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xenoargh

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Assign Tugs to Ships
« on: October 25, 2013, 10:03:22 PM »
Yeah, I know- UI hassle and all that.  

But right now, which ship Tugs actually boost Burn on and how to change it is a bit unintuitive.

For example, if you have the character perk that boosts Burn, you want your flagship in the second slot, not the first, so that Tug bonus is applied to it.

Tug bonus should probably always be applied to the lowest-Burn ship first (after all other bonuses)- that might resolve it without any UI hassles.
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Re: Assign Tugs to Ships
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2013, 10:38:30 PM »
I'd just like it to be a bit more transparent about which ship the tug bonus is being applied to. If I need to manually assign tugs: fine. If the UI could tell me: even better.
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Re: Assign Tugs to Ships
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2013, 11:05:36 PM »
I thought there was a bug at the moment with tugs that was fixed so that now tugs automatically go to the slowest ships? I thought that was how they were always supposed to work.
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Re: Assign Tugs to Ships
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2013, 12:13:02 AM »
definitely saw that bug and that he fixed it, but I don't see it in the patch notes
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Re: Assign Tugs to Ships
« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2013, 01:22:39 AM »
Holy crap tugs actually have a purpose?
I didn't know! Where's the documentation for this? How does it work?
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Re: Assign Tugs to Ships
« Reply #5 on: October 26, 2013, 02:29:25 AM »
each tug automatically boosts the slowest ship's burn rate by 1. frigates can have 1 tug attached to them, destroyers 2, cruisers 3, caps 4. there is currently a minor glitch about having the ship being boosted behind the tug or somesuch, but it has been fixed for 0.6.2a
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Re: Assign Tugs to Ships
« Reply #6 on: October 26, 2013, 12:08:43 PM »
Right, there was a bug but is now fixed.

I don't think manual assignment would be useful since there's a mathematically best way to do it, there's no real choice there beyond how many tugs you want in your fleet.

(And yeah, some UI indication would be nice - if there are any more mechanics of this nature, I'll probably look at that. If this remains a one-off, probably won't.)
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Re: Assign Tugs to Ships
« Reply #7 on: October 26, 2013, 12:54:25 PM »
Just something like "x more tugs required for max burn +1" as part of the burn tooltip would be nice.
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Re: Assign Tugs to Ships
« Reply #8 on: October 26, 2013, 12:55:25 PM »
It would be nice if the tug description said something about it.
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