Well, the only game with this amount of variety and depth I played for an extended amount of time was X3, so yeah, that's my comparison base
There I primarly settled for an M6 Katana to do the footwork with, it's a good jack-of-all-trades with balance of price, cargo, firepower, and not taking forever to cross a sector. Then the business expanded. The M5 Kestrel is just ridiculously fun to smuggle and do rapid exploration with, since it's nothing but a glorified rocket with things bolted on as an afterthought Later with ridiculous amount of money I could afford an M7 Thresher, basically a big glass cannon with weapons way out of its league.
All in all, I'll probably go for a corvette size first as an all-rounder, then maybe have a pocket destroyer/frigate as a mobile base of operations, hangaring little zippy ships.
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Sun Jun 08, 2014 12:58 pm
#47
Re: About ship sizes/roles you prefer
I want my little smuggler...
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Sun Jun 08, 2014 6:10 pm
#48
Re: About ship sizes/roles you prefer
for me it will depend on the flight mechanics, i normally prefer to be able to outrun my opponents, so probably a small/medium sized ship. i'll probably start out with some mining, maybe take on some small "destroy competition" missions, then move up to larger more capable ships.
typically the smallest ships dont have enough cargo to do any mining with, but they are fun to zip around in, and i definately want dont want to take forever to get across the sector.
typically the smallest ships dont have enough cargo to do any mining with, but they are fun to zip around in, and i definately want dont want to take forever to get across the sector.
"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg."
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- Bjarne Stroustrup
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."
- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)
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Thu Jun 12, 2014 8:16 pm
#49
Massive ship
I would love to see a rather LARGE ship as something to strive towards building. A centralized hub for NPC control with higher efficiency. Larger range sensors and especially good at flying long distances quickly (which is what it would primarily be used for). Course it wouldn't be feasible to breach an atmosphere with it ( thought it should be possible to the effect of the ship burning up and crashing ( which would also be a cool twist of strategy!)
I mean a HUGE ship.
I mean a HUGE ship.
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Sun Jun 15, 2014 1:34 am
#50
Re: About ship sizes/roles you prefer
I play a game called Ogame. It has death stars. I have 3000 of them. Best, ship, ever! Yeah, I want death stars in LT.
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Wed Sep 10, 2014 8:14 pm
#51
Re: About ship sizes/roles you prefer
Hi,
Has Josh released any screenshots of the largest ships we can fly?
Like a reference picture of the smallest ship next to the largest?
Has Josh released any screenshots of the largest ships we can fly?
Like a reference picture of the smallest ship next to the largest?
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Thu Sep 11, 2014 8:31 am
#52
Let us wait until the September Dev Video and see what state of development LT is in...
Re: About ship sizes/roles you prefer
None that we know of.ruckuz wrote:Hi,
Has Josh released any screenshots of the largest ships we can fly?
Like a reference picture of the smallest ship next to the largest?
Let us wait until the September Dev Video and see what state of development LT is in...
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Thu Sep 11, 2014 5:41 pm
#53
Re: About ship sizes/roles you prefer
I would probably try and build up a good sized fleet of personal ships to be able to tackle whatever jobs I might run across in my travels.
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Sat Sep 13, 2014 12:47 am
#54
Re: About ship sizes/roles you prefer
Little off topic, but since I like capital ships, and logistics, I guess I would fall into that category, but if there are any EVE players here, what do you think a industrial titan would look like? This could apply to LT too, giant mobile factory that you can just fly to an asteroid belt, unleash hundreds of mining drones, have them bring all the minerals (or even whole asteroids to a giant grinder on the side of the ship somewhere if we are getting far fetched) and refine and produce parts and even ships without even having to move. Sounds awesome but it would take ridiculous amounts of resources and such to fly, but it might be worth it eventually.
maybe like
but without the killing millions of innocents.
maybe like
but without the killing millions of innocents.
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Mon Sep 15, 2014 11:55 pm
#55
Re: About ship sizes/roles you prefer
i like everything (except the death star super ultra meemlhleh dreadnoughts).
