If everything is made free, I reckon we'd all have a lot more fun. None of this angst between these factions, just 3 teams slugging it out, no holds barred, bigger load on the server, more stuff flying around, and things are a lot looser :o)

Not permanent, of course... but itd be a good diversion nonetheless. It doesnt even have to be universe-wide, just a single sector where you cant leave unless youre piloting a ship you bought elsewhere, or a stock EC88.

Summat like that. Just for now, of course.

I believe that politics will be around as long as the roleplaying aspects of this game exist. I find it fun. Others may not. If you hate dealing with politics or fanatics, switch to a more neutral nation.

At the moment, its only creating unnecessary tension.

But we this is not the server load test phase. This is the phase where the economy is tested, money bugs are found, etc. When a server load test is wanted, the devs will advertise more.

"But we this is not the server load test phase."

*snickers*

What you been smokin, FM?

I have fun with politics, actually. If you don't, create a jackass char, /hidelog, get a ship, and go blow everything in sight. Or wait, don't. Just go play UT2K4.

/me has no comment


*edit to not say things I should not

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Because this is an online game, intended to become an MMORPG,
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Just wondering, does it say "fragfest" anywhere on any part of the Vendetta site? If you want the kind of fun you're saying, go play any of the dozens of other fragfast games. Vendetta is supposed to be an MMORPG, and since this is an engine test, we should be testing the RPG part as well as the MMO part.

politics and economy is great!

I'm sick of fragging. I want some real politics, quests. Um, actually not quests, but missions received from big corporations to kill a mafia boss, or a president of other nation.

Missions from military to make photographs of factories on enemy territory. I want to carry passengers for profit, and trade slaves (which turn into fertilizer if I didn't buy cargo bay life support), or even sell passengers into slaves on some other planet (which of course destroys reputation, as well as dying while carrying passengers).

Yeah, I want a reputation counters, and military grade counters. Of course doing many military missions for one nation gives opportunity to have a higher military rank, and receive more interesting missions.

I could even betray my own nation, and act as a spy for another nation - when disguised destroys reputation, but very profitable.

Imagine convoys of people escorting a president of some nation into another system. And some other people get a mission to kill the president. Who succeds gets money, and killing a president will raise a need to elect new one, so economy drops down, prices are up, and traders can get some nice profit. But area is much more dangerous, because pirates know that traders will be here.

and so on....

yeah, space RPG is something I dream of.

I like some of your ideas, cosurgi. However, everything you say can be done in a single player game. We still need some MMO, not just the RPG. We need a balance between lots of people fighting and lots of people... well, doing other stuff. Also, I'm not sure having slaves is the best idea. I bet there could be missions to kill NPC high ranking chars, but when an NPC dies, he needs to stay dead.

Ahhhh, cool! Consurgi mentioned recon missions where you gotta take spy photos for your military without being spotted. Imagine being on a really fast ship with nothing but a camera occupying your only weapon port, and after you take your photos the enemy realizes what you're doing so they sound out a bazillion fighters after you and you gotta escape through an asteroid field or some such.

/me drools

An asteroid field with all your allies waiting for you, laying mines, and generally thwarting your attackers!

By the way, will we need new kinds of ports for stuff like sensors and shields and... all the other stuff.

"An asteroid field with all your allies waiting for you, laying mines, and generally thwarting your attackers!"

This woudld be my luck:

An asteroid field with all you're "allies" waiting for you, laying in ambush to return you to the enemy and collect their bounty reward.