What would you put on a ship with 100 hardpoint slots?
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'Glitterball' would work as a name for that build too
Heatsinks...
Disco at Diso.'Glitterball' would work as a name for that build too
Same here. I was always sure it was a typo, but it's procgen name, so....Nice one
Putting the C in Diso since 1984.
Would be easy too. Nobody else couldn't fire a shot and be just shieldless, powerless sitting ducks after deploying hardpoints.Let me guess your career. Ganker?
All huge hardpoints. Deploying hardpoints would be like a satellite unfurling a bunch of solar panels just hanging out in a fan around your ship. Everything else would be whatever is funniest to go with. Massive ship or tiny ship, which would be funnier to see 100 huge hardpoints on?Details, please:
- what size of hardpoints
- what are the ship's stats? Speed, agility?
- what kind of power plant and distributor do I have available?
- what can I put on in terms of shields and armour? -> contributing to what would a viable engagement range be?
- also contributing to engagement range: what's the hardpoint placement, i.e. what kind of convergence can I get and which/how many hardpoints can be engaged simultaneously?
- which of the game engine's limitations/settings will limit the amount of simultaneously avaialble ammunitions/projectiles in flight? What would this limit be?
Problems include:
- 100 HPs would be a very big ship, which implies an agility comparable with a capital ship, i.e. effectively stationary. So you'd need turrets. And the more turrets you can get to converge on one target, the smaller the angular coverage will be - worst case, if you can get all turrets to converge on the target in front, you have zero coverage to your back. And since you can only turn in terms of geological cycles, any enemy that can get behind you can stay there and happily chip away at your shields/armour forever.
- only a subset of weapons can be turreted, and those usually have (unengineered) an effective range of about 500...1000 meters.
A counter to such a ship would probably something like a class 4 long range railgun (with an integral heatsink, probably, so maybe only 10 shots available).
I'd love to see, though, something in the FdL/Mamba class - 300 tons, size 6 PP/PD, reasonable agility and speed - with ~10 small HPs, which will be set up with phasing SRB cytoscramblers
Short range blaster with oversized effect.
100 huge hardpoints and no limits? Rapid fire screening shell Pacifiers
. They only come in size 3 fixed, but beat anything as long as you can get close enough.
A hundred huge hardpoints? Dumbfire missiles everywhere! Call the ship the "Earthshaker" and proceed to pound any ground CZ into submission with a thousand plus missiles.
Also potentially fun just thinking about how many torpedo pylon salvos you could punish people for not having anti-missile countermeasures with.
Also potentially fun just thinking about how many torpedo pylon salvos you could punish people for not having anti-missile countermeasures with.