Making a "Heavy Bomber" ship, that could have defensive turrets on it. Not only that, but it could be multicrewed, so people could man the turrets?

Ships with multiple players is planned. I think.

hm...
i am not in favor of manned turrets, for reasons given in the threads you can find the links to below.

i suggest you read this thread:
http://vendetta.guildsoftware.com/?action=msgboard&thread=2975&page=2

and this one:
http://vendetta.guildsoftware.com/?action=msgboard&thread=2984&page=2

Manned turrets are planned. Personally, I would not want a ship without them. If there were no manned (multi-player) ships, I'd be really bored. It's in the FAQ for Vendetta. I quoted it in several places, so I'm too lazy to do it again.

One thing I'd like with manned turrets though is for the pilot to have the option of NOT having just any joe schmoe hop on. I'd hate to have a bunch of spies hop into my ship and just sit there without using the turrets intentionally (just to get me killed). I'm sure there can be some easy way to authenticate who can use your turrets and who can't. Otherwise it'll be easily exploitable.

i recall hearing about the turreters having to be invited *shrugs*

I like the idea of having manned turrets as I posted in my PDS system thread. Manned turrets can be faster and target more ships than regular automated turrets.

Also, I doubt that Turretteers would just sit around during a major battle as if you are destroyed I bet they are destroyed too. And I'm pretty sure the turretteers couldn't be spies for the enemy since they would have to be friendly craft. Although I'm sure you meant something else.

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