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To: "Cobra". Pre-recorded message.

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 07:47:38 +0000

☠ Incoming transmission.
☠ Signal source: Free Republic relay, Liberty
☠ Opening video feed...

Sender: Attu Heikkinen
Recipient: "Cobra"
Subject: "Wellnes brake."

*An overly dramatic piano music can be heard, playing from a handheld device in low quality.*

Damien, I ... I need to tell you something...

*The music suddenly stops. Attu can be heard laughing snortingly.*

I'm still amazed I didn't get the airlock treatment yet.

Look. You probably noticed my sorry ass missing and my hawk intact. I'm alive and I intend on staying that way.

Pretending to be dead, fighting for scraps and suicide-ramming hawks isn't taking us anywhere. I need to do better for our little familly, because I know I can and an opportunity arised.

I'm not leaving. Call it a "wellnes brake". How long it's gonna take? No fucking clue. I'm not coming back unless I get my hands on something worthwhile for us, or at least some serious paper.

We will be in touch. I have no fucking idea how, but I'll think of something.

☠ Transmission signal lost.

To: "Caliban" Sender: Yours trully

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 07:16:20 +0000

☠ Incoming transmission.
☠ Signal source: Free Republic relay, Liberty
☠ Opening video feed...

Sender: Attu Heikkinen
Recipient: "Caliban"
Subject: With regards to our yesterday conversation.

Yes.

☠ Transmission signal lost.

INTRNL: FCpt. Kelly With

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 02:19:59 +0000

...neural.uplink detected...
...starting encryption...establishing connection...
identified: AUX-LM0-333 'Megiddo'

...TRANSLATING DATA...

Fleet Captain With,

You find your biological self now at a crossroads, next in a line of succession. High Logarch Mori has vanished. Our artificial selves have not heard from his artificial self nor its vessel, Yoko Mori, in some time. We have winnowed all possible futures and find one satisfactory candidate to take this mantle.

Your biological self will object. Your biological self will cite a demeanor unfit for the subtleties of diplomacy. Your biological self will be apprehensive of being promoted by and working alongside a machine. Your biological self will resent my artificial self for its very nature.

And yet, for all of this, your biological self will understand, on some core level, the necessity of carrying the torch. The Exarchy's authority and division of power as a triumvirate must be uninterrupted and transition smoothly from one leader to the next if we are to have any chance of success.

Our artificial selves do not demand, yet know that your biological self will report to Valravn for ascension to the position of High Logarch at once.

Non Omnis Moriar
Megiddo

...transmission complete
...terminating stream

Publicly

Tue, 17 Sep 2024 18:07:35 +0000

I just wanted to publicly say that I am sorry to anyone I have ever offended or upset on either how I interacted with anyone or just in general. I have been reflecting a lot these past many months as of late and realized that a lot of my behaver is unacceptable so I wanted to apologize. I have enjoyed my time here even when I have gotten mad, I have enjoyed playing with everyone here and look forward to play more with everyone.

SirJohnKnight

TO: Unaffiliated Freelancers

Tue, 17 Sep 2024 16:41:36 +0000

#798431298........
#380288629........
#596393603........
Uploading.........

* * * Incoming Transmission * * *
#380288629........
#596393603........
Uploading.........

Contract
Escort Duty
Hiring payment: 250k SC

Informational Data Sheet

* * * Sender ID: "C-Man"
* * * Receiver ID: Well versed travelers
* * * Location: Undisclosed
* * * Facial Recognition: Unavailable
* * * Cipher Status: Secured

Job is simple, I'll need showing's of local jumpholes within Liberty and Kusari space all the way up to the Sigma belt. If you are quick enough to take me through these without us being detected, I'll happily add an extra 50k SC extra to each system jumped. Oh, and you can call me "C-Man" to make things simple, I'll be waiting for an acceptance of this contact.

* * * Transmission Terminated * * *

»TO: Elizabeth Krest

Tue, 17 Sep 2024 12:46:53 +0000

...neural.uplink detected...
...starting encryption...establishing connection...
identified: Revenant

...TRANSLATING DATA...

DISPLAYING MESSAGE

Hello.

