Here are some of Cy4's Ideas

[Your_Persona]

[Necro post : 5/7/2001]

QUOTE Balance/Fixes
Weaker factions i.e. Rix/Giga start w/gunships /OR/ make gunships avail in basic garr for half cost.
/OR/
Increase gunship hull

-Capital Ship Balance Options:
-Decrease cap speed
-Increase cap hull
-Increase skycap damage/blast radius
-Decrease mine damage to previous levels.
-Increase capital ship cost.
/OR/
1. New tech additions (Provided increase of skycap damage and decrease of skycap blast radius only).
a) Flak Gun, "Starkiller"
-Avail in Shipyard - Costs 5000 credits for Gigacorp.
-Mounts on turrets of Devastator, Cruiser.
-Throttle controls range of burst instead of zoom.
-Ranges:
Mk1 - 2k
Mk2 - 2.8k
Mk3 - 4k
-Damage - Based on proximity to center of blast, center of blast = twice the damage of 1 skycap hit.
-Uses up ammo 4x faster than skycap, cooldown of 2 seconds.

b) Missile Defense Gun, "Starcutter"
-Avail in Shipyard - Costs 5000 credits for Gigacorp.
-Mounts on turrets of Devastator, Cruiser, Gunship.
-Allows for automatic targeting of incoming missiles, provides target lead indicator (For missile targeting only).
-Ranges:
Mk1 - 600m
Mk2 - 1.2k
-Damage - Very high bonus vs. missiles, weaker vs. all other craft.


With these changes, especially the missile defense gun, it would be possible to add a new faction that was entirely misile dependent while maintaining balance by introducing a capable deturrent. It would also strengthen capital ships overall by providing a new means of defense. The key to the success of Allegiance is its emphasis on skill rather than technology. Adding features such as "Target nearest incoming missile" and the "Missile Defense Gun" would focus more on that very skill rather than countermeasure effectiveness and luck. The reason capital ship usage by commanders has become so low is due to the relative effectiveness of dual tech trees such as tactical/supremacy as opposed to the ineffective high cost of a shipyard and capital ships, which are essentially moving targets unless used very subtlely and/or in a game with a low number of players.

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[Psychosis]

interesting ideas, but im going to call a feasibility issues, and code change? on this one.

[MadAccountant]

He answers and misses by a mile!!! YP is simply posting more history that he dug up.

[Shizoku]

Was this back when rix had the dual front ac's for it's gs? Starting off with that would be kinda.... redonkulous.

[jess_i_74]

Some of those SY ideas have been integrated into EoR's (and to a lesser extent, PC2's) SY scheme.