Ship Ideas

[F50]

This is to brainstorm ideas for ships.

Note: Ideas for capships should have a good reason for wanting a new capship (most of the really bad ship ideas are capships).

Faction: Ares
Weapons: Ares Arch Cannon, Another Ares weapon or dual weapon with non-ion damage.
Armor/Shields: Light ares armor (same as sandstorm), Yori S100ish
Thrust: little slower than barbary
Turning Ratio: like barbary
Mass: little heavier than barbary
Reason: All of the ares ships (ones that move) have Ion damage as thier primary, late-game needs more variety to balance Ion reflection crystals.

[Guest]

I am not sure If this qualifyies as a ship but I find it annoying that particle reflection will make a person completely immune to the sung except for maby thier capship.

Sung Defense Turret

Description: This Turret fires small Ions at a target. While not enough to pierce through armor or cause damage to the equipment within. This weapon can damage shields significantly.

Will not damage shields as much as a heiliotrope's blinder cannon, but will be enough to deter a particle reflecting ship from approaching a Sung Fortress or Sung Citadel.

[palmiche]

I am not sure If this qualifyies as a ship but I find it annoying that particle reflection will make a person completely immune to the sung except for maby thier capship.

Sung Defense Turret

Description: This Turret fires small Ions at a target. While not enough to pierce through armor or cause damage to the equipment within. This weapon can damage shields significantly.

Will not damage shields as much as a heiliotrope's blinder cannon, but will be enough to deter a particle reflecting ship from approaching a Sung Fortress or Sung Citadel.

Maybe adding a couple of Earth Enslavers around the fortresses will do the job. The can take down your shiels with cyberattacks. They already show up around citadels.

[Guest]

No good, this is to work against people who have the Yori MX and a crystal. By the time you have an MX you usually have a Hanzo, Katana, or Nando. The Earth Slaver (not Enslaver) is much. much, much to weak to accomplish this. This is not necesarily to make a fortress/citadel harder as much as make it so that damage cannot be completely ignored. I would also like to see factions that restrict themselves to one damage type get ships that have multiple different damage types to reduce the effect of particle/ion crystals/strong resistances.

[palmiche]

There is no point anyway because you can always take out the towers with long range attacks, add instead 4 Earth Slavers to chase you when you first hit the Fortress and you'll see what happens if the other Slavers are also around.

[Guest]

The point was to stop the player from being right up close. keeping 4 Earth Slavers would simply make it impossible to defeat if you encounter one right after the Arena.

[F50]

Does an auton qualify as a ship?

This auton would run at the nearest enemy station (NOT AAC turret) and explode (would be shot at if the defeders weren't destracted first ).

[F50]

I originally created this thread to be like "pitch ideas for new items" on the UTF so please forgive my thread necromancy:

Ares Volcano:

Basically this is an idea for an alternate capship for the Commetfall (if there isn't one already)

Armor: Two plates of armor in the 50-80 hp-range, I play the Wolfen so I am not familiar with those kinds of armors.
Shields: Cydonian
Weapons: Along the lines of two (omni) Ares Lightning cannons and a weapon of a different damage type
Mass: Polar-like
Turning Rate: Hurin-like
Thrust: A little less than Hurin.

Heliotrope Mobile Platform:

Behavior: found near stars or vegitative planets serching for plants, conducting experiments, and/or collecting solar energy. Has an escort which may contain one or (rarely) more Heliotrope Destoryers.

Armor: Similar in strength to the Marauder Raid Platform
Shields: Solon
Weapons: (omni) Sunflare
Mass: Marauder Platform-like
Turning Rate: Maurauder Platform-like.
Thrust: Ranx Gunship-like