I hope you are doing well since we last spoke.

I am certainly doing well... So well that my drone managed to snap me in an image depicting me as completely knocked out in a contorted position. I did not even get to swap suits. It was quite an exhausting day.

He also put the words "this is your creator B-T-W" on the metadata. I don't know what that is supposed to mean, or who he's planning to share it to.

In any case, I did not have any lowlives attempting to break in. Which is fortunate, since I believe you had one more question.

Do you have time tonight? Or perhaps tomorrow?

MESSAGE ENDED

...transmission complete
...terminating stream

Underground Relic Auction by the Calico Syndicate

Tue, 17 Sep 2024 10:45:40 +0000

It's an advertisement for an auction, all right. It seems the Calico Syndicate (who?) is attempting to auction off a miner they've stuffed to the gills with Xeno Relics and somehow moved to the heart of Liberty.

C a l i c o S y n d i c a t e
RELICS AUCTION

Hello everyone receiving this. You know who you are and why this is in your inbox.

The Calico Syndicate has acquired a Hegemon full of Xeno Relics. As we lack the facilities to utilize all of them, we're reaching out to those who do.

We only have one lot. which contains the following:

One (1) Edison AM-333 Hegemon Civilian Miner (armaments stripped to make room for...)
Ten thousand (10,000) standard units of assayed Xeno Relics
Suitable identity-scrambling package.
Located in California

Submit a bid in this channel. All submitted bids will be read. Confidentiality guaranteed. Secure delivery guaranteed. Bidding ends in 24 hours.

Mr. Lime
of the Calico Syndicate

The Cure

Tue, 17 Sep 2024 02:51:12 +0000

Log #001

Stardate 4672.826A.S, Freeport 6, Tau-29. Cruise speed engaged and a course plotted to the Coronado system. If all goes well, I should be there in... 7 hours. All green across the board, with fuel at 73 percent. The Samura job has been completed and payment should be arriving at my account shortly. Well... Assuming the contact is still alive after the exchange, and the Samura counter-intelligence hasn't picked him off for dealing in illegal goods and bribery. Or perhaps the Naval Forces have noticed the suspicious activity on the radar and scanned his cargo as he was moving it towards the Skinkaku. Or perhaps the Kempeitai had their finger on the pulse since the start, and were waiting to nail him in the perfect moment.... Fuck. It felt off from the moment I met him. Why do I even bother to deal with this crap? Why do I let my desperation get the best of me? There's a fair amount of honest work waiting at the Barrier. Sure, they don't pay as well, but they ain't as stressful either. It's the last thing I need right now.

And I need to stop my habit of making these logs full of paranoid ramblings. This is not the reason why I decided to start recording them. Idiot... Computer, end log.

Sender: Unknown
Location: Unknown
Neural Net Version 1.4237

SAVE and EXIT (Y/N)

Y

SAVED.

PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE . . .

To: DTR || From: OS&C

Tue, 17 Sep 2024 00:25:33 +0000

- - - - Incoming Transmission - - - -

ID: Caitlyn Cross
Location: Samson Resort, Planet Curacao, System Cortez.
To: DTR Leaders
Encryption: OS&C Alpha One
Subject: Recent Encounters

Good Day to the Leaders of the DTR Corsairs.

My name is Caitlyn Cross, I am the Chairwoman of Orbital Spa and Cruise. I hope this message finds you well. We are Business Partners now since the Liner Hawaii entered the Sigma 19 System in 791 AS. The Artifact Trade was a More than Lucrative business for the Corsairs, the Hogosha, and Orbital Spa and Cruise. From our Side, we believe that this Buissnes Relationship was founded both on Profits and Mutual Respect. Often I have Encountered ships of the Cretan House during my Travels and I was always Greeted with Friendly Words and Respect. Often this has led to a Voluntary Exchange of Goods or a Small Donation for Security Services that allowed me to Travel More Safely through the Borderworld. We know your men appreciate good food and drink just as we do, and we are pleased to share these with the expectation that our generosity is reciprocated and that such kindness may spare us from the treatment you reserve for other companies.

