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I’m still feeling annoyed by what feels like a deception. Someone tell me, how many times did they say they couldn’t fit everything in, yet they changed the ship from 4 to just 2 decks. This isn’t a larger ship. It’s a much smaller ship than what they sold us. Look at the old side view...

What might be instructive is to choose a baseline defensive force and then have a series of attacking forces each with the same number of players, but with very different compositions. So then you hopefully get real world numbers concerning which is better, a wing of Hurricanes or twice as many...

I'm skeptical of the value of any sort of "objective" balancing formula. I understand why you'd want one, but the problem comes that although values like firepower, armor, shielding, speed, and maneuverability can be quantified, the actual value of any quantity is entirely situational. For...

I'm pretty sure the min crew remains at 11: 5 bridge officers, 5 turret gunners and 1 engineer. Perhaps the engineer can oversee NPC engineers for things like the torp room. CIG also mentioned they expected a troop of NPC marines aboard, and it makes good sense to assign 3 NPCs to each turret...

In general, wargaming doesn’t focus so much on earning points as completing an objective or defending against. You might assign points to each side and use them to balance sides though. So for example you could say 1pt for a small ship, 2 for heavy fighter, 3 for medium ship, 4 for large, then...

I think the turrets are all S5, meaning twin S4 guns, so these all fire 1400 mps.

These things were all expected save the removal of the vehicle bay. There is a large space between the cargo hold and torp room that is unmarked. Is this perhaps the new vehicle bay? It used to be aft. They did not mention removing it but it seems this is what they did. I'm not happy. OTOH...

Does this mean we'll have the ability to redesign ships in game and get permission to fly them in the PU? Could this lead to specialist modding services that you take your ship to and have altered to your liking, then passed through CIG...

I personally want to be able to pop back and forth between two PCs, one for solo play and one for elaborate play, and each with three NPCs I can attach. It’s too early for me to say where to get the NPCs. If paying $5@ means I don’t need to pay an NPC a salary, that sounds good to me, but until...

Very coincidentally, this 3:1 ratio (which I had never heard of) is pretty much what I was planning on. As a general rule of thumb, my expectation has been that the Polaris would be crewed by 5 bridge officers with no NPCs aboard, 5 turret gunners that also serve as marine squad leaders who...

That’s brilliant. Let’s hope that’s on the table. I don’t recall whether they said NPCs would be assignable to others than their players. If they are, a tool that allows this to happen quickly in real time would really maximize the value of a large org. As to CIG changing their minds about...

That’s a lot to respond to. Please don’t think me rude for just taking a single issue you’ve raised. In the case of extended duration service, be it exploration, mining on the fringe, or military incursions deep into Vanduul territory—where you can’t expect to leave easily—one hopes players...

This discussion comes up seasonally, yet each time no one seems to recall what CIG has said about NPCs from the start. Since before they floated the notion of having various skill levels for NPCs and charging more for higher skilled characters, they were clear that NPCs would be more skilled...

. . .All to the glory of TEST. I was looking at the Odyssey today and thought “man, that is a big ship!” Well it is and it got me thinking about just how large the hanger is. It looks to be about 40m long and almost as wide. Normally, we think about ship hangers as to what they can carry...

I have the same concern when I see twin S5s. I think they want to give it more than twin S4, and got lazy. Made sense before the 3.14 nerf but doesn’t anymore. I wish we’d see more quad S4s, and a triple S4 would be cool on a triangle shaped ship. I’m not sure this has any direct competition...

I love this stuff. Though I like RP, I don't want to be controlled by the requirement to constantly foster immersion. I prefer more laid back. They're all Skunkworks, so they've done dozens of mil sim missions together. They all speak the same language and they're all super clear...

I guess we can’t compare this with the Railen since we don’t have SCM speeds, but I still think this is a lot of ship for the price. I expect we’ll see lots of solo pilots ignoring the pool table and turrets, telling us how this is a great solo ship and losing them to pirates, in about 8 years.

Is this CNN above? Fake News! I say! Fake News! Jax staged this to ramp up support for the move to Pyro. I’m sure the authorities will shortly announce huge bounties available to return Jax “dead or alive” with greater payment for the former. Who was taping Jax? This is obviously a fake...

There are a lot of us waiting on the Sons of Orion (SoO) storyline, where we can earn big pesos killing Vanduul cap ships. IMHO, the best case for this is not the Idris, but the Polaris with several (9?) scout ships like the Arrow in its hanger. If we suppose 9 Arrow scouts, used to locate and...

IIRC, mission progression is slated to survive beta launch, yes? Seems that ought to tilt game activity hard onto mission progress. If that progress survives beta launch, doesn't this make mission running the only sensible grind?