SE5 Demo Bug Reports & Annoyances/Requests

[Renegade 13]

MarkSheppard said:
I completely disagree. We're talking about interstellar spacecraft here.

Tell that to the 3D designers who did the models for the spacecraft. The hulls angle inwards, do all sorts of things, the majority of them are not simple square slabs.

I think I see what you mean now. True, it could have been done that way, but there is no real gameplay reason why it should be done that way, other than for a tiny bit more realism. However, something like slot layout when designing a ship doesn't really help to immerse me in the game any more than I already am. Perhaps it is different with other people though, such as youself.

[Raapys]

As it stands, I'd say the whole slot thingy is completely unnecessary and just make for more tedious designing; there's enough slots for 'anything' anyway, so why bother with it at all? It basically just make you place the components instead of simply clicking them. More work, same goal achived.

It could be made to actually serve a purpose following some of the suggestions here, but that would probably be too much work for little gain.

[Suicide Junkie]

Imperator Fyron said:

Luckily, this will not be necessary at all. Components store individual damage, and you can make real leakiness with custom damage types. Damage is directional, not totally random as in SE4. There isn't much need for having 100 1kt armor comps in SE5.

Currently I'm starting with up to 5 layers of 50% absorption armor.

Of course, I do plan to eventually use an intermediate system of modest amounts of inert components as armor...

That way you can choose to surround certain critical components like your drive reactors with armor, focus on certain directions or spread the protection around.