Yes it's true! Following through on his promise to Kzinbane, Sockfoot logged onto the Khrohomag Test #1 server as a Lyran!
The other Lyrans on the server get a big kick out of seeing "Lyran Sockfoot" take his FF, the "Galactic Lawnboy" out for a spin.
He is drafted by Nomad, who is to shepherd him through his first baby steps in his new catfeet. All goes well and then ... WHAM ... Lyran Sockfoot CTDs.
Undaunted he logs back on and pulls a solo mission, a patrol, for some on the job training. The poor pirate LR stands no chance as the "Galactic Lawnboy" closes in with ESG blazing! WHAM! ESG tears down his shields and does significant internals in combination with the disruptors and phaser fire follow up. The LR is 1/2 dead in one pass!
Lyran Sockfoot then notices he must turn down not just one but TWO capacitors on a Lyran FFin order to acheive a speed somewhere over 8.
He widens the ESG sphere to "2" and closes in for the kill! WHAM! Pirate is smoking now and Lyran Sockfoot is stealing spare parts. He then swings a wide arch and finishes off the stricken LR with a burst of disruptors and phasers. Success! No more LR and Lyran Sockfoot earns his first 150 prestige points as a Lyran!
Feeling pretty good about his first action, Lyran Sockfoot returns to the map only to discover a full server lockup ejecting him from the server before his mission is reported to the server!
Alas, two missions and two crashes! Lyran Sockfoot feels a little dejected.
But he will be back for seconds!
Sockfoot ... er ... Lyran Sockfoot
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Delta One
Ensign posted 11-21-2001 10:12 PM
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He widens the ESG sphere to "2" and closes in for the kill! WHAM! Pirate is smoking now and Lyran Sockfoot is stealing spare parts.
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Hehe classic
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NuclearWessels
Ensign posted 11-21-2001 10:21 PM
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Hey, welcome aboard Sockfoot!
Try to get out of the FF and into almost anything else. In the same price range the MP is a much better ship - two esg's you can trickle-feed instead of the FF's second useless disruptor. As you get a little in the bank go for the DWLP and the CWLP. Very nice ships!
dave
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Sockfoot
Ensign posted 11-21-2001 10:46 PM
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Episode Two
Lyran Sockfoot logs back into the server with a look of determination on his face. He will fly and score prestige as a Lyran if it takes all night!
Lyran Sockfoot begins to look for a mission. He finds a patrol and takes it with grim resolve. He will succeed!
The bad man is a Mirak, Lyran Sockfoot's arch enemy! Lyran Sockfoot knows he must destroy him at all costs! His fingers dance across the keyboard with all the grace of a ballet dancing hippo, but he soldiers on!
As they close, the meannastyugly Mirak begins to shoot Lyran Sockfoot with his mean nasty disruptors. At this moment Lyran Sockfoot is made keenly aware of how paper thin the shields are on his FF, but he is undetered! He closes and lets fly with his trusty ESG!
There is a dreadful tearing noise as the ESG hits home! Lyran Sockfoot follows with disruptors but wisely saves his phasers for point defense against the retailiator mean nasty drones from the meannastyugly Mirak! He scoots away and checks his foes status bar. Lyran Sockfoot is more than upset at the general lack of damage he has inflicted upon the meannastyugly Mirak. In fact it seems that poor Lyran Sockfoot has only made the mean nasty ugly Mirak angry!
Then the meannastyugly Mirak lets fly with his mean nasty disruptors and phasers. Poor Lyran Sockfoot now begins to wish for his mother as his rear shields prove even thinner than the front ones and his trusty ESG is the first system to completely fail! Lyran Sockfoot now resolves to kill the meannastyugly Mirak or die trying!
Lyran Sockfoot has trouble remembering exactly what happened over the next several minutes, but he awakens from his killing frenzy to find the meannastyugly Mirak dead at the hands of his trusty ESG which somehow got back into working order!
Lyran Sockfoot is happy. Tired but happy. The meannastyugly Mirak is dead and Lyran Sockfoot can afford another ship, a CL+, which he buys without a clue in the world as to whether it is any good or not. He just knows that the "Galactic Lawnboy" is a death trap and he wants out of it so bad he will fly anything with more than 15 power!
Tune in next time for the continuing adventures of Lyran Sockfoot!
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jdmckinney
Ensign posted 11-21-2001 11:21 PM
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LOL -- if I'd been around, I'd have warned you away from the CL+ and steered you toward a nice DW or something. Frankly, I haven't flown a CL in forever, but it always seems wanting when you're in a CA hull with weakish shields, not quite enough point defense, and the rest of the general lameness of a standard CL.