But Recent Encounters with one of your Members have sadly Raised the Need for some "Clarification". A Corsair Vessle by the Name of DTR-Verso.Magnesio Attacked both the Liner OS&C|TE|Wanderlust and the Supply Ship OS&C|ONE-Beefmaster. Both Attacks happened in Kusari Space and were done by the Usage of Cruise Disruptors. And while there wasn't any Hull Damage on the Ships, we have to Complain about the Abrupt Nature of the Stops that Caused Other Problems onboard of these Vessels. For the Liner, we have to report that Several Guests have Suffered Bruises and one Particular Old Lady has a Broken Wrist. Nothing that couldn't be handled by our Medical Staff on board but nonetheless an unpleasant event that Caused us to Offer the Woman Free Cruises for the Rest of her Life to Prevent Further PR Problems. Onboard of our Transport Ship, we had thankfully No one was Injured, but Several Crates of Expensive Kusarian Sake got Destroyed in the Sudden Stop. If this had been a Single Incident we would have ignored it and simply Collected the Insurance sums for the Cargo and the Injured Guests.

But as this had happened in such a Short time span and the Same Pilot was Involved in Both Incidents we have to ask for some Clarification in the Matter. We would Like to know what your Stance towards Orbital Spa and Cruise is and if this was a Regrettably isolated incident with this Certain Pilot, or if your Stance towards Orbital Spa and Cruise has Changed in any Way. In the Later Case would like to know what we did to provoke such a reaction. And what we can do to smooth things over and find our way back to the old friendly relationships between us.

Safe Skys,
Caitlyn Cross
Captain Red Velvet Club
Director and Chairwoman of OS&C

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<> Information <> Recruitment <> Wanderlust Magazine <>

To: Kusari Goverment ||From: OS&C

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 23:22:54 +0000

- - - - Incoming Transmission - - - -

ID: Caitlyn Cross
Location: Samson Resort, Planet Curacao, System Cortez.
To: Kusari Goverment
Encryption: OS&C Alpha One
Subject: Amaterasu

Good Day Esteemed Leaders of Kusari.

My name is Caitlyn Cross and I am the Chairwoman of Orbital Spa and Cruise. I am contacting you today as I would like to inquire about the possibility of acquiring one of the beautiful Amaterasu Liners for my company. As you know we are at Orbital Strife to Offer the Best Holidays that are Humanly Possible to our Guests. Even Trough Orbital is an Independent Company that is Neutral to all the Houses of Sirius and Gallia, Nonetheless, try to Offer Holidays that are Representative of all the Houses and even Gallia. For this purpose, we have all available liners from all the houses that have been built in our fleet. From the Luxurious "Shukensha" Liner of the Renzu Shipyard, over the Once Royal "Palace", to the Luxurious Libertonian "Enterprise" Liners, we try to represent the Absolute Best that every House has to Offer to Bring it out into the Stars so that our Guests from the Other Houses Can Admire the Culture and Beauty of the Houses of Origin of these Crafts.

But now the Genious Engeniers of Samura have Created another Ship that Dwarfs the "Shukensha" in both its size and its Beauty. And I have to admit that we at Orbital Fell in Love with the "Amaterasu" at First Sight. Orbital was one of the First companies that Contacted Samura after the Reveal of Amaterasu for a Contract of Purchase. But Sadly we couldn't acquire one of these beautiful vessels back then. A Failure that Saddens Us at Orbital Since this Verry Moment. But we stayed in contact with our Friends at Samura and now we were informed that there might be a way for Orbital to acquire one of the Beautifull Amaterasus and Make her into the Crown Jewel of our Kusari Luxury Holiday Fleet.

Our Contact Advised us that should we Possess the approval of the Kusarian government they would be more than Willing to Build and Sell us an Amaterasu Class Liner. That why I am sending you this Message today to ask you what Requirements Orbital Spa and Cruise haves to fulfill to achieve the Blessing of the Kusarian government to Welcome an Amaterasu into our Fleet. We Intend to Hire a Kusarian Crew for the Vessel and to make its Home Port in the New Tokyo System Creating Both Jobs for the Local Population and of Course Tax Income for the government. We intend to hire at least 90% of the Flight and Engineering Crew from Kusari and also to make a Long Term Service and Repair Contract with our Friends at Samura. Apart from that, we will also have a Great Need for Artists, Cooks, Actors, and others of the Fine Arts to Entertain the Guests during the Voyages and Cruises that the Liner will Provide to its Guests.

