John van Leigh

Here’s a screenshot of two broadside variants I was messing with.

From a game balance standpoint, one of the advantages of the hybrid (especially the fragmentary-hybrid in the screenshot) system is that the PD can be nerfed at will. 360° is too bad? Great, either cut the angles or increase the cycle times to compensate. Those 90° arcs are m…[Read more]

I really don’t see how your idea of Ares difers from a destroyer with LC engines, @admin

In combat, I also disagree with siege being consistant with short bursts. If you want to destroy a station, and only the station (that is, not touching the supporting fleet), it all boils down to exploting small windows caused by the enemy moving aside. That…[Read more]

Yeah, your method doesn’t come naturally to me. My preferred approach is to do a delta-1 pass to concentrate them into a tight ball of ships and fire an EMP if I feel they’re too heavy, otherwise begin by the rear and leave it to helm (or to my XO if our helm for the night is unexperienced) to expose as little as possible.

About 45/45 being too…[Read more]

My main interest as a captain is having an interesting ship, but I’m also curious as to the reactions to the broadside idea. Here’s the one point I disagree with, though.

Tempts crew to play fleet cracker by barreling into the middle of a fleet to utilize both port and starboard guns. (Some say manual beams with shorter cycle time would…

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As the one responsible for preparing the State of the Division report, I too would like to know what kind of stuff do people want to know.

I think that if someone at ONI, or even the command staff, could write short reports about what the hell are we doing at the campaign or about our status, it’d clarify a bit for people are somewhat…[Read more]

I always was disappointed on how poorly @admin chose to decorate the exam room. Too spartan. It was a huge improvement when @jemeleahain started to use tartan everywhere, I believe.

I support this random spambot’s suggestion on the grounds that if we design cuter textbooks, we’ll have more people continuing their service once they graduate from…[Read more]

Oh, no, Draeco, I agree with you! I love challenges. Having a Kralien beat the everloving snot of my shields is, once you get pass the “fuck it, maybe I went the wrong way about this one” stage, a fun thing.

I guess I’m getting a bit too used to the feeling of being able to beat the map as easily as we usually do.

I’m up for an increase on difficulty, but I think that if we ramp it up that much in one go we’d probably break the standard sims.

Specifically, I recall some instances lately in which, during sims or simulated missions, Kraliens seemed to hit much harder than expected. We managed, but encountering something unexpected like that managed to throw…[Read more]

Before Fish replied here I considered to just let this message go, as there were very few answers that wouldn’t be confrontational, and those would be way too noncommittal. I’m not fine with that, and I most definetely don’t agree with what you wrote; but now that we have a proper, messured response by someone else I can build with that.

I was…[Read more]

Before Fish replied here I considered to just let this message go, as there were very few answers that wouldn’t be confrontational, and those would be way too noncommittal. I’m not fine with that, and I most definetely don’t agree with what you wrote; but now that we have a proper, messured response by someone else I can build with that.

I was…[Read more]

As a matter of fact, this is actually fairly simple to do. The issue is with doing it retroactively, and I’m not sure if the instructors have their own registry.

There is no official group other than this website and the super secret steam group that’s been taken over by a pastafarian cult

There is no other official group other than this website and the super secret steam group that’s been taken over by a pastafarian cult

Pouring two glasses

Verok got promoted to Captain, Nhaima to Lieutenant junior, and we have to promotions in Phoenix, too: Slate and Clay.

Nhaima managed to invent a workaround until Jemel fixes this server-side

I’ll spend the night drinking coffee, so if you need me to set up your permissions you can PM me over teamspeak.