The thing is, with the way current cap ships manoeuvrer, the two fleets would go head on and then spend 7 minutes turning around to face each other again

Exactly what i was thinking

ShinjiKoon wrote:

what about bots?

I dont know really anything about modding, but for walking around ships, why not make like floating cameras insteed of character models, i mean you couldnt shoot but you could walk from one gun to the other and explore the ship.  I have no idea how this could be done, but i hope a dev reads this, it sounds plausible, and when you shoot down this idea, please not try to sound to harsh

Not possible in the game engine, unfortunately.

maybe even if battlefield 3 isnt the best game it might give more freedom for modders

forgot the 3

what about bots?

I dont know really anything about modding, but for walking around ships, why not make like floating cameras insteed of character models, i mean you couldnt shoot but you could walk from one gun to the other and explore the ship.  I have no idea how this could be done, but i hope a dev reads this, it sounds plausible, and when you shoot down this idea, please not try to sound to harsh

Not possible in the game engine, unfortunately.

Obviously 256 is overkill and would lag people out and stress the server out even more so.However, I bet at least 35 could be added no sweat. That's a big chunk of turrets occupied, which frees up more players to captain more capitol ships and corvettes/fighters. But of course this would take a lot of work balancing the different bots for different ships and such, and I don't know how thorough the modding ability is on those auto controlled bots.

herbanator3 wrote:

ShinjiKoon wrote:

is there anyway to make a server with more then 64 people? cause with a server with 100, even 200 people, i could very well see that, and it would be sweet!

i had a dream just like this, i had a dream i was piloting a calamari cruiser in this game, and i got off the pilot seat and starting walking around!

i think i heard this in irc, but i believe (now i could be wrong) that the bf2 and bf2142 engines were supposed to be able to handle 128 people on a single server. But it obivously doesn't work because of the incredible lag and the servers could not handle it, but the thought of it is pretty cool though

yeah, 64 servers are laggy enough, but you think thats enough people for a big space battle? thats why i was thinking bots, after all they have them in single player

bots would be cool too.. just imagine if 2142's engine was good enough to run 128 player servers.. it would be awesome to play a space battle or a really close quarters map. hell, with that many players on a server, you could recreate the Battle Of Hoth lol.. (sarcastically)

ShinjiKoon wrote:

is there anyway to make a server with more then 64 people? cause with a server with 100, even 200 people, i could very well see that, and it would be sweet!

i had a dream just like this, i had a dream i was piloting a calamari cruiser in this game, and i got off the pilot seat and starting walking around!

i think i heard this in irc, but i believe (now i could be wrong) that the bf2 and bf2142 engines were supposed to be able to handle 128 people on a single server. But it obivously doesn't work because of the incredible lag and the servers could not handle it, but the thought of it is pretty cool though

yeah, 64 servers are laggy enough, but you think thats enough people for a big space battle? thats why i was thinking bots, after all they have them in single player