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Post by johndramey on Feb 1, 2017 20:41:44 GMT -5
I've been tooling around as a pirate and having a pretty good amount of fun with it. The ship to ship combat is definitely cool. However, I've gotten myself defeated a couple times without actually knowing why. Now, I realize that there is a log where detailed info is given, but would it be possible to have some basic indicators on screen?
I was thinking something like having a simple indicator for our ship's engines, combat effectiveness, and maybe crew?
I'm thinking that my losses have been the result of my engines taking too much damage. So maybe have the indicators (maybe E=engines, W=combat effectiveness, and C=crew) just be color coded so green = 100%, yellow = 99-60%, orange = 59-30%, red = 29-0%?
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Post by grävling on Feb 1, 2017 20:57:53 GMT -5
Please not green and red for all the poor dichromats! Blue is good.
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Post by johndramey on Feb 1, 2017 21:02:13 GMT -5
Ah, yes, I'm not too color-blind aware. Sorry! Honestly, we could go with shapes, signs, simple bars, whatever.
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Post by fallen on Feb 1, 2017 21:29:20 GMT -5
johndramey - we are working on putting a grid of icons and numbers into the header area, so that it is clear (for both ships) what their key stats are. Hopefully something that will be in for the next update. Armor, Engine Dmg, Speed, Agility, Shield,
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Post by Cory Trese on Feb 1, 2017 22:21:55 GMT -5
The inverse is also true, sometimes you don't know why you won.
Was it Engine Destroyed? Captain Killed? Crew Surrender? Pilot stations down?
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Post by johndramey on Feb 1, 2017 22:37:00 GMT -5
I'm sure that is true, but for me it's always been the enemy's hull collapsing  |
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Post by Cory Trese on Feb 1, 2017 22:38:11 GMT -5
I'm sure that is true, but for me it's always been the enemy's hull collapsing Oh really? So you're never getting to loot, ransom, press, or rearm? |
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Post by johndramey on Feb 1, 2017 22:44:13 GMT -5
Not so far. Not saying that I've found it weird, I've been mostly sitting at range and slugging it out with torpedoes.
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Post by Brutus Aurelius on Feb 1, 2017 22:44:51 GMT -5
I'm sure that is true, but for me it's always been the enemy's hull collapsing Oh really? So you're never getting to loot, ransom, press, or rearm? I've had the enemy crew surrender after a boarding action, but I personally have not seen a ship surrender from ship to ship combat alone. |
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Post by MintDragon on Feb 2, 2017 1:40:12 GMT -5
I do like the options after winning a boarding... sabotage, disable key area, leave? (I think)
I was too used to ST, and left the ship... and realized the battle between ships still raged on!
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Post by Cory Trese on Feb 2, 2017 2:06:39 GMT -5
You can win by killing the Captain, badly injuring the enemy crew, destroying enough Pilot components, destroying the Engine, killing all the Officers. Most the AI will surrender when their weapons are destroyed.
We're working on giving the player a surrender option.
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Post by xdesperado on Feb 2, 2017 2:42:48 GMT -5
You can win by killing the Captain, badly injuring the enemy crew, destroying enough Pilot components, destroying the Engine, killing all the Officers. Most the AI will surrender when their weapons are destroyed. We're working on giving the player a surrender option. Are we going to get targeting options as well like target engines/weapons/bridge etc.? |
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Post by Cory Trese on Feb 2, 2017 11:54:56 GMT -5
We'll work on making how the targeting system works more clear.
Range, weapon, talent and other factors have major impacts on priority and cascades.
We're not planning on copying ST RPG with a button for targeting, because we've already got so many systems on that.
Our goal here is to make combat more the strategy and less arcade for ST2, which is why we've phased the turn, slowed it down a bit and cut the instant result buttons.
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