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Re: Skills and Story Points
« Reply #285 on: August 21, 2019, 12:50:34 PM »

Does Impact Mitigation 3 damage dealt to armour reduction happen before damage is reduced by armour, or only after? I swear, I have asked you about this already, but I don't remember the answer.
I guess I have to add something to make it relevant to the topic... Are Impact Mitigation and Evasive Action both staying as vaguely armour-boosting skills, or are they getting rolled into one, or are they being made more different this time?

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« Reply #286 on: August 21, 2019, 01:50:18 PM »

It's before reduction by armor.

Evasive Action is gone; some of its effects migrated to Helmsmanship.
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Re: Skills and Story Points
« Reply #287 on: August 22, 2019, 10:49:00 PM »

Will there be hullmods which boost skills? Like hull mod which increase the maximum of Carrier Group from 6 to 8, or increase the number of Automated Ships in your fleet?
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« Reply #288 on: August 23, 2019, 11:54:35 AM »

Wasn't thinking about that - it's an interesting idea, hmm. I'm not sure how that'd really fit in nicely, though - seems like it would probably lead to you needing to haul around a few more ships as skill-boosters, and that doesn't seem too great.
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Re: Skills and Story Points
« Reply #289 on: August 23, 2019, 01:12:11 PM »

It could be set up as "this ship benefits from the Carrier Group skill, but doesn't count towards the cap".
On a related note, does the Carrier Group skill count built in fighter bays? I assume it is just fighter bays on ships tagged as carriers, so that ships that happen to have their own fighter screen but aren't really carriers don't count, but I also wouldn't want Shepherds counting against my carrier cap if I am just using them as defensive escorts (although if I wasn't at the cap, I might want them to count, hmmm...)
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« Reply #290 on: August 23, 2019, 01:23:56 PM »

It could be set up as "this ship benefits from the Carrier Group skill, but doesn't count towards the cap".

Right - that I think would just mean "spam this ship"? Like, the cap exists for a reason, and anything that bypasses it is trouble.

On a related note, does the Carrier Group skill count built in fighter bays?

It counts them. Does mean that Shepherds have a bit of a downside when used purely for logistics, but, well, there's the Surveying Equipment hullmod and Salvage Rigs if an alternative is needed for this reason.
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Re: Skills and Story Points
« Reply #291 on: August 23, 2019, 03:15:18 PM »

On a related note, does the Carrier Group skill count built in fighter bays?

It counts them. Does mean that Shepherds have a bit of a downside when used purely for logistics, but, well, there's the Surveying Equipment hullmod and Salvage Rigs if an alternative is needed for this reason.

Could converted and built-in bays at least count as half or less of proper fighter bay? I mean otherwise it becomes strict "don't use these ships if you have carrier based fleet".
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« Reply #292 on: August 23, 2019, 04:13:03 PM »

Hmm, carrier skills + terminator drones...

You know what might be interesting as an alternative?  Have the Carrier Group skill only benefit (and only count) crewed fighters.  That'd also serve as a way to let Remnant LPCs trend towards being a bit stronger than normal fighters without being an automatic "Well, I'm putting Sparks and Luxes everywhere now."
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Re: Skills and Story Points
« Reply #293 on: August 23, 2019, 05:54:52 PM »

I would dump Shepherd in a heartbeat.  I only bring Shepherd past early game for the campaign mods, but if it is a drain on carrier power, then it would get dumped!  I will just bring a combat ship with Surveying Equipment if I need more surveying badly.  As for more salvage, an annoying loss, but probably minor and an acceptable loss in the end.

Hmm, carrier skills + terminator drones...

You know what might be interesting as an alternative?  Have the Carrier Group skill only benefit (and only count) crewed fighters.  That'd also serve as a way to let Remnant LPCs trend towards being a bit stronger than normal fighters without being an automatic "Well, I'm putting Sparks and Luxes everywhere now."
If that happens, would be nice if Wasps and Mining Pods were beefed up too.
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Re: Skills and Story Points
« Reply #294 on: August 23, 2019, 06:35:45 PM »

Hmm, carrier skills + terminator drones...

