Topic: For whoever locked the GAW thread (Read 6997 times)

CptCastrin · « **Reply #20 on:** March 13, 2004, 11:41:24 pm »

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But that would be an MMOTSG and few have the kind of server resources necessary...

But I thought everyone had a Cray up on blocks in the back yard

Nope, only have a AS400 ... now if I could run the kit on *nix ...

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and no, I'm not kidding ... I do have an AS400 ... along with 2 dual CPU servers and a bunch of other stuff. But the AS400 hasn't been run for a while and I'm a tad out of practice regarding it. But it has enough moxy to do the job ... if it could run the kit that is ... which it can't.

Maxillius · « **Reply #21 on:** March 14, 2004, 01:51:13 am »

So tell me, O Castrin, Keeper of the Machines....

What's an AS400?

ActiveX · « **Reply #22 on:** March 14, 2004, 05:42:45 am »

REALLY big scientific calculator...

ActiveX · « **Reply #24 on:** March 14, 2004, 11:43:02 am »

Mainframing is insecure though...

SSCF_LeRoy · « **Reply #28 on:** March 15, 2004, 08:44:39 am »

Actually, Dizzy, one could have up to seven fighters per squadron for a total of 28 fighters. Anything more than that doesn't work. Fighters won't launch if squad count is too high.

Dizzy · « **Reply #31 on:** March 15, 2004, 01:58:39 pm »

Its a shiplist thing.

The ships are all there. You hust have to pick the one you want in the yard.

What could be easier? And yeah, DH was brilliant. It all worked.

Rod O'neal · « **Reply #33 on:** March 18, 2004, 02:05:02 am »

From module J2,
Drogues: First developed by the Klingons in 2278 (Y178) as an outgrowth of mech link technology, these were quickly copied by other races and came into widespread use by 2280 (Y180). The basic idea was a structure that could be towed about 5km behind the ship on a "tractor-tether". The drogue could then be used for various purposes (launching drones or plasma torpedoes, electronic warfare, and other purposes). There were several types of drogues, each with their own unique abilities.

Dizzy · « **Reply #34 on:** March 18, 2004, 06:05:05 am »

So basically, you have an immobile PF that you can trac and tow round with you that fires stuff at the enemy?You could have a ship carry 4x drogues and since PF's are hot playable, you could trac the mother ship and it could fly along tractored to all 4x... That'd be cool. Wonder how much 4x drogues would slow a ship down?

Rod O'neal · « **Reply #36 on:** March 18, 2004, 10:53:00 am »

I feel that Paramount is stuck in the, "We won't make enough money from XYZ to want to be bothered to do it." mentality to issue a license that ADB or Taldren could afford for GaW. Not to mention the years of bad blood between Paramount and ADB that would have to be set aside for them to be able to work it out. Some of these big companies IMO need to look at Walmart and South West Air, for example, on how they're doing business. Walmart started building stores in markets that the major retailers said that they couldn't make enough money from. Now they are the largest retailer on the planet. South West Air charges rates that the other airlines believe they couldn't make enough money from. Throughout the airline crisis since 9/11 South West has been the only profitable airline and hasn't had to lay off a single employee. In todays business enviroment there isn't a single dollar that's not worth earning. If a company can't figure out a way to earn that dollar profitably then they need to realize that it's their fault, not the consumers, and figure out a way to do it.

The_Infiltrator · « **Reply #38 on:** March 12, 2004, 03:54:47 am »

Same on you. I and Hyper didn't even have a chance to begin attempting to preach to the masses yet.

Having said that, never lose an opportunity! GAW would hopefully include:

1. Missing races (Tholians, Seltorians, The 312 Neo-Tholian squadron, Andromedans)
2. Reserve power that actually works as it's supposed to
3. Plasma bolts, plasma sabot, plasma carronade, working dual purpose plasma-D
4. Stasis generator ships
5. G racks that work the way originally designed and don't cause balance problems
6. Complete overhaul in fighters. A seperate essay in itself, but mainly getting rid of fighter regen, making them smarter, ships having the correct number of fighters, etc
7. Advanced capability to mod things
8. Mission editors where you don't have to feel like you need to sacrifice a chicken to get a working mission
9. Option to have single internals
10. Option to have SFB like shield regen (IE, none unless you allocate power to do so)
11. Missing weapon fire modes (direct fire hellbore comes immeaditely to mind, there are others)
12. Specialty drones (swordfish, starfish, even the nearly useless stingray)
13. Missing drone types (Type-IIIXX magnum, Type-VI)
14. Missing drone racks (E rack, H rack)
15. Ability to customize drone loadouts so you can fire what you want, ability to customize drones as SFB
16. Working scout sensors - scouts are an enormous force multiplier in SFB
17. Ability to lend ECM/ECCM
18. Fighter pods
19. Ready racks
20. Scrapping the Dwhatever concept and coming up with something like F&E - IE, where economy is a big deal, limited production capacity, etc
21. Much greater numbers of players in a mission at the same time. Ideally 10 per side or so would be nice (IE, 20 human players at once)
22. And a totally new UI and scripting system to make all of this much easier to use.

For starters anyway. Just what I can think up in less than 5 minutes.

Teeth_03 · « **Reply #39 on:** March 12, 2004, 05:40:14 am »

Thats nice, but did ya get the clue that maybe people dont want ya to talk about it nemore,I really dont care,but someone must have if they locked that thread.

Just to make one comment on the subject tho,its a real pain on the arse having non-playable races,so make em all playable

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