Super-Capacitors

[hasty agate]

I realized how the capacitor is kinda bad at its current state, you place 3x batteries in, and out comes 1x. Not only that, they just still need crew to carry them to the desired location.

So the idea is, to have a 3x3 capacitor, that not only has more storage, but also outputs 2x batteries. Maybe there can also be the wireless power transfer like the engine room but idk about that one.

[honest tusk]

wait, what do you mean bad?

you put 3x batterys in, and it comes out as 3x 1's, you put 3x into a PD you waste 1, so you split the power and you get more juce

same for rails

even shields like capacators to feed them 1 energy at a time to make them stronger

and as for wireless, probably won't happen, the engine room is not with out its negatives, that is more power consumed

[marble fog]

But that would be a cool idea, some sort of energy grid core, all shields in a set radius around it get the supply from it (like + 50% more power, 100% more energy per min)

[marble fog]

and its 3 times the way the crew needs to walk to get it out, i guess that's his point

[honest tusk]

you have dedicated crew outputting and dedicated inputing, i see no problem with them being 3 times more

infact, i see it benficial

shields

6 crew with just a large reactor

18 crew with 2 capacators and more supplying hte batter

that new shield can survive 7 ions vs the 5 of just 6 into the shield

[marble fog]

i dont asked how you see it, i wanted to make his point clear

[honest tusk]

so it better come accross as costly somwhare

[honest tusk]

i am sorry for telling you a thing you never asked

[marble fog]

i just like the idea to give some more depth to the energy/shield system

[marble fog]

right now whatever you make as def, a big nuke volley will kill it and that is well it doesnt let much room for options

[honest tusk]

why ofcourse, thats the point of nukes

so you use speed

and you out manover them

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1015653682819371140/1032374419617751160/2022-10-19_12_25_29.gif

[marble fog]

Speed is the way to play small ships, it should not be the only way to play big ships. And whatever weapon is there in the game it being able to just oneshot a T18 ship vs its front is just hilarious

[honest tusk]

thats a big ship

probably 1.5 million

[marble fog]

one way to play yes, no need to show it i am not stupid i know how i can deal with it

[honest tusk]

it was for the audiance, i like presentation, never said you where stupid

if you want, you can interlace armour with spacing so the nukes aoe has less effect

if you want to be bulky

[marble fog]

no problem i like some spicy talk haha

[honest tusk]

well, if you want to discuss balance, i would advise else whare in one of the ideas

[marble fog]

you are abusing the fact that all Ai ship are made for front vs front battles, they are not good at man manoeuvring, while that is a nice way to do it limits the overall possibilities in ship layout

[honest tusk]

whilst i am not opposed to the idea of a bigger capacator that produced 2x, i do dislike the auto power stuff

[rapid moon]

Minus the power transelfer I think having options for capacitors to feed the 2x and 3x's would be nice in some situations

[marble fog]

well i honestly dont care what the solution for op nuke shredding is but i would love to see something else than manoeuvring into the blind spot. Like i dont want to make a 8M ship with 250 shield, 200 pds so i have to doge a 3M nuke ship cause it wrecks a hole in me

i mean it looks awesome but it doesnt feel awesome ahhahaha

[honest tusk]

you will need about 50 layers of amour then to face tank nukes, if you really want to

and this isnt the place for nuke talk really

[tawny mica]

Or make the capacitor room to auto-feed connected devices that are not engines

[marble fog]

well i mean my 8 M ship can face tank the imperium 3M nuke ship but barley and the shield/armor layer i have to make is insane ahhahaha

[honest tusk]

thats because your using a combo of both, rather than just a slab of armour

[marble fog]

i refuse to use a brick as ship 😛

[honest tusk]

then suffer?

and tbh, at 8m, your ship pretty much is in the brick range

[marble fog]

well it looks like one yes haahahahah but its hard to not make a brick with the 120 times 120

[honest tusk]

nukes counter big slow ships, nothing much else to say about that

[marble fog]

but nukes are really quite funny i tested the cabal T18 vs the monolith, it was a close battle! Then i swaped all front HE launchers from the monolith ship to nukes and it almost one shotted the cabal T18 lol

[marble fog]

and nothing counters small fast ships, that argument with nukes counter big ships is ok, its still not a good and engaging endgame mechanic, or am i the only one that would love to see cool big ship battles no?

[honest tusk]

railfans i've heard can counter avoiders, or so i've heard