I'm honestly surprised WarMachine & his bud didn't pursue ya all the way to the CVs & attack. I was wondering if some kinda Rule or two was preventing that from being legal. (Also i'm so bloodthirsty I dunno if I woulda accepted that White Flag. I can get as bloodthirsty as a Dragon when i'm hyped up on Battle Adrenaline.)
We did state during the previous battle that CVs would be off-limits during the battle. Not sure if we did this time, but I assumed it was still in effect. Besides, I brought the Destroyer to discourage them attacking the carrier anyway Mostly armor and guns, guns and armor. At the very worst, leave it behind to distract them while warping away in the carrier. At best, it obliterates the Blues. Not sure which way it would go really. Also I said "white flag", as in "I surrender" sorta thing, and they stopped shooting, so that may have helped.
The current state of the game, I can understand that Rule. CVs are supposed to be like Flying Boss Monsters, but at this time, there's no way in hell they can fulfill that Role. At this time, such a Rule would be needed to prevent a Team from murdering an opposing team's Warp Cores to try to murder their ability to travel between the Systems & Checkmate them. Edit: Also, Last Post I forgot to mention I can get myself killed like a Dragon too.
Well, we concieve of CV's more being large naval ships in space, large, slow, lumbering, and VERY powerful. If SV combat should be War Thunder Air fights, then CV combat should be World of Warships. At least, on our server. It all depends on the extend of the future modding support.
& if we ever get any better higher tier Hull Blocks, including maybe very powerful CV & Base exclusive versions. (A CV Hull Block 3x bigger then the same type of SV Hull Block should NOT have the exact same HPs & Armor despite being bigger & heavier...) For the Topic: Got my stuff processing done. Next play i'll be ready to head to Masperon. I will rip that Zascosium from that Planet & get my Power Coils! (How tough could the place be compared to Aestus? & I plan to someday Conquer Aestus & make it mine!) Edit: Question: If ya use the Drill &/or the F&F Tool close to that Slimy Stuff on Aestus for the Water & H2/O2 Generators (No need for the Oxygen Generator for me.) i've heard of before, is it possible to accidentally harm it? Edit 2: I initiated my first Assault of the Masperon System. Blessed luck, my SV docking onto CV then Warping with CV is still workin fine & not bugging. Dunno if my paranoid lining up my SV onto the CV with the block angles crooked to each other has anything to do that or not. Saw on the Map there were 10 Space Drones to destroy to clear the System. My SV went to work. 1 Drone down, then 2nd Drone Encounter is my first ever Laser Drone. Turns out Laser Drones > my Starter SV & its 2 Rocket Launchers. The only way in hell I could ever hit them & their blistering speed was to fire Rockets into their Face as they charge strafe run me & pray for hits. My SV took loads of damage from this before I got that first one down. Afterwards I realized I couldn't get out of my Cockpit cause my Ship wouldn't stop. I experiment with my Thrusters & then realize... my front Thrusters for going backwards were surely all gone. I try to find cheater ways to stop my Ship like trying to turn 90 degrees then use side Thrusters, but at most I can only just get slow. Then it hits me... I try turning my SV off with 'Y', that does it, it activates the Emergency Ship Stop that apparently can somehow stop a Ship from going a direction it has no Thrusters for, for no reason at all whatsoever. I hop out & go to the back to get some spare Thrusters... & find none, & then realize I FORGOT to ever make any & pack them! *Facepalm* I have a pain in the butt time getting my SV docked onto my CV but eventually sneak it on, then have no choice but to tuck tail back to my Akua Base to make loads of SV Thrusters. While i'm at it I also go ahead & make more Rockets cause I spent a hell of a lot of them trying to hit that damn Laser Drone & feeling like