*** CLOSED BETA UPDATES & DISCUSSION/BUG REPORTS II ***

That note about weapon accuracy should be more along the lines of 'now correctly using the median range between 1 and max instead of half of the maximum range', which was adversely affecting any weapon with an even numbered max range.

 

zone only has 40 CP hmmm?

 

SO HOW IS IT THAT XEEN HAS AN AGILE FLYER IV AND ONE SHOT KILLED ME AND AN AI ON THE SAME TURN WITH OVER 10 DAMAGE PER SHOT??????????

 

Over 20 seconds to watch myself use only HALF of my movement points in one single shot (not counting plotting a course, just the actual travel time).

@Vesuvius_SWIE NOT COOL!

 

I don't want to teach, you may be my opponent in the future Maybe you missed something. Ok, you definitely missed something.

Haven't you read me going on and on about certain corvettes and tactics being the most OP thing in the game?

I made a few mistakes in my estimates, but I've been correcting those (for my own intel!)

 

there's a data table on the weapons section on the forum that shows it

 

nice to see the drones firing now.

 

He probably has his tactical officer at level 10 with with damage boost 2 and overload.

 

ooo, a contender armed with theoretical and practical knowledge! Or perhaps a powerful ally

I'll have to look for those weapons then. Apparently they are not designated as 'heavy' in the shipyard component list, rather they are all simply listed as 'laser' weapons.

 

Yep, there's the problem:

All weapons are simply listed as 'Laser Beam' when viewed at the shipyard. You can see max power charges -NOT THE MAX COST TO FULLY POWER-, types of weapons, marine pods if applicable, shields, missiles, scanners etc. You only get the detailed information about a ship by going to the website and looking up the information about specific components and then cross referencing with a performance table. For example, Guardian II has 'Laser Beam' weapons, looking at the website shipyard, you find that they are HLB's (Heavy Laser Beams), and no where else but a hidden from view table (forum only) tells you what that entails.
-That is an easy fix, but also the coding HLB-*** represents that type of weapon once you know the spacewars lingo. -Vesuvius

This is something I touched on before with comments about how there is a difference in the quantity, quality, and format of information between the in-game shipyard and the website shipyard. You have to navigate both AND look up tables to really know the ship!
-I plan to have an in-game 'wiki' for the game eventually, so its more a programmer thing to get these detailed stats in. Once again, I remind that there's hordes of features I want that aren't in play yet. -Vesuvius

I'm very much for comprehensive in-game resources/information. Never was a fan of having to go to the main or 3rd party websites to look things up, but that seems to happen all the time ><

Thanks for the info. Careful what you feed me, I might be your enemy one day!

 

Suggestions:

Need a way to scrap a ship or a crew and redo them without spending money. For now, I'm just suiciding ships to get rid of them to respec. Of course, that will change when 50 missions/battles are required to max a crew... or maybe not

AND/OR

We need to be able to own multiple copies of the same ship with unique (possibly identical to others though) crew!

Officers kinda need to be treated more like plug and play equipment within a given class for that though. I suspect that the current system has the above option locked out until revision.

 

That sounds absolutely awful! The real-time limiter.

-I think it sounds absolutely wonderful! Its called real-time abuse limiter. -Vesuvius

Will definitely need to be able to own a whole line of ships [Edit: including multiple of the same ship] and play them all in parallel, upgrading each one once per day.... that borders on the asinine imo.

So A Gen Tac officer takes 10 days to max but Sol officers are all 5 days?

-I hope it takes a lot more than 5-10 days to get that many 'sorties' unless you plan to play all 24 hours of a day... -Vesuvius

Fine by me, Sol are superior anyway

 

@Vesuvius_SWIE

We need to have a conditional check for accuracy at 1 hex to be set to 95 if it is <95 or allow it to be what it will be if >95. It does actually bring you DOWN in some cases.

-That's a minor bug fix that we can report to Justin when he's over the hurdle of the more major fixes. -Vesuvius

 

Something is wrong with initiative modifiers. I keep ending up with 71 init regardless of power allocation. I should only get +7, but I'm getting way more.

Hmm, changed that time 87 init now.

-I wonder if it has something to do with the other skills having a multiplier effect (bug)? -Vesuvius

 

I was trying to figure that out.

I might run 20 power to 40 movement/init which then becomes 64 movement.

Should have +5 init from tac and +2 from the ship for 47 total.

I was wondering if somehow some init bonuses were being multiplied like the power:move and then added in afterwards again instead of only being added after all multiplication is done. Something along the lines of an 'order of operations' error.

 

OH, I suppose that accuracy check should be for any range. I noticed some other weird things going on like how I mentioned I could be at 96% from 4 to 7 hex (no apparent variance) but 1-3 was all 95% (again, all appeared exactly as 95).


I'll probably average 10 hours a day playing when it goes live

50 sorties isn't a big deal, though it does depend on how a 'sortie' is defined and qualified.

If it's just participate in (and survive) 50 'battles', that's pretty easy. I can get 25 quick battles in a single sector capture. Now if it's go out, do something, earn some XP, and then return to base, that's annoying but would take longer. Capturing a sector being the defining point, that would take awhile.

 

What is this real-time abuse you speak of !