Posted on behalf of Jeff Loruss
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Members of the Dark Brotherhood. Some of you may know me some of you may hate me :P However what i bring to you today is nothing short of cool!!
Recently i started a Freelancer guild with the help and full support of several DC members and Demos in particular. What we need now are members that want to play a decent Space sim dedicated to bringing glory to what we all are here for, the SW universe.
The Mod for Freelancer using the SW universe is totally cool and very accurate. There are little to no bugs. Which makes game play great. There is also very little to no lagg on a good server. It has an RPG aspect as well as a flying one. Teams of DB members could very easily become Pirates, Cargo Haulers. Imperial Pilots engaged in dogfights against NR fighters. Of course theres the Sith aspect of it as well . Since just tonight i found the Sith Infiltrator based on the one from Episode 1 of the SW movies. It is equal to or better than a T/D which is a good thing in my book :P
One more thing i would like to mention. We are looking for people that would like to be on a team of Creators to add to this Mod that is being used. To this end anyone wishing to do so may mail [Log in to view e-mail addresses] <<-- Demos he is the one setting this up. Please Also cc myself [Log in to view e-mail addresses] so that i can be in on things as well.
In closing what we truly need are pilots willing to have fun and to represent the DB in the Freelancer world. I would love to see what a full squad of pilots with T/D's or otherwise could do to anyone that comes along :P I would also like to see what kind of comps could be held and medals could be handed out for this sort of activity. Since the server i have been playing on has server wars on Saturdays it would be the perfect way to have a COMP based on this game platform.
Thank you for your attention. once again feel free to mail myself or Demos on anything related to this topic.
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Uh.... I'm sorry but I find it hard to believe that something as old as the Sith infiltrator can be more powerful than the T/D. What site did you use to get the stats for it?
The only thing i found was that it was made to be more powerful in the game. That doesn't mean that it actually is. However for the game and the mod that was made of the Infiltrator shows it to be equal to or greater than a T/D. Thats all :)
The Infiltrator, like the T/D, was not a mass-produced hunk of crap like most of the other Sienar ships. It is very well likely that the T/D and Infiltrator share similar specs despite the time difference.
If you don't like that answer, then consider this: It's just a game about fictional starships.
One thing to bare in mind is that 30 years isn't a lot. It isn't.
We might be going through a technological boom in real life at the moment, but that doesn't mean that technology always advances this fast. Just look back at history and there are periods of stagnation.
War often is the cause of technological advances. True. But at the same time you could argue the Empire caused a technological stagnation, for Palpatine would have practically stopped everything. The TIE Defender was just an attempt at a mass produced high quality fighter- which ended up being too expensive to mass produce. The Infiltrator was designed as private, no doubt expensive, transport, note that its actually far bigger than a TIE Defender.
That potentially is a limitation of the Freelancer engine, for the Infiltrator can probably acquire loads more guns than a TIE Defender, and since all ships in Freelancer go at the same speed, its size makes little difference to its agility. In reality the Infiltrator would be more sluggish and slower, in Freelancer it simply is tougher and more well armed.
The main point though: 30 years is nothing. Especially since the Republic would be at the end of technological advancement anyway, probably part of the reason why its economy had ground to a halt and why the Republic was beginning to stagnate. The Empire made technological advancements, yes, but mostly in terms of mass producing ships- even ISDs (theoretically) were far from the most powerful ships capable of being produced because they were still designed for mass production.
The Infiltrator may be old, but so are a lot of ships still in use... so its possible.
Although, if I was honest, I do agree that I don't like the idea of it being stronger either- just like I dislike the idea of the Naboo Fighter being strongest like it is in many of the games. Stronger than a TIE, sure, stronger than an X-Wing, maybe... stronger than advanced TIEs and A-Ws though? No chance.
Yeah, look at technology in KotOR. Pretty much the same as SW now, if you want to believe that...and it was what, 10,000 years before ANH? Something like that? Technology can't boom forever, I guess.
Yeah, look at technology in KotOR. Pretty much the same as SW now, if you want to believe that...and it was what, 10,000 years before ANH? Something like that? Technology can't boom forever, I guess.
Oh BTW, there are ship differances in speed and manueverability in Freelancer... infact we're using all the XvT stats for the ships we're putting into the game. Otherwise PVP in your favorite ship would be lame... :-p
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