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Title: Pirates
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on July 01, 2008, 12:13:56 am
and pirates using state-of-the-art tech? and anyway, which all recourses and industry focused on a long war with the Vasudans, then suddenly almost facing annihilation...                 ...GTA would not tolerate Piracy for long.

        Yeah, when I put pirates in my campaign I wasn't overly excited by it either. Fits in something like X-wing and Tie Fighter, which I made missions for when I played 'em. But seems odd having pirates in lokis and so forth. I think I tried to put the ole Avenger in there to give them some ****ty tech but I had problems so screw it.

         But for any sort of peace time mission what you can do? The player'll get bored if he does like 10 scanning missions in a row (not to mention the FREDDer will get bored, and I don't I friggin know!).

          Yeah, necrothreadagged, whatever, who gives a ****.
Title: Pirates
Post by: blowfish on July 01, 2008, 02:01:32 am
Yeah, necrothreadagged, whatever, who gives a ****.

We do

:necro:
Title: Pirates
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on July 01, 2008, 03:26:23 am
Yeah, necrothreadagged, whatever, who gives a ****.

We do

:necro:


       Meh, we both posted in a thread 3-4 months old, the difference is my post was actually vaguely relevant to the topic.
       Don't see the issue with responding to an old question that's only 5 posts down in a forum that's somewhat lacking in activity. Or would you rather I posted a "ST:R is seriously dead, i haven't seen a new screenshot in two days! omg! Prove me wrong"  :lol:
Title: Pirates
Post by: Black Wolf on July 19, 2008, 01:44:05 am
Necrothreading ternds to be OK ass long as something is added to a conversation and it's not so old that half the contributors on the thread have left.
Title: Pirates
Post by: Galemp on July 20, 2008, 09:17:05 am
If it's on the first page, it's fair game.
Title: Pirates
Post by: Androgeos Exeunt on July 20, 2008, 08:34:00 pm
Necrothreading ternds to be OK ass long as something is added to a conversation and it's not so old that half the contributors on the thread have left.
When you say that, Black Wolf, are you referring to bumping threads like those stored under Classics?
Title: Pirates
Post by: Topgun on July 20, 2008, 08:50:56 pm
those are locked though.
Title: Pirates
Post by: Androgeos Exeunt on July 21, 2008, 10:26:58 pm
I know. I'm just using them as examples. If they were unlocked and necro'd, is that an offence?
Title: Pirates
Post by: Droid803 on July 22, 2008, 01:03:24 am
They're locked for a reason.
Namely so that people wouldn't necro them.
Title: Re: Pirates
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on July 23, 2008, 12:56:41 am
     Oh this thread, I don't recall posting any thread about pirates. I'm guessing that due to the favourite faction thread someone's trying to stimulate a discussion on pirates? (hence the threadsplit) So go ahead everyone, talk about pirates. Yarrr.


Arrrr, ye matey: (pros)
-Pirates can give the player combat in peacetime
-or just provide low level combat in prelude to a larger war?
-be a logical enemy in any civilian based campaign? (even if they're corporate sponsored mercs)

Narrrr, ye blimey:(cons)
-pirates only appear in one mission of Silent Threat, widespread piracy has no basis in canon
-most user-made campaigns have pirates not acting like pirates? (not trying to steal cargo, just warp in and dying).
-don't fit the flavour of Freespace


Anyone else?
Title: Re: Pirates
Post by: Androgeos Exeunt on July 23, 2008, 02:56:48 am
Why is the Volition Bravos a pirate ship?
/me looks at the AJ Androgeos and sees it as a larger, upscale, purple version of the Volition Bravos.
Title: Re: Pirates
Post by: Snail on July 23, 2008, 05:21:33 am
The bad thing about pirates is that they act more like Shivans flying old crap.
Title: Re: Pirates
Post by: Colonol Dekker on July 23, 2008, 05:26:34 am
Depends on the pirate ;7
Title: Re: Pirates
Post by: Snail on July 23, 2008, 05:32:38 am
Depends on the pirate ;7
You'd fly like a drunk Shivan, I'm sure.
Title: Re: Pirates
Post by: Colonol Dekker on July 23, 2008, 05:44:08 am
It's morning and i'm sobre, have been for days  ;)

You'd fly like a big poo poo head no doubt...... :p
Title: Re: Pirates
Post by: Snail on July 23, 2008, 05:52:26 am
You'd fly like a big poo poo head no doubt...... :p
I'd just set the difficulty to Very Easy. :ha:
Title: Re: Pirates
Post by: Colonol Dekker on July 23, 2008, 05:53:49 am
Never thought of that :drevil:

