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[Koliup]

Right now there's almost no reason to have engines. They're large and expensive and the AI will come over to you anyway. The only time I've needed to chase down something was when I blew up their engines while they were running away. They normally turn around and come back but inability to output thrust prevented this one.

You must have good armour and shields then, because the AI always seems to chew me up whenever I try this. I find engines very useful, especially for one-on-one. If you get close enough to an enemy ship they'll turn around and expose those juicy little engines to you. Crippling their engines is much faster (and safer) then taking them head-on. Though I suppose that without engines you'd have more room for generators, weapons and energy cells... I might have to give it a try later.

The only problem with that is your got to get the thrusters too, other wise they'll keep their ass turned at you and usually once the engines are gone, there is nothing left that is good to shoot.

I dunno. I've had success in boring holes straight through ships, often ending up destroying the bridge.
But it's pretty time consuming.

[GlyphGryph]

Ugh, my ship keeps ending up dead in the water after a few moments of combat, even though my ship is undamaged. I wonder if it's the shields... could they be causing such a power drain that they aren't leaving any power for other ship systems? When I look in at my ship though, it's as if no power is running anywhere at all.

Edit: Nope, that's not it. Happens even without shields. So WEIRD.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Ugh, my ship keeps ending up dead in the water after a few moments of combat, even though my ship is undamaged. I wonder if it's the shields... could they be causing such a power drain that they aren't leaving any power for other ship systems? When I look in at my ship though, it's as if no power is running anywhere at all.

Edit: Nope, that's not it. Happens even without shields. So WEIRD.

Does your ship perform fine after flying around in Endless Space? And did you hook the conduits up to the grey nodes on the modules?

[Keita]

Well I'm damn impressed. Time to add another forum to lurk on.

[thobal]

Ugh, my ship keeps ending up dead in the water after a few moments of combat, even though my ship is undamaged. I wonder if it's the shields... could they be causing such a power drain that they aren't leaving any power for other ship systems? When I look in at my ship though, it's as if no power is running anywhere at all.

Edit: Nope, that's not it. Happens even without shields. So WEIRD.

Does your ship perform fine after flying around in Endless Space? And did you hook the conduits up to the grey nodes on the modules?

I've found that without heat sinks everything stops working after a bit. Maybe this is the problem?

[werty892]

Been playing a bit and my thoughts are that finishing a ship takes WAY too long. Perhaps when all thrusters  or guns are destroyed, the ship counts as disabled and the next wave starts, because just cutting the ship in half until it explodes is boring and cuts up the action.

[Haspen]

* Haspen PTWs.

[Dutchling]

This looks like a more fun version of FTL

PTW

[GlyphGryph]

Ugh, my ship keeps ending up dead in the water after a few moments of combat, even though my ship is undamaged. I wonder if it's the shields... could they be causing such a power drain that they aren't leaving any power for other ship systems? When I look in at my ship though, it's as if no power is running anywhere at all.

Edit: Nope, that's not it. Happens even without shields. So WEIRD.

Does your ship perform fine after flying around in Endless Space? And did you hook the conduits up to the grey nodes on the modules?

I've found that without heat sinks everything stops working after a bit. Maybe this is the problem?

I suspect this may be the problem. I seem to be fine wandering around in endless space, but I lose it shortly after coming under fire. If I wait long enough I can occasionally get a bit of turning. Is there any way to keep track of the heat? I can try throwing in more sinks until it evens out... (spacing is problematic, I'm using the smallest ship, heh)

[USEC_OFFICER]

I suspect this may be the problem. I seem to be fine wandering around in endless space, but I lose it shortly after coming under fire. If I wait long enough I can occasionally get a bit of turning. Is there any way to keep track of the heat? I can try throwing in more sinks until it evens out... (spacing is problematic, I'm using the smallest ship, heh)

If you go into ship view, the power generator should have a red number above it. From what I can tell, that's the heat. Hope that helps.

[Leonon]

After some more playing and thinking about things I've come up with a few suggestions and a bug report.

Spoiler: suggestions/wish list (click to show/hide)

You may want to start thinking about an inventory system for crew members. Sealed suits and personal weapons are probably going to be necessary eventually.

An option to copy ships.

Right now most of the stats for ship parts aren't shown. Showing damage per shot, power used per shot and maximum firing speed (if any) for weapons would be nice.

The option to show parts' status while in flight mode. Even just a "Reactor Overheat" notification would help quite a bit.

A way to see how much energy each part is getting compared to its maximum energy usage.

Spoiler: bug (click to show/hide)

It seems conduits can only move energy between two parts at a time. I tried having 4 conduits feeding 8 tiny guns from 2 reactors with 2 injectors each (which should be WAY more than enough to run them) and they couldn't all get energy to fire at the same time.

[werty892]

Forums are up at http://wtfrontier.com/forums/index.php
EDIT:THE ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE FORUMS IS ON PAGE 4 BUT ILL KEEP THIS HERE ANYWAYS. I AM A HERP 
Also, BEWARE THE SPHESS DESTROYER 



Still a work in progress, but pretty badass so far

[Koliup]

Forums are up at http://wtfrontier.com/forums/index.php
EDIT:THE ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE FORUMS IS ON PAGE 4 BUT ILL KEEP THIS HERE ANYWAYS. I AM A HERP 
Also, BEWARE THE SPHESS DESTROYER 



Still a work in progress, but pretty badass so far

That seems like the kind of ship that would keep fighting until it burned to death.
Nice job.

[Devling]

Also, BEWARE THE SPHESS DESTROYER 

BATTLE BRUVAS

AS YOU KNOW MOST OF OUR FORCES ARE IN DEEP SPEHSS

[Cthulhu]

I just designed a kickass ship.  The big radial one, no screenshots yet.  Four big turrets on the front, and two little ones on each side but I haven't figured out how to get the AI to control them yet.  The big ones are crazy strong, the smallest ships last less than a second and a lot of the medium ships are at least disabled within ten.