bluebottle wrote:QUOTE (bluebottle @ Apr 5 2009, 06:24 AM) Why not give this job to the assault ship? It's already poorly/never utilised and this would cement its role as a FARP-style ship that mostly avoids direct combat itself. Make the heavy nan forward-firing only on the AS and give it a 3k range. Hmmm, cloaked remote nanning.
The ASS was never designed to be a FARP (Forward Arming and Refueling Point), that's the job of the carriers...
The Escapist (Justin Emerson) @ Dec 21 2010, 02:33 PM:
The history of open-source Allegiance is paved with the bodies of dead code branches, forum flame wars, and personal vendettas. But a community remains because people still love the game.
girlyboy wrote:QUOTE (girlyboy @ Apr 5 2009, 12:37 AM) If you add to this the ability to drop mines, as has been suggested in other threads, you'd just turn the freighter into a capital ship equivalent of the nan scout, sans scan range or ability to cross-nan easily. rename it to "support ship" (since freighters simply aren't something needed in the game,) and call it a day. ^_^
I like this idea, integrated with a single defensive turret. I vote "yay."
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
The old (very old?) heavy nan that was mountable on the old sector support ship was basically just nan2? I'm hazy, but I also remember a heavy nan at some point in history.
Still, I like the ideas put forth for the renovated Freighter.
'AS Hvy Nanite Mount - A powerful Nan mountable on the turrets of the attack carrier. Requires Research, Dry dock, Nanite 2.'
For the epic it would be nice to keep the hvy nan on something slower than the capships. So, either you push the cap, or crawl crunching wave after wave of attackers.
Im not sure I like this idea. To be honest its treating a symptom and not the actual problem associated with capital ships in the game. I think caps need to be reworked, Madpeople submitted a whole raft of changes for caps and im sure Vly has posted on numerous changes possible changes. I think it's about time we start an open discussion on caps as a whole.
rename it to "support ship" (since freighters simply aren't something needed in the game,) and call it a day. ^_^
