New SJ mod

[Suicide Junkie]

Well, it now runs.
I've yet to do the weapons, as they'll be a deep grid tech forest, and I think I should do a bunch of work on paper first.

Just using stock weapons to play with the hulls and shields and stuff...

Combat goes pretty slowly, so I'll probably be cranking up the number of combat turns. 90 perhaps...
Torpedoes definitely win out over APBs here... at least against large ships. The big guys have so much shielding, you need the punch of a torp to hurt 'em at all. The little 200kt drones get swatted real quick with the APBs though.

Should be a cool effect. Match the weapons to the size of ship you're facing... if you run up against the wrong type of ship, you'll either be harmless (little gun, big baddie), or inefficient(big guns, little baddie).

The accuracy settings look pretty good so far... Uber-experienced ships will be much trouble, though. Since 'Normal' accuracy is 50%, legendary ships will be like the heroes on TV and movies, striding through warzones and picking off snipers with a chain gun
I guess that'll be when you break out the missile ships and mine layers

Even with stock missiles, they are quite effecive in combat. (I'll be moving the serious missiles up the tech tree) The 100% hitrate and uber-stacking pierce damage will really hurt the big experienced guys if they run out of cannon fodder ships.