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Post by jamobey on Feb 12, 2011 11:16:22 GMT -5
Would that also work for the other starting ships? Would the unlock work if I could hang tight in the Picky Beggar til level 10? (Moot point for me - my captains tend to last about one bus ride!)
Oh yeah - I'm partial to naming my ships "Cacafuego", from one of the early books in Patrick O'Brien's Aubrey/Maturin series about naval warefare in the Napoleanic period.
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Post by Cory Trese on Feb 14, 2011 11:35:29 GMT -5
Cacafuego -- Epic!
It would work with Picky Beggar. I did a check on the name, but with rename people said "awards are bugged."
Then I found another way, but it doesn't work if the game is translated, so I scRAPPED.
so the rule / award SAYS Vae Victus, but the secret is that it really means "any starting ship."
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Post by oldalchemist on Feb 14, 2011 12:11:39 GMT -5
So maybe the award should say "for reaching level X with only your starting ship."
As it is, I can't believe that my current captain on Demanding has made it so far in his tricked out V.V. Now he's taking contracts to try to unlock Spy.
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Post by demangler on Feb 16, 2011 21:22:04 GMT -5
My highest level character so far (he just died at level 9) Piloted a ship called the "Good Old Angus". Named after a character in the "Gap" series (a space opera by Stephan Donaldson) In the books his ship is called the "Bright Beauty" - Also a good ship name that will be my next. BTW, I highly recommend those books to anyone who is enjoying the rpg side of this game. For some reason the atmosphere evoked is very similar, although the backdrop is superficially very different. There are some masterfully rendered space conflicts in those books that I find easy to draw upon for imagination when playing this game.
Love this game btw. As a tabletop roleplayer for over 30 years, it is hard to find a game that has the balance of providing goals, challenge and context and food for imagination without spoiling it with too much of the wrong sort of - I dunno - gamery.... You got it right. Keep up the good stuff! dM
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Post by Cory Trese on Feb 16, 2011 22:39:39 GMT -5
I do enjoy Stephan Donaldson's work myself =)
and lots of table top roleplaying hehehe
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Post by cynik on Feb 17, 2011 9:00:24 GMT -5
Every ship I've had ended up with name "Evil"
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Post by oldalchemist on Feb 17, 2011 12:36:22 GMT -5
Donaldson really excels at making every last character unlikeable. The Gap is a great series about wonderfully horrible people.
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Post by oldalchemist on Feb 17, 2011 12:37:57 GMT -5
Donaldson really excels at making every last character unlikeable. The Gap is a great series about wonderfully horrible people.
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Post by demangler on Feb 17, 2011 15:59:50 GMT -5
Donaldson really excels at making every last character unlikeable. The Gap is a great series about wonderfully horrible people. Hey! Someone else who has read them! I had to respond to this, but to avoid hijaking the thread I made a new one here dM
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Post by spike on Mar 7, 2011 9:57:14 GMT -5
I always wanted to have an exploration ship called the Known State Compiler. Which is a very, very geeky joke.
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Post by ghrasp on Mar 7, 2011 19:44:56 GMT -5
My pirate Captain Thanatos has been known to strike fear in the hearts of anyone unlucky enough to be in range of his ship, The Pale Horse.
Original, eh?
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Post by absimiliard on Mar 8, 2011 12:55:35 GMT -5
In my game there's been a long, and quite notorious, family of space-ship captains. Due to familiy tradition, which MUST be upheld, all of them call themselves Dark Nemesis.
That family has a long tradition of attempting to get the best ship around (typically a Jango/Terror/Spear/whatever) and then naming it. Until that "final" ship none of the captains in the Dark Nemesis family ever name their ships.
The first captain named his ship "Virtue of Force" for he was a brute of a man, prone to invading other ships bridges and slaying their captains in hand-to-hand combat with a massive cutlass. He died when an enemy ship rammed him.
His son, seeing what happened, named his favorite ship "Virtue of Prudence" and tried to stay at range more. Alas he switched ships too often, and bought too many upgrades, and his ship was shot out of space when he couldn't afford to repair it.
That captain's son looked over his father's record and chose a new virtue to venerate, he named his ship the "Virtue of Audacity" and was a bold and audacious man much in the style of his grandfather. Alas the foul Narvidians put paid to his account....
Following on next in the family line, captain Dark Nemesis (the fourth most famous captain in his familial line) stepped up to the plate with "Virtue of Money". The Virtue of Money terrorized the galaxy for many, many years before an unfortunate encounter with a much more skill Cadar captain in a Titan Carrier that his Jango class cruiser just couldn't outrun, even after kicking in his "titan engines" and "ancient reactors".
Thankfully for the galaxy the family line finally died out. The last captain of this infamous family, still called "Captain Dark Nemesis" in the family traditional way, did not choose to carry on all his family's traditions. Though he settled early on a Spear class vessel he never chose to name it. Perhaps because of this lack of hubris, or perhaps due to cannier political instincts than any of his notorious ancestors, Captain Dark Nemesis finally succeeded in surviving long enough to ensure the galaxy would fear his name for all time.
(after which he retired from space to a fine family farm where he now raises spotted cow-oids and drinks black russians until he passes out)
-abs
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Post by slayernz on Mar 10, 2011 22:25:30 GMT -5
My current captain, an explorer flies Mortuus Mox = Soon to be dead. Thank goodness most wannabe crew members can't read latin. My next Smuggler will fly Sodes Iacio Nobis (Please shoot us) ... Latin is so great for naming ships.
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