vegastrike tales (come tell)

A home for tales of personal killcounts and engagements between vast armadas, as well as the odd recounting of that time you saw an alien capship taking out a mining base while trying to parallel park.
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Post by Dominos Muris »

I guess I'll go first,

it started out as a routine defend mission, no problem, I could handle it,
16 aeon in my areus, I flew through into the battle feild expecting to be defending a clydesdale, no such luck, i was defending a minning station.
(that means, for all you noobs, no fire support, or atleast very minimal)
Still the battle seemed winable I had a milspec areus with adv torps 20000 hull strenght and plenty of years experience, I got to my target and found a nasty little suprise, I wasn't fighting 16 aeon, it was 26 ariston with one vitik for support, :cry: :lol: :shock: several torpedoes, penetrators,photon blasts, heatseekers, tries, strings of swares, and credits later,(repairs to) I was finished, and very upset with my client, so saved, engaged the station, bought eveything at low prices (because it was all damaged) and killed the station! :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :mrgreen:
KHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!
you blood sucker
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Post by Kangaroo »

I once took a bounty mission with my own custom starship that could equip only missiles and was supposed to bring down 6 redeemers. Everything went fine, I took down 5 redeemers with some dumbfires. I had 3 dumbfires left and some FF missiles. So, the first dumbfire shot at him was a bullseye, but the bastard was smart enough to fly past my other two missiles. And whaddya know - he evaded 15 FFs!!! So there I was - unarmed against an almost blown up ludditie. I thought - let's get more ammunition, a commerence center is near. And then the stupid ship crashed in me and blew up (My ship was not the type to call "small".)
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Post by Dominos Muris »

ok, i got another here I was operating in my prmary sector for defends clean sweeps and other stuff (ingwata I think)
I had a bounty on a Yrilan, no problem right? Wrong.
The system I went to was crawling with area, 16 yrilan, 45 aeon and one yavok. :shock:
one thought went through my mind. " :twisted:"
I flew in with my godddard and started sytematicly killing each yrilan, but with out reenforcements i would probably be killed, another thought went through my mind. "why arent there any good-guy ships???"
because the aera had blocked off all the jump points leading to human space. so I went after a small fleet gaurding a jump point and as soon as it was destroyed, ships started jumping through, first, lancelots, then 3 clydsdales, an archimedes, and a tesla. this fight was winnable...
I started this fight at 10:00 in the morning and finished it at 5:30 in the afternoon.
After this fialed attack the aera were severly weakened and system after system of theirs was swept clean of their existence and replaced by our own. The aera had been defeated, for now.
the war only became bloodier in the galactic east , where the rlaan/aera border was. the rlaan started to lost systems one at a time. but this battle is a different story.
KHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!
you blood sucker
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Sam: YOUR ALIVE!!
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Post by Namlem »

Ok, whatever. I guess I have a decent story.

So I was in Ogawa, in an Andolian Starfortress to be specific. I was looking for a fun mission that could get a nice paycheck and a boost in relations with some other factions (especially the Aera as I was was hoping to become trading partners with them). I spied a good defend mission: I was to jump to Oceanus (I think it was that one) and defend a jump point against pirates -- 16 Plowshares to be exact. So I decided it would be a nice opportunity to try out my new Goddard. I took off from the space station and headed for my destination thinking this mission would be a piece of cake. I was right. The puny Plowshare spacecraft dropped like flies beneath the might of my Goddard, with its four laser beams, two disruptor beams, two particle beams and a few dozen friend-or-foe missiles (obviously I wasn't going to waste torpedoes against these things). After killing about 13 enemy ships, I noticed no more were coming. I decided to jump through the jump point I was guarding and come back to see if they would appear -- and so two more did. I immediately dispatched the first pirate craft and then started on the second. I had been in engaged in combat with it for no more than a minute when I saw it hurtling towards me at an incredible speed. I foolishly thought I could blow it up before it hit me -- or at least damage it and get out of the way. Unfortunately, I was still new to the Goddard and was not able to judge my own ship's maneuverability too well. As I realized it was just about to collide with me and blow me into a million pieces, one thought briefly raced through my head: "Oh crap."

