Posts by F/A-18 Hornet

  • What is the Best Flying Highest Rated Ship?

    <font size=1 face="trebuchet ms"><BLOCKQUOTE><hr size=1 noshade>Most &quot;powerful&quot; ship. In terms of hull and energy capacity Titan. Most &quot;maneurvable&quot; ship Eagle. Something in between. Sabre <hr size=1 noshade></BLOCKQUOTE></font><font face=´trebuchet ms, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica´ size=2> And the ship that can trash all three of those with relative ease, depending on pilot skill: Drake

  • Final Elite Server announcement! Good and bad.

    Doc, what gets frustrating is spending a few hours getting built up a new server after your old one announces its closing, only to find out the new server disappears the next day or two. It is NOT fun starting out fresh 8, 9, 10 times on new servers, just to find the next server that will actually be around longer than 2 or 3 days. What´s more... I haven´t been able to find a new server that is stable, will be around for awhile, and above all, has players on it. I´ve had to settle for servers that usually have no more than 3 or 4 people on them.

  • If there was a war...

    I´m gonna say that in a war, Rheinland would be the first to fall. Why? Read the info for Battleship Westfalen in Hamburg. It states that the Westfalen is <b>the only battleship remaining in the Rheinland fleet after the decimation of the entire fleet in the 80 Years War with the GMG. </b>

  • concept: missle to missle defense

    I´ll have you know it IS possible to use Wasps to detonate a Cannonball (or any other missle/torp) during launch. Just target your opponent, and try to hit him with the wasp as he is launching. Worked like a charm for me <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

  • Final Elite Server announcement! Good and bad.

    I know I´ll get flamed for this, but some of GotNoRice´s comments make sense. For example, he stated his enthusiasm for the game was sucked dry... I personally can understand that. I have played this game for hundreds of hours since the game came out, and already a number of good servers have dropped out. Fewer and fewer US servers are available, and I sure as hell am not going to waste time on an overseas server. My point is this: the time it takes to set up a new character on new server gets downright boring and really can suck the fun out of the game. It is time consuming, it is tiresome, and gets damn repetitve. I am SICK of starting fresh every single time I start on a new server. As GotNoRice stated, it´s not a Quake server where you can just jump in and have fun. If character files were stored client side instead of server side, so you could take your character to ANY server, it would probably be far less time consuming. Elite was a great server, but it doesn´t upset me to see it go. I just dampens my spirit and makes me less inclined to play Freelancer at all. That´s what I agree on with GotNoRice.

  • The Battle with a God.

    UPDATE: Boston Freelancer Server; Freeport 9, Omicron Theta. I met up with Earendil again, and challenged him to another duel. He was in his Eagle again...but I had switched to a Drake. By some miracle, I won. Thanks for the battle, Earendil. It was a lot of fun.

  • The Battle with a God.

    We were both flying in Eagles, fully decked with Nomads, Tizonas, so on. I had cannonballs, and he had a type of missle, either cannonballs or lancers I´m not sure. I used up 25 cannonballs trying to hit him. They impacted uselessly on his shields, never hit his hull. NONE of his missles hit me. It boiled down to a guns only fight when both of us gave up on missles.

  • Final Elite Server announcement! Good and bad.

    So long Stinger. I guess I could care less about Elite going down, but I did have fun there (when NEOs weren´t busy feeding me Cannonballs). But I have one concern: If Elite goes down, and numerous other servers have ALREADY gone down, how long will Freelancer itself last? My prediction is that, if many good servers CANNOT be maintained for more than a few months, I have very little hope that this game will last more than a year or two.

  • i´m not getting this??

    I wish the shield bats had more than just 300 points. Also, pressing shield bat button should only use the exact amount of points needed to recharge, leaving a battery with something like 150 points out of 300, only partly used.

  • Why misiles?

    <font size=1 face="trebuchet ms"><BLOCKQUOTE><hr size=1 noshade>&quot;If the limit of a function exists, than it is unique(and therefore, doesn´t exist)&quot; - My Calculus textbook <hr size=1 noshade></BLOCKQUOTE></font><font face=´trebuchet ms, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica´ size=2> That...brings back haunting memories of my calculus classes. As for the topic.... I prefer Starkiller torps cuz they are cheap and are about 80% (and in some cases 100%) as effective as sunslayers. I use them against NPC because there is nothing more satisfying than the huge explosion sound when the torp connects in a heated battle against 8 Hammerheads and then suddenly there are only 7 hammerheads left. <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Starkillers help in PVP, but not much. Sunslayers are great for PVP... if you are skilled enough to avoid eating your own torp. Something I did quite often in PVP duels. More often than not, I killed myself with Sunslayers, so i stick to Starkillers. As for missles, I find them far less reliable than torps, and far more expensive. I prefer guns to missles.

  • who likes bounty hunters?

    Bounty hunters make great dance partners and even better target practice. Try the following: Pick a fight with Bounty Hunters in Alpha. During the fight, find an Outcast and shoot him...fight both BH and Outcast. See how long you last... PS: Try it in a Valkyrie, like me <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Edited by - F/A-18 Hornet on 30-08-2003 06:16:08