Xavier

//excellennt job on this. Great information about the allied vessels. I might copy it onto the aporopriate web pages for future reference.

I am working on the ship scan descriptions, requested above. Below are the different types and the scan texts, displayed on a second scan of the selected ship. The first two include the text received when comms hails them. The final Hospital ship also includes a change to the normal ship description text, as well as the scan text.

It is very…[Read more]

I have switched around “Forums” and “Recent Topics” as requested, as well as adding members, displaying three in the list at any one time.

For awards, you can click “Officer Profile” and it will take you to the awards page on your profile. I am not sure how to set it so you can see them all at the same time though. Different awards are organised…[Read more]

This is very much appreciated and really excellent feedback. Please keep the feedback coming.

‘Teather’ is a misspelling. I did say it was a first draft and not yet edited.

When writing, I have mostly focused on the ship functions, rather than all the detail to explain all the physics that is going on. I feel going into that kind of depth, at this time, isn’t really needed and would not be of much benefit anyway. I am going for…[Read more]

OK, as an example, here is an extract from the technical handbook I’m working on. I started with helm, as there’s already information on things like engineering that I need to dig out (most of which was written by Jemel).

Note, this is only a first draft and is subject to change (as well as editing to make it read better). I am only posting to…[Read more]

Something I am going to try working on are guides to each role on a ship and background/RP stuff to help prompt more chatter in character. This could link to the idea above about looking out for things from the GM, or to stuff to comment on and like things mentioned in the discord chatter (e.g. what damcons might actually be up to).

I think you’ve hit on an interesting point there Vaj. It is perfectly possible to script a ton of buttons for the GM to send little messages to prompt RP chatter. These could be both pop-up messages and comms messages. Ot would save time for the GM having to type, and some similar stock messages that are given meaning would give us an idea how to…[Read more]

Ok,consider two ships in combat for 2 minutes at a range of 500. If we say the ship with beams can cause 4dps (systems set to 100%), it will deal 480 damage.
The ship firing 8 homing torpedoes would also deal a maximum 480 damage.
Extend the time to 2 minutes and 30 seconds, the ship with primary beam will deal 600 damage. Unless the ship firing 8…[Read more]

For beam dps, I took the stated value from the Artemis wiki. If this is incorrect, what is the dps of a primary beam?

The time it takes to load a torpedo is not something we can change. In game, it is possible to decrease the time by boosting power to that system however. At 100% though, it will take 15s.

Calculating assuming a torpedo is…[Read more]

The official discord is posted on the forums here:

New Discord

I must admit though, in designing my ideas my not have been interpreted as I intended, or perhaps too much emphasis has been made. I’d like to see the Ares be more in line with the Artemis, just with more homings for the direct damage and perhaps a heavier, narrow central beam for high damage firing passes.

Whereas the Apollo is tailored to…[Read more]

The line of light cruisers were always meant to be slight alterations to the class in order to emphasis styles of play. The Artemis was the core model on which the light cruisers were based. The Apollo emphasised beams slightly and the valkyrie longer ranges. Since their firat design, I am not sure how much the emphasis has changed. Fundamentally…[Read more]

Keep up the great work guys! You should post this on the Artemis forums too. It’ll help drum up more interest in the community and also add to the great Artemis Universe stuff out there.

From a command point of view, there are a couple of things that can make things particularly tricky.

In the past, I have found that if I were to set a course that deliberately took us past and enemy fleet, it would end up ‘bending’ around to engage the enemies head on. The helms officer would have assumed it was an oversight on my part and the…[Read more]

In the last mission when we deployed it, we just had to set it uo and leave it. If you check the Player’s toolbox document there is a description of the station.