In a normal playtrough i play everything (im a police/pirat/trader/bountyhunter/warmongler/spacetaxi/diplomatic guy, also i like to smash things)
a "perfect" endgamefleet for me would be 2 big carriers, 1 Mainbattleship, a dozen of smaller heavy shielded cruiser, a *hit load of torpedocorvettes ... and me sitting in the toughest fastest scout i can find zipping around and looking at the havok.
In a normal playtrough i play everything (im a police/pirat/trader/bountyhunter/warmongler/spacetaxi/diplomatic guy, also i like to smash things)
a "perfect" endgamefleet for me would be 2 big carriers, 1 Mainbattleship, a dozen of smaller heavy shielded cruiser, a *hit load of torpedocorvettes ... and me sitting in the toughest fastest scout i can find zipping around and looking at the havok.
More people want exploding kittens than exploding ships. Somehow, this makes me happy.
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Tue Sep 16, 2014 12:58 am
#56
Your missile corvettes are going to be virtually useless against a fleet with any kind of decent point defense.
Re: About ship sizes/roles you prefer
Actually the lack of flexibility will doom such a ship. Why have that when you can leave the mining up to a fleet of faster miners that can move and pick the good roids to mine (dedicated mining ships will outmine drones) and deliver their cargo to a centralized storage/building ship?MrPerson wrote:Little off topic, but since I like capital ships, and logistics, I guess I would fall into that category, but if there are any EVE players here, what do you think a industrial titan would look like? This could apply to LT too, giant mobile factory that you can just fly to an asteroid belt, unleash hundreds of mining drones, have them bring all the minerals (or even whole asteroids to a giant grinder on the side of the ship somewhere if we are getting far fetched) and refine and produce parts and even ships without even having to move. Sounds awesome but it would take ridiculous amounts of resources and such to fly, but it might be worth it eventually.
....
HappyGhecko wrote:i like everything (except the death star super ultra meemlhleh dreadnoughts).
In a normal playtrough i play everything (im a police/pirat/trader/bountyhunter/warmongler/spacetaxi/diplomatic guy, also i like to smash things)
a "perfect" endgamefleet for me would be 2 big carriers, 1 Mainbattleship, a dozen of smaller heavy shielded cruiser, a *hit load of torpedocorvettes ... and me sitting in the toughest fastest scout i can find zipping around and looking at the havok.
Your missile corvettes are going to be virtually useless against a fleet with any kind of decent point defense.
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Tue Sep 16, 2014 4:10 am
#57
This is a balance point which is not determined at the moment.
So you might be right, might not
Re: About ship sizes/roles you prefer
To be determined.AbhChallenger wrote: Your missile corvettes are going to be virtually useless against a fleet with any kind of decent point defense.
This is a balance point which is not determined at the moment.
So you might be right, might not
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Tue Sep 16, 2014 11:55 am
#58
Re: About ship sizes/roles you prefer
Personally I would prefer having 1 huge ship to having tons of smaller ships that are dedicated. Would have to have like 10 miners, 20 storage, 10 drone boats, and a station to reprocess and manufacture to equal the ship I am imagining.AbhChallenger wrote: Actually the lack of flexibility will doom such a ship. Why have that when you can leave the mining up to a fleet of faster miners that can move and pick the good roids to mine (dedicated mining ships will outmine drones) and deliver their cargo to a centralized storage/building ship?
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Tue Oct 28, 2014 6:44 pm
#59
Re: About ship sizes/roles you prefer
I would want an asymmetrical ship that is based around a prototype weapon ( or a cannon meant for a MUCH larger ship) > Lab, stealth ,gunship , explorer , classified experimental tech .
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Tue Oct 28, 2014 6:48 pm
#60
Re: About ship sizes/roles you prefer
Ah, that reminds me of the old Battletech Hollander:stratobrick wrote:I would want an asymmetrical ship that is based around a prototype weapon ( or a cannon meant for a MUCH larger ship) > Lab, stealth ,gunship , explorer , classified experimental tech .