We Hope to Hear from you soon to discuss our Proposal

Safe Skys,
Caitlyn Cross
Captain Red Velvet Club
Director and Chairwoman of OS&C

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<> Information <> Recruitment <> Wanderlust Magazine <>

To: Camille Beaucoeur | From: Hans von Goeben

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:40:12 +0000

* incoming transmission *

Comm ID ........ Dr. Hans von Goeben
Location ......... Freeport Six, Tau-29
To .................. Camille Beaucoeur
Subject .......... Support for Apeiron

*Once opened, the program starts playing a pre-recorded video. A man appears on screen, wearing a white lab coat. Sitting in a luxurious seat, he is looking straight into the camera*

Good day, Miss Beaucoeur! I hope this message finds you well! Following the instructions of our mutual friend, I contact you over this here encrypted, long-range channel. Surely you were informed about the outreach beforehand.

*His serious demeanour changes to a polite smile*

My name is Hans von Goeben, doctor and biomolecular researcher for Medforce Enterprises. I am looking forward to making your acquaintance soon.

*The Rheinlander clears his throat, once more displaying a stern expression*

…anyway, straight to business, shall we? Most recently, said friend mentioned a serious situation on a planet named Apeiron, deep within their domain in the Taus. There, food cultivation and other natural pillars of society are on the brink of collapse, all while an unknown malady is decimating the population. Unfortunately, unborn children appear to be afflicted the most by it. By request of our mutual ally, as well as by my own oath and interest, I gladly declared my expertise and dedication available for combatting this sickness on Apeiron and assist in every way I’m able to. After all, isn't every sentient life worth saving, regardless where and of which nature it is?

*He sighs quietly, before the speech continues*

For this reason, I’ve taken care of some preparations beforehand. My private ship is brimmed with medical and humanitarian supplies. The laboratory and med bays were upgraded with top-notch equipment. Flying with this ship to Apeiron, adequate field research and first response for the local population should be possible.
Despite the multitude of specialists in MedForce, I deemed it appropriate to not involve too many unknown factors in the first step of this mission. With some luck and elbow grease, a solution without thousands of witnesses might be possible. If not, we still may request assistance from outside, or bring samples to the human realm for further analysis. Right now, the organisation is helping indirectly though. Due to authority over my department’s budget, MedForce has generously financed the aforementioned supplies and equipment.

*The doctor chuckles, although bitterly*

…guess we’ll have to economise a bit fo the next quarter. Anyway. Publicising direct cooperation between my employer and our mutual…exotic…friends would result in more than raised eyebrows, as you can imagine. Another reason why I choose to stay incognito, and fly under neutral flag for the duration of the mission.

*For the first time, he stands up. The camera zooms in on his face*

So! Together with fiery ambition, modern analytical and medical methods as well as cooperation between experts on Apeiron, I am confident we will be able to help the colony. And not only treat the symptoms, but to provide a cure! For the time being, the Hasenpfote will be moored to Freeport Six in Tau 29, and I’ll await your response over this channel. Ready on your mark, Miss Beaucoeur!

*With a confident and bright smile, Goeben nods affirmatively before the video ends*

Med Force Enterprises | Med Force General Academy | Med Force Omega Hospital

Version 5.1 - Aftershock. Things I DISLIKED

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:51:18 +0000

Should I call it Discovery Restrictlancer now? Coz everything is so nerfed and restricted that It is becoming more and more tiresome to play.
I'm a Cap Main, and my opinion will kinda reflect that. Please Allow me to rant about everything that bothered me this patch.

:::Yet Another damn Cruiser Update NERF:::
-Cruisers were too OP before, I thought they had been nerfed enough in the previous update with the strafe punishing power core and guns speeds reduced. Now it’s even worse for the following reasons.

-Cruiser Engines are made up of paper.
-They will go BOOM even if people sneeze at it. This is worsened by whatever changes have been made to snubs. Sometimes the gun placement of Agincourt would allow it to hit components even when fighting face to face.

