The ability to alter battle based on environmental conditions and hero maneuvers would be awesome, in my opinion. I like the idea of ambushing an enemy fleet and causing some hectic carnage in a dense asteroid field.

Nosferatiel wrote:
The complexity of the system has to be cranked up a few notches, there have to be more animations and you actually have to see the ships firing from weapons or weapon slots and not straight out of the hull.



So with a few additions, this is in my opinion a very nice and even now addicting combat system.

That.

More cards. Some weapons differentiation. More special modules.

Visuals and explosions are not the point for me.



I'd probably add some further variety in the cards, possibly linking some of these to hero level options, some of them to types of stars, and some of them random. I'd remove the time element entirely -- it is a turn based game.

I like the system as it is.



But I think the camera should be less jumpy. The ability to chance camera positions yourself would be nice as well.

i have posted what i would change in another thread. Basically do away with the rock paper scissors approach.



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First of all, I'd love to have more control over my fleets (right now, it's basically just "put the biggest guns in the fleet").



Possibility to add more ships to a fleet with the help of unarmed "Command Ships" (SotS style).

Possibility to arrange my ships (put low armored/shielded long range missile ships in the back row, the bulky armored stuff in the middle and the fast "skirmish" ships in the front.

Also would be nice to be able to gather intel on enemy ship builds (do they mainly use missiles/projectiles/lasers? Shields, armor, whatnot?), so we can react to those with counter-builds (they use shields, we use projectiles. They use lasers, we start using shields in our new ship iterations instead of the armor we had before).

A retreat card (see Retreat Card) would be a welcome addition, if balanced properly.



These changes, since right now (even with the cards) the game pretty much seems like build & pray.

I like the basic idea behind the combat system. I am against the Weapon/Armor RPS meta-game and would like to see something else implemented.



From Joxang's earlier thread

drakythe wrote:
If I might make a small tweak to Igncom1's suggestion;

Armor= %damage reduction + bonus damage redux against kinetic weapons

Shields= Small induviguial health that regens between rounds + %damage redux done by beam weapons (easy example: shields only take half damage from beam weapons, of course this would need to be balanced.)

Flak= %Accuracy reduction + bonus accuracy redux against missiles.

Also: Controllable camera angles/less jumpyness on part of the auto camera would be nice.

Slar wrote:
i have posted what i would change in another thread. Basically do away with the rock paper scissors approach.



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I like this Idea. The basic combat system, with the three phases, is great imho. But I think it makes sense to have the different defenses just work in different ways.

I like the new aproach to it, but the combat system needs more meat on the bones. Now its too much RPS and you affect it too little. I like the card approach though.

Personally I like it as is but it needs difference in the battles. The two fleets closing and then shooting time after time just doesn't do it for me.



I think fleet formation would be good but also cards like Evade (as mentioned above) and even RAM which could be good if you're obviously going to lose the battle.



Formations could mean smaller ships try to flank the other fleet or choose what range to attack. this would mean the fittings of the ships would be more meaningful.