Save Jenna Campaign

[FAD]

I'm tired of seeing Jenna (the nameless young woman in a flight suit/first wingman with a Ronin C after you reach the rank of Major in the Militia) get polverized before she gets to see two systems worth of fighting.
Its gotten to the point that, instead of letting her tag along just to immediately watch her die within a battle or two, or babysitting her in hopes to extend her life, I'll just tell her "Sorry kid, I travel alone" And that really takes away that sense of roll playing, knowing that if you let her tag along, you're just giving her a quick death sentence. She needs a better ship.

George, I ask that you give Jenna her own beefed up Ronin class ship apart from the standard Ronin C's. It's only fair, Rama has his own beefed up Centurion! At least give her something that will give her a fighting chance to see a few systems before she meets her inevitable fate of doom?

Suggestions for Jenna's Ronin D (?):
Replace her heavy ceramic armor with ceralloy armor or light blast plate.
Replace her particle beam weapon with either a dual particle beam weapon or a TeV 9 blaster.
Upgrade her class II deflector to either a class III deflector or an R1 deflector.
The Nami and frag missiles are fine as is, but it may need the SecondaryWeapon=true code in order for her to use it. She doesn't use it as is currently. Could also give her more frag missiles as well.

So, that's my rally for the Save Jenna Campaign Whatdya say?

[george moromisato]

Cool idea.

Does anyone else have suggestions for the kind of ship that Jenna might have?

[goat not sheep]

Or... make a new one. Ronin D... a centorin would be weak...i can't imagine the difference a centorin would make... at least in my games....

[(name here)]

well, it should have thick armor, mabye Ceralloy, or advanced Ceralloy. thats because Heliotropes have ion weapons that can take down most shields rapidly. the shield should be high end to keep the armor from being depleted. the real reason that the wingmen die fast is because they lose shields and the armor damage never heals. those 2 reasons are why they need good shields and armor. she should conserve her frags or reammuntion. all ronin Cs should get secondary weapon=true for the Nami. have a better fire rate adj, to.

[goat not sheep]

or...have her be a centorian with a group of ronin Cs.

[F50]

I think a Centurion with a S100 would do fine, the R1 really isn't very good at all.

[F50]

no, TeV9 is not a Katana, much less than. And I thought the R5 was the same level as the S500 not S100. Also, I think the Centurion X has better armor but I am really not sure about that.

To reiterate: the weapon is still a TeV9 which is about the level of my weapon and one the proposed shield is one less than my shield when I would get either of these characters.

[FAD]

I don't think giving her a Centurion would be right. It would be hard to distinguish her from Rama and since this game is quite heavy on roll playing, she should have her own characterized ship that you'd be able to recognize easily.

As for Katana, it's Ion where the TeV 9 is particle-big difference between the two.
I think (name here) hit it on with giving her a shield to help curb off all the ion weapons-since she enters the picture practically surrounded by a lot of Heliotropes. But, she shouldn't be given any major advantage either, she should be balanced out.

[F50]

Ok, Ronin C with Dual Particle and good (Dwarg?) armor. I don't agree with the Ion thing though. Heliotrope gunships are only nasty with other ships around (which are usually particle based damage). Besides, you can protect her from heliotropes if they go after her and not you and vice-versa. It'll take a fair amount of time for a S100 to go down to Binder fire, the Sunflare is much more dangerous. Anyways, the R1 is weak, and the R5 is Rama's (military grade) shield.

[goat not sheep]

Or you can enhance rama as well as the girl.

[Burzmali]

A better tactic might be to make them capable of upgrading. Give them the dock command like the Mule Auton, give them better equipment, and let them upgrade their ships. Shouldn't be too hard to implement, as the Mule has the XML for the docking activity and the Assemblers have the XML for upgrading...

I'll take a closer look tomorrow, but we might be able to mos something together without having George add it to the code.

[goat not sheep]

Another possibillity. Great!

[FAD]

In order to be able to dock with a wingman, you'd also have to use the "Wait Here" code to make them stop, else, you'll have a very hard time trying to dock with a ship that moves when you move.

Anyway, looking at Rama's ship, the R5 Deflector is level 6 while the Katana and P120 Hexphase armor are both level 7. I'd suggest UG'g his shield to level 7 as well, possibly with the Yoroi MX and give Jenna all level 6 UG-allowing her to have the R5 Deflector, a TeV 9 blaster and heavy ceralloy armor.