The Novian Empire (undergoing maintenance)

[Necrontyr1998]

Just finished balancing the Scientia carrier to Doogies 'M4' after 2 hours! Is there a technique to doing it quickly or is it supposed to take that long?

The Scientia is still a little better than the M4 but its not far off.

I'll be marking my ships accordingly so I can keep track of which ones are balanced:
OP:
Balanced:
Weak:

[Doogie12]

I'd just download and copy the stats directly. However, the Ashtic are supposed to be on the lower side of the balance spectrum (kinetic weapons ).

[Necrontyr1998]

Conservet and Atheist balanced, Clarity currently undergoing tests.

[Necrontyr1998]

Many more balancing tests have been carried out and a new download will be provided soon for testing of the public.
Also I have decided to class the TD28 - Perspicientia as a Specialized Beam cruiser.

[Doogie12]

Yay ^_^
Like I always say, I advise you to stray from the laser wars values as little as possible.

[Necrontyr1998]

Well I just got back to balancing, but it appears I've forgotten which ships still needed to be processed. So, there is a 1.7.5 download in the initial post for everyone to test (please report any obvious strays ).

[turtwig9]

good good, nice to see someomes back to balancing

if other people don't get to it we'll have to PM them all and make'em do it xD

im trying to put a fleet together, but im balancing before i post, and practicing my shipbuilding (as a noob) at the same time, so its gonna take a while.

but by then more people better get to it! xD
i might ask doogie for a list of people who still need their ships balanced and i'll send'em ALL messages telling them to get on with it xD

but i'll be using other peoples ships for my own balancing so i can't really test yours atm, but i will later on when i can

[Necrontyr1998]

I don't think going round yellin at people to balance their ships is such a good idea. Getting involved yourself is the best way to encourage others.

[turtwig9]

[quote="Necrontyr1998"]I don't think going round yellin at people to balance their ships is such a good idea. Getting involved yourself is the best way to encourage others.[/quote]
yeah... guess you're right. im in the process of building my first ship for applying!

its nearly there... just need to balance it, since i've decided the best way to do this is balance a ship before i post it, so i won't have a mass of balancing to do after i build'em all

not sure what im gonna call my race though, or any kind of backstory (ima science nerd not a dabling writer =/)

[Necrontyr1998]

I think its best to have your back story build up to the reason your race is at war e.g: The Novians, because they need to expand to gain knowledge.

[Lukasmah]

What are ground troops for? It's not like you can change the background to simulate ground battles. Or can you?

[Necrontyr1998]

The ground troops are just for screenshots for storys and stuff. You can make a ground like back ground by adding a planet in sandbox and setting its size to fill the whole screen.

[Zalausai]

And I don't mean to be a pest but I do still need a second opinion of my Novians :p

Combat Performance Report for Novians

Test Faction: SAR

Spoiler!

Novian vs SAR
Landslide = One ship with 90% or more hp remaining or average hp or remaining ships is 90% or more.
Easy = One ship with 75% or more hp remaining or average hp or remaining ships is 75% or more.

3 Unity vs 3 Cloud
Clouds win, easy

2 Unity vs 1 Cloud
Unitys Win

3 Spark vs 1 Lightning
Spark Wins, easy

1 Spark vs 1 Lightning
Lightning Wins, Landslide
Direct core hits, no protection for Spark

1 Stinger vs 1 Lightning
Stinger had weapons disabled early, easy win for Lightning.

1 Particula (C) vs 1 Torrent
Weapons disabled early, Landslide win for Particula (C)

1 Particula (I) vs 1 Torrent
Weapons disabled early, Landslide win for Particula (I)

1 Particula (M) vs 1 Torrent
Weapons disabled early, Landslide win for Particula (M)

1 Spatha vs 1 Torrent
Weapons disabled early, Landslide win for Spatha

1 Progression vs 1 Riptide
Easy win for Progression

1 Conservet vs 1 Riptide
Landslide win for Conservet

1 Perspicientia vs 1 Whirlwind
Landslide win for Perspicientia, win at 99% hp

The Perspicientia vs the Whirlwind fight just made me sad. I cut testing short after that, as the rest of the Novian ships just get more powerful, but their HP puts them against the Whirlwind.

[Necrontyr1998]

Well I would put the Torrent losses down to its weapons placement by the sound of it (I'll check this later). And I'll have a look at the last three, the perspicientia was probably missed.

[calvin1211]

Zal: HP shouldn't be used to determine ship classes for matchups. Use size and role instead.