I was trying to kill a Fly armored in metal but still evading at Fly Speed with a Sledgehammer. I also have to make a couple replacement Hull Blocks, stick'em on, & paint them. I return to the Masperon System for Round 2. I blow up another Laser Drone with my SV after getting REAL frustrated with how hard to hit they are with Rocket Launchers & spending a LOT of Rockets on them. I have to re-Thruster my SV again & find out my Core was exposed. >_< I head back to my CV that I had spare Hull Blocks for my CV for & spend them on the SV cause I am NOT leaving that Core vulnerable needlessly even if I do have 2 Spares in SV Cargo Boxes. I blow up the rest of the non-Laser Drones, then the last 2 Drones left are Lasers. I decide "Screw this!" & I park my SV onto my CV then take my CV into combat vs those last 2 one by one, Laser Drone vs 6 Cannon Turrets! (Fun Fact: The Base + CV Cannon Turrets that work in Atmosphere are the same damage as the CV Exclusive Turret with exact same specs for damage but can't work in Atmosphere... one of these options looks clearly better then the other... ) I'm dogfighting Drones with my CV with just Turrets cause I still need those Power Coils for my Manual Fire Weapons. I lose my Window pretty fast but down the first Drone. Justice! the Second Drone does some damage to myself, (DAMMIT! I also forgot to pack spare Windows for my CV 'Cockpit'!) my Cockpit, & downs one of the Placeholder Truss Blocks... after a storm of fire, rotating around to point at it again, & rotating around some more, (If CV Turrets wanna compete with SVs, they need better Turn Rate.) & eventually the System is clear of Drones. I make repairs to surviving CV Blocks, get into my SV after a tad of prep, & head to Masperon's surface... Wow it's foggy! Not a fan of this ugly alien green either. It takes awhile of flying around before I finally locate a Zascosium Vein. I murder its Guardian Drone in cold oil & eyeball 2 other ones a ways away, then decide they're not a threat atm. I set down & get to check out normal Golems for the first time... who apparently hate my guts on the word 'Go.'... & come after me from a surprisingly long ways off. These dudes are not people persons, huh? I laugh maniacally as I Minigun their heads for easy kills then loot them. Crushed Rock? Meh won't say no to it, glad it's a Renewable Resource after all. Promethium Ore? Yes please! (Fun idea for the future, a Golem Variant that drops Magnesium Powder!) I begin drilling the Vein & get a good amount of Ore, then have to hop out when a couple more Golems come after me & I give them Brain Surgery with my Minigun. Apparently I suck at Minigun Brain Surgery cause they flopped over & never got up... so much for making them smarter. Also get an aggro from an Alien Scorpion, but all he did was donate some meat & parts to me. I get more Drilling done, then much later i've Drilled into the ground quite a ways & the Mine's now a big hole. An Alien Bug is suddenly on the edge of the hole up top & seems to not care about me, so Iresume Drilling... a bit later my Drill finishes its Charge & I hit Reload on it. RIGHT THEN, the Alien Bug suddenly realizes I exist & leaps on me & shows me that it hits damn hard in a second or two, while I have to wait on my Drill to finish Reloading before my switch to my Minigun can happen, so I take evasive action. Finally the Reload finishes & the Minigun comes into hand & I Drill that Alien Bug's big fat buttocks & somewhat its head with my Minigun & show that snot that it shouldn't be so brazen with me just cause it doesn't see me packing any cans of Raid. A bit of drilling after, & i'm satisfied with how much Ore I have & decide to head back to my CV & head back to Base. Power Coils time! As I type this, i'm making my new shiny CV Pulse Lasers, CV Rocket Launchers, SV Rail Guns, SV Pulse Lasers, (I like the CV Pulse Lasers so I can give these a try & compare them to the Rail Guns.) & Ammo for them all. Thank goodness I can type Posts like this as I process & build stuff so it's not so big a pain to get done.
