that it blows up? It would be cool to fly in....have your warp core blow up a few ships....and hopefully I could get a couple of ships to place tractor beams on me before it blows me up too.
Hagon
09-10-2008, 01:43 PM
Ok...I don’t know if there is a thread about this or not. If so can you please link it for me. Since our ships are going to be more tactical fighting which is cool btw.....if they run into each other...will both ships blow up? I personally would love to have that. If a fleet admiral needed someone to sacrifice them self for a turning point in a war/battle I would do it. That also brings me to one more point. Can we set up our warp core so that it blows up? It would be cool to fly in....have your warp core blow up a few ships....and hopefully I could get a couple of ships to place tractor beams on me before it blows me up too.Any answers given to these questions would be pure speculation on our part. They haven't quite gotten to releasing all that much info yet, sorry.
Vazuras
09-10-2008, 01:47 PM
Any answers given to these questions would be pure speculation on our part. They haven't quite gotten to releasing all that much info yet, sorry.
Thanks. Would be cool if you could though. Warp into someone and BOOM your both dead.....lawl.
Tribbler
09-10-2008, 01:50 PM
Thanks. Would be cool if you could though. Warp into someone and BOOM your both dead.....lawl.
That is one thing that needs to be addressed. We don't want "kids" behaving like that as their standard attack pattern
Ramming should be penalized by a 1 week ban.
That is one thing that needs to be addressed. We don't want "kids" behaving like that as their standard attack pattern
Ramming should be penalized by a 1 week ban.
If a captain lets another ship get that close, he deserves to be rammed.
Posidon
09-10-2008, 04:06 PM
If a captain lets another ship get that close, he deserves to be rammed.
Agreed.......................
Trekkie
09-10-2008, 07:08 PM
As others have stated, there isn't a definite answer as to whether things like this will be allowed but you certainly have some interesting ideas!
SovWell
09-10-2008, 08:09 PM
Hey, space is limited :)
Its not as big as you think, but you can get lost and bump into things if you don't have yer glasses on.
Actually... while the ships were in warp... it could detect other objects and match speed, change course, and do evasive actions before anything came in contact while in warp... unless its weapons fire at the same speed or better.
lumpking69
09-10-2008, 08:46 PM
It is a viable and useful tactic, I would hope they allow it. If they do or don't no one can say tho :-/
Tribbler
09-11-2008, 11:24 AM
It is a viable and useful tactic, I would hope they allow it. If they do or don't no one can say tho :-/
Only if there was a penalty for doing so.
If all things were equal and everyone was playing with others that care about their hard work, I would agree with you, but for those who do not care about repercussions, playing with those that do care, the ones that don't care will ruin it for the ones that do care.
Does that make sense?
Reinkaos
09-11-2008, 02:34 PM
well one of the screenshots says "navigating an asteroid field can be dangerous", or something to that effect, which implies collision dection with asteroids. Now we've seen that they battle close to asteroid fields, so it might be possible to fly into an aasteroid and be damaged. And from this aassumption it's not much of a stretch to have ship/ship collision detection.
lumpking69
09-11-2008, 03:57 PM
Only if there was a penalty for doing so.
If all things were equal and everyone was playing with others that care about their hard work, I would agree with you, but for those who do not care about repercussions, playing with those that do care, the ones that don't care will ruin it for the ones that do care.
Does that make sense?
I think I remember hearing/reading (I don't remember which) the devs saying there would not be to much of a penalty, they said something along the lines of "Lets just have fun". I may be wrong tho.
There is a lot of possibility for griefing tho, so you are rite it should be used properly and maybe it should only be used in special occasions.
Maybe it would only be an option if your ship is surely on its way out. Lets say you are 5 seconds away from warp core breach, maybe you get the option to ram into something. Transfer all power to impulse engines and just ram your enemy voyager style in year of hell.