Shipwright Archive

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Aileili wrote:

All player crafted Novice ships (Scyk, Z95, Light Duty TIE) should have their maximum mass limits raised to 30k and the TIE Fighter's should be raised to 50k.

As its stands now, they are nearly worthless since it is just as easy to finish the tier one missions with the starter ship.

No ship should become totally useless as you advance in pilot level.

Message Edited by Aileili on 10-29-2004 10:00 PM

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They're not useless. I could finish 1111 in the starter ship.
But. I made a Z-95. Put a lot of good things in it. I could kill a tier1 tie in two shots. I did the 1111 duty missions all the way through to the "Unknown" tie ace, without a scratch (two shots per normal tie, several shots per 'boss', but stil ldead easy). And I could hyperdrive to all ten planets without a scratch.
The fact that if I'd wanted to double the time to finish the 1111s I didn't need to get it, or the fact that once 1100 I could use cert3 equipement and a Ywing... the Ywing handles like crap, and a well kitted Z95 doesn't (i'm now halfway through tier 2 missions, 2211, using JUST the z95 still because I don't like bombers all that much).

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Jagged-F3l wrote:

Great list--I have some additional problems and data:

• Reverse Engineering - using a component analysis tool with 1 charge left can result in unpredictable behavior. However, most of the time the tool is destroyed along with the reverse engineered component. Sometimes it put the original components that were being reverse engineered into my inventory. Sometimes it only puts the final reverse engineered component in my inventory, but it doesn't let me name it. Sometimes it put the original components into a container that I'm standing near (no kidding--very strange).
  



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I've seen it vanish.. but doing 'change view', sorting items, 'change view' again, it's always there. I've yet to actually lose an item, so I think it's an inventory display bug.

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Component Names - ok, we all know that sometimes the name of a component can be truncated to the first word when a pilot removes the component from a ship--I have customers that have seen this on crafted and looted components. Worse though, these components are essentially rendered unusuable. They cannot be equipped to a ship, nor can they be reverse engineered.

They can be equipped just fine, and the RE parts that lose their names are the ones that have been renamed in the box. if you hit enter twice (keeping the original name) it never gets truncated and keeps the original name. But anyway, I've had any number of things reduced to Mark, and still been able to equip them just fine (it's just a pain when it ALL says 'mark').

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Experimentation - in my opinion, experimentation makes little difference in the final product. Please don't flame me on this one, I am an experienced crafter and expect to be able to differentiate my products a little better than this profession allots us.

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Agree. Though some components it's absolutely vital to experiment, the change-per-point is always tiny. For example, on engines, a great success on pitch max will get you just 1 point change in pitch max. Since you have pitch roll and yaw for maneuver stats, it costs 3 experimentation points to raise all three by 1. 1 has relatively little adjustment by itself.

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Component Mass - this is my own perspective, but I have concerns about the mass of Mark IV and V components. Are these components strictly intended for big ships, like the Kimo and multi-player ships? Because the high mass of these components (even after experimenting exclusively on mass) indicates this. Worse, the description of many comonents misleads customers. I crafted Mark IV durasteel plating and observed a desscription that indicated that it would be useful for small starfighters, such as X-Wings and Z-95 Headhunters--the average mass of one of these plates is 12K and a Z-95 is lucky if it can hold 12K (with lots of experimentation on its mass).

That's all I can remember at the moment.

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When they re-did mass, their intention was 'We don't want master ships to be able to be fully equipped with cert10 gear'. What it also did was ensure that only bombers could equip their OWN tier fully, past like tier1 or 2. So tier3+, you might get a new chassis, but you'll only get one or two components at that tier to fit (and that's if you scrimp). This is 'by design', though a lot of people think they overkilled the heck out of it.
Things like the description for Mk4 armor (which actually weighs more than entire ship at the low end) just reinforce that design changes were never reflected in flavor text, or sanity checked case by case.

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Seshemw wrote:

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Armor display on the HUD only shows the hitpoints as a percentage, not the amount of armor. The reason is the HUD (more specifically your component status portion) only displays the hitpoints of your components as a percentage. The problem is the hitpoint stat never degrades on armor, and thus your armor displays 100% even though it could potentially be knocked out.

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The 'target info' screen won't show it correctly, but at least on the owner's HUD he can see his shield 'orange bars' going away when he gets hurt. Players rarely target themselves (ctrl-1) to see the target info on their own ship, so this mostly affects the group displays, yes?

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Message Edited by Rolassk on 11-02-2004 05:55 PM

Message Edited by sanfordthejunkman on 11-03-2004 06:37 AM

This is a bug I found. The differences in droid command speed stat on the Droid Interfaces gets higher with each higher component mI-mV, however when you experiment droid command speed stat it gets lower. This is most certainly a bug. Im not sure if droid command speed is good high or good low, but this bugged either way. If it should be high then we shouldnt be experimenting it lower, if it should be low then higher lvl components (including looted ones btw) shouldn't have higher speeds.

Also the bug about the stats on engine getting higher when you put in a ship and take out. I can confirm this. A crafted engine always shows 180 as its yaw/pitch/roll rate stat. Putting it in a ship reveals its true stat, which seems around 300-400 or so depending on level of engine. Ive had people not buy engines because this stat is so much lower on the display than it really is.

Also, I know weve talked about looted things being better, especially capacitors, engines, reactors. Has anyone but me noticed that the stats on these items dont get better on higher level components at any signifigant amount? I think mkI capacitor is around 395 energy at base. And a mV one is like 500 energy....thats where the bug is im sure.

Lastly does anyone see the point of the different repair tools when you can just repair in space?