midge

[tec_server]

midge (class 1 ship)

a tiny fighter with half firepower and half lifepoints and costing 1 mp for 2.

the constructor does not allow for it to be auto built but i am told by tec it is possible.


attack/life: 0/1
manpower: 1

researchtime: 1 d
buildingtime: 12 h


human-technology
needed research:
leadership

[darklim]

Useless and can't make something good with a fighter that cost 0,5 MP and are 0/1

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[Liderant]

is like a fighter that splits itself in two?

[JaM]

I think he means a fighter with 0.5 ap,lp and mp.
I like it, it weakens the fighter and the interceptor.

[We are Bjork]

Yep thats the idea

[Lord Philemon]

But I think that ship would be a new "supership" - imagine you build masses of it and can win against almost any other class 1 ship just because you lose less mp...

[We are Bjork]

Mmh you could be right, but I think you would have to build twice as many to do the same amount of damage, I think it might make class one interesting again, mosquitoes would be good against it for example. Spectres would still score, just not so much. ditto cyclops. Dont u think class one has become a bit redundant??

[Liderant]

It sounds great, but I think is too powerful
imagine, then we will have to build 0.25/0.25 ships to balance this one

and how is the battlereport gonna look?

your lost:

25 midge

score: -12.5

[Lou of East from West]

Liderant u are right, don't like it, to split integer points. Jam u think this one will have no need to replace some code?

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[Lord Philemon]

hm...
Now when I really think of it, the ship actually doesn't seem to be so superior...

The mp/lp/ap relation of the midge is 1/1/1 - just as fighters - so you'd need more midges to destroy enemy ships but they cost less, so that would be no problem (e.g.you could build twice as many midges as fighters, but they have half ap); no advantage, no disadvantage...
It could be okay as a dummy, there you're right Bjork, against "massive class 1 destruction ships"....would be like, say, a 5ap 5lp 4mp ship in class 2...

But then, I agree with Liderant, we'd just go into smaller dimensions...

[ This Message was edited by: Lord Philemon on 2004-01-06 22:22 ]

[JaM]

Haha, very funny Lou. No this is not a change at all
It is already possible, just look at the battlesyntax of the grazer reactor.

[admin]

but i still think a full MP should be the minimum.
if we would have wished halfpoints, we could have also make the MP double for all ships.

the balance with max 5000 1MP ships has to be