Cosmic rage is your go to then. RP is encouraged but not enforced. Didn't grab me, I thought the writing was a little weak.. but others seem to like it.

I don't know, I didn't play it for long enough. But probably...

Hi.

So, regarding SC, just so i get this one right, the fringe guys are the ones with powerfull weaponry? Because if so, count me in for a grab of the best parts of the forbidden toys.

Greetings Moritz.

Yeah, basically just salvage debris chunks until you can asteroid haul. lol General tips... AEU's good at fixing things/supplemental stuff I signed up there but kinda wish I'd gone somewhere else now TBH. That, plus the recent situations kinda turned me off playing, it's like frickin' real life politics simulator 1.0 in there... maybe that's changed though, I haven't logged on for quite a while. League are the tanks, and fringe blow shit up. The asteroid mining activity is wonderful, wonderful cash. Get someone to show you the ropes of combat piloting... Miriani vets, spamming constant movement = bad. If you know you're gonna be generally away for a while, get yourself set up on asteroid belt management, because the points come in at a crawl, but they do add up. Get someone to tell you about the debris clusters outside of local sectors, and find the salvage station. You'll get more bang for your buck there, because taxes are a bitch on planets apparently. And on the RATS, for those who don't know already... don't bother trying to avoid their hits in space, you can't.
Hopefully something in here actually was useful. lol Does make me want to start playing again though.
Oh, also be warned... the hosts can and will spy on you on occasion. They won't actually do anything visible unless you're in a giant group out of local space, but sometimes you'll find that they do in fact watch what you say. lol I've had it happen to me before firsthand. Also, word is that they can on occasion be a bunch of jerks, but can't confirm personally, the few times I've assisted about anything they'd either be silently resolved or responded to with something like "should be fixed, try it now." but definitely not rude or jerkish.

Fringe ships don't have "better weaponry," just more weapon hardpoints, which are both great and not because  you have the combat energy grid.

The combat grid gives each weaponroom an allocated amount of energy, let's say you have the best one which gives you 1100 units of energy per room. Your chainguns take 12 units of energy each to fire. So, in a room with four or five turrets, that's 48-60 energy per shot, which, due to that grid's recharge rate is sustainable. Then take the fringe ship like the fantazain, and it has sixteen chainguns in it's room, that's sixteen times 12 which is 196 energy per shot. That is less than a minicannon, but take into account those chainguns are also firing at a faster speed, so you will end up draining grid at a much faster rate. Once you don't have enough energy to fire all your weapons you'll be reduced to what you can fire.

In addition, each weapon hit only ever hits one component, so if you pop that component any extra damage is wasted.

Regarding profiles, they are a pain only because the hosts seem not to agree on what they're looking for so what might have worked for one person doesn't work for another. As far as them being jerks. They do not take criticism very well, and, let's just say that all the really neat things, they are all in the same people's hands.

Case and point, On a trip I was on recently I had scheduled to do a mini-event with them. My wife surprised me with an anniversary trip for two days, and I was not able to be on quite as much as usual. I woke up in the middle of the event, and tried to take control since it was my ship. I go into the control room, and I see all the people with uber exploration experience there, and when I tell the rest to come in to be able to participate, they start biting my head off.

ON another trip that just happened, they went to this human station aboard a Mutuality ship. they all from what I understand were excluded from a meeting with the Mutuality and the station to set up trade agreements. Then the station gave away several pets, but not enough for everyone. They decided to group them by couples then give individuals their's, but two people in the Mutuality decided they wanted one each, and they got them.

It's little things like that which are irritating, and which you won't see at first, but after a while will start to annoy.

The only thing that's got me worried about he app is this:

Sentence for a concept. Then 500 words for a profile.

Also, I did pick up the Fringe ship book, but if I'm reading it right, it doesn't list the points for a ship, not that I'm expecting it to, but it'd be nice if the Fringe had something between 20 and 100 industry poins and 1.25 and 12 million.

So. Am I missing something or do I just need to get up to 100 industry points, with or without the belt station?

Also, yeah, I can't find the salvage station, but I do want to start scooping as well though as I heard it's good credits. I just have a hate of skim gates now....I'd rather wormhole there to be honest.

Hi,
Cosmic Rage definitely could use a bit of polish, but I am sure it'll get there in the end.
Miriani lost its Appeal to me after a while of playing it due to its disgusting playerbase, but honestly if soundpacks are concerned, it has one of the best ones around, despite the recent screwups that have been added in etc.
Star conquest is one of those good games as far as game mechanics go, but its the dickkish hosts and a select few players that tend to run everything that spoiles it for me.
I made this post
Around the month of May, and might be something people may want to have a look at before they jump into the game. I still haven't gotten in. I did continue to submit concepts once every week after that post, but obviously I gave up after 3 4 weeks or so.
Cheers
Grryf

cr never claimed to be a space mud
its sort of combine with ground part too
yes you have to  be at rank 40 to aquire a ship but it doesnt take that long to reach 40 in maybe fiew hours

i dont know what happenned there but you feel free to drop me an o t r, the names stormy

Okay, I'm Kira Callahan on there, so...yep I'm the quiet one asking newbie questions

SC is at moo.squidsoft.net port 7777

Or just google Star Conquest squidsoft

Okay, having dabbled in CR.....for a few hours and getting a few levels up....

My opinion is still meh. I feel like the grind at the start's a nice idea, but....but....I don't want to spend a week or two doing the same activities over and over and over again before I get to  a ship. I like the idea in theory, but I think it needs a whole lot of reworking.

It's billed as a space MOO, yet you have a metric ton of work behind a weak reason of 'proviede for for yor planet'. Which to me is BS, sure, have people on the ground at the start, hell, Fed 2 did that with having a mini puzzle in how to get your ship and how all that happened....but don't lock players into a cycle of doing the same activities over and over and over and over again. Like, at the moment, I can either jump on SC and write out a concept, setle in and earn credits for my alliance, or go on CR and mine and mine and mine till I get to level 10. TO me, one sounds like you're contributing to something bigger (the SC one. THe CR one sounds like it's an arbitrary reason.

I'd much prefer space thematic reasons to stay on the ground, like you got the academy, you have to go through that and do 'quests' of a sort and activities in there that related to space stuff. THen when you graduate, you know how to fly a ship, you know how to do all that. How does digging for fossils exactly relate to soaring through the stars? Maybe, just maybe, I'm not thinking about it right, but to me the grind to level 40 seems a bit redundant for what is a space based game, with everything after 40 being a lot more space themed.