Fortunately, I had saved before leaving for this mission. Unfortunately, I had just lost 30-40 minutes of my life and my favor with the Aera had dropped from around 84, back to approximately -46 which is where it was before the mission. Moral of the story: save in the middle of long missions if you gain favor with a faction you want favor with.
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Post by Shissui »

Namlem wrote:Moral of the story: save in the middle of long missions if you gain favor with a faction you want favor with.
That will not help in the way that you hope. When you restore from save, your mission in progress will reset & you must start it over again.
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Post by Miramor »

Here's a weird one...

As I'm new to the game and wanted a taste of privateer life (and a ship that didn't steer like a beached whale), I'd hacked my self a Lancelot. So, I've just wiped out a bunch of flimsy Redeemers and am heading towards the Cephid-17 fighter barracks...

(Note to devs: you might want to make the shields on the Lancelot a tad bit weaker.)

... When a pirate Plowshare appears to my side and starts firing. I turn around to attack it. I notice a beam coming from somewhere, which doesn't seem to be doing anything to my shields. I figure that the Plowshare isn't packing anything significant.

And then I die.

So I hit respawn... And, through some miraculous bug or something, wind up back in the battle and less than a kilometer from the offending Plowshare. Which I fly up behind and promptly demolish, and think, "Wow, that was too easy."

Then I notice that there's a corvette behind me, firing some kind of beam weapon which probably did me in five minutes ago. Fortunately, it's now firing into empty space, giving me a nice opportunity to fly by the thing a few times and blow it up. Which I do - with complete impunity, as this corvette seems not to have any turrets at all. Bizarre.

I think I just saw two nice bugs. Three, if the shield strength is messed up.
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Post by Jeff2121 »

Well, a while back I was in an uncolonized system and was running zero emmisions, so the Area raiders couldn't see me, then as I was about 20,000 m, my passives went crazy and this glowing green orb shot out from one jump point and went towards another at insane speeds, think flight mode with max SPEC speed. When I got back to the commerce center, I sold my ship and that was the end of it :wink:
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Post by wanderer »

I had an intresting little adventure today. i decided to take a little stroll through the jumpsystems and try to find earth in my supper retrofitted llama (auto tracking, disruptor beams, ion beam, tractor for collecting up debris and rescuing downed pilots ect not to mention 2 load outs of photon swarms which I've found handy for smashing up small fighters that keep swarming me) anyway after about an hour and a half I get to earth and land only to find nothing there. the cargo coputer was practically empty as was the upgrade centre and the only ships for sale were light confed ships a couple of merchant mules and llamas, the odd hunder hyena ect. I went to every planet and base in the system and found just about the same someone has stripped the cargo practly clean leaving just the bare minimum straingely mostly erotica, drugs and alcohol (guess the were planning a boring party) and only one fighter base had any upgrades, namly one laser beam, one level 1 reactor, one level 3 reactor, a reactor compacitor and that was about it. so I decided to jump to one of the nearby systems and look for more weapons or a better ship only to find the same. I searched the best part of 20 systems around sol and every one of them was either devoid of life, not even inhabited planets. or had unstocked bases. and to add to it every time I approached a base or plannet i was swarmed by pirates and ulns, then to add to that the ISO decided to join in the battle but to my supprise the ISO decided to even up the odds and join my side so there was me and a lone sickle up against more than 10 pirates plowshares and a dozzen or two hyenas who were then joined by about 6 uln hyenas and about 8-9 more uln llamas. at this point my shields were taking a beating and my new ISO buddy was within secconds of being killed when the jump point near the research base I was planning to dock with opened up and spewed out a squadron of about 15 luddite redeamers all I could think was "OH GODS!" then to my added supprise the luddiets zommed straight past me and the ISO sickle and started laying into the pirates and uln allowing us to win the battle then as I approached the research station a lone confederation fighter jumped into the system and killed my ISO buddy after he helped save the confederation research station and within secconds was pounced on by the luddites. I thought about helping him for a moment then decided he was on his own after all he just killed the guy who saved my life and was now attacking fighting with the guys who had saved the station. anyway afer docking and repairing my ship I decided to do my civic duty and give the confed pilot's escape pod a tow back to the station.only for the station to shout at me for carrying contraband which i had to laugh at. and was thinking, yeah I know the pilot is contraband but would you rather I leave one of your pilots to get blasted in his escape pod by more than a dozzen ludites, at least I brining him to a friendly base.

