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Check this design to hunt Space Creatures - 4/12/2010 12:14:20 AM

Interesting

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I like to play with maximum ammount of Space Creatures, and then, every 3-5 Stars have atleast one Kaltor.

This is a major pain for the AI! To the player too, unless he knows how to addapt to it.

As I was playing, I discovered none of the original designs would work against Space Creatures.
It was a massacre. A bloodbath. These Space Creatures would shred my ships to pieces in seconds, destroying my ability to hyperjump, move, regen energy and worse still: shields were ignored.

Their damaged my ships straight into the hull.

Then I decided to call the exterminator on them, and thats why I designed a tool to deal specifically with Space Creatures. To clean the explored the systems of their threat: preventing me from colonizings, constructing mines, or just harassing "Private" ships.

This design used the most basic/starting components/techs, to be used from the get go as you start exploring.

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RE: Check this design to hunt Space Creatures - 4/12/2010 3:48:11 AM

Flaviusx

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Would it be a good idea to add torps to this at some point? Or just stick with beams?

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RE: Check this design to hunt Space Creatures - 4/12/2010 4:24:24 AM

HsojVvad

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I found when I had Torps they were awsome. A bit of hitting before the Maxos Blaster were in range. Maybe he dosn't have Torps in his current game.

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RE: Check this design to hunt Space Creatures - 4/12/2010 5:18:17 AM

Krelos

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Yah Torps are superior to blasters. At close range they do maximum damage many times that of a blaster.
If you have, use.

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RE: Check this design to hunt Space Creatures - 4/12/2010 7:39:36 AM

Fishman

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Need way more engines on this. Kaltors are speed 35+. If your ship isn't capable of doing 40ish, you shouldn't be playing with those guys. If you don't have a torp launcher, get one. Two or three torp launchers and SPEED is all you need to shoot down Kaltors with impunity. Heck, you don't even need a dedicated hunter, just a Fast Explorer with some buttorps. If all you have are blasters, they will do, but you will want to switch to torps ASAP, so you can simply buttorp and run.

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RE: Check this design to hunt Space Creatures - 4/12/2010 1:39:29 PM

Joram

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So essentially you made a frigate the size of a destroyer. With 1.03, I would imagine just making sure your ships are at standoff would be good enough. I rarely need more than a couple frigates in the first place to deal with one pre 1.03. The annoying thing to me was just wasting the time doing it. I do think it's a little ironic that you like it but then say how poorly the AI fairs against creatures so it sounds a bit like a AI exploit.

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RE: Check this design to hunt Space Creatures - 4/12/2010 2:21:51 PM

Sarissofoi

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Reapir bots of damange control is good addition.
Both reduce damge taken and repair bots repair damanged components.

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RE: Check this design to hunt Space Creatures - 4/12/2010 9:44:19 PM

PDiFolco

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As other pointed out, there's imho not any real need of Kaltor hunters.. Explorers should have a 35+ speed, some armor, a shield for possible pirate attacks, a couple blasters or torps, and do exploring. Keep'em small and fast...Then if you need to get rid of Kaltors or anything send warships !

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