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The only alpha damage based anti-hull weapon that even comes close to being good is a missile weapon, and that's specifically because missile damage distribution towards blocks does not diminish across the damage dealt nearly as much. You keep adding damage to the shot, that crater is going to...

I wouldn't say alpha is OP, and I don't know if Jaas is either. We were talking about it in private, and she pretty much said up front that it's only better for shields and that it's shit for blocks :P There's a fun bit of meta play going around, though, based around the idea of alpha damage...

WaffulMann's dual-axis turret suggestion comes to mind. I'm pretty sure that thread is almost single-handedly responsible for the amazing rail system we have now.

What I've pretty much determined is that an alpha damage assassin ship is great, but alpha damage for endurance based fleet ships is not quite as good. If you can one hit kill someone's shields, then you've made some sacrifices in other areas to be able to support the power capacity - though...

200k blocks, as is listed in the phase 1 rules

Using a Shield Supply beam counts as that entity being under fire, so it also receives the recharge penalty of being under fire. You start out with 5% shield recharge under fire at high shields, which becomes 10% recharge at very low shields. Shield recharge stops for a few seconds after...

A checkbox in advanced build mode. When pressed, it shows the sector's boundaries in the form of a wall graphic similar to how Planes of Symmetry are rendered. It also draws a line/arrow through the center of each sector, running through the X Y and Z axes. This will make it possible for...

I'm in, for obvious reasons. Pew pew pew. inb4 Karkinosz kills everyone with dumbfire missiles again

I'd like to add that we should have a "Select Array" button too, so you can track down those pesky arrays with 30 less blocks than the others

The explosions work the same way as very weak missiles, they do 2000 damage per hit, and their maximum radius is 8 - though you'll be hard pressed to get it anywhere near there without multiple impacts. I think that they do not have damage based on group size, but rather, just cause extra...

You take fifty different Sci-Fi series, and you get fifty different ship classification systems. What's a frigate in EVE Online is a fighter in Star Wars, and a frigate in Star Wars is a destroyer in EVE, a cruiser in Star Trek doesn't even have a set size because all the species have their own...

hypehypehypehypehypehypehypehypehypehype yes, I know this will likely take another year or so to get in

No solid classification systems in the game, please. The Blueprint point system that we're getting just needs to be fixed up so we can have a good idea of how offensive/defensive/maneuverable a ship is - I believe that was the original intent. I think we're supposed to also be getting some...

Cross-posting from the "Lights and Logic vs. Power" thing. Maybe an "auxiliary power" type of system could also be useful as a backup against EMP weapons, but it would have the penalty of being on a totally different system from the rest of the ship's systems as well as having lower power...

I'm in full support of this. I'm mostly irritated by missiles being able to hit targets that are *inside* the parent ship after leaving the ship

It's not pointless because it provides another engineering skill leap in capital ship design. A docked reactor ship will win every time against a brick ship of equal size, unless alpha damage derped, but it takes much longer, and you have to design the entire ship around the docked reactors...

It makes no sense that missiles will fly through a ship after curving around and hitting it just because it's the one that fired them Put a timer on them or something, jesus. There's no good reason why a missile shouldn't be able to collide with its firing ship after its left the area already.

That is one damn nice base.

The idea is that a trap system wouldn't work without power, but I see where you're coming from here :P