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Re: New Tech

Thu, 08 July 2004 00:12

Sandman

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Registered: April 2004

I still think that the idea of requiring pop on a ship strays too far from one of Freestars best features; Consistancy with original Stars. No other type of ship (except Colonizers) require pop to perform a task and making carriers have pop makes them too oddball imho. Also, requiring pop on a ship handicaps races with lower growth percentages.

The Fighters can be done any way necessary to make them balanced and playable. They would likely work best as one-shot items (as was mentioned before) or perhaps as a sort of "missile that hangs around until the end of battle" type of idea. This would eliminate the notion of them being very small ships and overly complicating the combat engine. Make the Fighter Bays components that build and launch fighters the same way that missile launchers launch missiles. If increased tech makes better fighters available, then perhaps the hangar bays would need an upgrade the same as Missile Launchers become obsolete now.

As for mobile bases or ship-building vessels of any kind; I'm all for them if the details can be worked out. Again, I don't think that they should require pop to function unless the builder is an AR and then extreme playtesting is needed. Some sort of mobile Spacedock that can build up to 200 tons doesn't seem to be too overbalancing to me especially in the endgame. As long as the size of the vessels being built is kept to a sane number I'm all for it.

While we're on the topic of new hulls, I'm still in favor of a new remote-miner as well. Some sort of big hull that contains some slots for its own remote miners and the capability to build more from mined minerals. Note that I don't think such a thing should be able to build anything but miners and perhaps freighters but that's just me.

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		New Tech By: Sandman on Mon, 03 May 2004 15:37
		Re: New Tech By: EDog on Mon, 03 May 2004 16:05
		Re: New Tech By: mlaub on Mon, 03 May 2004 16:29
		Re: New Tech By: Kotk on Mon, 03 May 2004 16:37
		Re: New Tech By: Alien on Mon, 03 May 2004 17:03
		Re: New Tech By: Coyote on Mon, 03 May 2004 17:11
		Re: New Tech By: ForceUser on Mon, 03 May 2004 17:13
		Re: New Tech By: Coyote on Mon, 03 May 2004 17:08
		Re: New Tech By: ForceUser on Mon, 03 May 2004 17:36
		Re: New Tech By: Ozone on Tue, 04 May 2004 00:58
		Re: New Tech By: iztok on Tue, 04 May 2004 01:47
		Re: New Tech By: ForceUser on Tue, 04 May 2004 09:31
		Re: New Tech By: Sandman on Wed, 05 May 2004 20:59
		Re: New Tech By: Orca on Wed, 05 May 2004 22:44
		Re: New Tech By: The Taubat on Mon, 03 May 2004 23:13
		Re: New Tech By: EDog on Tue, 04 May 2004 14:29
		Re: New Tech By: Orca on Tue, 04 May 2004 15:14
		Re: New Tech By: Crusader on Tue, 04 May 2004 16:12
		Re: New Tech By: multilis on Tue, 04 May 2004 22:39
		Re: New Tech By: Sandman on Tue, 04 May 2004 11:33
		Re: New Tech By: Sandman on Tue, 04 May 2004 11:36
		Re: New Tech By: Crusader on Tue, 04 May 2004 12:58
		Re: New Tech By: EDog on Tue, 04 May 2004 14:08
		Re: New Tech By: dejan on Mon, 25 October 2004 19:20
		Re: New Tech By: icebird on Tue, 26 October 2004 21:49
		Re: New Tech By: ForceUser on Tue, 04 May 2004 14:06
		Re: New Tech By: Sotek on Tue, 04 May 2004 14:37
		Re: New Tech By: Sandman on Wed, 05 May 2004 20:55
		Re: New Tech By: Crusader on Thu, 06 May 2004 09:15
		Re: New Tech By: Sotek on Thu, 06 May 2004 15:19
		Re: New Tech By: iztok on Thu, 06 May 2004 18:03
		Re: New Tech By: EDog on Thu, 06 May 2004 18:58
		Re: New Tech By: iztok on Fri, 07 May 2004 02:00
		Re: New Tech By: perece on Fri, 30 July 2004 06:58
		Re: New Tech By: Sandman on Fri, 06 August 2004 01:48
		Re: New Tech By: perece on Fri, 06 August 2004 03:27
		Re: New Tech By: Factor on Fri, 06 August 2004 04:39
		Re: New Tech By: Downsider on Mon, 09 August 2004 07:09
		Re: New Tech By: Kotk on Mon, 09 August 2004 09:00
		Re: New Tech By: Downsider on Mon, 06 September 2004 20:47
		Re: New Tech By: LEit on Mon, 06 September 2004 21:39
		Re: New Tech By: Carn on Tue, 07 September 2004 00:25
		Re: New Tech By: iztok on Tue, 07 September 2004 02:19
		Re: New Tech By: Kotk on Tue, 07 September 2004 13:18
		Re: New Tech By: Carn on Tue, 07 September 2004 00:29
		Re: New Tech By: perece on Fri, 30 July 2004 05:42
		Re: New Tech By: SinicalIdealist on Sun, 10 October 2004 15:26
		Re: New Tech By: iztok on Mon, 11 October 2004 03:24
		Re: New Tech By: ForceUser on Fri, 07 May 2004 03:27
		Re: New Tech By: Sandman on Thu, 08 July 2004 00:12
		Re: New Tech By: BackBlast on Thu, 28 October 2004 14:56
		Re: New Tech By: sborden on Thu, 28 October 2004 18:17
		Re: New Tech By: EDog on Sat, 30 October 2004 16:13
		Re: New Tech By: multilis on Sat, 30 October 2004 17:53
		Re: New Tech By: sborden on Sat, 30 October 2004 19:19
		Fighters By: Factor on Fri, 30 July 2004 02:55
		Re: New Tech By: Factor on Tue, 03 August 2004 16:28
		Re: New Tech By: ninja_squirrel on Tue, 30 November 2004 20:18

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