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General Discussion / Re: What is your Flagship named?
« on: April 16, 2024, 12:57:54 PM »
Ithica
Starsector 0.97a is out! (02/02/24); New blog post: Save/Load UI, Autosave, Intel Map Markers, and More (04/10/24)
With Reverse Polarity I have yet to find a slipstream which hinders me in any way, so right now at worst, I have the old hyperspace experience and at best I arrive at my destination in a blink. I would like some predictability on the slipsurge though. The tooltip generally states which stars are stronger, but you have no direct indication where you will end up. Some story integration would also be nice. Maybe you need a surge into the abyss, or elsewhere outside of the sector.
When it comes to anti-fighter defense, Defensive Targeting Array Wasps are excellent. Several times better than Sparks in my opinion.
I said similar and then explained how such a ship would look like. Why are you focusing on the Odyssey so hard when I immediately made it clear that such setups aren't good on it because of other weapons + fighters?
Odyssey is seriously nice with a bunch of IR Pulse Lasers
Could it use a few more ships where it works well? Yeah, probably. But I'm not entirely sure what those hypothetical ships would look like. Maybe something kindof like the shrike but with a more general-purpose mobility system and extra small turrets instead of the medium? Maybe? I dunno.Just spitballin a quick idea even if it's not super related to the thread.
Something with a similar setup of the Odyssey could see use of IR Pulse Lasers, Gigacannons and Paladins. So bunch of small energy mounts, zero mediums and then a couple of large energies so that it makes low flux weapons more desirable.
Odyssey is seriously nice with a bunch of IR Pulse Lasers but it kinda switched to a semi-missile ship with a few changes. Switched large energy to synergy, removed the tight convergence point, much more speed potential but also weaker shields. It wants to use missiles. And it also has fighters. So something without all of those boons should be ideally motivated to have a unique setup of weapons.
And for the love of god please no more "move only forward" ship systems, half ot the roster has that ability.
Back to the main topic now: IR Pulse Lasers have good DPS for their size but horrible damage per shot, you know what's the complete opposite? It's Gigacannon, bingo! Match made in heaven yet there isn't a single ship where this loadout makes sense.
That, and it has builtin solar shielding
Well, it has mandatory solar shielding. Compared to the Pegasus it's missing 15 OP.
Double tachyon on the odyssey with HSA sounds doable, even though I haven't tried it. The 600 base range is a little lower than its normal options, but in exchange you get tachyon lances that enable themselves to pierce shields.