I revoke anything I said about that ship being fair. they need to drop the cargo, and drop a small port from that thing...

It's maneuvering speed and lack of drain makes it nearly impossible to hit.

I'm also ticked that the IBG just lost its nice rolling abillity. now there's no counter to the rev C. IBG isn't even fun to fly anymore. It lost it's personality.

Andy changed some of the roll-damping code, so parts of the smaller ships have to be retuned for that. We've also changed parameters from one system of limiting max turn speed to an entirely different system.. so I'm going to have to re-tune for all of that too. Right now I'm working my way down from the biggest ships. I'll get back to the Centurion before long. I have a feeling there's going to be a lot of fiddling before this stuff is all "right".

Hmm, the IBG was also lagging behind with a max speed of 55 (it inherited that speed from the standard Cent, since it was never defined for that variant). I've upped that to 70. the IBG and Rev C were intended to be roughly on par. The IBG should basically be the best Cent, since it's an Itani design and all.

IBG upped to 70m/s????

O.O

O.O

O.O

But....I hope the Rev C/IBGs get nerfed down a bit. Maybe give them less armor.

On the other hand, the vults should get more firepower...

if that thing gets boosted to 70, like the orion ship the vultures need 3 small ports with heavy engines to forgive heavy weapons.

if, incarnate you're considuring giving vultures 3 ports, i'd give the vulture mk3, and above 3 ports, while the mk1, and the mk2 remain 2 ported.

*edit, in light of the prom, and the centaur updates, i can see where this rebalence is going.. ignore this post as i feel the vultures are going to get good :D

I'd have no problem at all with knocking the armor on the cents down a bit. I don't want VO to be a game based most on who's ship is most maneuverable. It's disguisting how the larger ships are so useless in combat. I truely WANT to fly larger ships, but it's a death wish with Valks and RevC's flying around.

I will adjust the light ships again (including the vulturius, which was an.. experimental change) but right now we're introducing a number of changes to how our configuration and balance tables work internally.. so this means that practically everything requires rebalancing again. But once this is all done, it'll be cool. Really! Honest!

I'll do another balance release on Monday night.