Point def. shoots ships / storage auto-fills adjacent systems

Tobi-wan_Kenobi

JUstme27 Abuse the point defenses? If they were low dps, low range, and couldn't be controlled, they wouldn't be an effective weapon to build a ship around.

JUstme27

Tobi-wan_Kenobi what I meant is because of there extreme small size and cost you could very many but I get what you mean

Halinder

Tobi-wan_Kenobi

I'm not really for #1. If my point defense is targeting enemy ships, it's not targeting missiles, and there's a chance that it'll run out of energy between the slightly irregular missile shots.

Tobi-wan_Kenobi

Halinder Yeah, I had that thought, but I figure if you're close enough to a missile ship for the point defenses to be firing at it, the missiles are probably curving around your back side anyway, or you're tearing him apart with your superior close-range weapons.

When it would get really annoying is if your point defenses were firing at pieces of the enemy that have fallen off and are drifting by.

Maybe I should make a mod of it to see what it's like. I'm no modder, but it can't be too hard to make PD attack ships. Pretty sure it's just one field that determines what's a viable target.

Tobi-wan_Kenobi

JUstme27 Gotcha. Cost isn't that cheap though - I mean small lasers are the same cost per tile, and they're a far more effective weapon that a ship-to-ship point defense would be.

Hodyn

I agree with Tobi-wan_Kenobi. Make it shoot everything, but focus, primarily, on missiles. Hell, make missiles an entity that can be shot by anything, even your Ion Blaster. Thing is, it would cost very little energy to shoot, and it would deal little to no damage, but the missiles would have a VERY low HP. It makes sense.

And that auto-fill storage thingy. It's pretty much "merge adjacent storage". so that they wouldn't have to travel to the other room when the storage room closer to the gun/whatever is empty. it's really anoying when you have a lot of guns. Even though it forces you to think about your ship design... it's annoying, because it's ridiculous. We're fighting in space, it's ridiculous enough that the crew has to carry energy cells instead of the reactor just being plugged into an energy network, but that's game mechanics, i guess. At least make it less ridiculous, it's all i'm saying.

Sombreroman

Hodyn Like Storages are instead lines that go under your ship to the weapons slowly?

Hodyn

Sombreroman Could be, but the Idea is that the Storage is always keeping the stuff where it needs to be, the crew only to the actual reloading, not the logistics of bringing stuff from the fabricator to the weapon.

Sombreroman

Hodyn I mean the storage would automatically deliver the stuff to the weapons. Not the factories.

Hodyn

Sombreroman Well... What's the point of the crew, then?

Sombreroman

Hodyn The crew could still help, the idea is it'd be an easy alternative... Though I guess this could be It's own room? An Ammo Hopper?

ja7833

Tobi-wan_Kenobi

Personally I believe the current point defence should remain dedicated to incoming missiles.

The compromise to me would be turning the gatling laser on the planned roadmap into a dual use weapon. High-rate of fire with low damage against ships and can also be used for point defence (but be less effective at intercepting missiles than the dedicated point defense).

jbox1

Tobi-wan_Kenobi obviously you haven’t heard of a modder... Would you like me to make this as a mod for yah? It’d be easy, and fun!