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(This message has been edited by 21st Century Digital Boy (edited 01-22-2001).)

Stop it! There are too much ideas to be handled by samurai only. I think we should participate in the project by making our ideas ourselves (for those who does not know anything to plug-in designing, it's very easy, you can learn).

For "my" drone kamikaze ship, to do not make it too powerful, should have the damage of the voinian missile, a mass of 5 tons (either in space or in your ship) and a bad speed, acceleration and maneuver, to compensate for the unjammability.

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M'enfin!
Y'a personne qui parle français ici?

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Originally posted by Zacha Pedro:
**Stop it! There are too much ideas to be handled by samurai only. I think we should participate in the project by making our ideas ourselves.
**

I would if I were at home...

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Wait a second...

Yah, there was once a flak cannon, but I found it disappointing... So could you try and redo it?

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Zacha Pedro said:
**Stop it! There are too much ideas to be handled by samurai only. I think we should participate in the project by making our ideas ourselves (for those who does not know anything to plug-in designing, it's very easy, you can learn).
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This is a good idea. If Samurai is willing to accept help from strangers, that is. Perhaps he doesn't want to be waiting for submissions from masses of seperate people... a common cause of delay or non-appearance of a plug.

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Also posted by Zacha Pedro:
**For "my" drone kamikaze ship, to do not make it too powerful, should have the damage of the voinian missile, a mass of 5 tons (either in space or in your ship) and a bad speed, acceleration and maneuver, to compensate for the unjammability.
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Sounds good to me. I like the idea of a missile you can (and must) dodge. The 5 tons thing is less straightforward, though, since you can only include mass as a one-off for the bay. A 'launcher' that would hold five missiles would weigh 25 tons by your reckoning. At the damage of a Voinian rocket, this is more than fair.

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(This message has been edited by VoinianAmbassador (edited 01-23-2001).)

Allright, It'll go like this. If you have an idea and you want to do it yourself, make it, send it in to me, and I'll put it in the plug. If you have an idea and you want me to do it for you, tell me how you want it to be. Keep in mind that it may not come out exactly as you'd hoped. If you're idea is too late in coming, I'll add it in with the next version.

If you can, send PICTs with your idea. My graphics will never ever look like you imagined the Outfit. If I get too many ideas for me to handle, the plug release may be delayed.

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Shoot, I know nothing of graphic, but I suppose that the flak cannon would be long and heavy built..

Give us a hoot when it's done!!

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Izitready?Izitready?Izitready?

boingboingboing

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Hi! I'm Alien the Hinwar and I'm a stuiped jerk!
I'm big, mad, strong, and Hinwar! I yell 'LONG LIVE THE UE!', but I smash vikimadegie lovers every chance I get!
Cause I'm Alien the Hinwar and I'm a stuiped jerk!
I'm always making the mods mad doing something or another, but I'll never learn! I'll never turn! Look at my karma!

Er, to put it bluntly, no. So far I've got these outfits fully implemented:

Hellfire Turret
Neutron Ram
Sideswiper Launcher
Sideswiper Missles
Flare Launcher (stole PICTs from EV)
Decoy Flare (Ditto)
Gunpod Bay
Gunpod

Others I hope to add:

Systems Enhancement
Fuel Bomb + Rack
Cloaking Device

Hang in there!

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Originally posted by VoinianAmbassador:
**So you've got the code, and I've got the graphics... can we perhaps put something together? We could make it a simple gunpod pluglet (item on sale as Mavs or somewhere), or perhaps we could both donate what we have to Samurai's project... please let me know.
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I've sent him code already.

A stealth missile is a good idea. maybe a graphic that looked like a cloak distortion, or maybe looked like a star as one white pixel. This could just be a regular missile, not a ship.

A cloak distortion is impossible unless EVN (and I'm not sure ) :frown:

The drone Kamikaze is near completion. I just need to use the pict of the space bomb from EV (EV is really useful, isn't it?).

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M'enfin!
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Oui, je parle Français.

You could make it look a bit like a cloak distortion with some good quality sprites though.

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Is the answer to this question 'no'?

Félicitations, Arada pilot, tu es le premier que je rencontre!

Well, after testing the Kamikaze Drone (do you americans rather say "Kamikaze Drone or "Drone Kamikaze"?) it does not work so well : it is invincible, is not very accurate (due to the ship AI, different of a missile AI) and other problems :frown: I hope I'll resolve them, but if it goes on not working well, I may abandon the project an make another thing for Samurai plug.

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I have a stupid idea. How about a weapon that extends your shields (w/ long range) out at the targeted enemy. When it hits, it deals great damage to the enemy w/ great damage to your shields.

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Hey!! My flak Turrent!!

And Arthur, that's not a bad idea if possible, how bout just being able to ram your enemies?? That would be great for all those annoying fighters!!

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Hi! I'm Alien the Hinwar and I'm a stuiped jerk!
I'm big, mad, strong, and Hinwar! I yell 'LONG LIVE THE UE!', but I smash vikimadegie lovers every chance I get!
Cause I'm Alien the Hinwar and I'm a stuiped jerk!
I'm always making the mods mad doing something or another, but I'll never learn! I'll never turn! Look at my karma!

Shield against shield battle? Warships would win too easily.

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M'enfin!
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Somthing that would make it easier to capture ships. would work by giving your ship extra crew members.

a description in the game could be "gives your crew body armor, enhaced blasters, boarding explosives etc etc
should be quite expensive as well as hard to find and/or illegal to have in some ares-promting authorities to try and do a cargo inspection, like in some missions.

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I likr Tycho's idea! How about battle droids? Send em on to the enemy ship and watch the fun...

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Hi! I'm Alien the Hinwar and I'm a stuiped jerk!
I'm big, mad, strong, and Hinwar! I yell 'LONG LIVE THE UE!', but I smash vikimadegie lovers every chance I get!
Cause I'm Alien the Hinwar and I'm a stuiped jerk!
I'm always making the mods mad doing something or another, but I'll never learn! I'll never turn! Look at my karma!

In EVO Enhancer (to be released hopefully sometime next month) you can buy phase blasters for all you're crew. An Arada with this upgrade has about a 30-45% chance of capturing a Lizara.

And that shield-to-shield battle isn't possible in EVO.

A missle distortion cloak is possible through the sprites, and i think it is a very good idea.

And it would be possible to make something to ram you're enemies. Buy you would need a very resourcefull programmer

</lame programming joke>

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The Voinians aren't bad people, they're just ruled by the Voinian equivalent of Nazi's.

Hmm, I like the body armor/weapons/battle droids idea. Alien: Your Flak Turret is in. I just need to finish up the graphics, and then she's ready to go. I've also added:

Renegade Modifications - Takes away 15 Cargo, adds 30 weapons space. You can only get one for each ship.
Enhanced Sensors - 5 tons. Reduces Sensor interference drastically.

P.S. How's the Kamikaze missle/drone thing coming, Zacha Pedro?

P.P.S. The Gunpods came out great. I changed them so that they could rotate in place and fire cannons instead of turrets, cause I found that they were prone to blind spots. When you launch them, they drift along with your ship. You can command them to fire at enemies while drifting, or drop them in space and use them as shooting mines. They're cool.

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