personaly I think the whole contraband thing needs a overhall, after all giving a confederation pilot a tow to a friendly base shouldn't be illegal. it's no diffrent than a tug boat at sea.
there should be a way to handle them such as if you are caught flying to an enemy ship/base with a pilot on board you get attacked by the friendly faction while if you fly to a friendly ship/base then you should get a reward. same thing when capturing enemy pilots, it could spark the enemy to target you while landing on a milatary base with an enemy pilot onboard should give you some kind of reward (maybe a medal, rank or financial reward)
it's a simalar thing with carrying ISO propaganda in ISO space the ISO will attack you (correct me if I'm wrong)

(and now I've given the over worked, underpaied development team even more things to think about I'm going to hide lol)
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Goddard vs Tesla

Post by Iain »

Who's funny idea was it to make it so Teslas can only fire forwards? A ship that big ought to be able to fire in all directions.

Anyway, I got right behind one in a Goddard, matched speed, and proceeded to just pound his aft. My first, and thus far only, cap ship kill.
OH NO! I have been wacked in the head by a Perfectly Normal Beast!

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Post by Iain »

While fighting some pirates in my shiny new Tesla class Alba, I accidently bumped (OK, smashed--but it really was accidental) into a Purist vessel of some sort. The other fighters in the squadran began to attack me. I told them that if they did not cease fire I would have to deffend myself. Since they did not head my warning, I proceeded to dispatch them.

After this, Purists began to hunt me. It seemed like every system in Sol sector had a few waiting for me. After a while of this, I became angry and decided to hunt me some. I went to Earth, stocked up on ammo and some cargo, and looked at the Mission Computer. There were a few missions that took me into Purist space, and I accepted on. First encounter with a Purist occupied system, I went on the offensive. My first target was an unfortonate Dodo that happened to be too far away for his weapons, but close enough for my P Minus beams.

After that, my next target was a commerce center. I aimed Alba in its direction and brought her up to speed, without Spec on. I activated the Ai in all my PD turrets (Note-Why can Teslas only mount PD turrets?) and then cloaked. I hit Spec and went on in. Once I was within range of the commerce center, I killed my forward speed and blasted it from a distance until finally it went up. By this time several fighters of various types had begun to attack me. I had some fun with my heatseekers, killing most of the Purists. I sold the others the farm with my energy weapons.

This continued until everything Purist in the system was wiped out. It made the news. Now I am wondering if I now own it since I have a cap ship and have been in-system for a while.
OH NO! I have been wacked in the head by a Perfectly Normal Beast!

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Post by Miramor »

Dunno... VS seems to have surprises in store everywhere.

Re PD turrets, the Tesla is designed specifically to destroy capships and other large, tough targets. As such, it's kind of weak on defense. It's probably designed with an escort of a couple Kahans and some Dostoevskys in mind, although I don't think the engine allows that in 0.4.3.
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Post by loki1950 »

Re Controlling the system sorry guys not yet no infrastructure in place for player ownership of systems :(

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Post by Jeff2121 »

Lol, this one was a bit strange, until I figured out the problem.

I had just bought a Progeny, and loaded it with heatseekers and IR missiles because there were about 6 priates outside, maybe 4 Plowshares and about 2 Hyenas. (I suck at combat). And as soon as I exited Serenity, my "radar" went crazy and I couldn't move, fire or anything, and all this was happening with the pirates shooting me.

So I re-docked and looked ay my ship, it turns out, as stupid as I am, I still needed to buy a reactor and radar, so I just switched to my Llama and ran for Arixtares. :oops:
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Post by Boaal »

I havn't played in a while, but I do like my hyena, I go hunting in it and its a sturdy vessel no doubt.

SO I was on a contraband mission and I think I had to jump through three or so sytems. The pirates didn't like me much before this, and bny tyhe end of it they damn well hated me. With good reason. I got to the first jump, two hyena and a plowshare, after a battle i had dispatched then all, no damage, my sheilds had absorbed all the fire and my hull had soaked up anytrhing that got through. SO i get to the other side of the jump, two more pirates, and i dispatch them, two more ambush me at the next jump, so I;ve dispatched six hyena's and plowshare in one sitting and I'm feeling that maybe they will leave me alone now. So i hit jump and went into the final sector to get my money and drop off my cargo.

