Levels for ships

cygre · Post by **cygre** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 10:57 am

What levels do you need to be to buy the best ships? For example two of my alliance have saved up for a federal ultimatum and a human destroyer. When they tried to buy them they were told that they needed to be higher level. Is there a rule as to when you can buy these ships, as we have been able to buy a mothership ok (although our race is Ikthorne)?

Thanks in advance

Cygre

Volrath · Post by **Volrath** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 11:33 am

you have to be fledgling.
newbie and begginner players can't buy top racial ships.

Grey · Post by **Grey** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 11:42 am

Just to clarify: That's User Ranking and not level. You can see your user ranking and the requirements for those under "Trader" by clicking "User Ranking". Once you reach fledgling you can buy any ship at any level you want as long as you have money, race and alignment requirements met.

Ships that you need to be fledgling or above to buy are:
Trade Master
Devastator
Destroyer
Mother Ship
Eater of Souls
Assault Craft
Dark Mirage
Fury
Federal <insert suffix>
Thief
Assassin
Death Cruiser

Contrary to popular belief you don't have to be fledgling to buy Planetary Super Freighter.

The levels shown in the ship list in the manual are not used for anything and should be removed.

Post by **B.O.B.** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 9:26 pm

If you read what is in () in the ship list, it dealt with level in Semi-Wars. It dealt with the fact that when you reached a certain level in experience, you were now able to get that ship for free. This was removed from Semi-Wars games because it was percieved to be to imbalanced for that style of game play.

drake · Post by **drake** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 12:34 am

cygre wrote:..Is there a rule as to when you can buy these ships, as we have been able to buy a mothership ok (although our race is Ikthorne)?

Thanks in advance

Cygre

"although *our* race is ikky" hmmm am i the only one reading this wrong? or did he say all of them are ikky and tried to buy a dessy? If that's the case, which is not uncommon amongst new players, you can only buy ships from your race and non-racials, you can not buy a ship from another race. If that's not the case the refer to previous posts about your user rating

cygre · Post by **cygre** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 8:38 pm

Thanks for that. I must admit to being ignorant on both fronts. I neither new you had to be a fledgling or that you cannot buy other races ships, so that now makes far more sense

Cheers

Cygre

cygre · Post by **cygre** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 12:22 pm

Wouldn't you know it. I became a fledgling this morning so can go buy what I like. Cheers for the help anyway though.

cygre · Post by **cygre** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 6:36 pm

Ok, I'm not sure if this is usual. I bought a federal warrant and I can no longer see my alliance members. I cannot see our forces and when we tried to raid a port together we had to do it individually. Is this as a result of the FW, or is there some sort of bug going on?

Thanks

Cygre

Volrath · Post by **Volrath** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 6:45 pm

it has nothing to do whit your ship. newbies cant see vets and vice versa in racial galaxies... this is a mechanism to protect newbie players as they start the game...
since you are now fledgling, this rule aplies and you can't see your members and their forces if they are newbies or begginners.
remember, this only happens in racial galaxies. if you go to non-racial galaixies, everybody sees everybody.

cygre · Post by **cygre** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 6:49 pm

Thank you, that makes much more sense.

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