Starsector 0.95.1a is out! (12/10/21); In-development patch notes for Starsector 0.96a (02/01/23)
I don't consider them to be true Capitals or expect them to have the same battlefield presence. If they were re-labeled Heavy Cruisers, I wouldn't bat an eye.They're priced like cruisers, so that's what they compete with for slots in my fleet.
However, I tried sending a fleet of 6 of these ships, and my special Ordo Farming Doom and Paragon to fight a Remnant Ordo with 3x Radiant using the usual tactics of defend order on Paragon. They just get slaughtered by the Radiants in fleet combat - they actually deal good damage but are extremely vulnerable to getting flanked by mobile opponents.A) The ship is vulnerable to being flanked, yes. Give it escorts rather than trying to force a monofleet.
My test bed was definitely at a much smaller scale so the ability of Warthogs to “clog” even Dominators (which typically have good PD) went unnoticed.Seems less "clog" and more "barely interact with." The PD won't do anything to stop Light Mortar shots, and with 600 range the Warthogs might not be in PD range themselves very often - and with their armor, they're pretty resistant to what hits they do take. Like, an individual Warthog has all the armor and a full half the health of a Vigilance, with only 10s base replacement time.
... Maybe try and check (or remember) whether your ship had an explicit attack order against the station?It was my flagship, so I can confidently say it did not.
If everyone is dead set on Solar Shielding being reworked, consider having it use a similar logic to tugs.Given that storm strikes already scale based on the size of your fleet, the simplest option might just be for Solar Shielding ships to not count for strike scaling.
One equipped ship can give some protection to the entire fleet. More ships equals more protection.
Also even with 0 sensor profile other fleets can still detect you from quite far.Sensor profile is summed with the searching fleet's sensor strength to determine how far away they can see you from, yeah.
The vigilance isn’t a sexy ship by any means but it’s ok.The new selection of stand-off energy missiles will probably do quite a bit for it. The extra ammo for the medium Reaper, too.
I think the implication is that the ship is either stolen, or gets sold because it was used for smuggling and the authorities are looking for it. The sob story is likely lies.I think stolen would get you more than just searched, so it's probably that the contact is a mule who's gotten enough attention they can't effectively smuggle anymore - or simply doesn't have enough resources to replace their ship with one that isn't on a watch list.
What if Converted Hangar cost something like 5 OP across the board, the fighters had no penalties (increased cost or otherwise), but it increased the ship's deployment points by something like "+3 or 10%, whichever is higher"? It would be something that unquestionably augments the ship's capabilities, but "is this worth using on this ship" becomes a more interesting fleet-wide question.... Huh.
Wasn't DTA the cheapest hullmod in the game? +100 range seems like a fairly minor upside then.A lot of fighter weaponry is short-range point defense guns. +100 range is especially noticeable on those.
I feel like the Medium Energy has to be a an assault weapon (and HB is generally optimal). The two Small Energies up front are a bit of an afterthought.I've frequently played around with 2x Pulse Laser and 2x Antimatter Blaster. The incoming Pulse Laser buff will make that a much cheaper and more effective build than it was.
