UAS stations do not carry the high level ores that the high level nanoforged armors require. You have to both mine late game systems and farm ferians to have any chance at getting them in sufficient quantities. In the games I played, some of their late-game stations did have enough high level ores ...

What equipment do you use at close range? I've tried it with an ion disruptor and a dual Fusionfire, but avoiding both the APA and the lightning turrets and having to shoot back with a level 7 fixed-angle weapon is pretty tough. I don't do this a lot - it's really dangerous. But the dual Fusionfire...

Do they get absorbed and recreated at the same location if the passthrough succeeds? Then they could hit an arbitrary number of times as long as they keep passing through (approaching an average of 2 at 50%). But if they keep moving between hits, I don't see how they could score more than 2 hits on ...

I think the Phobos is fine. It's very skill-intensive to engage at close range, but not impossible with appropriate equipment. You have to dodge or shoot down the APA shots (though shooting them down may get harder in the next version) and anticipate when the turrets are about to fire so you can get...

Light speed is 48 pixels per tick though. How could it possibly score that many hits on a small target?

Looks mostly reasonable. WMD and shot speed still seem undervalued to me. Do you have data about how many players use missiles and ammo weapons? I've been finding (some of) them quite worthwhile for several versions already and they keep getting stronger. I'm looking forward to trying the new and im...

- The TM7 assumes most of the fragments miss, which is not a good assumption for tracking fragments. The tracking for TM7 is poor. What makes it deadly is within a certain range, all fragments auto-aim at targets. For example, one target within multitarget range, and all three fragments get the sam...

I'd say you're dramatically undervaluing WMD, based on how it currently works. Also, the penalty for weapons with particularly low shot speeds (Moskva-11, MAGs, Iocrym Fracture cannon) is not large enough. And a few weapons' damage stats are still funny: - The Ares lightning turret uses its sustaine...

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So if you were using an ion blaster against, say, a Deimos with 100 compartment hp (instead of 300), it would take: - 4 to 5 seconds to knock out its shield - 4 seconds to cut through its armor, maybe 8 if it gets 2 layers - 20 seconds to destroy its main compartment Assuming all shots hit from the ...

I believe that multiple segments per location will be enough to take care of the compartments issue you mentioned. As long as it's just a last bit of HP before the ship is destroyed, rather than most of the ship's effective health, I think the current system for compartments is fine. I would, howev...

3. Concurrently with these changes, I also expect to do something about WMD (more WMD at lower levels), ... 5. Post Alpha 1 (maybe Alpha 2) I intend to also revamp station defenses. HPs are a little low right now, and they need to have better long range defenses (at minimum, guards should have a bi...

this is nice, but wouldn't it be simpler to have a new WMD system that explicitly declares the percentage ? I appreciate the advantages of that change in terms of intuitiveness and flexibility, but it would involve a number of code changes. Making improvements to the game balance doesn't have to wa...

Looks like it's not taking overheating into account. The Advanced Tritium cannon should take 2 or 4 times as long, depending on whether counterUpdateRate is in ticks or game seconds. And it's assuming only a fraction of tracking fragments hit, when it would be more accurate (or more in line with the...

Well, you can make a tidy profit by buying excess autons (except maybe autosentinels), replacing their equipment with the cheapest junk you can find, then selling the equipment and the auton. The Longreaches on the Aegis are particularly valuable if you can find other misc. devices to replace them w...