Sombreroman ONE RAIL SHIP
一人のレールマン
ARE Railguns Really OP?
ImNotLaffng Huh. When I typed it in the other way it said ship...
ImNotLaffng 一人のレールマン
prolly should change that into 一舟のレールマン
I think Railguns are not op.
The best way to confirm that is to build ships within a relatively small budget. As example 500k. Building a Railgun-ship means, you have to build your entire ship aroud this single weapon. and if your Railgun is destroyed, your ship will be toast for sure.
And you easy can find a counter to railguns. A fast canon-wall with some e-bolts will absolutely do. Or a group of smaller ships.
I personally like those railguns and i think they fit into the arsenal very well without beeing Op..
when it was rc i felt like its the wrost weapon in the game but after the rc i dont know why the railgun is ALOT more stronger there might had a change there but i dont really know now the railgun is one of the best weapon for big ships for sure
I believe they are overpowered.. when mixed with drones++ and the rail corner mod (forgot its actual Name)
I present
Shadow: Mercy (But you won't get any mercy..)
Target: around 525 long block (Couldn't tell.. it lagged meh computer..)
(This ship itself IS a railgun. Not complete)
(I added armor bands later on)
In the end, It went through 70 blocks, (17 armor)
Vs Ship.
(Two Crescent Wraths)
(if you can't see, It split both ships in half)
FangTheCat Oh. Well don't forget to factor in a Craft capable of Dodging them and Destroying them Accordingly. Partially, Railguns are Overpowered, but they also have their own weaknesses, such as Cost and Vulnerability. Good Point though... That's one heckuva Railgun...
Sombreroman
Its like 2000% (I dunno what that means.. but it is.) And yes, they are expensive.. Buuuut people making ships for factions don't care as much.. (Oh and the railgun corner mod stops chain reactions, on mine atleast)
FangTheCat True, but if the Tip is destroyed the Railgun cannot fire.
Sombreroman
yea....
They are overpowered IF (and only if) Correctly armored, big enough... bla bla blah ...
But yea they expensive.. .-.
what happens if you combine a fighter and a rail gun? hmm.......
GoodMorningCosmoteer Small Rails are pretty much Overly Priced Cannons, to be honest...
Sombreroman
how about making a pirate galleon... hmmm.... THINKING INTENSIFIES
I don't think rail guns are op because I have a ship that does not use rail guns that can easily cripple yours.
culanns_hound
And?
I have a ship which easily cripples yours..
The point is that a ship designed to counter other types of ships nullify any obvious "OP-ness"
(This specific thing is: Shields > Rail.......... Armor < Rail
Heres an example with my 4m cost "Notha"
Look how much armor it tears through.
This isn't even counting what it would do upon hitting reactors, factories, even corridor.
Don't know if anyone noticed this. For a weapon that mainly use power to fire, rail gun actually don't consume too much power.
Take energy-based weapons for example, small laser spent 250 power and deal 400 damage per shot. So the damage/power ratio is 1.6. Same ratio goes for ion beam (2000 damage/1250 power per second).
But if you look the number of rail gun. Say, a rail gun with 8 accelerators, witch consume 4740 power (1 launcher, 8 accelerators, and 6 ammo) and deal 12162 impact damage per shot. The ratio is 12162/4740=2.566, way more efficient than any other energy-based weapons. I am not even taking the ridiculously high penetration damage rail gun has into consideration, which would at least double the damage/power ratio.
So yeah, IMO the rail gun is OP (long rail gun only, short rail gun still suck).