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Re: Viper mod

Mon, 17 January 2005 21:11

Ptolemy

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I have a few comments;

1. I do not see the point of reducing the mini-miner hull to having only 1 remote mining slot. OBRM as it is makes remote mining an extremely expensive proposition without the necessity of making it cost even more. Of course, it hurts the CA since it reduces the orbital adjuster abilities.

2. Modifications to the cruiser hull are not compensated by an equal addition to the battle cruiser hull for the WM thereby making the WM ships comparitively weaker - an unfair handicap to WM races.

3. Forcing the large freighter to only be able to use mech slots removes the ability of the IT to add the anti matter generator to his freighters - all in all not a major disaster but, freighters should have the ability to mount some form of defenses anyway. I agree that freighters should be able to suport shields or jammers. I notice that the IS player is not restricted to mech only slots on his super freighters.

4. I do not see the purpose of requiring elec 11 (along with the rediculously high bio and con cost) to acquire frigates. By that late in the game nobody will bother to build them much anyway unless they want to use them for chaff - or SD mine layers

5. I also agree that the general purpose x2 slot on the super mine-layer must go - it should be a mech or mech/elec/scanner slot. Allowing it to be general purpose is much too much advantage to the SD player which is already one of the strongest PRT's. In fact, all the mods I've mentioned just make SD overbalanced. Frigates become super cheap mine-laying hulls with more mines, corvettes are very good for mine layers as well. One would suspect that the guys making these mods have SD as their favorite PRT. It's the only PRT the mods don't seem to hurt.
- Loss of the privateer cargo space hurts IS
- Loss of the frigate hurts everyone except the SD since the SD doesn't have to be concerned with the extra sweeping capacity of frigates.
- Loss of the shield / elec slots on freighters is an advantage to the SD - freighters can't survive mines at all.
- One remote mining slot on the mini-miner cuts CA orbital adjuster power by 50% per ship.

Ptolemy

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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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