[TrashMan]

Maybe you do fiddle with them long enough.  There are tons of well made missions available to play.

No, they just suck. Horribly. The missions seen required a tons and tons of workarounds and are still very limiting.

You can't set statistics or weapons of enemy ships. You have no control of their strength, nor can you give them any order (like patrol). You cannot change their IFF. When you place a squadron, you have no control over the number of ships spawned.
Scripting is non-existant.

[Scotty]

My God, it's as if this were an MMO, and the mission building was an entirely optional extra!

Oh wait, it is.

It's there to be played.  Tinkering around with it is, to the vast majority of players, ultimately irrelevent.

[Ravenholme]

I'm guessing then we won't be able to get the required amount of HLP players together to form a fleet tonight?

[Scotty]

I'm up for it.

[Ravenholme]

That makes two of us then. If I get a roll call of the required amount (Five?) going on here, we'll jump on and get it done quickly. I'm about falling asleep from fatigue so the sooner the better. Times will be in UTC/GMT if posted.

[TrashMan]

I can make it...



EDIT:
@Scotty - but they did add an editor. If you're adding something, then do it right. As it is, the editor is still in Alpha/Beta state, and the devs are promising enhancements.

[Ravenholme]

Well, Trash, complaining whilst it's in Alpha/Beta seems a bit silly. Instead, submit some useful crits to the Devs instead.

Okay, FleetMind Count is at Three.

Need Two More, Stat.

[Scotty]

So, assuming we get the five, how do we form a fleet?

[Ravenholme]

So, assuming we get the five, how do we form a fleet?

Earth Spacedock, register at an NPC there... I dunno if we need to be formed into a team but we'll do it just in case.

Any catchy names for the HLP fleet?

[Scotty]

Well there's the obvious 'Hard Light Productions'.

Over in the MechWarrior thread someone suggested 'Hard Lighters' for a company name.  Could work?

[NGTM-1R]

Earth Spacedock, register at an NPC there... I dunno if we need to be formed into a team but we'll do it just in case.

You have to be teamed, and all in the same instance.

[Ravenholme]

Well there's the obvious 'Hard Light Productions'.

Over in the MechWarrior thread someone suggested 'Hard Lighters' for a company name.  Could work?

Ehehe. That was me who suggested 'Hard Lighters'. Yes, it could work.

And, I suspected as much NGTM, cheers for clearing it up for me

[Scotty]

Welp, I'm just gonna camp around the Fleet guy if/until we manage to get five people.

[Ravenholme]

Welp, I'm just gonna camp around the Fleet guy if/until we manage to get five people.

Well, if NGTM's input was him volunteering as well, we're sitting on four. If not, we're still at three.

[Scotty]

Sparda, you, NGTM, Trash(?), and myself.  Dunno if Trash is already in a fleet or not, but that *does* make five.

[Ravenholme]

Sparda, you, NGTM, Trash(?), and myself.  Dunno if Trash is already in a fleet or not, but that *does* make five.

Ah, is Sparda online? I didn't realise. In which case we may have our five.

[Scotty]

Yeah, I think he's doing his first fleet actions right now.  I know he's on, at least.

[NGTM-1R]

I am in fact online, but was already part of the failheap fleet.

I'm not sure it matters.

[Ravenholme]

Yeah, I think he's doing his first fleet actions right now.  I know he's on, at least.

Hmmm, then shall we set the meeting for 2200 GMT/UTC? Give him time to finish his fleet action and see if he wants to help out.

[BloodEagle]

I can be there.