You know what might be interesting as an alternative?  Have the Carrier Group skill only benefit (and only count) crewed fighters.  That'd also serve as a way to let Remnant LPCs trend towards being a bit stronger than normal fighters without being an automatic "Well, I'm putting Sparks and Luxes everywhere now."

I don't know if that would work out well with mods though. As far as I know, Sylphon and Tyrador have a significant contingent of drones for their fleets. It'd also reduces the usefulness of wings like Wasp drones unless they were improved to match, which can lead to a situation of "take this if no carrier skills, avoid this if carrier skills".

The built-in hullmod idea that was stated earlier that can't be used by player ever similar to ATC for Paragon would certainly help avoid the Shepard dilemma. I'd say you could make it so that while it doesn't count any fighter bays for the skill, it also doesn't gain any benefit citing the nature of the ship as a non-combat civilian. Issue with that though is it could be confusing as to why a ship like the shepard doesn't get any bonuses from your skill, esp. when there's a skill that apparently improves civilian combat abilities.
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Re: Skills and Story Points
« Reply #295 on: August 23, 2019, 06:40:39 PM »

Do only fighter bays of deployed ships count, or everything in fleet? I mean I surely don't want to pay for something I don't use, so having reserve carriers or logistic ships with built-in wings would become a negative if it's the 2nd.
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« Reply #296 on: August 23, 2019, 06:48:05 PM »

Like with all the other fleetwide skills, it's everything in the fleet (that's not mothballed). Having reserve carriers not being an unmitigated positive is an intended feature of this, not a side-effect.

Logistics ships with built-in wings being undesirable is a bit of a side effect, but it doesn't seem too unreasonable, and there are ways to play around it. Will keep an eye on it, obviously.
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« Reply #297 on: August 23, 2019, 06:50:53 PM »

Hmm, carrier skills + terminator drones...

You know what might be interesting as an alternative?  Have the Carrier Group skill only benefit (and only count) crewed fighters.  That'd also serve as a way to let Remnant LPCs trend towards being a bit stronger than normal fighters without being an automatic "Well, I'm putting Sparks and Luxes everywhere now."

I don't know if that would work out well with mods though. As far as I know, Sylphon and Tyrador have a significant contingent of drones for their fleets. It'd also reduces the usefulness of wings like Wasp drones unless they were improved to match, which can lead to a situation of "take this if no carrier skills, avoid this if carrier skills".

Right, yeah, it could be a pretty big nerf to those kinds of fighters...


The built-in hullmod idea that was stated earlier that can't be used by player ever similar to ATC for Paragon would certainly help avoid the Shepard dilemma. I'd say you could make it so that while it doesn't count any fighter bays for the skill, it also doesn't gain any benefit citing the nature of the ship as a non-combat civilian. Issue with that though is it could be confusing as to why a ship like the shepard doesn't get any bonuses from your skill, esp. when there's a skill that apparently improves civilian combat abilities.

It's not a bad idea. Honestly, though, the simplest thing to do would be to just not count or affect built-in wings, if it came to that.
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Re: Skills and Story Points
« Reply #298 on: August 23, 2019, 07:35:43 PM »

Like with all the other fleetwide skills, it's everything in the fleet (that's not mothballed). Having reserve carriers not being an unmitigated positive is an intended feature of this, not a side-effect.

Isn't it inconsistent? With direct combat ships player has some degree of freedom in choosing which to deploy (limited because we can't reassign officers), but having spare carriers debuffs ones deployed.

This also implies that I can't afford to have a carrier as one of ships reserved for player piloting. It was pointless to do under old system as well, since carriers need extra 9 skill points that direct combat ships don't use, and it didn't want to lock myself into piloting only carriers. Is making carriers mechanically not attractive to pilot intentional?
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« Reply #299 on: August 23, 2019, 07:52:04 PM »

Huh? Combat ships function the same way with regard to fleetwide-bonus type skills, i.e. the bonus is reduced based on the total deployment points of the ships of that particular type. For example Crew Training gives +15% max CR at 100 combat ship deployment points total, and less if there are more combat ships. Am I missing something?
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