Gates? Ships?

Fighter 001 · Post by **Fighter 001** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 6:09 pm

Gates: You can Build Stations, But Why Can't you build Gates?
Ships: You can have up to a Star Master, and Chimera, but Why not the BattleShips, Cursers, And those Ships?

Rush · Post by **Rush** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 6:12 pm

The battleships is explained in many other threads

Too weak at the moment, and too strong if they are upgraded...

Gates, it's simple: look at how many stations are there. With too many gates you could move from every system to another one (even in the other corner of the galaxy) in an instant. Too much even for the future

Fighter 001 · Post by **Fighter 001** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 6:27 pm

Oh, So if they let us do that, it wouldn't be as Fun?

Fighter 001 · Post by **Fighter 001** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 6:36 pm

One more Thing... The Vonari Destroyed a Planet... Why can't we Destroy Planets?

Nigel_Strange · Post by **Nigel_Strange** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 7:54 pm

We could destroy planets, but we're not stupid. What is the value of a planet after it has been destroyed? The vonari just don't seem to get that.

As for letting us build gates, it has been discussed already. Essentially, it would lead to gate-pollution unless it was handled by a central authority, and the central authority has already designed a gate system that suits most the travelers' needs. Where systems are isolated without gates...they choose to be isolated, and their choice must be respected.

Post by **DaveK** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 11:13 pm

Hi Fighter 001

welcome to the game

you can get from one side of the universe in less than ten gate jumps anyway

battleships woud either be weak enough to take out with one torpedo or strong enough to take over the universe - the game is about lone pilots (mercs) not a crew of thousands. You can already act as a turret gunner for another pilot in MP

why would you want to destroy a planet?

keeping the game balanced is a difficult art - Vice keeps and eye open and fine tunes things so that there is a point in choosing different ships and different loadouts and having different careers