Discovery 4.81 features, bugs & suggestions

[Dab]

Just a bit on the ship type stuff.

Those were just put in there to more easily differentiate them on the list. I didn't plan on having them added in the name or infocard, just to help when we were making the list, and perhaps into the mod ships if we find a suitable arrangement.

They are still divided into battleship - cruiser - gunboat, then the other names are the subdivisions for making mod managing of them easier as we would integrate them.

And I don't necessarily think everyone will go for the ones with the most firepower.. I know some people still use the Osiris, and in my changes, the Osiris is small enough and agile enough to dodge alot of the stuff the dreadnoughts can dish out at them. That way the Osiris is using its real advantages, but with its disadvantages still there.

Right now it can easily fight the Zoner Juggernaut and Outcast Dreadnought. It should be hard pressed to fight those things. Requiring a large amount of moving around and dodging, staying at a distance. Thats how its supposed to be used. Now it can sit there and exchange body blows equally, but the small size makes it harder to hit. This makes the biggest ships obsolete.

Cruisers are already mostly divided into groups of firepower, size, and agility, but could still use some work. And I still think we really need the two different kinds of Gunboats. Some would be anti-fighter of course. But someone would be bound to make an anti-capship gunboat. This way certain ships are more specialized and you have to think harder about what ships your bringing into battle.

Some of the differences could be downplayed a little, but I still think the all BSs having near same turret number is a bad idea. RH BS and Battlestars should have somewhere in the 20s number. RH BS had 21 and that made it unique and effective. Now it is HUGE, can't cover everywhere around it, and is just a big target.

I don't intend to make turning so hard as to take forever to fix it after getting rammed, but not so easily as it can just turn and keep on going. The big ships need to move around like big ships, the small ones should be able to pack the punch of the larger ships.

We can change around some of the stats of these ships and come up with a very balanced and usable arrangement I think. And personally I think we should be trying as seeing the same three battleships everywhere is starting to make me sick..

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