@Greenwall

Which is why I said large, and not main. I agree completely that the major reason was the inability of certain pilots to multibox.

Anyway you could implement this for player use but give it a high per shot cost? Even though the it looks like an energy weapon, instead make it act as an ammo based weapon. So using it against NPCs would be silly cost wise except for the most rich players?

So, I'm deleting some posts that are basically just celebrations of angst and schadenfreude. If you don't have anything helpful to contribute to the thread, don't post.

5-client trident users don't kill levis with caprails, they use neutron turrets. So, unless you are also going to nerf the arc of those, your purpose for nerfing the caprails (as stated above) is easily circumvented.

Heh. It's the first weapon to roll out with the adjustment, it's not the only one to which the adjustment will ever be applied. It's a dynamic game, Greenwall. I mean, I wrote a whole paragraph about adding new weapons too.

Anyway you could implement this for player use but give it a high per shot cost?

Theoretically, sure? But I'm not sure "cost" would be a meaningful balance in this case, there are some super-rich people, and that basically just creates another situation where a few specific people have access to weapons or content unavailable to others. Anyway, it's all a bit off-topic. Create a Suggestions thread, if you think you have a compelling case to make.

Yay, thanks ray and inc. While capship v capship isn't a full on thing yet making missiles stay locked on capital ships even if they undock is a really big step to me, a lot of the time players just undock and redock so that the missiles unlock and redock making it extremely hard to deshield. This makes players either consider their distance and how cautious they need to be or be really aggro. Even though they take awhile these updates are the kind I love to see you guys put so much effort into what your working on. Thanks again, keep up the amazing work please <3

good job devs!

do you guys do like a weekly/monthly checklist of the updates you plan to dish out on the weekends or is it like priority's this and that style?

Great job, gentlemen. You give a lot of people a lot of hours of entertainment they'd otherwise not be privy to. Keep up the good work. Putting your effort, financial stability and intellect into a passion project which has decidedly become the dominating force in your life and ostensibly Ray's is never an easy task.

That said, (haha, there's always a catch!) how easy would it be to create release the Capital Cannon Heavy (the "giant golden ball thingies") but only have them do damage to a certain type of armour or class of ship? I could craft a more detailed separate suggestion around this notion if you'd like. It sounds as if the ship stats could theoretically be modified in such a manner with the hints you've dropped about upcoming environmental effects of certain stellar phenomena, new weapon classes, etc.

I think the dev's general preference is not to create weapons with specific restrictions on who can be damaged by them. Also, as Inc stated, introducing such a crazy powerful weapon is going to have incredible consequences for PVE against Queens and Levis. I think such weapons need to wait until more progress has been made to create balanced capship battles.

That said, more capital class assault and defensive weapons would be welcome!

Thanks for taking the time to respond so thoroughly to these kinds of things, Inc. Surely it's frustrating, but few games give the players so much voice and so much insight into the design decisions that are made. Keep on keeping on.

This is a huge update with nothing but positive additions. Nice work!

Yay! Update! Thx Devs.

Btw where is my pony with the giant terradon canon? :p