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"You awake in a forum..." It's dark, only the light of a flickering neon sign casting a shape to the shadows. You smell stale beer and what might be leftover bar snacks. From several directions your ears detect unintelligible sounds, like drunken words in many foreign languages. While your...

It's a new technique to dissuade pad rammers. If we park it upside down, It looks like someone has already hit it.

All fine ships to fly into the sun with.. especially the 300, the rays reflect gorgeously off the sides just before it explodes.

If this is your normal humor, you're late, get in your Aurora and get in line.

How do you feel about getting shot at? This is the more likely scenario.... welcome!

Shit, he figured it out. I thought that by repping TEST at Citcon in TEST gear, manning the TEST booth for hours, carrying that gorgeous print by @Hasgaha right to the devs themselves, and drinking TEST funded.. (umm.. what were we drinking? @O-Lefty ?? @wmk??) that I'd pass as something more...

Easy way to stop that type of spying.. hand him another beer. Works every time.

That's a turret I'll happily man (in the game!).

Fair warning: Totally snarky comment at the bottom. Not necessarily the opinions of TEST, anyone in TEST, or anybody who may have been tossed out of TEST on their ass. Not my publicity manager, although the guy on the right did manage to talk his way into the White House, where he is often...

"Roles" aren't likely to change too much. Might be more accurate to say that the roles are getting better definition, leading to the ships being tuned closer to purpose as the game systems mature. This was ALWAYS planned, although perhaps not the method in which it's being accomplished...

The changes were largely made during playtesting before the patch hit PTU. Another example is the Terriblepin picking up a second shield. With the changes that were made, some ships needed more shield. The Sabre's losing a shield was *loudly* protested, and the public response was that it will...

Feeling you here. Feedback I've had/seen multiple times now is that the Vanguard and similar medium ships are *EXPECTED* to be survivable if there is a gunner in the turret, but not necessarily if the turret is empty. Personally I think this is far too limiting for the solo player and have...

This is part of a COMPLETE rebalance that CIG is working on. All the guns were drastically changed, but also all the shields, all the missiles, and I think damn near all the ships tuning. There are multiple goals in work; chief among them is making multicrew gameplay much more desirable. So...

You mean, like the Sabre's 4 shields.. I mean 3 shields.. oh, wait...

Agreed.. this is one of those areas where the needs for gameplay required something different. This patch is HEAVILY focused on multiplayer ships and co-operation, although there is a long way to go. @Raven_King Conceptually, nothing is different from what has been presented in this thread...

The wording could be clearer, but - a ship's radar is passive, until you send out a Ping which is active. Passive gives you a certain range, Ping gives you more range. Scan gives information about targets that you have either picked up passively, or with a Ping. IR, EM and CS are...

Two thoughts - 1) Ping is active, and somehow checks all 3 characteristics. Normal 'radar' in this game is passive until you push the button. And all of it is a long way from done. 2) 3.14 incoming. Brace for heavy rolls, er, 'balancing'. Some folks might want to stock up on potato chips...

By exploit I meant the older definition of actions taken, not the current gamer definition of unintended gameplay. Sorry, bad choice of words on my part. My point is that they are and have been doing the piracy thing, and can be expected to expand their targets as the game develops. THEY are...

No, boss, I'm not kidding. Because they are often out there trying out the different tools in the game, and tactics for employing them. Sometimes crudely, sometimes effectively, but the point is that they are doing it at a directed, team level. I'm not saying they are awesome folks in any way...

Mongrel Squad has been working the piracy gameplay for years now. It's worth checking out their youtube channel to see who is in their group, and how they operate. PvP holds no personal interest for me, but it's part of the game, and we DO need targets to shoot at..