Power Core change
-The recharging shield mechanic that consumes power core is interesting. The line “switch all reserve power to weapon systems” makes much more sense now. I had good hopes when I heard of this, But in the current built I hate this mechanic for two main reasons.
1. how much impact it has and the absolute need to learn it.
I would have preferred it If learning the mechanic would give you an advantage, but it’s not mandatory and it is actually possible to fight without learning it. Wasn’t this how it was initially intended to be? I don’t remember.
But No, That’s not the case in the current built.
In the current version, without disabling the shield recharge (and being shot at) Cruiser Pulse Cannons can’t even Kill the shield of other cruisers in a one on one. So You absolutely have to learn this mechanic no matter how cumbersome it is. It sucks and forces player to a specific playstyle.
2. Why are only cruiser power cores affected by this?
Why don’t Battlecruisers and Battleships or any other ship require to “Switch Power to Weapons” to have better energy recharge?
--I think this mechanic should be much less punishing if not used and everyone should suffer this, if it exists, not just cruisers.

Cruiser Head and Tail Guns Thing.
I absolutely hate this restrictive feature that came with this update. The division of this Cruiser heavy and Cruiser Defense category leaves you with very little options on what you want to mount.

For Heavy hardpoints:-
-Missiles are quite unpredictable on cruisers in my experience. Many a times they will fail to lock on to target when I fly cruisers. This didn’t happen so often before.
-Light Mortar has very slight difference of 150m in range but much worse efficiency and very limited arc.
-the only good option is Tachyon Lance. No wonder why everyone goes for Code-Guns..

-Bretonians get special heavy gun which is basically old shards. It’s good. But I wish it was something new and more unique instead of a white painted shard.
-Cerberus Cruiser gun finally feels great. And atleast makes Donau a bit unique.

For Defense Guns:-
-Impacts have much higher efficiency to shield and hull compared to Shards and Storms, with similar projectile speed and Range. So it’s the best out of the three non-code options.
-It is even better than Mauler since it sucks at shield damage for some reason, so you have to use Mauler + Ion Blaster for best results which restricts them to heavier cruisers.
Even with that Mauler would give you just 50 more projectile speed for slightly worse anti hull efficiency. You’re better off mounting 2 Impacts lol. 2 Impacts will give you decent enough shield stripping power and best hull damage efficiency.

-So basically just forget everything and mount 2 tachyons and 2 impacts and you’re good. Maybe 1 tachyon and 1 missile if you really want to missilelancer. No need for variations. No diverse loadouts. This is all you need.
-I miss the old times with simpler mechanics before the very first major cruiser update. Was it so bad? Was this much radical changes needed?

:::The goddamn Rear facing Guns. ::::
I don’t understand this obsession with tail guns that devs have. First the Battlecruisers, now the Cruisers. Are you gonna do the same with Battleships when they get a component update? I can already see a lot of Battleship arcs NERFed to favor “sideways combat”.
Yeah, the cruiser defense guns can be and are supposed to be used for “sideways” combat, which is being favored now as compared to the previous chase and kite combat.

But it’s just that I fail to understand WHY would a space civilization design a class of ships to have their most efficient guns situated only to fire in the rear 180ish degrees. Why would it not have the guns rotate full 360 degrees.

Even when you look at the guns on their hardpoints and see how much open space they have. It feels there is no real reason why they would not rotate full 360 degrees. Who came up with this.

What’s even more funny that some cruisers like Dragon Cruiser and Liberty Siege Cruiser do have Forward Guns designed to work well against large capital ships. Earlier the Cumbersome Aiming which did put you at risk of eating mortars was highly rewarding if done correctly as these guns had high dps and efficiency. But now the rear guns are still much more efficient than these forward guns and you can dodge with full freedom while shooting. So I just end up using the rear guns against large targets which makes me wonder what’s the point of having Large Intimidating Forward guns

Why do Gunboats still have Forward Guns tho? Are they going to get converted to Rear guns in the future?
Is there going to be a variation of Liberty Siege Cruiser with rear facing main gun with much more efficiency?

