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Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 4:29 am
by lightstriker
Frigates are balanced by needing more sections (which they have to pay a LOT for), just in order to hold stuff...
giving smaller ships a couple of extra weapons is not the goal, and most ships that have to worry about weapon room are (if the enemy is able to destroy a central section) are going to die any way... so the whole section shock part is more or less worthless,
Basically, it makes frigates (which are probably one of the more usefull classes anyway...) even stronger while doing jack squat for anything else... :roll:

Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 5:39 am
by HalfThere
Does anyone have links to past boss-like ships, e.g. the juggernaught or motherships, that could be used for testing purposes?

Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 5:41 am
by mtheminja
Out of curiousity, why are Dusks now limited to 4/ship? They have weaker DPS than blasters per point (~0.8 as effecient) and are easier to PD against, so their only advantage is aegis busting, which the limit nerfs.

Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 5:42 am
by lightstriker
http://www.wyrdysm.com/phpBB2/viewtopic ... &start=240

perhaps the reason you said is the main reason. also, pure dusk spam would be able to kill more or less any section, so he probably wanted to avoid it (even while weaker than blasters being able to bust aegis and deflectors so easily might be a bit too good)

Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 6:25 am
by antisocialmunky
mtheminja wrote:Out of curiousity, why are Dusks now limited to 4/ship? They have weaker DPS than blasters per point (~0.8 as effecient) and are easier to PD against, so their only advantage is aegis busting, which the limit nerfs.
... it does 98 damage every 84 frames. 30 frames = 1 second. It does 35DPS.

The weapon balance spreadsheet says that the DPS of a regular blaster is 10.3 DPS.


So I'm wondering exactly what you're refering to.

joining

Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 2:56 am
by ct4900
hey can i join beta of alpha?

Re: joining

Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 3:29 am
by Ai_512
ct4900 wrote:hey can i join beta of alpha?
Too late, teams are full.

Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 3:39 am
by Ninteen45
You can join delta.

Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 4:57 am
by Venator
I'd like to join Delta as well... this looks like too much fun to pass up!

Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 5:03 am
by lightstriker
well, if people are joining this late, we might as well delay it to the 27th or later :wink:

Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 7:38 am
by BoVinE
I'm all for a later deadline, since I'm lacking ways to communicate, and people are joining late.

Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 7:40 am
by lightstriker
second.

Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 1:40 pm
by Master Chief
Thirded, so yeah. All for the 27th myself, gives us time to tweak the ships.

Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 7:59 pm
by lightstriker
i just like it because it'll give me a day to catch up with everyone else :)

Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 3:59 am
by Ixranin
Sorry about the delay. I got caught by the trouble with automatic updates and ZoneAlarm, then work.

Is there anyone for which the 27th does not work as a deadline?