Suggested Starting Templates, (from Discord)

[En1gma]

This is from the backers thread on Discord, as requested by andrew.

Pirate Template


Bounty Hunter Template


Bounty Hunter Starting Stats

[fallen]

Thank you!

I put a little width="600" into each IMG tag to make them more readable

On our list now for eval!

[En1gma]

No idea what that means but w00t

[fallen]

Thanks for the great feedback, Cory Trese is working on some these for next update.

[resistor]

I disagree about the attributes. I think the pirate template would do better with higher Attribute priority to increase Charisma and Resilience, which has a big effect on chance to draw Rare reward cards in Blockade hands.
Also, Resilience is not very important for BHs, so I think the template would be stronger with Resilience dropped to 18 (it will be increased to at least 20 by BH's trait anyway), and using the saved attribute points to maximize Quickness and Wisdom.

[grävling]

What is 'CC' in the first note. Combat-oriented-captain?

[grävling]

Jul 1, 2019 11:39:12 GMT -5 En1gma said:

No idea what that means but w00t

You are posting things to the forum from your phone by sticking the path of the image: https:blah_blah_whatever.png in between IMG tags. That way you get the default width and height for your image, and from your phone this is way too large to be convenient to read in the forums. instead you want

[img src="https:blah_blah_whatever.png" width=500]
or
[IMG width="500"]https:blah_blah_whatever.png[/IMG]

or some other sane number for width. Play around with it and get different sized images. Don't stick the 'code' tag in I used to make that, that is just so that what I want you to type is shown, and proboards doesn't try to render the string.

[resistor]

Jul 11, 2019 0:12:15 GMT -5 grävling said:

What is 'CC' in the first note. Combat-oriented-captain?

CC means Crew Combat.

[grävling]

For crew combat, I think the most important thing is initiative. So wisdom 30, quickness 30, yes I want that.

I think the big decision is whether you want your captain to fight in slots 1/2, or 3/4. With 30 wisdom and quickness, your captain will have the most AP. This makes putting your captain as one of the first 2 very attractive. If you stick the captain in the back, you often are stuck with wasted AP -- must not shoot that rifle, will go into penalty if I try, grrr. But if you have a pile of buffs you intend to use, then there is less waste. Or if you want to make your captain also a combat medic who heals from the rear -- you can usually find somebody to heal for that last bit of AP this round. The nice thing about having a combat captain in the back is that you can equip him with a sniper rifle, which uses that nice quickness you already have, and you can significantly reduce your strength value.

If your captain is in slot 1 or 2, then either you are a straight up sword user, and hello strength 30, I want that! or you are doing sword and pistol (because you need the parry). Then you don't need that much strength, because aside from poisoning people with an assassin's blade, which can be fun, your main plan will be to shoot them with your pistol, and you already have the quickness for that. I haven't made a snubber using captain yet -- that sounds like a fun thing to try soon.

But I wouldn't make a crew combat captain without having attributes as A.

[En1gma]

I agree with everything you both said. That being said, I had some parameters within which I had to work. I wasn't able to put things where I preferred to have them, especially EXP and ship (ship was more me, I didn't want new players to be stuck in a Juror, they need something more meaty).

These aren't supposed to be fully optimized templates (I tried), but ones that would give the starting player an easy introduction to the mechanics of the game.

The BH's is meant to be balanced, not min-maxed. Morale will be important for a new player, and since the class doesn't have a morale break prevention like the Zealot, I went with balance. (At least this template can fight, go look at the original)

I fought with the pirate Template for a long time. I have tested it pretty well and it is surprisingly steady, and can hold its own in ship combat for sure. Which is what new players will want to do as a Pirate.

Remember that this isn't for experienced players, but for new players who don't know how to make templates yet.

[fallen]

1) Absolutely none of the starting templates will focus on a crew combat captain, so please don't spend too much time worrying about what stats they should use!

2) These aren't "best min-max templates" they are "starting points" to help make the game introduction smoother.

We've now made some of the suggested changes to the starting pirate template.

[grävling]

You may write:

Jul 12, 2019 20:29:15 GMT -5 fallen said:

1) Absolutely none of the starting templates will focus on a crew combat captain ...

but I think a new starting player who decides on the BH profession has a pretty good chance of wanting to do exactly that, or at least will assume that by looking at what a BH starting template looks like they can learn something about how to build a Crew Combat Captain.

[fallen]

Interesting, but I disagree based on all the data we have and all the players I've spoken with. Thanks for the feedback, but we're not going to change on that design point

[Cory Trese]

The new Pirate template is generating a lot of positive feedback.

Thanks!

[drspendlove]

I suggest a starting merchant template that requires no unlocks and starts with a little bonus cash-on-hand from an over-prioritized Ship priority. I would make one change to the below: Use P.Cruiser instead for the extra Large slot.