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It is literally like you don't understand the concept of opportunity cost. In the crowded system environment due to well, the game not being finished enough to put any distance between these factions there is simply too much to have to deal with all at once with limited early game resources.
I expect a legitimate answer. Failure to deliver one will result is steep fines.
Seriously, you should be ashamed of yourselves. Zero self control. Zero capacity for coordination or to form a standardize cost format. Just one big self gratificationfest.
Ya I get mad like that sometimes when I game so I totally get this post.I think you need a timeout.
Your opinion is not God around here.
If AI were to field elite crew ships with shield improving hullmods, when you fire that graviton beam, it is going to cost YOU more flux to fire the beam than the AI to maintain the shield against it. And since beam weapons doesn't produce hard flux, the flux loss is 100% loss without any benefit at that point.if if if; beam wpns have their place against more than just small targets. everything has a counter. i've taken down a lot of battlecruisers with beams, in a cruiser. it all just boils down to preference.
But as others pointed out, beams are good "bully" weapon to use against smaller targets.
What is with you (that "if if if" part come off as real jackass *** man)... it's just fact, gravitron beam will end up with net flux dissipation loss on the shooter's side if the defender is a tri-tachyon ship with elite crew and a shield efficiency hullmod. And such ships will make appearance when game is more feature complete.
I'm just a big fan of beams and I'm laying down some pretend hate down on naysayers.
If AI were to field elite crew ships with shield improving hullmods, when you fire that graviton beam, it is going to cost YOU more flux to fire the beam than the AI to maintain the shield against it. And since beam weapons doesn't produce hard flux, the flux loss is 100% loss without any benefit at that point.if if if; beam wpns have their place against more than just small targets. everything has a counter. i've taken down a lot of battlecruisers with beams, in a cruiser. it all just boils down to preference.
But as others pointed out, beams are good "bully" weapon to use against smaller targets.
I think the new Combat Readiness could really mesh well with ship-to-ship boarding. This part: "And even then there's still the choice how much the player wants to invest: it is enough to send a frigate, or do you risk damage on your cruiser?" has always bothered me.
Is it really more risky to send a big ship for capturing than a small one? Damaging a big ship might be worse, but its not as likely and the chance for destruction is reduced. Damage is quite harmless in comparison with the loss of a ship.
But the CR system gives a new risk/reward option here: making a ship ready for boarding clearly reduces its CR. That effect has much more impact on fleet performance if you choose a big ship for the job. In case of an accident/sabotage the CR is further reduced. I think with this it is now really best to choose the smallest possible ship for the job
Actual implementation, IMO, would be much harder. Unless the whole capture/boarding mechanic is translated into real time battle, or if ships kept track of exact specific crews it carried in combat, I just don't see it functioning well.Tracking your Marine and Crew numbers, yes you would have to do that. What happens when your crew numbers dwindle in combat? Your ship starts to move a little slower, shoot a little slower etc. by percentages below your optimal crew amount. Until the crew reaches zero and the enemy start manning the ship themselves. If they can put enough man power onto the ship they could even use the ship in the remainder of the battle. If we're using marines though you might want to make it so they operate the ship less effectively until battle ends though.
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