Against Rocks. The AI can`t handle it. Exploits are a no-go.
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They look like weird, winged anteater.
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They look like weird, winged anteater.
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The more I think about it, the more I am against Rocks. If the AI was smarter, yes; but it isn't as epic or desperate a fight when we have bullet sponges just soaking up all the damage.
I vote for Modular Ships instead!
I vote for Modular Ships instead!
Opposed to both types, as indicated before. If the vote does end up in favour, however, I would prefer (armed) military to civilian, since then we at least have to devote some space to maintenance.
Here's a tentative design for an Armored Cruiser. With another level of Armor tech, we could probably bring it up to 15 layers.
EDIT: but it looks like the vote is going against Rocks, and Vice-Admiral Edzako has a veto over Naval designs anyway.
EDIT: but it looks like the vote is going against Rocks, and Vice-Admiral Edzako has a veto over Naval designs anyway.
We must kill them, glass their planet, and wipe them from the history books!
Literally. Let's terraform their world into a fiery hellhole.
Military for me too, kind of Armoured Heavy Cruiser, 15-20 kTon if possible you can put just CIWS on board ( and size 1 AMM sensor) or better PD Gauss turrets (if small enough) to give them some PD escort dual-role too.
Also as they need not to operate independently and will move along a Task group supported by Tankers, you could halve their fuel and cram in some Cryogenic Berths module and then you will have a perfect Rescue Ship class.
I guess the guys flying in yours coff...fighters will be happy to have them
EDIT: in my view a military class is not more an exploit but a design choise
Also as they need not to operate independently and will move along a Task group supported by Tankers, you could halve their fuel and cram in some Cryogenic Berths module and then you will have a perfect Rescue Ship class.
I guess the guys flying in yours coff...fighters will be happy to have them
EDIT: in my view a military class is not more an exploit but a design choise
The 43rd and 44th OFHBs are under tow for Uranus, and four more are building. Our on-hand fuel stockpile is again up over 100 million liters. Has the fuel crisis been beaten?
From gameplay perspective it's perfectly fine and if you think that isn't exploiting AI go ahead. Only in last game it seemed that these ships were too effective allowing us to defeat wastly superior enemy fleet with almost no losses...
Maybe some sort of compromise can be reached where we design heavily armed ships that lead the line, but are decently armed as well ?
Maybe some sort of compromise can be reached where we design heavily armed ships that lead the line, but are decently armed as well ?
What do you think of the Cruiser design five or six posts up? Recall that our Battle class heavy Cruisers carried only one more missile tube (six on the Battle vs five on this design).
Well they were commercial design thus much cheaper to build, not maintenance needed, much larger too (more then double 40-50 kTon ??) and much less fuel consumption too.
Our Alien contact team has concluded that no communication is possible with the Space Dragons.
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I am shipping ten DSTSs (Deep Space Tracking Stations) into the Barnard's Star system, which is the system in between Sol and the Space Dragon system of Gliese 563.2
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I am shipping ten DSTSs (Deep Space Tracking Stations) into the Barnard's Star system, which is the system in between Sol and the Space Dragon system of Gliese 563.2
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That's as good a guess as it gets, really.
I think it depends a bit on tech level. The initial scout design in that game was much like these ships, but the later hyperdrive design came about mostly because I ran into one minefield too many with the old ones. Thermal sensors don't help against stationary groups of missiles with passive/active sensors. And running away once they lock on isn't really an option.
That still doesn't help against stationary groups of missiles, though.
Not saying that's a bad design, mind - it's just a tad situational. Just like the hyperdrive design is/was.
If I've learned anything from Aurora it's that designing ships to fit the situation isn't a bad idea at all.
Darn. We really *need* hyperdrives for systems like that ..
I'm not on any council, but I feel it's a tad gamey.
(So: Against.)
If you want to try getting creative with tactics, try to lure them through the wormhole with a large group of Towers standing by on the other side. If it works it's probably just as effective, and for extra points we haven't seen anything like that before on these forums.
*cheers*
Good.
Would you still feel that if we lured them through wormhole to get blasted by Towers instead?
No guarantees it will work, mind ..
Tell you what, for all the people opposed to deploying Rocks you get to write all the letters of condolence to grieving families of our fighter pilots.
Heh, it's no sticking point for me, if the majority decides against them then so be it.
Heh, it's no sticking point for me, if the majority decides against them then so be it.
So... at our current rate of tech progress, in one year and five months we will be able to start work on the prototypes needed for some pretty decent Gauss PD and Laser PD Escorts. They will be built at the fourth level of Gauss tech, which allows each (four-barreled) turret to fire sixteen shots at an incoming salvo, every five seconds.
We are now up to 70 research labs, from a game-start total of 25, and we have the third +20% research speed tech finished. That means that we are researching about four and a half times faster than we were at game start, not including our skilled-up scientists.
We are now up to 70 research labs, from a game-start total of 25, and we have the third +20% research speed tech finished. That means that we are researching about four and a half times faster than we were at game start, not including our skilled-up scientists.
In regards, will the light carriers be upgraded with a better CIWS, with the better Gauss cannons?
With our new Composite Armor, the proposed Star class Armored Cruiser has 15 layers of Armor, and an anti-ship broadside even bigger than a Battle class Heavy Cruiser (seven size-4 tubes instead of six).
A nice alternative to the Rocks, I like it. Propose name change to 'Paladin-class'.
No.
I dislike turning Carriers into "balanced" vessels. Carriers are intended to carry Fighters into the battle zone. The Fighters form both the Carrier's defense and its offense. In my opinion, Carriers should NOT be a balanced design... they should devote every ton of displacement towards two things only: servicing the most potent possible Air Group (which requires hangar bays, magazine stowage and fuel tankage) and moving fast enough to operate with the fleet. Every other task... Point Defense, Active Sensors, Passive Sensors, Battle Management, Jump Tending... should be off-loaded onto other ships in the squadron, which are not as tightly constrained by the tonnage limits.