SEV: Are there missing ship types?

dmm · #1 October 2nd, 2006, 05:36 PM

I LIKE the new way of doing ship sizes. There is less waste. Your old ships can be upgraded to something useful. Besides the obvious increase in tonnage, destroyers can eventually use Large mounts, and cruisers eventually use Heavy mounts. Keep in mind the extra engines allowed for smaller ships. I think they maneuver better, too (but I might be imagining that). Plus, a little research to get more tonnage-efficient crew quarters and life support makes even more tonnage available for weapons, etc. Those old destroyers lying around can become a fearsome (and hard-to-hit) force. If nothing else, they make better support ships than they did in SEIV.

Fyron · #2 October 2nd, 2006, 05:38 PM

They do maneuver better; look in VehicleSizes.txt to see turn and acceleration rates for the various ship sizes.

bearclaw · #3 October 2nd, 2006, 05:51 PM

I love the new way of handling/researching ship hulls! This is very similar to how I've done ship hull research in DN4. SEV just takes it a step further with being able to upgrade and such.

Love it!

Santiago · #4 October 2nd, 2006, 08:43 PM

I was going to say Kwok's "balance was somewhat out of whack but it's probably just typos

Destroyer start size 400 end size 3 max engines 150? Bet that ship is a speed demon for its 7 move. Faster it goes -smaller it gets. With only 20 crew.

baseship also, Start size 1800 end size 15 and with -30 crew lol Hope that's not in your mod

Fyron · #5 October 2nd, 2006, 08:54 PM

I think you are reading the table strangely. The -30 is def modifier, no sizes go down as tech goes up.

Santiago · #6 October 2nd, 2006, 10:45 PM

@ Fyron- poor attempt at humor on my part

The destroyer and baseship are slightly shifted to the left on the table I see. I assumed everyone seen it that way.

Ie: Frigate (space space) 250 300 etc
Destroyer350 400 3 etc
Baseship 1500 1800 15 etc

No big deal- just wondering if anyone else seen it messed up?

Captain Kwok · #7 October 3rd, 2006, 12:04 AM

It displays perfectly aligned for me.

Fyron · #8 October 3rd, 2006, 12:19 AM

The table is aligned properly in both FF and IE6 for me.

Kamog · #9 October 3rd, 2006, 02:25 AM

The ship sizes in the balance mod look more reasonable than the ones in stock.

The table looks aligned with Firefox on my computer at home, but it did not look aligned earlier today when I was using a computer at the office running IE.

dmm · #10 October 5th, 2006, 01:13 PM

Quote:

Santiago said:
No big deal- just wondering if anyone else seen it messed up?

Yeah, it's messed up exactly the same way for me, so I also did one of those "what the heck?" things and had a good laugh at it.