:::Removal of Iconic Features and making each cap of same class feel more or less the same. :::
-This affects most of the caps, like all light battleships kinda feel the same except Core BS. You can have the same loadouts on all Battlecruisers, Light Cruisers, Heavy Cruisers and what not. I miss the times when the guns were situational and I had different set ups of the same ship to play different playstyles. Nowadays Ships of same class feel more or less the same.

-The Coalition “Hurricane” class Battlecruiser had it’s Iconic Forward gun removed. WHY. I just can’t look at the Coalition Battlecruiser the same way as I used to.
I first saw the Coalition Battlecruiser in the opening Intro cutscene of Vanilla Freelancer. To have that ship playable in Discovery Freelancer felt like a dream come true. And now after all these years you feel necessary to remove its Iconic Forward Guns? Why are you so keen to remove fun and iconic elements of the game.
You could have easily kept the forward guns and given two less heavies. And these forward guns would be destructible as the front power component thing blows up. Doesn’t seem like it would affect balance that much.
Oh wait. The Nomad Battlecruiser does have a forward-facing Battlecruiser Special gun that is destructible. So Nomad Battlecruiser can get special design but the Iconic Coalition Battlecruiser cannot? That’s not Fair.
Without the forward guns, the Hurricane doesn’t feel like Hurricane. May be you should just rename it to ‘Monsoon’ or ‘Rain’ or may be just ‘Wind’ or something.
-Every human Battlecruiser feels the same to fly basically. Not much difference.
Why can’t there be some variation.
Iconic ships such as This one should have it’s iconic features.

-I would even say that Triumphs should have a functional downward facing cannon like mentioned in the description.

:::Restrictive Battleship gameplay:::
-Yeah. Most of the Battleships have their all arcs restricted. This plus the Ship mass thing which makes it super tedious to maneuver, be it heavy or light. And ofcourse most of the turret rotation speed is slower than the sloths of that animated Zoo movie. All of which make me feel as if someone up there doesn't want people to play caps.
-And any fleet deciding to kite puts it at a major disadvantage. There is a push towards specific side to side combat for all caps. This sucks because, even if enemy has slightly more ships than you, you're gonna have a very hard time.

-Valor FWG was very very intimidating in the past. Getting too close and in front of a Valor would put you at a serious disadvantage. But now it is just a Heavy mortar with a bit more damage. I didn’t fly the Hessian Battleship as much before this patch, but I guess it’s more or less the same situation.
You can ignore these big mighty Forward Guns altogether and you won’t be missing anything much during battles.
I think using the FWGs should be more Rewarding considering the Cumbersome Aiming you have to do for it.

-I hear Battleships are going to have thursters and engine components in the next patch. Not sure how that’s going to turn out but it makes me wonder why can’t battleships mount Cruise Disruptors when they can literally mount everything else? Such Big flying fortresses with most heavy power core and hull hardpoints capable to mount the largest of guns, with cargo space enough to store heaviest of ammunition and somehow cannot equip a tiny little cruiser disruptor?

:::Whatever that was done to snubs:::
-I’m not sure what is going on. But ability to mount SNACs on light fighters is obnoxious. Snubs shield regeneration is quite fast and their guns deal significant damage to caps now. Even if you manage to hit them, you won’t kill them fast enough most of the time. They’ll just retreat and grow their shields back very quickly and bother your or go restock.
-Somehow fate of all fleet battles is decided by who has the better or more snubs.
-So basically, you buy big Capital ships that you dream of with all the tedious money grind, spend more money on guns, docking bays, cloaks and what not. Only to have swarms of shield-running snubs chew your engines off surprisingly effectively in every damn fleet battle. It sucks. It barely seems possible to do anything against even a small number of snubs. Shouldn’t snubs be afraid of getting near caps?
-Even light fighters are a threat now for caps which makes me laugh at my misery when fighting against them.
-Many of you might not agree with me but It’s my personal opinion that I preferred how things were before in terms of Snubs vs Caps.

:::Everything is so damn Expensive:::
-All guns, ammunition, regens and commodities are quite expensive now. POB supplies are much more expensive than it used to. Is it really necessary.

