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Thread: Master Shipwright Calling Out False Mass! Developers Fix!
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Falaar
Fri Nov 05, 2004 3:06 pm
#27
Just a quick note.. the YT-1300 schematic I sawthe other dayhad a mass Rating of5 million.. not 500k, Most likely a database/text error. My toon is a Master SW, so easy enough to verify.. but I'll check that stat again. Also, last I checked all the dedicated POB ships (the true multi-player ships had the same HP/Mass ranges) Again, simple enough to verify, and I would have done so already if I was home instead of work! ^_^
However, to stay on topic, the issue of lower mass and weapon limits on the Imp ships was due to their getting performance enhancments to the equipment installed. Try mounting the same engine is the same class Rebel fighter as the Imp fighter and watch the stats...
Is always fun to see your equipmetn rebalance itself...
CerionSkydreamer
Fri Nov 05, 2004 4:18 pm
#28
Yes, Sothicus has it right. Mass is what the ship can carry, and how it carries that equipment, not the mass of the ship.
Furthermore, mass has no defined units in this game--that's for a reason. It's not meant to represent kilograms. It's an abstraction to represent, as Sothicus says, how efficiently systems work together.
Lastly, I see some people believing that higher tier = better ship. This really is not the case in most instances. In beta, I used my X-wing for the first two Tier 3 missions, and went back to my Longprobe for the last two missions of Tier 3. So trying to compare ships across faction on a per Tier basis is flawed.
Furthermore, mass has no defined units in this game--that's for a reason. It's not meant to represent kilograms. It's an abstraction to represent, as Sothicus says, how efficiently systems work together.
Lastly, I see some people believing that higher tier = better ship. This really is not the case in most instances. In beta, I used my X-wing for the first two Tier 3 missions, and went back to my Longprobe for the last two missions of Tier 3. So trying to compare ships across faction on a per Tier basis is flawed.
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