A poll on three components

Alneyan · #1 October 19th, 2004, 01:56 PM

The only point of using both a Master Computer (which is not a Bridge component incidentally, and has a separate ability from Bridge/Life Support/Crew Quarter) and the regular components is if you are wary of Computer Viruses. Otherwise a simple Master Computer will do the trick.

Adding a Master Computer instead of only Bridge/Life Supports/Crew Quarters helps to reduce the space taken by such components, and to protect you from the Psychic special weapons. Having both the Master Computer and a set of B/LS/CQ is as expensive as having only a living crew for Baseships, and more costly for smaller ships, but it will save you some space on your ships.

Arkcon · #2 October 19th, 2004, 03:25 PM

Careful guys, bbq is still using pre-Gold. Destroyed MC doesn't protect against the Alliegence Subverter in his Version, IIRC

Atrocities · #3 October 19th, 2004, 03:54 PM

I believe Arkcon is correct.

Ragnarok · #4 October 19th, 2004, 04:08 PM

Actually that is the case in Gold as well. It was fixed in Version 1.81 and released in the 1.84 patch. So pre-gold and also gold Version 1.60 up to 1.80 a destroyed MC does not protect against the AS.

Arkcon · #5 October 19th, 2004, 05:20 PM

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Ragnarok said:
Actually that is the case in Gold as well. It was fixed in Version 1.81 and released in the 1.84 patch. So pre-gold and also gold Version 1.60 up to 1.80 a destroyed MC does not protect against the AS.

Yehabut...

Who went Gold and hasn't kept up with patches. I mean. Seriously. Why whould you do that?

Ragnarok · #6 October 19th, 2004, 05:27 PM

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Yehabut...

Who went Gold and hasn't kept up with patches. I mean. Seriously. Why whould you do that?

I didn't say anyone does that.

I am sure that everyone that has Gold has kept up with the patches just fine. I was just pointing out another fact regarding that issue.

Suicide Junkie · #7 October 19th, 2004, 06:51 PM

The problem with shield regenerators is that weapons are too powerful.

In SE3 the damage/kt ratios were about half what they are in SE4, compared with shields and regen.

In SE3, regenerators were actually useful because ships did survive long enough.
Not only did weapons do about half the damage (relative to shields), but enemies were forced to divide their firepower a bit, since they couldn't change targets once the shooting started. (If any ships were told to shoot at a ship that subsequently died, they couldn't pick a new target until the next round)

Fyron · #8 October 19th, 2004, 05:54 PM

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Arkcon said:
Who went Gold and hasn't kept up with patches. I mean. Seriously. Why whould you do that?

You would be surprised... A lot of people either never bother looking for game patches, or are even afraid of installing them...