Wham, there are a good six ships waiting fr me on the other side, and by now my damage is rackig up. SO I;m not a fresh ship anymore, SO I dispatch two ships but all the fire I'm drawing is far too much and I had to flee to the planet.

Well, those pirates dont like me. Definatly dont like me at all.

Edit:

Well, I've come back to the game now, and I got myself a nice little milispec lancelot, should help with all the heat seem to be drawing lately. So i went out to test it, i nitially aimed for goddard, but i got impatient selling off dodo's and stuck with a lancelot instead, i'll grab a Goddard later. So I went out and roasted a few pirates, tore through some plowshares and hyena's like they were butter. On my way back to the space fortress I blazed through a couple of hunters in robins too.

SO I went back the base, grabbed myself a mission, kill some pirates in another system. So i was on my way there, jumped through a warp and suddenly there are four dodo's all waiting for me on the other side. DGN dont seem to like me - 34 love from them, so suddenly I have all sorts of tractor beams comming my way. I laugh at this and open up on one, graze through its shield turn it orange and watch it drift past me. Swivel around and lock onto the nearest one, which is heading straight at me.I didnt have enough time to turn and it kammikazi'd into my lancelot. proving once and for all that i am not invulnerable to the dodo, the least likely of ships to take me down.

Funny thing is that now I have had around 8 seperate encounters of the same kind. nutty little DNG dod's with tractor beams all trying to destroy me. I havnt killed on of them, i;m not sure why they have a grudge on me, but they certainly are insane....
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Post by Vector_Matt »

Boaal wrote:I'm not sure why they have a grudge on me,
They are friends of the pirates. and (in 4.3 anyway) the uln like the dgn and somebody else likes uln, etc...

It makes killing pirates annoying, because I don't want to kill the dgn and get the uln mad at me, and then kill some uln and get (confed?) mad at me... It's vicious.
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Post by loki1950 »

@Boaal there is a new model for the Hyena in svn there is a screen shot posted yesterday i believe.

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Post by Halleck »

The new model has been there for quite some time, but it was hard to notice because it still had the old hud image. I just updated the hud image, added a glowmap and engines and so forth. It looks pretty decent now. :D

You can see it at http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/wiki/Vessel:Hyena
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Post by Boaal »

Hmmm, nifty looking model :D
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Post by Kalessin »

I have started the game the last week. I have just done the campaign and some little missions and only commerce in Cephid 17.

I just have my llama and one plowshare for heavy cargo between serenity an d Atlantis in Cephid 17. I have seen two cargo mission for Enyo during a stop on Atlantis. I have decided to take them.

I regret : http://www.kalessin.fr/videos/vegastrike/powned.avi (14,5MB, download could be long I only have 60kBps for upload)

How after only one week of play, can I be attack by such an army ? How can I defend myself with a llama against that ? :x
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Post by loki1950 »

Looks like you gave a good accounting of yourself.That Llama is a tough little ship :D your next purchase in the upgrade path should be auto-tracking for all your weapon mounts expensive but they do work to increase the number of hits on your target.you can find some at starfortresses,commerce centers,and factories.BTW what did you use to capture the video.

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Post by Miramor »

@Kalessin: might be a good idea to retitle the video to be SFW. Some bosses don't understand the slang.

Edit: BTW what's up with the video skipping like mad (when played from the hard drive)? Your framerate looks okay to me.
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Post by loki1950 »

@Miramor i don't get any skipping when i play it from the HD at full screen :D a few dropped packets maybe the source off that skipping.

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Post by Miramor »

Oh... Might be GStreamer shrinking it down to fit my screen then.
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Post by Kalessin »

Ok I have changed the file name. With videolan I don't have any problem to play the video.

Thanks for your tips loki1950.

The video has been recorded with yukon and seom (http://www.neopsis.com/projects/yukon/ http://www.neopsis.com/projects/seom/) then encoded with mencoder with the h264 codec on my Debian box.

Under windows you can use Fraps.
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Post by loki1950 »

Thx for the link Kalessin should be nice for grabbing some eye candy clips 8)

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