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why don't you want a cent with infini boost?
top infini boosters now:
warthog 220
hornet 220
atlas x 210
why not a light ship?
top infini boosters now:
warthog 220
hornet 220
atlas x 210
why not a light ship?
i don't see how an unarmed ship with no cargo space to speak of, and a high turbo speed would ruin balance.
Yes, everyone would fly one when the were just going from station to station, but that hapens in real life too. Does the airforce send fighterplains to transport indaviduals from base to base? No, they use personell transports for that. Additionaly peoiple would mostly use these for stockpliling their favorate ship at their favorate station. And still fly the actualy functional ship to their end destination.
Since force equals mass time acceleration, i would assume that even a light ship could destroy another target by ramming if it were moving fast enoug, but since you can't manuver while turboing, i still don't see that being an exploit. Additionaly the ramming ship should take simlar damage so... yea, not a tactic we have to worry too much about (except of coarse for the ocasional jerk who does it just because).
Something being better than everything else at one task does not make it unbalanced. balanced means that if it were to be compared to any other craft each would have advavtages and disadvantages over the other and all and all they would both have a place. This is why high lisence level ships should be aloud to be decidedly better than low level ships. that way the advantage of the low level ship is that it can be obtaioned more easily. so, just because this scout is uber fast doesn't mean it is unbalanced it pays for it's speed by having no cargo and no weaponry.
"First, all engines in VO seem to generally follow this tradeoff: High top speed or effecient energy usage. A 300 m/s engine that had only 50 energy drain goes against this rule. There's nothing else like it in the game."
actualy we have, you just didn't realise it. what hapens when you load a merauder to the gills with heavy ore? it accelerates worse and turnes slower than it did empty. So think about it this way: what hapens if you put a merauder engin in a cent that has no weapon or gargo space? the cent is a much smaller ship, and withoput any weapon mountins is even lighter and easier to move. Why wouldn't it be able to reach a higher top speed than a maud, and maintain it indefinately? The same thing hapens in the real world with car engins. A V8 in a pickup truck grants it standard acceleration and top speeds, but a V8 in a small car makes it exreemly fast.
Yes, everyone would fly one when the were just going from station to station, but that hapens in real life too. Does the airforce send fighterplains to transport indaviduals from base to base? No, they use personell transports for that. Additionaly peoiple would mostly use these for stockpliling their favorate ship at their favorate station. And still fly the actualy functional ship to their end destination.
Since force equals mass time acceleration, i would assume that even a light ship could destroy another target by ramming if it were moving fast enoug, but since you can't manuver while turboing, i still don't see that being an exploit. Additionaly the ramming ship should take simlar damage so... yea, not a tactic we have to worry too much about (except of coarse for the ocasional jerk who does it just because).
Something being better than everything else at one task does not make it unbalanced. balanced means that if it were to be compared to any other craft each would have advavtages and disadvantages over the other and all and all they would both have a place. This is why high lisence level ships should be aloud to be decidedly better than low level ships. that way the advantage of the low level ship is that it can be obtaioned more easily. so, just because this scout is uber fast doesn't mean it is unbalanced it pays for it's speed by having no cargo and no weaponry.
"First, all engines in VO seem to generally follow this tradeoff: High top speed or effecient energy usage. A 300 m/s engine that had only 50 energy drain goes against this rule. There's nothing else like it in the game."
actualy we have, you just didn't realise it. what hapens when you load a merauder to the gills with heavy ore? it accelerates worse and turnes slower than it did empty. So think about it this way: what hapens if you put a merauder engin in a cent that has no weapon or gargo space? the cent is a much smaller ship, and withoput any weapon mountins is even lighter and easier to move. Why wouldn't it be able to reach a higher top speed than a maud, and maintain it indefinately? The same thing hapens in the real world with car engins. A V8 in a pickup truck grants it standard acceleration and top speeds, but a V8 in a small car makes it exreemly fast.
The Cent with Infiniboost (TM) was my favourite ship for "Special Delivery" missions.
I don't know about it's value in combat or any other use. I DO know that as far as
I am concerned, it is now WORTHLESS. Do you want to remove the weapon port?
Go on with your bad self. I never equipped it with a weapon anyway, didn't want the
weight. Bring back the Infiniboost (TM) Centurion as a scout or delivery ship !!!
I don't know about it's value in combat or any other use. I DO know that as far as
I am concerned, it is now WORTHLESS. Do you want to remove the weapon port?
Go on with your bad self. I never equipped it with a weapon anyway, didn't want the
weight. Bring back the Infiniboost (TM) Centurion as a scout or delivery ship !!!
Heh, i used the cent with infiniboost regularly as a sunflareantagonizer. Or more a disruptor then actually to kill people.
The people that played ctc with me, know whar I mean. And yes the cent was quite unbalanced.
I didn't want it to be a cetn, since I wanted to have an aernaseeker as one. It just looks spiffy to have something as petite as that zipping around but being no more annoying then a fly (aka get out the flysquatters guys :D)
The people that played ctc with me, know whar I mean. And yes the cent was quite unbalanced.
I didn't want it to be a cetn, since I wanted to have an aernaseeker as one. It just looks spiffy to have something as petite as that zipping around but being no more annoying then a fly (aka get out the flysquatters guys :D)
For an extremely light, no weapon scout ship, why not give it a turbo drain of 45? That way w/ the F/C batt, it could warp through WH with next to no delay, because it would charge while turboing towards the WH.
I don't think that would work, Beolach... If I recall we used to have an engine that only had 45 drain (effecient engine) back in alpha, but even if you equipped a fast charge battery, your energy wouldn't recharge when boosting.