Battleship discussion topic

[Korrd]

The nova explosion range was increased to its actual levels to solve a problem with BS having torpedo inmunity.
When hit by original novas, the BS got no damage at all. So i suggested that if we increase the explosion radius, the vulnerable parts of a BS would be hit even if the torp exploded in the other side of the ship.
It worked. But it added another problem, the BS could be defeated much faster now because of the huge damage caused by novas.

Now, there are 3 possible solution for this problem.

1. We make nova ammo REALLY expensive, say 500k each torp, and turn player loot on. That way, a fighter pilot will be forced to carry less torps because if destroyed with a full load, he will be loosing ~25mill on ammo... Also, we will see less people carring them (and less noobs asking where to get them), as they are really expensive...

2. We decrease nova launcher capacity. Instead of 50 Torps, we make it carry 10. So the player is more saavy when using novas...

3. We decrease the damage caused by novas to 50% - 75%. That will make it less effective.

Decreasing nova blast radius will make it almost obsolete against any ship bigger than a cruiser. In fact, some ships are not fully affected by them (RH BS, Kus BS, etc...)
I go with option 1. Stupidly expensive Novas and player loot on. (With player loot you only loose any stuff not attached to the ship) Also, player loot will add more realism to the FL experience, and maybe, it will help to form better fighter pilots :)


Codename weps are fine the way they are now. The older ones did little damage for the energy they used..


Sidewinder can be dodged. Just use tons of countermeasures and thrusters...
Turn rate of those things is fine. But the fire rate could be between 1.50 and 1.00..

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