Post by xdesperado on Feb 22, 2016 18:21:58 GMT -5
Custom Character is great and I sort of abuse it lol.
MO is my preferred class, benefits are just to good, but with the Custom Character designer mine start off looking nothing like the regular MO class.
First I trade skills for Ability points, reason skills are cheaper to raise so higher my base ability scores are longer I can postpone raising them.
Second I take Strength down to 1, yes I said 1, reason is that raising strength doesn't raise Captains level so regardless if it's 1 or 100 you'll be same level.
I'll raise Quickness to 20 so it gives me plenty of room to improve pilot before worrying about that.
Rest of ability points get split evenly between Charisma and Wisdom.
Then back to skills, all my points go into Pilot, my first order of business with any new captain is to get pilot up to at least starting ships hull size as fast as possible to increase efficiency.
My Custom starting ship has 12 hull, 3 armor, 24 engines, 19 sails, 45 crew, 55 cargo, 21 guns and 0 Torps.
Torps cost money to replace and you need rank unless your getting Indy torps or looting them, plus early game looking to avoid combat as much as possible. The heavy gun compliment is for when I do start engaging in combat I've got a deadly Gun Bunny ship. Typically I pile on Cargo, fully moded the ship will have 96 cargo capacity and 55 crew. Sometimes I'll go with the weapons cabinet others I'll go for the escape shuttle. Either way it can remain an effective ship well into the game and will get dry docked for cache and as an emergency backup in case the replacement gets destroyed and my captain survives.
MO is my preferred class, benefits are just to good, but with the Custom Character designer mine start off looking nothing like the regular MO class.
First I trade skills for Ability points, reason skills are cheaper to raise so higher my base ability scores are longer I can postpone raising them.
Second I take Strength down to 1, yes I said 1, reason is that raising strength doesn't raise Captains level so regardless if it's 1 or 100 you'll be same level.
I'll raise Quickness to 20 so it gives me plenty of room to improve pilot before worrying about that.
Rest of ability points get split evenly between Charisma and Wisdom.
Then back to skills, all my points go into Pilot, my first order of business with any new captain is to get pilot up to at least starting ships hull size as fast as possible to increase efficiency.
My Custom starting ship has 12 hull, 3 armor, 24 engines, 19 sails, 45 crew, 55 cargo, 21 guns and 0 Torps.
Torps cost money to replace and you need rank unless your getting Indy torps or looting them, plus early game looking to avoid combat as much as possible. The heavy gun compliment is for when I do start engaging in combat I've got a deadly Gun Bunny ship. Typically I pile on Cargo, fully moded the ship will have 96 cargo capacity and 55 crew. Sometimes I'll go with the weapons cabinet others I'll go for the escape shuttle. Either way it can remain an effective ship well into the game and will get dry docked for cache and as an emergency backup in case the replacement gets destroyed and my captain survives.
