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[Jerick]

The low velocity might be a bit of a problem but if we have more than one we can have the one disabling external weapon systems on the enemy hull. They are built for fine control after all. A ship with several of those things on it will be a nightmare if it ever gets close. Couple that with layers of regenerating armour and we will be a pain in the ass to deal with.

[frostgiant]

The low velocity might be a bit of a problem but if we have more than one we can have the one disabling external weapon systems on the enemy hull. They are built for fine control after all. A ship with several of those things on it will be a nightmare if it ever gets close. Couple that with layers of regenerating armour and we will be a pain in the ass to deal with.

And their you go, my biggest problem with this. As its our ONLY weapon system, it's unreliable. The only way its sees use is if we can outrun our enemies AND close the difference before all of our ships are killed. And now the Node class can't contribute to engagments, because Giving the command ship the make our other ships not act like worms and run away a close-range weapon only is a bad idea.

We're bringing a ramming prow to a fight were everyone else has cannons.

[Doomblade187]

The low velocity might be a bit of a problem but if we have more than one we can have the one disabling external weapon systems on the enemy hull. They are built for fine control after all. A ship with several of those things on it will be a nightmare if it ever gets close. Couple that with layers of regenerating armour and we will be a pain in the ass to deal with.

And their you go, my biggest problem with this. As its our ONLY weapon system, it's unreliable. The only way its sees use is if we can outrun our enemies AND close the difference before all of our ships are killed. And now the Node class can't contribute to engagments, because Giving the command ship the make our other ships not act like worms and run away a close-range weapon only is a bad idea.

We're bringing a ramming prow to a fight were everyone else has cannons.

Then let us revise our engines.

[frostgiant]

The boredrive needs revising to eat less power. It eats 100 power and is something that we need on every ship.

[Jerick]

And now the Node class can't contribute to engagments, because Giving the command ship the make our other ships not act like worms and run away a close-range weapon only is a bad idea.

If my math is right we aren't going to be able to give our node ships weapons at all if we want them to carry the sensors. As it stands a Node carrier equipped with a nexus, a pulse sensor and a drive system will need two reactors to work and will leave enough cap to squeeze in a single sublight drive organ. The drive uses a hundred power, the nexus uses 45 and the sensors use 40. So any drive capable ship that mounts either the nexus or the sensors will need a second generator as they only generate 125. We really need that boredrive to be far more efficient or the reactor to be smaller.

Spoiler: Probable Loadouts (click to show/hide)

Node   Carrier
Nexus x1
Psychic Pulse Detection Organ x1
Bore Drive x1
Thorium Reactor x2
Sub light Drive organ x1
Total Cost  T400 O1875 M420 E650 S25
Remaining stats; 1 cap remaining, No hardpoints used at all, 61 power left
   
Warform x1
BoreDrive x1
Thorium Reactor x1
SDO x2
Boarding Appendage x1
Regenerating Hull x2
Total Cost  T250 O1045 M310 E390 S25
Remaining stats; 0 cap remaining, 3 small hardpoints left, 13 power left

[Draignean]

And now the Node class can't contribute to engagments, because Giving the command ship the make our other ships not act like worms and run away a close-range weapon only is a bad idea.

If my math is right we aren't going to be able to give our node ships weapons at all if we want them to carry the sensors. As it stands a Node carrier equipped with a nexus, a pulse sensor and a drive system will need two reactors to work and will leave enough cap to squeeze in a single sublight drive organ. The drive uses a hundred power, the nexus uses 45 and the sensors use 40. So any drive capable ship that mounts either the nexus or the sensors will need a second generator as they only generate 125. We really need that boredrive to be far more efficient or the reactor to be smaller.

Spoiler: Probable Loadouts (click to show/hide)

Node   Carrier
Nexus x1
Psychic Pulse Detection Organ x1
Bore Drive x1
Thorium Reactor x2
Sub light Drive organ x1
Total Cost  T400 O1875 M420 E650 S25
Remaining stats; 1 cap remaining, No hardpoints used at all, 61 power left
   
Warform x1
BoreDrive x1
Thorium Reactor x1
SDO x2
Boarding Appendage x1
Regenerating Hull x2
Total Cost  T250 O1045 M310 E390 S25
Remaining stats; 0 cap remaining, 3 small hardpoints left, 13 power left

Remember that power draw isn't constant. The bore drive only really needs to be active when jumping, and the pulse sensor likewise only needs to be active when you want a long range scan.

[Jerick]

Right well, that changes a few things. Doesn't change the Warform any but it frees up 22 cap for the node carrier. Which means we can give it 2 more SDOs and 3 regen armour layers. Making it one tough ship.

[Rockeater]

If we plan to use the tentacles we probably should design stealth/ sensors manipulation/ mind manipulation makeing those who fly their ships less effective

[frostgiant]

Right, that decrease how badly we need to tone down the power drain of the Drive. To the reactor just needs to be everything that we want used at the same time.
While turning everything off to jump is not optimal, its good enough for the basic drive before we get a better one.

What do we want to revise, the regiment of harmonies weapons maybe?

[Rockeater]

Probably

[frostgiant]

Ya.
Only other thing that I can think of right now (Be that I mean I am drawing a blank, their probably plenty of other thing we can do) is sticking a tiny bore drive on the tip of the tentacles and teleporting our melee weapon to them, quick stabs only though because trying to keep a hole open long enough to kill it with the tentacles normal means.

[Doomblade187]

Hmmm.

Laser Weapons Revision:

The goal of this revision is to add mouths to the weapons of the Regiment of harmony to make "pew pew" noises. The weapons don't need to breathe to survive, but do need to to speak.

[frostgiant]

Space-time ripper's
An act created by one designer's annoyance over the limited range of the boarding appendages and their current spot of the only weapon of the liir, The space-time ripper is a revision into insanity. by taking a very, very small bore drive and placing it into the head of the hard Boarding appendages head. the Spacetime ripper will open a borehole close to the enemy ship. The boarding appendage is then able to spring out and strike the target quickly, before retreating into the borehole to save on the power cost that opening a borehole takes.

[Doomblade187]

Laser Swarmers:

The current boarding tentacles are good, but lack a certain... range to them. As such, by drastically sizing up and refining the laser cell focusing, we can gain better usability of the tentacles. The final design has a large laser organ with refined focusing lenses and increased laser cell count on either side of the beak. In addition, the refined focusing lenses are to be passed back to the infantry regiments if possible.

Laser Swarmers (1) Doomblade

[frostgiant]

Laser Swarmers (2) Doomblade, Frostgiant