@Alex, thanks for detailed analysis of why that won't work.
Do mines have friendly fire? If yes, is it easy/possible to make Doom kill itself/allies with mines? By spamming Talons on top of it/it's allies, for example. Then again, Talon Astral is a gimmick build at best.
They do have friendly fire, but the AI is extremely careful about not teleporting them near friendly ships. I won't say it's impossible to make it score allied hits, but (barring bugs?) I'd imagine it would not be something you could do reliably or as a viable tactic.
On the flip side, this means (just tested) that a Talon - or any other purely-fighter-focused Astral (i.e. without bombers) - will in fact beat the Doom. The fighters respawn too quickly, and end up overwhelming the mine output. It's just tough to keep up with the replacement fighters, and tough to take out enough per mine hit when they're already swarming the Doom. It has to do much of the work in taking the fighters out during their approach, or if it happens to catch them regrouping near the carrier. Once they're close in, it gets much more difficult.
Oh wow oh wow oh wow I'm actually super hyped for this feature. And the Doom! The poor, mistreated Doom is finally getting a ship system deserving of a phase cruiser! The Interdictor Array was admittedly so lackluster compared to the fancy gimmicks other phase ships offered, and while I hope it finds a home on another ship, I'm not sorry to see it leave the Doom's system slot in favour of (dear lord) a minelayer.
With these new minefields, I just know 0.9's gonna be a blast.
You sound almost as excited about mines as I am!
Any chance of seeing a gif of the Doom in action with its new system? Should I cross my fingers and hope it's featured on Screenshot Saturday?shootier.[/spoiler]
I'll see about recording a timelapse at some point, it's a good idea!
+1 to keeping skimmer on Medusa. It is the only vanilla DE I like piloting (for significant amount of time), precisely because of it's system.
Yeah, going to keep it on the Medusa, it's kind of the Medusa's
thing.
Yes, I've enjoyed the recent influx of activity. Also, a lot of those things sound like refinement of aspects that are mostly done (like this one). I think we are getting closer, although I may, of course, be entirely wrong.
It's refinement of orbital station battle mechanics, so that's true, but it doesn't say much about the state of affairs elsewhere.
Im hoping for something like this scene from starwars
That's not from Star Wars! They only ever made three movies, etc etc etc.
Ahem.
(Also, hi and welcome to the forum!)
Hum is it that much efficient to have the missile spinning around rather than having a rotating sprite on an otherwise regular missile going forward?
Well, "efficient" in the sense that it took one line of code
So...does this mean the Doom is now the Kira Yoshikage of spaceships?
Is that an anime thing? Sounds like an anime thing. Akira and Cowboy Bepop is about the extent of my familiarity with the genre
This is going to be very cool.
Will the mines only be on one ship class, or are there plans to implement it on others?
Nothing I'd call "plans"; certainly keeping an eye out for opportunities, but it'd have to be something special.