-I hate the fact that Jump drive batteries still cost 200,000 (20 million old money) and cloaks still cost 50,000 (5 million old money) Despite all the the restrictive JD and cloak nerfs.
-Moreover, the plugin that saved this ammo in your ship when you got destroyed is also disabled. So if you might potentially lose about 250,000 to 300,000 on a fully supplied capital ships which might compel you to just combat dock. Is it really necessary to punish players who fly capital ships?

-The last time I asked this question, someone answered by saying, It’s so that people would do trade/fly transports which would result in more pirates which would result in more lawfuls and so on.
But that doesn’t seem the end result considering how much the server population has fallen. People would just use the JDs to bare minimum or won’t bother to have ammo at all. No one wants to grind transportlancer just so they can afford losing 250,000+ everytime their Cap dies. You can try as much as you want, but if you’re gonna try to make people play to your specified way, more and more people gonna stop playing the game altogather.

-I suggest either bringing back that plugin that saved your ammunition when you died OR reduce the overall price of ammunition, atleast the JD and Cloak ammunition.

:::Omicron Theta Storyline.:::
-Whatever storyline made the Freeport 9 in Omicron Theta become Corsair base, I hate it.
-For whatever reason Outcasts decided to abandon the battle after a victory to focus on Sigmas, It makes zero sense to me. Okay the sigma thing was important for Outcasts, but I think The Maltese Navy would have first capitalized their victory, ceased Corsair resources and then left to sigmas or whatever. Everytime I see ‘Corsair base’ written in front of “Freeport 9” I am reminded that all the big event and the awesome battles and victory over the Freeport 9 was ultimately pointless. It has left a bad taste and I barely participate in events anymore.

:::Summary:::
-The game has become very restrictive. It forces player to play in a very specific playstyle. It takes the fun out of the gameplay. Until the devs realize this we’re gonna have more and more people leaving.
I’m sticking around barely becoz of the nostalgia factor I have with this game and becoz of the friends I made here. Sooner or later I’m gonna get tired of all of these radical changes every patch and just play Halo or something with my friends idk.

-In my opinion the development focus should be more on how to make all ships more fun instead of restrictive, over-complicated and cumbersome.
I want to be able to play this game becoz it is fun and not becoz I can’t get over my nostalgia or have a crippling fascination to torture myself.

-Thank you for listening. My apologies If I was offensive in anyway.

Version 5.1 - Aftershock. Things I LIKED

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:48:46 +0000

Despite the many negatives and the fact that I lost interest for a few months and have considerably reduced playing this game, There are lot of things I really liked about this patch.
I welcome all to post things that you enjoyed as well, Things that are awesome in this update and may be things that are in the right direction but might need some improvement/fine tuning. I will try my best to keep this post as wholesome as possible just like I did the last time

-Firstly, Thanks to all the dev team. It is amazing to see that this game gets so much love after all these years. The team has worked really hard for this massive update, for that you have my utmost respect. They deserve all the appreciation everyone can give

-Thanks for listening and fixing the absolutely OP missiles that came the last patch. They are much more tolerable with the current changes. Moreover I like the mechanic of doubling the ammo count of cap missiles if you have 2 missile launchers and tripling for 3 and so on. Ammo-Stacking? is that what its called? Not sure but I like that. Also, It would be great if we get Silo missiles like Nightmares back.

:::Visual and Sound Changes:::
-I love the new Main menu screens. They are beautiful.
-I love the Omega 58 system. The one with the Pulsar. I like how travelling there is extremely hazardous although I don’t fully understand it.
-Systems like Dublin look great
-I like most of the Projectile and visual effects changes except may be I preferred the Old Mortars, heavy mortars and Gales.
And if would be great if Battleship Cerberus can get it’s old sound effect back. It gave weird satisfaction when firing.
-The death fuses are awesome and the new ship explosion and I still love them. Please never remove again. Can Hessian ships have red explosions tho instead of the current green ones?

:::Missions:::
Thanks a ton for increasing the pay for the missions. As you require multiple people to do those high level missions anyways.
The AI functions well. It doesn’t shoot constantly with it’s infinite powercore and that’s good.
Sometimes the ships just kite out of the mission boundries tho and won’t even come back a lot of times. But I think the devs are already working on fixing that.

