- Author Tamren Shade
- Creation date
Tamren Shade
Thanks for the review and of course the stars!
I will admit, beautifully detailed was my primary goal on this ship, and why she took so long.
By total block count I have about 10% devoted to weapons, 20% devoted to shields/Ion defensive, 40% Devoted to armor, 15% Devoted to Thrusters, and the final 15% devoted to power systems, interior, and misc.
In hindsight it would have been better for me to go for pierce and punch defensive effects giving the amount of armor I have.
With this ship I wanted to experiment with several different weapon systems in field conditions, which kind of led to the arguably excessive amount of Dakka I installed :p
I do really like the idea of changing out the swarmer battery for a multiple output M-B system and that would make it more suited to the role I envisioned.
The nukes only use up about 3000 blocks out of my 440K ship and they are strictly a special case weapon, for busting stations or hastening the death of a ship that's been stripped of AMS turrets. I don't use them unless the target is slow and bereft of point defense system.
The shield criticism is fair, the light shields are one of the drawbacks I accepted for the .7 T/M Ratio and armor. I could go back and thin out the extra thick hull and replace the inner layer of armor with shield capacitors and get a lot more blocks free then the 10k blocks I could get by dropping the ion beams and halving the secondary missile batteries.
I was intending to build a light cruiser when I started, but somewhere along the line as I was building, the distinction between light cruiser and heavy cruiser started to blur. Which is evident in the final stats break down.
I'll bounce back to this design at some point and probably split the line two ways.
A lighter hulled, faster, shield-heavy proper light cruiser design and a slower, better armored heavy cruiser variant with full pierce/punch defensive systems and a hull made mostly of advance armor.
I will admit, beautifully detailed was my primary goal on this ship, and why she took so long.
By total block count I have about 10% devoted to weapons, 20% devoted to shields/Ion defensive, 40% Devoted to armor, 15% Devoted to Thrusters, and the final 15% devoted to power systems, interior, and misc.
In hindsight it would have been better for me to go for pierce and punch defensive effects giving the amount of armor I have.
With this ship I wanted to experiment with several different weapon systems in field conditions, which kind of led to the arguably excessive amount of Dakka I installed :p
I do really like the idea of changing out the swarmer battery for a multiple output M-B system and that would make it more suited to the role I envisioned.
The nukes only use up about 3000 blocks out of my 440K ship and they are strictly a special case weapon, for busting stations or hastening the death of a ship that's been stripped of AMS turrets. I don't use them unless the target is slow and bereft of point defense system.
The shield criticism is fair, the light shields are one of the drawbacks I accepted for the .7 T/M Ratio and armor. I could go back and thin out the extra thick hull and replace the inner layer of armor with shield capacitors and get a lot more blocks free then the 10k blocks I could get by dropping the ion beams and halving the secondary missile batteries.
I was intending to build a light cruiser when I started, but somewhere along the line as I was building, the distinction between light cruiser and heavy cruiser started to blur. Which is evident in the final stats break down.
I'll bounce back to this design at some point and probably split the line two ways.
A lighter hulled, faster, shield-heavy proper light cruiser design and a slower, better armored heavy cruiser variant with full pierce/punch defensive systems and a hull made mostly of advance armor.
My objective when I was working on the ship was to really push myself to detail well, and build some decent looking turrets. I wanted enough interior to play around with, but I also wanted her to have enough firepower and support systems to be viable in a PVE environment.
I got the looks down, but on the server she's underperforming a bit going after custom pirate stations. I have some ideas, but I think I'll send you a private message with some questions about pushing up the Winter's combat potential. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!