Peace with a race = ability to use their technology

ipod · Post by **ipod** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 6:37 am

Just thought this might be something interesting. Thoughts?

SnakeBite · Post by **SnakeBite** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:50 am

BAD! Everyone would be flying around with cloaks and JD's. I dont think this is a good idea.

Post by **seldum** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 4:17 pm

imagine a 150k dev with cloak, JD, and DCS I def want 1

Ardbeg · Post by **Ardbeg** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 5:13 pm

This makes no sense - ship type determines hardware capability, not race.

ipod · Post by **ipod** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:13 pm

I was thinking it would make politics a lot more serious.

Harry Krishna · Post by **Harry Krishna** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:35 pm

Ardbeg's point is that you can't install a cloak on a ship that doesn't support it.

The suggestion has come up before to allow the use of the racial ships in addition to weapons when two races are at peace, but similar to the above sentiments, it would cause some extreme game imbalances and probably isn't a good idea in practical terms.

Post by **Blum** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:53 am

As the resident old fart, I would like to remind everyone why racial ships are only available to the corresponding race:
How am I supposed to get my big fat Ik'Thorne ass into a chair made for Creonti?

Post by **Baalzamon** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:24 am

and how the hell is a short human going to reach the illusion controls in the ATM

SnakeBite · Post by **SnakeBite** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 4:21 am

Nah what he was sugesting is taking your ship to some back ally mechanic why pimps it up with some new parts. But everyone knows those are ilegal in SMR so this idea wouldn't work.

Shtoopid · Post by **Shtoopid** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 5:32 am

lol simple fix. When you have peace you can "buy" other races ships(with a markup of course), but, since you cannot operate the controls properly, you have to hire a crew to operate it, at like 500k a day. If you dont have the money to pay em at 12:00 or whenever you set it, you get put in the escape pod and and your personal relations get dropped by 100(xp loss optional).