On 2012-01-12 12:58, Talien wrote:
Forgot to post this the other day, but I'm really liking the random AI names. It's a lot better than the basic ship with a roman numeral attached.

On 2012-02-01 20:22, Gejaheline wrote:
Some stuff I discovered:

Variants of ECM/ECCM have deactivation messages of " inactivated" rather than "Inactive" like other devices.
Narrowband and focused ewar cannot be activated while cloaked. This is presumably intentional. However, longwave ewar, which is non-targeted, also cannot be activated while cloaked (even with a target selected, see the bug about LW not being usable without a target). Standard ewar can be activated while cloaked.

On 2012-02-02 12:18, Roukanken wrote:
i know its not a so important thing but when i logged into beta, saw that AIs has names now! that was good but ICC ship initals confused me.
Ý think ICC uses initals of ConfederatedStarShip C.S.S. but in beta they had ICS. What's inital are these? or is there a mistake?

On 2012-02-02 16:22, Fattierob wrote:

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On 2012-02-02 12:18, Roukanken wrote: i know its not a so important thing but when i logged into beta, saw that AIs has names now! that was good but ICC ship initals confused me. Ý think ICC uses initals of ConfederatedStarShip C.S.S. but in beta they had ICS. What's inital are these? or is there a mistake?

Before the Farstars war the UGTO ships used the prefix "TVS" for "Trade Vanguard Ship". This reflected the fleets primary purpose of an anti-piracy role.

With the breakout of the Farstars war, the UGTO ships had their prefixes renamed to "UWS" - United Worlds Ship. This was largely a response to the Farstars ship prefix of "CWS" - Colonial Worlds Ship (Some ships were also designated "CSS" - Colonial Systems Ship). The farstars were a more rag tag group then the ICC so their ships used whatever designation were they were produced from - CWS from the military shipards, CSS from the civilian, etc.

With the Farstars eventual defeat and swallowing up into what is now the ICC, the ICC decided that any old ships could still bear the "CWS" or "CSS" prefix, but any new ships produced would use the new ICC prefix - "ICS" for Intersteller Confederate Starship. This was to signify the new unity of the planets and their co-operation against the UGTO

The UGTO, meanwhile, still sees the ICC as rebel scum so this doesn't effect the UGTO ships at all, so they still use the "UWS" prefix.

On 2012-02-02 16:22, Fattierob wrote:

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On 2012-02-02 12:18, Roukanken wrote: i know its not a so important thing but when i logged into beta, saw that AIs has names now! that was good but ICC ship initals confused me. Ý think ICC uses initals of ConfederatedStarShip C.S.S. but in beta they had ICS. What's inital are these? or is there a mistake?

Before the Farstars war the UGTO ships used the prefix "TVS" for "Trade Vanguard Ship". This reflected the fleets primary purpose of an anti-piracy role.

With the breakout of the Farstars war, the UGTO ships had their prefixes renamed to "UWS" - United Worlds Ship. This was largely a response to the Farstars ship prefix of "CWS" - Colonial Worlds Ship (Some ships were also designated "CSS" - Colonial Systems Ship). The farstars were a more rag tag group then the ICC so their ships used whatever designation were they were produced from - CWS from the military shipards, CSS from the civilian, etc.

With the Farstars eventual defeat and swallowing up into what is now the ICC, the ICC decided that any old ships could still bear the "CWS" or "CSS" prefix, but any new ships produced would use the new ICC prefix - "ICS" for Intersteller Confederate Starship. This was to signify the new unity of the planets and their co-operation against the UGTO

The UGTO, meanwhile, still sees the ICC as rebel scum so this doesn't effect the UGTO ships at all, so they still use the "UWS" prefix.

On 2012-02-02 22:56, Kenny_Naboo[+R] wrote:

Rob! I like the new AI ship names.

How abt letting players name their ships too? I think it'll be a worthy addition to the game. It'll be cosmetic yes, but it might rekindle player interest in the game again perhaps.

Players shd either be able to name their ships individually...

Or perhaps just choose a single ship name in their profile that'll apply to any ship they're flying. Let the name be unique within that faction if possible.

Is this feasible?

On 2012-02-06 11:44, Gejaheline wrote:
Quick thought on the targeted electronic warfare gadgets, since while they sound cool and I like them, I suspect they have a couple of fundamental flaws (which are making me think "oh crap, these may be useless")

The fundamental flaws are twofold, and are variants on the same basic issue.

Okay, targeted ECCM. The idea here, presumably, is to make hostile targets more visible so that you can shoot at them if they've got lots of ECM.

Problem there, however, is that you need to be able to target them in the first place, and if YOU can target them, so can all of your friends.

Once you get it pointed at them, of course, it works fine, so the moment that ECM scout gets close enough you can keep it painted until it runs away. Until it DOES become visible, however, your ECCMs are dead weight.

On the other side, targeted ECM.

The problem here is that- Wait, okay, for one, targeted ECM should inexplicably be used on your ALLIES, not your enemies, even though this runs against real-life ECM.

What I was GOING to say is that since enemies share sensor information, blinding one target isn't going to be very effective, but it turns out it actually works in a really weird manner.

I think e-war need a looking at in general, perhaps. More on that when I dig out my giant posts on e-war refactoring.


And yes, I do write my posts like a stream-of-consciousness exercise.