Hi again devs. :D I was just wondering what you think about user-controllable Capital ships and vendetta. This isn't in Suggestions, because I'm not looking for player suggestions. I saw Incarnate in the Frigate yesterday (and my what a sight it was) and I couldn't help but wonder what the status is. Maneuverability is way too high (duh), there's no death explosion (probably not that hard to fix) and there's no guns. But it didn't seem to bad otherwise. So when do you think we'll get some for ourselves?

Maybe one could add them as kind of special sectors. In contrast to stations, these sectors can move around and dock to different sectors. For example, if you park your Frigate in 9, there is a wormhole that brings you to the frigate. In that frigate sector there is only the frigate and a big void around it. Would be a start ...

and what about planets?

Well, how would you dock a frigate? they can't fit into the docking bay.

You don't. The frigate is the dock, and you use smaller ships to "go ashore"

Well I hope players do not get the abaility to fly capital ships alone.

Then it will be a lot like eve-online.

People have more desire to fly capital ships because of the big big big guns that have on them instead of "puny little fighters".

I think that Captial ships would be impossible to bring to a planet period because of the planet's gravity well. The engines on teh Frigate aren't large enough to propell the frigate outside of a planets atmosphere so the Frigate would simply stay in one place until it's engines A) Overload and MEltdown or B) Run out of fuel and the Frigate plummets to the surface.

I like the idea though of using "shuttle craft" to move cargo and supplies...several shuttles running at a time would be very effeicient at laoding.

As for the ability of multiple users pilotsing a single vessel, I have suggested before the idea of User-Controlled AGTs and the like so as to afford better combat targeting and effectiveness.

And the frigate doesn't nessicarily require larger guns, just more ports for the fighter guns...

All you'd really have to do is make the Frigate a public ship like the bus-Centaur and add HP, Ports (both sizes) and lower Agility and make a new engine and battery for the ship...and also raise their mass denisty. (<-Granted those arent exactly "small" things...the coding would take time)

Sure they could land on the planet Pyroman. They'd just have use their Tachy-o-static Repulsor engines powered by Dark Matter brand repulsor fuel. Concepts such as gravity, inertia, etc. don't apply to Tachy-o-static Repulsor technology, and Dark Matter brand fuel creates a clean flux field, thus saving the ozone layer.