08-15-2015, 04:57 PM
(08-15-2015, 04:34 PM)Gonzogonz Wrote:(08-15-2015, 03:22 PM)Surge Wrote: Well let's look at the source material.
Microwave laser: stupidly powerful but massive power draw and short range
Drones: the cybran nation uses nanolathe drones but otherwise only fields full size units
Geometry: Cybran units are very aggressive and geometric, triangles and trapezoids are common, in warships especially more complex shapes and structures are commonly repeated across several hulls.
Shields: best in the game bar none, they start as the worst but can be progressively upgraded much longer than others.
while i agree that marx should take his inspiration and such from the game and how it works, i don't thing that's a justifyable reason to have it be unbalanced. unbalance like like this isn't a big problem, it's just fiddling with numbers intil it evens out and feels good. right now it feels pretty awesome to use the gauss beam, only it can kill a ship of medium size just by swinging the beam past it. sure the microwave laser might be powerful in SupCom, but it couldn't one-shot all t1-2 and some t3 units could it?
the drones is sore of soemthing i enjoy, i really like the way drones work in Reassembly, but they are often quite pricey to use, so a cheaper and weaker thing could be cool. (besides, aren't the cybrans often quite swarm-based with lots of assult bots and such?)
as for geometry it seems to just be some odd angles a few of them have. pieces that seem as if they should fit together don't and such. might just be me that didn't quite see how they should fit though, but i found the selection of hull bits that fit nicely together a bit lacking.
and again, while they might have had the best sheilds, it's better to have balanced good sheilds that over powered accurate sheilds.
USE THE DRONES I ALREADY PUT IN!
They last twice as long as normal so you can have twice as many.
And the shields balance out having the shittiest armor and lots of explosive generators on the ship.
And the ship parts DO fit together, you just have to be creative, I only have a limited set of hard coded polygons to work with.