Jango Class

[Cory Trese]

Best for bounty hunters. Flagships are for the crazy people.

If you can keep 3 ships in dry dock, what three ships do you keep?

- Jango
- Battleship
- Escape Shuttle

[myedroid]

So, am I understanding your post to mean that if you may own more than one ship at a time?

[Cory Trese]

Upcoming releases will (very soon, like next week?) will include Captain's renting dry dock space to store ships they are not using.

[dumb]

very nice

[surlybob]

Aw man, this is gonna be sweet!

[Kelvin Zero]

What is the advantage of using a smaller hulled ship? Are they more fuel efficient? Faster? Better at avoiding combat or weapon fire?

[Cory Trese]

Fuel Usage Is a Combination of:

"Crew Size" :: "Intimidation"
"Hull Size" :: "Pilot"

Smaller Hulls usually have smaller Crews, and require less Engines and Sails to reach "FAST" Speeds.

The "Ship" speeds are still not seen in the UI. Upcoming UI changes will help make the advantages of small hulls in terms of speed visible in the ship descriptions.

if the hull is smaller than the weapon's minimum hull hit size then the damage is reduced.

armor is exponentially more effective on smaller craft, although they have less absolute points the number of "hit damage values" absorbed by 3 points of armor on a 10 hull craft is way better than the "damage hit values" absorbed by 3 points of armor on a 50 hull craft.

[jtwood]

So a smaller ship with equivalent engines as a larger ship is already considered faster?

Nice... [thumbsup]

[Cory Trese]

jtwood,

yes, there are two types of move rate "Ability" and "Speed"

Agility is Engines, and is used at Medium and Short Range

Speed is Solar, and is used at Long Range or in any transition that adds range, or ends in Long Range


The bug is that the player does not get to see those values yet. Working it

[slayernz]

Hey Cory, it's great seeing those stats when you look at your own ship now, but can you put those two stats (Ability and Speed) into the ship yard and combat success screens so you can help determine whether it is worth upgrading or not.

Also ... maybe an additional stat in the yard would be fuel consumption red/green in the yards too (you know, like some car yards where they have to advertise fuel economy.

You shouldn't see fuel economy for a ship you just shot up in space because (a) the ship is all shot to hell, and (b), the enemy crew might just have hidden the owners manual

[Cory Trese]

those are good adds ... added to my list

[ryan]

slayernz
You could of course have an idea of the ships fuel efficiency if your pilot skill was high enough, acknowledging that you know your ships really well. Maybe a breakdown of how accurate your 'idea' is based on how high your skill vrs rarity of the ship? Maybe I should add this to the 'wish list' section?

[Cory Trese]

The code will estimate the fuel use based on the pilot of the ship, which at the time of the estimation will be the enemy pilot. This is the information the Captain will receive when he asks the Captain, Crew or Engineers of the enemy ship -- "How Much Water-Fuel a Week?"

That is the best and easiest way for me, and leaves a little bit of mystery up in the air for the player.

[ehkamp]

Once Cory enables the display of agility, speed, and water-fuel consumption, I'll start adding them to Rich & I's spreadsheet.

Elizabeth

[Kelvin Zero]

So is it possible to change the speed or agility rating of a ship with enough engines or sails?