Where would you bas e your pirate base?
Title: Re: Pirates
Post by: ShadowGorrath on July 23, 2008, 05:54:03 am
Whatever you do, a Deimos and multiple fighter and bombers will jump in, pulverise you all, and depart. Courtesy of the GTVA.
Title: Re: Pirates
Post by: Spicious on July 23, 2008, 06:19:49 am
The GTVA would murder anyone they suspected of piracy?
Title: Re: Pirates
Post by: Snail on July 23, 2008, 06:22:27 am
The GTVA would murder anyone they suspected of piracy?
Well, if it's anything like the British government... Yeah.
Title: Re: Pirates
Post by: ShadowGorrath on July 23, 2008, 06:24:31 am
They'd probably already have SOC or other agenst inside your little illegal organisation, so don't you worry- they'd have all the proof they need to introduce you to BGreens.
Title: Re: Pirates
Post by: Snail on July 23, 2008, 06:43:11 am
Until you find out you were just manipulated by a rival gang.
Title: Re: Pirates
Post by: Spicious on July 23, 2008, 07:23:27 am
The SOC spends most of its time infiltrating pirate gangs?
Title: Re: Pirates
Post by: Colonol Dekker on July 23, 2008, 07:29:02 am
Snipes has AGA (acute grog addiction) it's the only way the SOC can keep him sated and "upright" without grog Snipes decends into nonsencichal rants about how his dad never loved him and it drove him to enlist etc....
Title: Re: Pirates
Post by: Androgeos Exeunt on July 23, 2008, 08:02:08 am
Has anyone tried to park Volition Bravos in front of a Sathanas before? The results are what you expect.
Title: Re: Pirates
Post by: Black Wolf on July 23, 2008, 11:03:40 am
Necrothreading ternds to be OK ass long as something is added to a conversation and it's not so old that half the contributors on the thread have left.
When you say that, Black Wolf, are you referring to bumping threads like those stored under Classics?


"not so old that half the contributors on the thread have left."

Use common sense and we'll all be fine. :)
Title: Re: Pirates
Post by: DarthWang on July 23, 2008, 11:08:57 am
Pirates are the best
Title: Re: Pirates
Post by: Topgun on July 23, 2008, 11:58:08 am
no, ninjas are.
Title: Re: Pirates
Post by: Jeff Vader on July 23, 2008, 12:04:18 pm
No matter. Neither could defeat Chris, the Ninja Pirate.
Title: Re: Pirates
Post by: Topgun on July 23, 2008, 12:22:35 pm
what about Steve, the pirated ninja?
Title: Re: Pirates
Post by: NGTM-1R on July 23, 2008, 12:58:01 pm
Time to finish that Pirates and Campaign Design essay...
Title: Re: Pirates
Post by: Snail on July 23, 2008, 12:58:29 pm
Time to finish that Pirates and Campaign Design essay...
Yeah, that's a very good article, better than the BoE article anyway. :P
Title: Re: Pirates
Post by: NGTM-1R on July 23, 2008, 02:11:57 pm
Time to finish that Pirates and Campaign Design essay...
Yeah, that's a very good article, better than the BoE article anyway. :P

Actually, I think it's a rather bad one personally. Which is why I'm doing something very different.
Title: Re: Pirates
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on July 23, 2008, 02:30:51 pm
The GTVA would murder anyone they suspected of piracy?
Well, if it's anything like the British government... Yeah.

    Considering piracy or privateering was essentially sponsored by the British Empire that's one of the more inaccurate statements I've ever seen.
Title: Re: Pirates
Post by: Snail on July 23, 2008, 02:41:52 pm
    Considering piracy or privateering was essentially sponsored by the British Empire that's one of the more inaccurate statements I've ever seen.
Then you're living a long time, ago buddy.
Title: Re: Pirates
Post by: Colonol Dekker on July 23, 2008, 05:05:18 pm
    Considering piracy or privateering was essentially sponsored by the British Empire that's one of the more inaccurate statements I've ever seen.
Then you're living a long time, ago buddy.
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I second that motion......Akalabeth, no.....no...bad dog....on your rug :p

Privateering, pfft, never endorsed it, never will. Isn't pirates of the Caribbean enough evidence for you :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Pirates
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on July 23, 2008, 11:19:25 pm
    Considering piracy or privateering was essentially sponsored by the British Empire that's one of the more inaccurate statements I've ever seen.
Then you're living a long time, ago buddy.

     No I'm using the past tense. Hence was  . . . sponsored

     Someone's obviously crying because tv-links.co.uk got taken down. Boo hoo, who cares. God forbid someone has to actually buy something once in their life.
Title: Re: Pirates
Post by: Androgeos Exeunt on July 23, 2008, 11:53:02 pm
I still like The Pirate Bay's logo...
Title: Re: Pirates
Post by: Snail on July 24, 2008, 07:52:03 am
     No I'm using the past tense. Hence was  . . . sponsored
Then that's like saying the USA is just a bunch of primitive Indian wannabes.
Title: Re: Pirates
Post by: Topgun on July 24, 2008, 11:12:52 am
     Someone's obviously crying because tv-links.co.uk got taken down. Boo hoo, who cares. God forbid someone has to actually buy something once in their life.
what? come on!
Title: Re: Pirates
Post by: Getter Robo G on July 24, 2008, 06:07:23 pm
It's time for Pirates to Prosecute Ninjas...

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