Moving Forward

[Lord Ghoul]

I am against the death star idea. Not only is it a very slow and stationary weapon, but it is always susceptible to attack as seen in the movie. It's more of an intimidation tactic than an actual weapon of war. I say we build an ESSD instead. It still has a superlaser, but it a lot more moveable.

No death star. Waste of resources.

 

[Sirella Valkner]

Well right now the concept is actually that of the Original death star as envisioned by the genosians.

 

[Teynara Jeralyr]

It's more of an intimidation tactic than an actual weapon of war.

And this is why we build one. Besides, I don't think the Admins will ever allow a weapon that can totally unbalance the game. If we build a Superweapon, it might get used *once*, but it'll have some sort of critical flaw that allows the other Factions to take a shot at it.

 

[Rhace Tarrin]

I feel it's a waste. Why not get a fleet of Star Destroyers, good quality ones? Just as much firepower, more utility.

 

[Teynara Jeralyr]

Arrogance of the Sith...

 

[Lord Ghoul]

and the Death Star isn't a superweapon that can totally unbalance the game? bull.

I'm for the more star destroyers idea. Let's max out our fleet rather than build some massive ball.

 

[Sirella Valkner]

I don't have art for it yet, but the superweapon for the campaign is intended to be fairly small. Instead of super big Death Star. Already planned out with Republic and Sith. But we only get it if we win. There is a chance the Republic gets it *shock* and then I need to design something different for them I suppose.

 

[Teynara Jeralyr]

You're missing the point again, Mikhail. No doubt a Superweapon will be allowed for RP purposes, but I doubt it'll be permitted to exist for long (i.e. it's built to be destroyed) or will be constructed with some massive technological flaw that will cause nothing but problems for the users. Otherwise we could just blow up Coruscant and be done with it.

 

[Lord Ghoul]

You literally just destroyed your own argument.

Build a superweapon as an asset, claiming it won't be a waste of resources.
Then you say that the superweapon has a massive achilles heel and will be destroyed fairly quickly.

Your reasoning is why it should never happen. Use our resources to do something productive, that will help permanently expand the Empire. Like a larger fleet of star destroyers. I thought Tirdarius was all about longevity of the Empire? I don't see that in your reasoning here.

 

[Teynara Jeralyr]

He is, but then again, he'd also never go along with such a dumb project in the first place. Superweapons are for intimidation or sheer destruction, and there are far better ways to achieve both.

Mine, however, is an OOC comment. Although I've no doubt we'll be allowed to at least start building one, a Superweapon is a game-changer, and a weapon that likely wouldn't be allowed without providing some serious disadvantages for the faction possessing it. Otherwise the mere possession of such a thing would equal victory.

 

[Eldoc Quasat]

We can always get a super weapon by building an SSID

 

[Teynara Jeralyr]

SSID's are not Superweapons, unless they're designed like the Eclipse: a vessel with it's own superlaser.

 

[Darren Onyx]

Well I agree with Tidarius. We have to design a flaw. If we don't have at least one flaw that could cause it to be wiped out, we can just go planet by planet and take everyone out. It would unbalance the game.

My original idea, as being discussed with Tef, is going to be a new superweapon that has one flaw. That flaw hasn't been decided on yet due to the affects it would have on the endgame battle. Other then that, I am fully aware that regardless of what we decide to go with, it need a flaw.

 

[Darth Carnifex]

I already have the best Superweapon idea.

THE BASS CANNON

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS_EjaslTcg[/youtube]

 

[Eldoc Quasat]

Even the Soverign Class Dreadnaught has a super laser..

 

[Arumi Zy]

Personally i think we need to show these minor factions we mean business and go on an offensive against a few to force them into treaties.

 

[Teynara Jeralyr]

Which would be risky, because they could all band up against us and cause a whole hell of a lot of trouble.

 

[Lord Ghoul]

Guess we'll just have to cross our fingers and hope the Republic doesn't have any X-wings....

 

[Sirella Valkner]

*Was about to make a Tech Entry for a Modern X-Wing* Ummmm..... yess... no X-Wings here....

 

[Soeht]

It's going to be a while until destroying planets and BZD's will be fine. Building a superweapon sounds like something that could be done to launch an Empire-ran event, though.