By the way, I saw your crash, alt-f4ed, and then found my computer uncooperative upon trying to reenter the server. First I got in, but realized the alt-f4 had messed up my system enough so that the game wouldn't accept my keyboard input. I logged out and restarted my machine, only to find I was freezing whenever I tried to access server 1. I eventually restarted yet again, got into server 1, and found I was all alone. I reluctantly left my CC+ behind and went to server 2, where I have a fair, but uninspiring, MP+. I fought a battle in a nebula, which is always interesting for Lyrans (what do you do when you have no ESG?). I found I could run at speed 18 or above the whole time, and made more drones miss than could hit, luckily. After a good 20 minutes, I actually had the Z-DF down to the point where it slowed to something under speed 22. By the time I finally finished it off, I had enough minor damage that I spent 9/10ths of my points for the mission on repairs. Oh well, at least I found a way to make the AI a challenge.
Nomad
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Sockfoot
Ensign posted 11-21-2001 11:55 PM
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Episode Three
While waiting for his new CL+, Lyran Sockfoot resolves to again venture forth into the void with his FF the "Galactic Lawnboy." He takes an ambush the enemy mission and reverts to his former Klingon self, sabre dancing with his disruptors and phasers, while leaving the ESG off for a kill shot later. This strategy seems to work. That plus the Lyran DD which comes up behind Lyran Sockfoot's quarry combine to reduce the bad man to ashes in just under four minutes!
Enboldened by his success, and the fact that his new CL+ is still in the paint shed getting that final coat of no scratch finish yellow paint he ordered, Lyran Sockfoot decides to press on further into the void!
To his great chagrin he finds he has pulled an accept or forfeit monster mission. Knowing his FF, the "Galactic Lawnboy", when piloted by himself is no match for even the Cookie Monster, Lyran Sockfoot decides, reluctantly but valiantly, he must take the mission and try his best!
And what have we here!? Ah, what a sight for sore eyes! A Lyran CA and a CA+ appear in mission with him to aid him against the wickedevilbad monster! Now Lyran Sockfoot knows he is playing with POWER and not just playing with himself! (Uh, that didn't come out the way Lyran Sockfoot intended it to, did it?)
The two heavy cruisers proceed to make chop suey out of the wickedevilbad monster but not before Lyran Sockfoot adds insult to injury by landing a range 15 disruptor blast on the hapless wickedevilbad monster!
Lyran Sockfoot greedily collects his prestige and to his delight sees that his new CL+, the "Galactic John Deere" has appeared all shiny and ready to mow down the competition! Lyran Sockfoot drops the "Galactic Lawnboy" like a hot rock without so much as a good bye. Now his enemies will have to shoot him TWO times to get his shields down!
Lyran Sockfoot takes his first mission, a patrol, in the "Galactic John Deere" and, when he sees the double green line shields appear around him, feels as impregnible as an iron chastity belt! (Once again, not quite the right expression. Lyran Sockfoot must be getting tired.)
The poor Hydran CL is no match for the "Galactic John Deere" and its TWO blazing ESG's. The match ends in just 3 minutes with Lyran Sockfoot recieving a whopping 225 pretige points. Lyran Sockfoot prudently decides to return to base for the night to sleep on his success and plot his next move.
Stay tuned!
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KBF-Kor
Ensign posted 11-22-2001 12:28 AM
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That's right, Socky...keep practicing your skills with those growling, good for nothing, might as well be a paperweight ships. You'll need it for Friday night, 'cuz your cat-ass is goin' to be a hooowwwwlin!!!!
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Chancellor KBF-Kor
IKV Sephiroth
Klingon_CW@hotmail.comKor@blackfleet.net "Strength and Honor!"
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"A man once said 'Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back.'"
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Mog
Ensign posted 11-22-2001 03:55 AM
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Nice stories Sockfoot
You may not be aware but Lyrans have the ability to launch 2 shuttles at once - so a good tip is prep 2 suicide shuttles and drop them on the enemy on an overrun for 50 extra damage. Lyrans require mastery of many factors, but, once you have mastered them , they can deal mucho damage out
I have found that on occasions, I can finish a patrol mission in 2 - 3 minutes, which is on par with the drone 'em to death 'ers
NuclearWessels is right though, the trimaran (War) hulls are the best by far of the Golden fleet, and they appear quite early on also (2268 ish)
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Merriment Is All
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Skawpya
Ensign posted 11-22-2001 04:05 AM
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One little bit of tactics to keep in mind, with a Lyran you have a number of energy hogs, the ESG, the phasers, speed, and the disrupters. These take energy away from your much needed shield reinforcement. So if you know you wont to use speed or disrupter, or wont need the ESG or phasers again soon, turn them off, or slide them down. Net result, less power wasted on something you dont need, and your shields will thank you. With disrupters, if you go in for a lawnmower or weedwack, fire them at range 15, or 8 if overloaded, then turn them off which depending on the ship will give 2 to 12 extra points of shield reinforcement when you get close. Just remember that when shield reinforcement is no longer needed to switch power back into the weapons
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Kzinbane2
Ensign posted 11-23-2001 08:10 PM
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Yep, the key to Lyran flying is constant tweaking of sliders, ECM level, weapon on/off buttons and charge level (OL or normal dizzy).
Hope to see you in a "real" campaing some time!
