Heaven's Grace hosting the "Ace's Challenge"

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Heaven's Grace hosting the "Ace's Challenge"

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This is an idea that I had. These rules are open to community discussion.

Short Backstory
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Hosted within the territory of Heaven's Grace.
Any faction is allowed to send their best pilot to participate in a dogfight spectacle called "The Ace's Challenge" to bring honor to their faction.

Each faction can have one pilot and therefore one ship entered into the contest.

In game terms it is a series of "Pitched" battles between two ships using a series of encounter tables.
Ship Rules:
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Each player has 250 points to spend on a ship.


All ship stats (speed, turning, acceleration) and weapon arc ranges will start at 0, except ship HP, which will start at 150.

For one point you can get. . .


A section attached to the core.

Each additional section will cost an additional point for each section between it and the core. (Core > section 1 > section 2 > sectoin 3 will cost 1, 2, and 3 points respectively (the core is free))

+0.1 points of speed

+0.05 points of turning

+0.01 points of acceleration

+10 points of core HP

+25 points of AI range (any AI type) from the unmodified value of 0. (This cannot exceed your longest range weapon)


A basic weapon (frigate or destroyer weapon from your faction, cruiser weapons cost 3 (you must have a ship size of at least 75), and battleship weapons cost 5 (Ship size of at least 100), no capital ship one-hit-kill weapons)

Add 15 degrees of arc range to a weapon, since they will all start at 0.

Increase the clipsize of a weapon by 1 or 10% (whichever yields a greater number of shots)(Basically a weapon with fewer than twenty shots will gain one shot per point until it has twenty capacity, then it will gain two shots per purchase, three ammo when it is at thirty, four at fourty, etc.)(This cannot be purchased for weapons that have a zero "0" in their clipsize stat)

Increase the range of a weapon by 10% (Ex: If three points are spent, it will have +30% range over its base value (multiply the range by 1.3) (Maximum + 50%)

A weapon that is used to guide a turret is free as long as it's "shooting" setting is set to "off".

Any number of thruster (any number of modules, but it's gotta look nice)
If destroying all of these modules would result in the ship losing all of its turning, acceleration, and speed, then you will gain a 5 point refund for the weakness and the thruster is free. (so +5 point bonus for a thruster setup with this weakness)
Contest Rules:
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Each faction can enter one contestant, thus one ship.
Each dogfight match will consist of two ships facing off against each other in the arena (no-one will actually die in this tournament).
Each match will last for 5 minutes, if both ships are still alive after that time, then the ship with the highest percentage of remaining core HP will be declared the winner.
(Ex. 135 / 150 hp vs 265 / 300 hp, the ship with 135 hp will be declared the winner, because it has 90% HP while the other has 88%)
If both ships are at equal levels of HP, then the match will go into sudden death, where the first ship to score damage against the opponent's core unit will be declared the winner.

Each ship will face an opponent three times. Their performance will grant them a certain number of points toward the leaderboard.
3 wins - 0 losses = 5 points
2 wins - 1 loss = 3 Points
1 win - 2 losses = 1 Point
0 wins - 3 losses = 0 Points

The first match will be selected based on the time of entry. (First faces second, third faces fourth, etc.)
All future matches will place the higher ranked ship against the first available lower ranked ship. (1st vs 2nd, 3rd vs 4th, etc.)
No ship can face the same opponent more than once, so if that happens, they will face the next lower ranked opponent. (1st vs 3rd instead, 2nd vs 4th instead, 5th vs 6th as normal, etc.)

There will be a number of matches equal to half the number of players in the tournament (rounded up if odd).
The ship with the highest number of points at the end of the tournament will be declared the winner, then second, third, etc.
If two ships are tied, they will face each other in a single dogfight match, with the winner taking the higher place. (This is the only exception to the "no opponent twice" rule).
Past and present factions are allowed to play.
This contest needs at least four participants.

Note: The pointbeam, demeter, sabotcannon, railgun, and EMPTorpedo are prohibited in this tournament, because they lack the requirements of a pilot's skill
The nuclear weapons are prohibited, because they could endanger the spectators of the event.

Zalausai Edit: Scrapped the Weapons DPS Calculation stuff, keeping it informal.
Has written a series of tutorials for the newbies
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Re: Heaven's Grace hosting the "Ace's Challenge"

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Heaven's Grace has entered into the tournament.

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Calculations
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Hull and Sections: 27 Points

Sections attached to core = 4 (4 Points)
Sections attached to sections, core = 10 (20 Points)
Sections attached to section, section, core = 1 (3 Points)


Weapons: 47 Points

"Faith" Plasma Autocannon x 3 (3 points each)
Clip Size +5 each (15 Points)
Arc Range 90 (18 Points)

HG Particle Gun x 5 (1 Point each)


Ship Stats: 181 Points

AI Range: 500 (20 points)
Speed: 5 (50 Points)
Accel: 0.3 (30 points)
Turning: 3 (60 points)
Core HP: +210 (21 Points)

Bonus 5 Points for thrusters reducing ship movements to zero when destroyed.

Total Cost: 255 Points (5 bonus points from thruster weakness)
Has written a series of tutorials for the newbies
Zalausai's Tutorial Index

Created: Elements of Discord, Heaven's Grace, and Hell's Last Battalion.

I stop in from time to time to check in on the community. Though I don't spend much time with shipmaker anymore.
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Re: Heaven's Grace hosting the "Ace's Challenge"

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(o .o) Uhhuh. Lil complex rules. Gotta look into them when there is time...
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