does that mean you have added tug boats?
Right, the Ox-class Tug.
It's nice to finally see some of those old ships in the graphics folder be put into the game. Especially interesting is how they're useful only in the campaign, rather than combat. Would be cool if you could find a way to re-purpose those munition ships in a similar way; I've always loved their sprites. Maybe they could give a fleet-wide CR bonus by providing efficient supply distribution, or something.
Yeah, that could definitely work.
Also, any chance of a screenshot of the new star graphics?
Not quite yet, the graphics may get another pass, though it was "ready" enough to mention in the notes.
And just wondering, would the Tug/ Navigation skills, only make ships travel between systems faster only? ( means uses fuel faster but gets there faster)
The tug affects both in-system and hyperspace travel. Though in-system it doesn't use fuel.
But are we going to get a similar flag to tell certain weapons not to engage those targets (unless the PD flag is set via script)? That's definitely on my wish-list, personally; tired of watching weapons try to kill drones instead of killing the mothership.
Maybe. Definitely not in 0.6a, though.
Does the fighter-PD state cover Drones as well? If not, it really should, since they have the same issues.
If the drone is a fighter, yes. Which is pretty much always the case.
Adjusted base travel speed (increased)
Removed travel speed bonus for not being near a planet
Any special reason for this or just streamlining?
Does that result in a net increase or decrease of inter-planet travel speed?
More just streamlining/preparing for some future stuff. Right now it's about the same in terms of actual speed, maybe a bit faster near planets and a bit slower away from them.
Available in Askonia, other places
Oho!
"Other places" was just my way of saying boardable, delivered to stations randomly, etc.
Repair mechanics:
"Emergency repairs" fleetwide stat; starts at 5, supply use for these repairs doesn't affect logistics
Maximum total repairs performed (in supplies/day) are emergency repairs + unused logistics capacity (i.e. if "emergency repairs" are at 5, and the logistics use is 10/25, maximum total repairs per day are 20.)
When looking at the Logistics Rating, isn't that a tiny bit confusing? If I get this correctly, you could have 99% or even (just) 100% LR and your fleet could only do emergency repairs. Which is not what 100% LR would imply to a new player. Or can you somehow force your fleet to exceed the LR with repairs? Uh...or is that was it does normally, and you can forbid it?
I see what you're saying. Basically, 100% LR can mean a range of things, which is why there's also a bar indicating just how much logistics capacity is being used. 10/20 and 20/20 are both 100%, but the first one means there's 10 supply units worth of headroom. So, if you're at 20/20 (or above), only emergency repair are possible. If you're at 10/20, emergency + 10 repairs are possible.
The control over this consists of designating ships as a logistical priority and suspending repairs. Presumably, repairs are a complex enough business logsitically that you can't push it beyond a certain point and get results. (Did consider + try having direct control over repair expenditures, but it was pretty much a chore and didn't bring much of interest to the table, never mind extra UI stuff.)
What i wonder about - have you looked into convoys not delivering RESOURCE type resources to bases ( i mean those that are added through 'addItem')? And these RESOURCE type items are also not being salvageable, which is not good
Yeah, that should be fixed. Didn't test it, but...
Does this mean we can now change how the damage types work? Maybe make a ship where high explosive damage deals 200% to shields but only 50% to armor?
Hmm. This brings up an interesting point, the way these are set up affects *all* damage taken. Which isn't all that interesting; a hullmod such as "ablative armor" wouldn't want to reduce damage taken by shields, for example, and it seems that would come up in most cases.
So, just added:
MutableStat getBeamShieldDamageTakenMult();
MutableStat getMissileShieldDamageTakenMult();
MutableStat getProjectileShieldDamageTakenMult();
MutableStat getEnergyShieldDamageTakenMult();
MutableStat getKineticShieldDamageTakenMult();
MutableStat getHighExplosiveShieldDamageTakenMult();
MutableStat getFragmentationShieldDamageTakenMult();
And made the original methods apply to both hull and armor. Ideally, there'd perhaps be a way to separate armor and hull here too, but that's a little more involved.
- "Deflection" (Evasive Action level 10 perk) now correctly reduces damage taken instead of doubling it. Ouch.
And this one, I think, speaks to how powerful the level 5 Evasive Action perk is, and how unimportant the base ability of the skill is. Were I redesigning skills, I'd swap those - make it so each level of evasive action grants +7.5% maneuverability, and the level 5 perk is 50% reduced damage to engines. If this were a skill that people regularly put ten points in, someone would (hopefully!) have noticed this before now.
You know, they actually started out reversed. I don't think it'd make a difference to the overall power of the skill, though, since if you have 10 points in it, you have all the effects in either case.
I've got half a mind to start a new thread about the combat skills, to get a feel for if there's a general consensus about things being mandatory/not worth it... probably wouldn't get to any serious balancing for 0.6a, but it might be good to get that conversation started regardless.