If you remove the speed bump you make caltrops and mine camps less effective.
And yes, this tactic has been around for years, I clearly remember XT trying it with a freighter (Weed was pilot) back in the day. I remember it clearly because I managed to ram kill the freighter with my fig (I smacked off it and wasn't in a pod which really surprised me ).
Reducing the mass of a carrier seems like a sensible thing to try first IM (admittedly worthless) O.
Fix carrier blocking exploit
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Everything is possible, if you bring it down to the source code...Sheriff Metz wrote:QUOTE (Sheriff Metz @ Oct 17 2012, 08:26 PM) Is it possible to implement a weapon that does no damage but can "push" things?
Currently it's not, because missiles and projectiles just disappear on collision with objects.
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.
It's already in the game. It's called Belter HvyInt...MonAG wrote:QUOTE (MonAG @ Oct 17 2012, 09:06 PM) Or design a cheap, manned, high mass, no weapons, kamikaze ship.
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.
Lower carrier-drone mass sounds good to me. Was it raised to make them immune to ramming? Seems like it's the source of the problem.pkk wrote:QUOTE (pkk @ Oct 17 2012, 01:55 PM) One of the problems is that carriers are large drones with high mass. If you lower the mass, it couldn't slow down that close after exiting the aleph. Back in 2000 carriers had only a tenth of their current mass (after DN 00.02.17: 50000, before DN 00.02.17: 5000).
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It was increased because of aleph spin (May 2004):
http://fao.german-borg.de/modules.php?name...301&start=0
Spin was fixed with R4 (Nov 2007):
http://trac.alleg.net/changeset/129/allegsvn
So I don't see a reason to why not changing drone mass back to 5000.
The only reason why large constructors have a that high mass could be that they cost 10k, so they can't be rammed. They also can't block an aleph, because they're not that large like a carrier.
http://fao.german-borg.de/modules.php?name...301&start=0
Spin was fixed with R4 (Nov 2007):
http://trac.alleg.net/changeset/129/allegsvn
So I don't see a reason to why not changing drone mass back to 5000.
The only reason why large constructors have a that high mass could be that they cost 10k, so they can't be rammed. They also can't block an aleph, because they're not that large like a carrier.
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.