My first ship. (WIP)

Afoxi · Post by **Afoxi** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 2:42 pm

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v107/ ... arrage.jpg

This is Barrage, a super-heavy Bombardment Destroyer, and i need some suggestions for tweaking.

First off, this ship is meant to wreak havoc on other Destroyers and hold it's own against Battleships. It's supposed to be extremely vulnerable from the rear, and weak at short range.

The barrage has overlapping armor plates that's intended to represent the fact that it can survive beatings from the front and sides, and relatively low Core HP.

Any ideas on what i can do to tweak it? It currently wreaks (too much) havoc on Alien Dreads and can almost solo one.

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Pic is now linkified, see newer version below.

TCGamer · Post by **TCGamer** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 2:54 pm

It looks quite nice, and to make it less powerful, I would suggest removing one of the Weavel guns, and moving the other to the centerline, and placing the Flak gun a bit more to the back.

Post by **th15** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:43 pm

It's very interesting, the way you use double sections for added durability on the front and side.

Afoxi · Post by **Afoxi** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 11:02 pm

Thanks for the comments!

Shipbuilder:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v107/ ... ragev2.jpg
Ingame: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v107/ ... Combat.jpg
This is the v2 Barrage. It can outright kill a pirate cruiser in single combat, but things get complicated when there's more than one opponent.

My thoughts: Perfect.

Changes from v1:
Removed Flak Gun
Removed one Weasel Gun, and placed the remaining one on the core.
Added Teller Torpedo module for flanking fire capability.

Custom stats:
Blasters arc increased to 270 degrees.
Weasels arc limited to 30 degrees.

I'll be doing some tweaking to fine tune the ship a little more before uploading it.

EDIT: Image linkified due to update (see below).

Natch · Post by **Natch** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 2:35 am

Anyone else think that looks like a mini-Cronus?

Hades · Post by **Hades** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 2:42 am

Yes it does look like that...

Natch · Post by **Natch** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 3:07 am

It's probably why we like it.

Nice design man. I hope it gets into the game.

Afoxi · Post by **Afoxi** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 9:46 pm

Renamed 'Barrage' to 'Ante'.

Ante:
- Adv. [before] , of place or time; Prep. [before], of place or time; 'ante urbem conditam', [before the founding of the city]; of preference, [sooner than, above].

The Ante's Teller Torpedo. Used properly, this weapon can disable key components and/or sections in an enemy ship.

The Ante successfully dislodges a key section of this Alien Armored Cruiser with a well-placed Plasma Charge.

Get it here:
http://www.wyrdysm.com/battleshipsforev ... s/Ante.rar

Natch · Post by **Natch** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 7:10 am

Cool name.

I hope that gets into the game.

Afoxi · Post by **Afoxi** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 8:57 pm

I'll leave that decision to th15. ^^

Natch · Post by **Natch** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 9:18 am

Ok.

In the meantime, head over to the "Sidwes series" topic.

Only 3 people posted once each. I've made updates to one of the ships, and posted all the stats for it. No one seems to care.

Captain Trek · Post by **Captain Trek** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 3:08 pm

Could you possibly upload the Ante as a different file type, Afoxi? I have no idea how to use rar files...

Post by **Arcalane** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 3:18 pm

Captain Trek wrote:Could you possibly upload the Ante as a different file type, Afoxi? I have no idea how to use rar files...

You'll need something like WinRAR (though I prefer 7zip

) for .rar files. .rar has marginally better compression over .zip so some people use .rar instead of .zip.

But here it is as a .zip file - I didn't change anything or add/remove any files from the .rar; http://www.wyrdysm.com/battleshipsforev ... s/Ante.zip

Afoxi · Post by **Afoxi** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 7:42 pm

Thanks for the recompression. =)