#Being able to transfer power like other resources.

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prisma dagger
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So I've been messing around with different designs and ideas for ships, and was thinking about how expensive building a new ship can be, since you need a minimum of 40,000 (Or the right resources) just to get the most basic ship (cockpit, reactor, thruster and beds), even more than that if you need to put some guns on it.
So I had the idea of not adding a reactor...

This mini ship is a very basic example of the idea. LORE WISE: It would patrol around, looking for pirates or enemy factions. Once it's close to running out, it would return to the Dockyards and get supplied with power from them, then it would go out to patrol again. (This is shown in the image below)

This design is 17,000 cheaper than if I added a reactor to it and could be used for very early support in the career mode if you don't have the funds or resources to build another reactor on another ship.
To add to the usefulness of it, in more static battles, you could send guys to transport power from the "Missile Ship" to the "Ion Beam ship" in order to keep up the fire if it isn't efficient enough for sustained fire or the shields are taking enough damage run the current reactors dry.

Overall, it's a minor thing that won't come up too often, but I believe it would be quite fun and would allow for more low-cost ship ideas to be possible.

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tender oak
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you can... do something simalar useing power logistcs to transfer power using airlocks, but only on the same ship

astral cosmos
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this is planned

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i think

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not sure why its not in yet

frosty reef
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I've been wanting this to be implemented for so long

vale badger
nova brook
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this guy hasn't seen the horrors of capacitor waste ships yet...

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this will be a massive nerf to emp in domination xd

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... depending on cost tho

vale badger
nova brook
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lmao

vale badger
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Maybe the way to do it would be an energy beam, that fills up special parts of the ship with energy

nova brook
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it depends on the charge rate

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but fair enough

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the thing is, it gives even less reason to use emp

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while emp has an incredibly powerful niche in dom, with its ability to effectively 1shot waste ships, its still a small niche

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having a way to flat out remove that niche will kinda hurt its viability

prisma dagger
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I have no idea what an "Alpha ship" and "Capacitor waste ships" are. So if you guys could explain what they are would be quite nice

nova brook
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basically a ship that runs exclusively off of capacitors

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and are thus ridiculously cheap as a result

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a capacitor costs 4k, a small reactor costs 25k

prisma dagger
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Oh so people are already making them? I'm guessing this is in the PVP modes?

nova brook
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its a rather substantial difference, especially in domination

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yea

tender oak
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alpha ship is basicly first fire, try to destroy the enemy before they can,

nova brook
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basically, be able to kill a ship

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and limp off to capture a point

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if you allow power transfer, that ship can be active again

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making reactors even less incentivized

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after all, their hard counter, emp, doesnt permanently 1shot them anyway

prisma dagger
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Oh i see, I've not played any PVP so I never thought of it from that angle

nova brook
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lol

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frankly, power transfer will only affect domination

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career? you're rich enough for reactor anyways

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elimination? what the hell are you doing with a reactor smaller than large reactor?

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b&b? too risky from emp

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its only in domination that will likely cause balance issues

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@prisma dagger here is an example of a waste ship

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as you can see, it only has a single capacitor

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no ammo storages

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but, it's extremely cheap and has great firepower

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4 large cannons

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at a measly 55k

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its not particularly fast, nor does it last long

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but it doesnt need to

prisma dagger
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It's quite a nice design, I'm guessing that you just make a bunch of these or just one then your "main" ship?

vale badger
nova brook
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there are also capacitor varients of deckgun ships as well

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and artem has an absolutely psychopathic laser capacitor ship

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but yea

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you get my point xd

vale badger
nova brook
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show me

vale badger
vale badger
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Lol, found my others capacitors

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each of them cost 99-100K

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a few more of such 100K ships (left-down one is 90K and left-up one is 105K)

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and those 3 are my favorite in case of damage and cost (Khorn-55K, Bite-52K, Ryokte-100K)

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nova brook
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3DC CAPACITOR

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YOU MADLAD

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ALPHA DC TOO WTF

vale badger
nova brook
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the only issue is

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wont it collide with itself?

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bad firing angles

vale badger
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nuh, it turn speed is high, plus I made the placement perfect to have nearly no problems with that

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130K and 150K :D

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now that some pain in the ass for the enemy

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the thing for 150K can demolish nearly anything below 300K in 5-10 seconds

nova brook
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hmmmm

vale badger
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-Ovargiel- for 160K! 5 DC and no reactor :)

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nova brook
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i now have some ideas

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btw, are you going to join the domination tournament?

vale badger
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Before I was a first class (by domination cosmoteer server) but now, I would rate myself as 3rd or, at max, second

nova brook
vale badger
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I mean I dont even know where to look at to join lol

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I never joined tournaments

lusty bramble
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#tournament-announcements and #1020489415476396043 probably would be a good place to look lol

nova brook
vale badger
nova brook
vale badger
nova brook
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D:

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nooooo

vale badger
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wait for me it will be at 20:00, considering on the fact that I can join an hour before start, if I am will be home before 17-18 hours, I will join, but I cant promice that will go all out, I probably will be exhausted