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I think non vital systems should be destroyable by fighters.
I don't mean indestructable... but I think that a stream of graviton shots from one fighter should be a total of 0. Therefore you get a net loss of 650hp per shot for all weapons with < 1000damage. Makes it kinda useless for even one ship to attempt attack unless it has more powerful weapons. And with a hp regen of ~750hp/s (my own figure), even rockets are useless. Come to think of it, so are all weapons. Make that 500hp/s, using 20e/s
This is my cautionary note.
First, as best as I can tell the 'frigate' is in size and firepower about what most people were thinking of when the idea 'battleship' pops into thier head. It is almost like the devs, not content with some half-way incremental measures to make a class of ships slightly bigger than what we have now, decided instead to make the problem about as difficult as they could make it figuring I guess that once it was solved for nearly the hardest case, the other cases would be pretty trivial. By every standard I was measuring ships by it's huge.
You might be thinking that is a good thing. Alot people here seem to be of the bigger is better crowd. Make everything faster. Make everything bigger. Double the number of weapons. Ect.
But because it is huge and probablimatic I think alot of people are going to be a little bit disappointed when this thing first comes out. I've seen alot of people here drooling at the whole posibility of capital ships as if when such ships were introduced there would be some immediate transcendent gaming experience and everything would be just 'keen'.
It's not going to happen. The probably won't be player controlable anytime in the foreseeable future. They certainly won't be balanced or feature complete, and fighting them probably won't be all that interesting immediately. It will probably be something like fighting the bots now - there will probably be stupid exploits that people can do and the only people who die fighting the 'frigate' will be those that don't yet know better.
I hope I'm totally wrong here, but my suspicion is that this is not going to be what fantasy has made it out to be for some. I'm just saying this because when this thing becomes available, the last thing I want to hear is a bunch of the very people who whine every other day 'When are we going to get to see the frigate?' posting a bunch of whiny posts like 'THAT FRIGATE IS A P!#%#!@ $!$ AWET !@#$!$ @W#T$R!#@$'.
I'm sure the devs won't be totally happy with it either. This is all a work in progress.
First, as best as I can tell the 'frigate' is in size and firepower about what most people were thinking of when the idea 'battleship' pops into thier head. It is almost like the devs, not content with some half-way incremental measures to make a class of ships slightly bigger than what we have now, decided instead to make the problem about as difficult as they could make it figuring I guess that once it was solved for nearly the hardest case, the other cases would be pretty trivial. By every standard I was measuring ships by it's huge.
You might be thinking that is a good thing. Alot people here seem to be of the bigger is better crowd. Make everything faster. Make everything bigger. Double the number of weapons. Ect.
But because it is huge and probablimatic I think alot of people are going to be a little bit disappointed when this thing first comes out. I've seen alot of people here drooling at the whole posibility of capital ships as if when such ships were introduced there would be some immediate transcendent gaming experience and everything would be just 'keen'.
It's not going to happen. The probably won't be player controlable anytime in the foreseeable future. They certainly won't be balanced or feature complete, and fighting them probably won't be all that interesting immediately. It will probably be something like fighting the bots now - there will probably be stupid exploits that people can do and the only people who die fighting the 'frigate' will be those that don't yet know better.
I hope I'm totally wrong here, but my suspicion is that this is not going to be what fantasy has made it out to be for some. I'm just saying this because when this thing becomes available, the last thing I want to hear is a bunch of the very people who whine every other day 'When are we going to get to see the frigate?' posting a bunch of whiny posts like 'THAT FRIGATE IS A P!#%#!@ $!$ AWET !@#$!$ @W#T$R!#@$'.
I'm sure the devs won't be totally happy with it either. This is all a work in progress.
Yay! He agrees!
please no 1337 talk cele, don' understand it one bit :D
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