Just a thought really..

posted on February 3rd, 2008, 2:44 pm

I was wondering if it could be possible to have a merchant station where players can buy or obtain old or unique one-time-only ships, of course the stations offerings will differ from race to race?

posted on February 3rd, 2008, 2:52 pm

Yep, hireable mercenaries are planed for the future, but they wont be in v3

posted on February 3rd, 2008, 3:06 pm

Cool. Are you able to give any more info on these hireable mercenaries feature?

posted on February 3rd, 2008, 3:10 pm

its planed to have neutral stations which do not belong to a player but where players with vessels nearby can hire vessels. the mercenaries you get will be random and will perhaps have constant upkeep costs instead of construction costs.. but thats only planed and not implemented yet

posted on February 3rd, 2008, 4:32 pm

So if you run out of resources, you lose the mercenaries or.... they forcibly try to "take" resources from you? Could this see the return of latinum as a resource?

posted on February 5th, 2008, 5:16 am

So if you run out of resources, you lose the mercenaries or.... they forcibly try to "take" resources from you? Could this see the return of latinum as a resource?

I dont think so because A2 allows a max of 3 resources and as of now those three are dilithium, tiratum, and supply, so unless you dont mind losing 1 of those 3 you will most likely not see latinum (well unless they hack it in lolz).

posted on February 5th, 2008, 8:35 am

are credits a resource? i know you can't really "mine" it, but still it sort of is.

posted on February 5th, 2008, 5:32 pm

Will it be posabule to distory a merk nutrole station if you need to.


Exsample if your loosing and you know the merks ships are a resin can you mainly attack the station? and if so will  the station fite back?

posted on February 5th, 2008, 7:43 pm

i'd say yes on both counts. but who knows, err... besides the mods

posted on February 5th, 2008, 11:45 pm

are credits a resource? i know you can't really "mine" it, but still it sort of is.

no the credits take the place of officers

but now that I have thought about it biomatter could be used some how as another recource but I dont know if you could have all 4 at once for one race >:( but I think it is more possible than if their were only 3 like I thought I will talk to doca about this