Welcome to the Gold,
Kzinbane
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Sockfoot
Ensign posted 11-24-2001 09:44 PM
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Episode Four
Lyran Sockfoot is discouraged. His CL+ "Galactic John Deere" differs only from his previous ship "Galactic Lawnboy" in size and in its ability to withstand many more internals. He begins to think maybe he just wasn't mean to have golden fur after all. He lets out a discontented sigh.
But, ever the trooper, Lyran Sockfoot muddles on in "Galactic John Deere." He is fortunate to draft many AI allies as he continues to play Lyran like two 300 pound women wrestling in a pool of pudding; a whole lot of grunting and pushing with no results that anyone would be interested in seeing.
It is only by his stupendous good luck that he achieves enough prestige to purchase a DWL (or something like that) which he names "Galactic Case/IH." Now, at long last, is a ship so capable even a "ham handed" Lyran Socky can fly like a champ!
Lyran Sockfoot learns where to set the capacitor on his two ESGs so that one is always fully charged. Now the meannastyugly Mirak AI can no longer blast down his shields with one shot!
Lyran Sockfoot is now flying with the confidence he will be able to fly TWO WHOLE MISSIONS without returning to base to replace his spare parts! And even (dare he even think it?) venture outside the boundaries of Lyran space!
Lyran Sockfoot's initial runs in "Galactic Case/IH" are successful. He garners much prestige and is no longer afraid of the "monster under the planet" mission as he manages to slay one in his new ship. Lyran Sockfoot is starting to think that maybe he might be able to do this after all! Is that a smile creeping onto Lyran Sockfoot's face?
Then, just for a hoot, Lyran Sockfoot decides to look in the ship yard, and, lo, there it is! A BCPF (or something like that)! Anyway it is a big ol' ship with FOUR ESGs and, (Lyran Socky begins to hyperventilate with excitement) PSEUDO FIGHTERS! Yes, psuedo fighters just like the great Long Nail himself! Lyran Socky is really happy now!
But wait. Lyran Sockfoot has the prestige for this leviathan, but he doesn't know the slightest thing about psuedo fighters. He pauses. He wants desprately to be like the great Long Nail! But he knows just a little more than squat about flying Lyran ships. What good are psuedo fighters if you get the mother ship blown out of the air?
Oh what to do! Lyran Sockfoot is now completely stressed out about this decision. He should just buy a regular CA+ and learn to fly that, but .... Oh bother!
What would the great Long Nail do?
Then Lyran Socky thinks harder. More ships, more targets. Maybe the distraction of the psuedo fighters will give him a chance to score a few more shots on the enemy before he has to flee. Hmmmmm!
And before he can talk himself out of it, Lyran Sockfoot buys the BCFP! Now he will emulate the great Long Nail himself! Er, well, maybe emulate the Great Long Nail after a skiing accident has place both of the Great Long Nail's hands, arms and upper body in a cast forcing the Great Long Nail to play with his feet on the key board and work the mouse with a stick tied to his nose, but something like the Great Long Nail none the less!
Lyran Sockfoot proudly names his new ship "Intergalactic Harvester" and then promptly parks it in a stardock so as not to damage it or, more probably, lose it scant minutes after he receives it. He logs off the server, with a twinge of anticipation!
Later Lyran Sockfoot returns to the server after preparing and stuffing a turkey. (This is a looong story and Lyran Sockfoot is too tired to tell it right now. Suffice it to say, Lyran Sockfoot went 12 rounds with a 20 pound butterball and the butterball won a unanimous decision.) As he fires up his computer and loads his version of EAW, Lyran Sockfoot's hands are fairly shaking with glee and anticipation! Only moments until he takes to the void like a true Lyran!
But wait! What's this?! Lyran Sockfoot cannot log onto the server! He howls with rage! This after all his effort is too cruel a twist for poor Lyran Sockfoot to bear! No "Intergalactic Harvester!" No psuedo fighters!
Lyran Sockfoot slumps into his chair too dejected to speak. All he can do is wash his golden fur and wait for the next time.
<Sighs>
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Gook
Ensign posted 11-25-2001 04:40 AM
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Ok Socky, just got on the Fun server, I'm Lyran, my ships name is "Dozer" can you guess what it is
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KAT-Gook
KZ/Mirak MOD CW5
KZINTI Hegemony,
"Felix Fortius"
We are the Kzinti Assault Taskforce. Resistance is futile. Your Distinctiveness <burp> will be added to our palate (C)
KAT-Fleet
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Squiggy
Ensign posted 11-25-2001 04:48 AM
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Originally posted by Gook:
Ok Socky, just got on the Fun server, I'm Lyran, my ships name is "Dozer" can you guess what it is
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I know! I know!
It's one of those little green guys from Fraggle Rock.
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Skawpya
Ensign posted 11-25-2001 05:19 AM
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hmmm sorry I forgot to mention that our cl is probably the most underplayed ship in the game, most of us stick with dd's until dw's or cw's or ca's are available
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