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[latua95]

hello?
Can I reprint your mod
URL here https://www.fossic.org/

[liam556]

No, you may not reprint my mod.

[latua95]

Sorry
I disturbed you

[Arcagnello]

Welp, this took a while. Got a bit too taken away playing Starsector and not being on the forum all that much 

I'll just say Asteroid Ships as a whole feel really great now, not only when playing with them early/mid game (and even late game for the Pebble) but they also bring quite a lot of new enemy variety to pirates!

I've had this moment in early game when I hunted a bounty and it had, at my dismay, an officered Cerus that definetly had Systems Expertise and a good weapon setup. It absolutely deleted 4 of my frigades going at it one by one before I could take it down 

[Null Ganymede]

Question.

How are ships made of literal rocks this maneuverable?

We're talking low tech levels of dakka on these things, but also nimble af? Like what? It's nice giving pirates something threatening but the stats don't match the looks.

[liam556]

Well the idea is that rocks are lighter than the equivalent amount of steel so these ships can go faster than ships of similar sizes due to being made from lighter materials. To try and balance this the ships have very low amounts of armour but a lot of hull points so its easier to disable their weapons and make them lose crew.

[slowpersun]

Well the idea is that rocks are lighter than the equivalent amount of steel so these ships can go faster than ships of similar sizes due to being made from lighter materials. To try and balance this the ships have very low amounts of armour but a lot of hull points so its easier to disable their weapons and make them lose crew.

In space, everything weighs the same.  Mass varies.  It's a mod... for a game... that is an abstraction... of something that isn't real.  Just assume the mod author wanted to balance this against vanilla game options.

[Helldiver]

Well the idea is that rocks are lighter than the equivalent amount of steel so these ships can go faster than ships of similar sizes due to being made from lighter materials. To try and balance this the ships have very low amounts of armour but a lot of hull points so its easier to disable their weapons and make them lose crew.

In space, everything weighs the same.  Mass varies.  It's a mod... for a game... that is an abstraction... of something that isn't real.  Just assume the mod author wanted to balance this against vanilla game options.

That's the mod author you're quoting lol

On mobility, I like the asteroid ships being agile but having low armor values, makes sense and fits, though I've personally adjusted some of the bigger ones to be a little less snappy (some of the big ones have frigate-level agility by default).