Are there ever going to be playable capital ships in EM?

Zaggeh · Post by **Zaggeh** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 5:59 pm

What's the developer's stance on this? All those ginormous ships out there... can I, as a player, ever expect to be able to fly one? If not now, sometime in the future of the game's development?

Also, unrelated question, but does number of hostile AI in military contracts scale up when playing in multiplayer?

Dingo · Post by **Dingo** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 6:08 pm

I doubt cap ships will ever be pilotable in Evochron. It is not a game focus currently and I am happy about that one. It is simply not that kind of sim. Unless considerable effort was put into cap ships, it would just come off as cheesy.

Currently Vice is working on

A) Mechs
B) Weapons lab
C) Terrain engine
D) Server builds to accommodate new player base
E) Tech support for above player base
F) I'm sure some surprises I dont know about

So where would the time come from to make Capital ships a true experience?

[Edited on 1-24-2012 by Dingo]

Zaggeh · Post by **Zaggeh** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 6:32 pm

Understandable. Didn't hurt to ask though. :-)

Maybe someday in the far and distant future. (which is grim, and contains only war.)

erkage · Post by **erkage** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 6:35 pm

That's a shame. I would love to see capital ships in the game and think they could add a lot to it.
Some ideas:
Make it/them cost big bucks (obviously).
The owner will be the pilot, and other friendly ships can dock inside of it and use some of the flak and missile launchers on it.
They would be ideal for clan warfare and big battles!

(I realize this could be a lot of work especially with the current workload, but I doubt I am the only one who would be interested!)

[Edited on 1-24-2012 by erkage]

Viper · Post by **Viper** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 6:59 pm

I think this has been brought up before a couple of times, and I think I recall Vice his response being a clear 'no'. The biggest reason for it, if I remember correctly, was balance. Because if you had flyable capital ships in game, it would inevitably become a capital ship game, and players who prefer flying fighters would not ever stand a chance.

Rubber Chicken · Post by **Rubber Chicken** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:08 pm

It would be cool IMO if you could at least Hire a cap ship in the system your in to be a temporary part of your AI fleet! That way you could drag it into battle with you! If there was a 5v5 clan battle for example and everyone brought one cap ship with them, things could and would become a rather glorius mess!:D

erkage · Post by **erkage** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:10 pm

From post: 126029, Topic: tid=8551, author=Viper wrote:I think this has been brought up before a couple of times, and I think I recall Vice his response being a clear 'no'. The biggest reason for it, if I remember correctly, was balance. Because if you had flyable capital ships in game, it would inevitably become a capital ship game, and players who prefer flying fighters would not ever stand a chance.

True, unless you make an instant kill weakspot on it like the Death Star!
That's it! Just make them so big that we can fly inside of them while not docking! Then give us walkers to go run around and shoot the people using turrets!

[Edited on 1-24-2012 by erkage]

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:15 pm

From post: 126019, Topic: tid=8551, author=erkage wrote:That's a shame. I would love to see capital ships in the game and think they could add a lot to it.
Some ideas:
Make it/them cost big bucks (obviously).
The owner will be the pilot, and other friendly ships can dock inside of it and use some of the flak and missile launchers on it.
They would be ideal for clan warfare and big battles!

(I realize this could be a lot of work especially with the current workload, but I doubt I am the only one who would be interested!)

[Edited on 1-24-2012 by erkage]

I would be intrested in this to if only my system would be able to handle the extra load if this was added to the game without sacrifice to the other cool features already in the game!....

shadowm22 · Post by **shadowm22** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:19 pm

i agrree that will be fun hmm moders mabye you can help

erkage · Post by **erkage** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:25 pm

Yeah true Maars, but I can always dream!

mechanicalDR · Post by **mechanicalDR** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:35 pm

I love cap ships but there are so few games that actually pull it off.

Best implementation is more akin to sub/uboat sims.

You could always have player non-pilotable carriers, that way you don't upset balance but give groups the ability to operate remotely.

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