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A heads-up about coming conquerable station changes.

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Jan 25, 2010 ShankTank link
I'm pretty sure the sector resets (turrets respawn/ownership resets) if everyone leaves the sector for five minutes, you just need a willing opponent. Yesterday me and Strat agreed to do this (Mistena Kosmel or Nahin Lor or someone else decided to conc the turrets) and all was well, we had a good time (well, until the defenders killing their own turret thing, but that is another matter that has been dismissed). But this isn't exactly full-proof and we discovered that it resets ownership completely.

I would not like some mechanism, however, that would make turrets completely stationary for a couple of reasons:

1) The fact that the turrets get knocked around so much by concussive force makes it so bombers can't just swarm-and-forget and often forces them to stack their missiles, making them vulnerable. It's a good defensive mechanism.

2) Players can make strategic choices about the placement of their turrets. I.E. putting them in the dock limits their cone of fire and puts them in a convenient spot for bombers, but helps greatly against enemy dock assaults/dock ninjas. I've also seen people bunch their turrets together in one spot to make them easier to defend, but this too is very risky because of "combo kills" (for lack of a better term) against the turrets due to splash (I, myself, have killed up to three turrets in a single stack). Point is that manual turret positioning (aside from mega concapults) comes up with some very interesting strategic choices all with their pros and cons... kind of reminds me of tower defense lol.

I'd much rather see something where the turrets explode if they leave 5000m of the station. I wouldn't worry about offensive concapults, it's much easier to use missile stacks not to mention that attackers can't reload at the station. They would also have to stand still for a period to lay them.
Jan 25, 2010 ladron link
Uh, ladron, we've already proved that small to medium-large asteroids are NOT fixed objects :D

Wait, what? Seriously?
Jan 25, 2010 Dr. Lecter link
Seriously. It did require a connie, but trust me, they move. A lot.
Jan 25, 2010 ladron link
So you mean to say that with enough conc mines and enough time, I could actually hold popular asteroids for ransom?
Jan 25, 2010 Dr. Lecter link
Quite possibly.
Jan 26, 2010 ladron link
That's absolutely freaking awesome.

Now I want a ramming frigate from Homeworld Cataclysm. I'd shove roids around all day.
Feb 01, 2010 Detructor link
> I'd shove roids around all day.

poor roids...
Feb 01, 2010 ladron link
Roids don't have feelings.

On the other hand, I'd love to see Hortan's face when he finds his favorite helio roid 100km away from where he last left it. :D
Feb 07, 2010 Libelnon link
Personally, I'd settle for roid torpedoes. That'd make them deadlier than they already are.
Feb 08, 2010 Detructor link
> Roids don't have feelings.

they have! Go to google.com and search for "Asteroids revenge"...they've feelings and they'll hunt you down if you don't respect them!
Feb 08, 2010 look... no hands link
heh, id pack them into the undocking bays and watch everybody get killed by them
Feb 08, 2010 DivisionByZero link
"heh, id pack them into the undocking bays and watch everybody get killed by them"

...and that's why we can't have nice things.
Feb 08, 2010 skelbley08 link
"...and that's why we can't have nice things."

Heh :-p