Mostly looking for aesthetics criticism and parenting, but a download is provided for balance and gameplay testing. The theme I was going for was a long-ranged bombardment platform that was tough in terms of pure armoring but that was not very mobile at all. Ablative armoring is present and clearly visible. Weapons are mostly stock and I changed only variables, so no innovation there. Extremely vulnerable to tachyons because it has no deflectors. The particle rifles are drivers for the square platforms they're on, and the two sections in front of each sabot are triggered to recoil. Ex-thrusters are also present and hidden underneath each fake aegis'd engine, although I'm considering replacing them because the color of the exhaust doesn't fit exactly.
tl;dr
Overall, it's a pretty compact and tough ship, but it's very vulnerable to anything that can bypass its many components, namely tachyons and railguns. It's also fairly vulnerable from the back, and its engines can be taken out. 'Tis long-ranged and slow. Stuff is all standard and there's no real new stuff, just a first ship I thought I'd post.
Download: here.
Updated 3/31/09 7:14 pm - v.03 recolored.
Recolored:
Parenting:
Armament:
2 modified Particle Rifles; + range + damage + burst + accuracy + reload + 360; - fire rate - bullet speed - turn rate - deviation
2 modified Sabot Cannons; + range + damage + explosion damage + accuracy + reload + bullet speed + clip; - fire rate - interceptability - explosion radius - reload - arc range
3 unmodified Point Beams