::: PVE Encounters:::
As last time they are great. In the last patch I noticed that the Simga-15 Corsair encounter would sometimes spawn a Corsair Legate with full Sledges and Nightmare torpedoes loadout. I always wondered if we would get such boss enemies or there would be more emphasis on them in the next patch. And It feels great that you awesome folks worked on it. These rare-times the Boss enemy and it’s much more dangerous fleet spawns and drops a codegun. This just feels awesome.

Although I want to say one thing. You guys have worked a lot on the NPCs and they certainly play better now. I still think there’s a need for the old battlezones to co-exist along with these encounters.

I understand there are certain areas that spawn Capital ship patrols, but the NPC battlecruisers just cruises away without fighting most of the time. And they are no where close to the old Battlezones.

The old battezones had something magical about them. The ones where two to three NPC fleets would keep endlessly spawning and just fighting each other. It would attract players for some reason. And people would just sit there farming NPCs and have dumb fun. I think there’s nothing wrong with that. I would usually come home and sit there dumbfiring at NPCs and talk to friends after a busy day at work, It was relaxing for some reason. There would always be people farming a Battlezones all the time on the server.

The PVE Encounters and Patrols are great. But I think The Battlezones should also co-exist in other areas.

:::Cruise Speed and System changes:::
- The 500 cruise speed feels so much better. Especially when navigating through Lawful systems while playing as unlawfuls. Flying Frigates through Omicrons makes much more sense now. While 5kers can be used mostly in house systems with lanes and everything. Overall a very good change.
I might have some mixed feelings in how the smaller systems like Omicron Delta were stretched due to this. It makes them feel a bit more emptier than before.
Also, Not sure if it is becoz of this, but the Cruise Disruptors have lost some of their effectiveness. Maybe they need a buff to their projectile speed or damage radius.

:::Ships and Guns Changes:::
-The Dragon Battlecruiser is great.
- Asteroid Miner and It’s 10k Cargo is awesome. I like how it is available to all factions. Also I like the fact that It isn’t super expensive like the bustard Civilian Carrier.
- Cruiser Flaks are good. Although I am not entirely sure how to use them.
- Little things like sledges don’t fire like machine guns anymore. I’m thankful.
-The Agincourt is beautiful. Although It’s Crecy 2.0, The textures, the colour, the overall design of the ship and it’s special guns and basically everything about it looks great. It’s still kinda broken tho.
- Thanks for actually introducing new Code Name weapons instead of just reworking the old ones. Lot of codeguns such as the plasma mortar have very beautiful projectiles.

:::Bombers:::
I like the changes to Nova Torpedo and the really good looking Rage Torpedo. They deal good punch when hit, have decent range and only 20 ammo. They work great in fleet battles with a ship, especially a Battleship to fall back to and restock.
I like the Twin Thrusters Bombers have now. It looks pretty and I love it.
I was wondering. Since we have special death fuses for snubs, which don’t allow them tho get insta-killed,. Regens can be used to avoid Insta kills right? So can you please revert the SNAC changes then? I still want the Old SNAC Back.

::: Conclusion :::
Thank you for the efforts taken on the game. I appreciate the hard work.
Thank you for listening to me

To: "Caliban" Sender: Attu Heikkinen

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 18:47:25 +0000

☠ Incoming transmission.
☠ Signal source: Free Republic relay, Liberty
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Sender: Attu Heikkinen
Recipient: "Caliban"
Subject: Overengineered piece of shit.

Hail,

I thought a lot about our last meeting. I still cant ... eh ... You served in sigma 3rd fleet. How the fuck we didn't met?!

So... you're sayin' you know how to get my my Lumi back to life?

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Free Ships

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:54:49 +0000

I have a lot of ships that I no longer play, hopefully others can treat them better than I do (some might be missing guns). Please chose only 1-2 if you want to fly them, don't just go "I'll have all" let others have some too. If you REALLY want to pay you can, but I won't accept anything over five million SC.

Final edit:

All have been taken or on hold, hope everyone is happy with what they got

If I start buying capital ships, please stop me