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Vale the poor workers
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 2:55 am
by bob19
Guys
I don't know how to express my thanks for what you have done here. Now been playing for about a month and having a bundle of fun. Still in galaxy 1 just doing hits, trading and passengers, making a reasonable profit for a mark 111. Who cares about elite iv, doubt whether it could get as good as this anyway. All of these oxps are brilliant keep up the good work.
Now the poor workers. 2 stations I pulled into last night were pretty crowded. Sat about a k out waiting for a workers commuter to enter, then boom, straight into the station, poor buggers.
Happened at the next station too. Don't think I would want to be working for that company if the pilots can't get into the stations
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 4:35 am
by hircus
Have you recently flown into a congested hub airport? Say, Heathrow or La Guardia...
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 3:21 pm
by pagroove
This happens fairly often with the Workers Commuter.
Travel The Workers Commuter Low Price, High Risk.
Re: Vale the poor workers
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 7:32 pm
by Captain Hesperus
bob19 wrote:Guys
I don't know how to express my thanks for what you have done here. Now been playing for about a month and having a bundle of fun. Still in galaxy 1 just doing hits, trading and passengers, making a reasonable profit for a mark 111. Who cares about elite iv, doubt whether it could get as good as this anyway. All of these oxps are brilliant keep up the good work.
Now the poor workers. 2 stations I pulled into last night were pretty crowded. Sat about a k out waiting for a workers commuter to enter, then boom, straight into the station, poor buggers.
Happened at the next station too. Don't think I would want to be working for that company if the pilots can't get into the stations
About that, I asked a friend in the Communist governemt of the system you first visited and recieved this communique from him:
ComOonin Spokesman wrote:In the Communist system, every citizen works for the good of the State. The pilots of the Workers' Commuters are amongst the finest of men, women and hermaphrodites, and as such we do not question their motives for taking their places behind the control pedals of the Commuters. Nor do we question their piloting ability or their eyesight.
Of course, our condolences go out to the families of those lost in the tragedies you mention, but we must reveal that these incidents were not attributable to pilot error, nor were they due to mechanical failure. They were actually the work of Pro-Democracy dissidents sabotaging the productivity of the Communist regime.
As this message is being transmitted, ComOonin agents are rounding up known Anti-Communists for interrogation and interment into the Peoples' Astro-Mines. None shall escape the justice of the Communist State.
LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE'S GOVERNMENT!!
Captain Hesperus
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 7:57 pm
by Eric Walch
pagroove wrote:This happens fairly often with the Workers Commuter.
I know that, I have the same problem with my Boa class Cruiser I am flying. The Workers Commuter has a height of 60 meters, exactly the same as my Boa. The dock has a height of 64 meters. That leaves just 2 meters of room at either side. It just needs a bloody good pilot to steer it into the docking slid without damage. (What I seldom manage, normally I sustain shield damage during docking)
With the Armadillo from buoyRepair.oxp it is even worse. That ship is 65 meters high and therefor will always scratch a port of standard galactic dimensions. It only survives because it has extra shielding on top and bottom. It's home-base has a larger docking slid so a new ship will not sustain damage to its painting before delivery on a launch. It would be bad advertising.
Re: Vale the poor workers
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 8:45 pm
by hircus
Captain Hesperus wrote:
ComOonin Spokesman wrote:In the Communist system, every citizen works for the good of the State. The pilots of the Workers' Commuters are amongst the finest of men, women and hermaphrodites, and as such we do not question their motives for taking their places behind the control pedals of the Commuters. Nor do we question their piloting ability or their eyesight.
Typical communist's hypocritical claims to gender equality. There are 17 recognized gender in the Ooniverse and they only let three become pilots 
Re: Vale the poor workers
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 9:56 pm
by Captain Hesperus
hircus wrote:Captain Hesperus wrote:
ComOonin Spokesman wrote:In the Communist system, every citizen works for the good of the State. The pilots of the Workers' Commuters are amongst the finest of men, women and hermaphrodites, and as such we do not question their motives for taking their places behind the control pedals of the Commuters. Nor do we question their piloting ability or their eyesight.
Typical communist's hypocritical claims to gender equality. There are 17 recognized gender in the Ooniverse and they only let three become pilots
Be fair! Of the remaining 14, 4 cannot sustain live in zero-gravity (Worker's Commuters do not employ Grav-plates), 2 can't sustain long exposure to live radiocative sources (Worker's Commuters tend to have a lack of effective radiation shielding), 3 are physically incapable of working the entirely manual flight control system (Worker's Commuters do not rely on computer-aided flight control) and the rest are too intelligent to risk their lives as passengers, let alone crew!
Captain Hesperus
Re: Vale the poor workers
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:12 pm
by FSOneblin
Typical communist's hypocritical claims to gender equality. There are 17 recognized gender in the Ooniverse and they only let three become pilots
Really? I thought all genders could fly. What genders are those? Don't call me stupid, I spent 4 years as a slave, they don't give slaves too good of an education.
Don't Panic: FSOneblin
Re: Vale the poor workers
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 12:05 am
by hircus
Captain Hesperus wrote:and the rest are too intelligent to risk their lives as passengers, let alone crew!
So some genders are more foolhardy than others
Actually, come to think of it, most racing drivers are male. Though considering you include women and hermaphrodites, perhaps some of the other genders are simply totally impervious to testosterone-like hormones and are, say, Vulcan-like.
Re: Vale the poor workers
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 2:03 am
by bob19
Captain Hesperus wrote:
About that, I asked a friend in the Communist governemt of the system you first visited and recieved this communique from him:
ComOonin Spokesman wrote:In the Communist system, every citizen works for the good of the State. The pilots of the Workers' Commuters are amongst the finest of men, women and hermaphrodites, and as such we do not question their motives for taking their places behind the control pedals of the Commuters. Nor do we question their piloting ability or their eyesight.
Of course, our condolences go out to the families of those lost in the tragedies you mention, but we must reveal that these incidents were not attributable to pilot error, nor were they due to mechanical failure. They were actually the work of Pro-Democracy dissidents sabotaging the productivity of the Communist regime.
As this message is being transmitted, ComOonin agents are rounding up known Anti-Communists for interrogation and interment into the Peoples' Astro-Mines. None shall escape the justice of the Communist State.
LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE'S GOVERNMENT!!
Captain Hesperus
Typical communist propaganda
Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 4:58 pm
by Dr. Nil