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Re: Viper mod

Mon, 17 January 2005 19:34

Coyote

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iztok wrote on Mon, 17 January 2005 02:27

Hi!

I've checked hulls. Some comments:
- DD is supposedly a warship, but it can mount only 2 weapons; Confused

It can also shield-stack like a frigate but with 200 base armor. Smile

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- 2 general slots on Super minelayer. With its amount of armor you got one pretty cheap sweeper, that can also lay mines and scan, or an awesome overcloaker;

Indeed. Now there's a reason to use this hull.

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- no armor or shield slots on Large freighter. Quite often I put cheap shield(s) on late game LFs, to protect a fleet of them from single minehit;

Yes. You should be more careful about them mines.

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- Scout has only mechanical slot - problem with tech trading by scrappers;

Scout may become simply an engine and a general purpose later on, depending on whether we like them to carry weapons or not. Right now it's meant as a scouting ship and not a fighting ship. I actually wasn't thinlking about tech trade at the time, but I'm sure we can find a workaround Smile

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- FF is far away in tech tree (bio 15 Question

), probably mentioned as a fighter. Since Scout can't mount weapons, what hull will be chaff? Confused

Chaff is not as useful anyhow because capital ships - and even cruisers to a better extent - can carry very good ECM systems now. You can still find a way to build chaff if you want, but it's intentionally deprecated.

There's a different rock-paper-scissors dynamic, it's no longer beam / missile / chaff, but just as dependent on the electronics you use as your weapon systems. So far we haven't found any big lumps in the Rule of Counterdesign, if you do lemme know. Smile

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		Albemuth Mod (Jan 2005 start) By: Coyote on Sat, 15 January 2005 21:21
		Re: Viper mod By: Ptolemy on Sun, 16 January 2005 05:01
		Re: Viper mod By: Coyote on Sun, 16 January 2005 19:20
		Re: Viper mod By: Ptolemy on Mon, 17 January 2005 00:08
		Re: Viper mod By: iztok on Mon, 17 January 2005 05:27
		Re: Viper mod By: Coyote on Mon, 17 January 2005 19:34
		Re: Viper mod By: Ptolemy on Mon, 17 January 2005 21:11
		Re: Viper mod By: Kotk on Mon, 17 January 2005 22:03
		Re: Viper mod By: Coyote on Mon, 17 January 2005 22:43
		Re: Viper mod By: Ptolemy on Mon, 17 January 2005 22:58
		Re: Viper mod By: Ptolemy on Mon, 17 January 2005 23:03
		Re: Viper mod By: Coyote on Mon, 17 January 2005 23:09
		Re: Viper mod By: Coyote on Mon, 17 January 2005 23:22
		Re: Viper mod By: Ptolemy on Mon, 17 January 2005 23:43
		Re: Viper mod By: SinicalIdealist on Tue, 18 January 2005 13:59
		Re: Viper mod By: SinicalIdealist on Thu, 20 January 2005 17:27
		Re: Viper mod By: Kotk on Fri, 21 January 2005 11:49
		Re: Viper mod By: SinicalIdealist on Sat, 22 January 2005 00:36
		Re: Viper mod By: Coyote on Mon, 17 January 2005 22:39
		Albemuth mod By: Coyote on Mon, 17 January 2005 23:07
		Re: Albemuth mod By: Micha on Tue, 18 January 2005 06:21

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