My apologies for this Double Post, but seems how my prior one is so full... Turns out I managed to make all my shiny new Weapons, but while trying to craft LOTS of Ammo for them, my Copper Supply completely gave out & my Silicon stockpile wasn't well off either. Also I decided that I didn't have enough Iron or Magnesium for my immediate future plans either. Mining time! I make an obscene number of Drill Charges, which brings my total to 33 of them, plus whatever's left in my Drill atm from its last bout of Drilling. I decide to do Silicon first. I look around my Akua Map & find a Ore Vein I hadn't hit yet that's between 800 & 899 Ore & set out to it in my HV. (I personally think Hovering over the ground is easier navigation then trying to fly an SV around a Planet while it's still capable of screwing with you with those damn involuntary 'Q' & 'E' Movements during Mouse Turns... plus the HV's ability to guard itself.) I arrive to it without incident... or it woulda been without incident, except an incident occurred as I arrived to it... there was a forgotten not-yet-slaughtered Drone guarding the Vein! I set my HV Rocket Launcher to its task. It takes a annoying 10-15 Rockets to get the job done, but eventually the Cannon Drone is sent to the scrap heap. I repair my HV then begin drilling. Eventually I empty the entire Vein in one go, then head back to Base to send the haul into my Constructor. I prepare for my next trip as the processing happens, including hunting up more volunteers to donate to my Salami Supply then decide Magnesium next & set out to a huge Vein i've partially Mined out... ahh the Memories, it was the first Magnesium Vein I ever found. Without it I would not have ever got to survive. (Psst, don't tell the Aliens that, let them wonder how I didn't die. ) I tore out the rest of that massive Vein then back to Base with me... leaving imho a beautiful hand-carved hole: Spoiler I look around on the Map for my next target, Copper, choose a Vein in the early thousands, & head out. The Copper is no match for my Mining Zeal & eventually the Vein is no more. Back to Base with it. At Base, I get it processing then set it to make the rest of the Ammo I should now have the Resources for. More Hunting ensues as i've ate through the prior stock of Salami & am ready for more. (One of these days I need to give my CV time to finish growing my first batch of Crops. I wanna find out how Dino Stew Royale tastes!) Last run: Iron Man run through a picked out Iron Vein of 2,500ish Size! I munch that sucker in one trip & haul it back to Base in victory. Spoiler: Left another spiffy hand-carved hole, this time with a cute little Land Bridge. Shame we still can't recycle Holes like this into Underground Bases since that dang 'Fill In Bug' is still existing... & Water still can't be moved into a Underground Base for use with a H2/O2 Generator & Water Generator. Sadly it'll probably be awhile. The current way Terrain works right now is probably a band aid fix till Planets get their Rework & after that Rework it'll all probably run totally differently making fixing this a pointless thing to do. Anyway... As my Constructor is working through Processing this epic load of Iron Ore, my bed calls...
3 Days ago we dispatched our scout Reaper to Omicron, leaving him enough supply to start and arm a very basic FOB, game glitched out and only placed 2 of his grow plots from a blueprint, so a supply run to him had to be made. While the Nomad was undergoing final prep to make the jump for a supply run, nightfall hit Omicron and Reaper found himself nearly overran by drones and monsters. His report detailed a total of 3 waves having up to 7 drones each, the FOB's canon helped keep the attackers at bay, but running low on magnesium, a supply run HAD to be completed shortly, otherwise his ammo stock would run dry. With a supply drop containing 300 each necessary element, i jumped the Nomad to Omicron, station kept @ 3,000m, then took the Nomads mining shuttle down to give him supplies. I arrived in the day time just after another drone wave attacked. Dropping him off supplies, Reaper reported that he had spotted the mining complex and would scout the area to plan attack at the next daybreak. I promptly returned to the Nomad, left Omicron orbit, then proceeded to return to Akua orbit, where the Nomad is stationed. The next day, Reaper loads up with supplies to make a scouting run, he circles the planet and reports that ALL POI's are within 1000m of each other, and spaced apart so that attacking one, would bring down fire from the other defences, upon hearing this, i prepped the Nomad, and went to investigate the situation myself. Upon arrival, Reaper had cleared out the FOB as per standard evacuation procedure, leaving only O2 and Fuel for later, we loaded up into our SVs and proceeded to scout the area further as a pair. When we got within range, i could see just how hard it may be to take these POI's, so we took pictures of the area to plan our attack. After leaving Omicron for now, we returned to the Nomad and decided that a "Smash and Grab" mining run had to be made for the last materials needed for heavier weapons, that would surely be needed to take Omicron in a timely manner, so we set target for Masperon, and promptly left. Taking the mining shuttle, we circled Masperon looking for a Zacosium deposit, we managed to scope one fairly isolated, so we circled it to make sure. Once we touched down, we immediately got to work in mining, even with the eerie feeling that were being watched.... With the radar clear the whole time, we got 300 ore together, and promptly left while our luck held out, then set course for Aitis. Once in the system we encountered 3 plasma drones that the Nomad just walked right through, they didnt stand a chance against her turret system. We took orbit @ 2,700m then proceeded down in the mining shuttle. Spotting a deposit fairly quickly, and once again, one that was fairly isolated, we shot down the guard drone and proceeded to mine as fast as we could before another one showed up, all while listening to the sounds of Alien Scorpions from a distance. Again, once we hit 300, we bailed out back to the Nomad. Before returning to Akua, we decided to investigate the Trading Station, wich we promptly took, (Fairly easy too as all we had to do was land on it and change the faction...) then we spotted the shipyard.... Turrets did not open fire on infantry in EVA, but when the Nomad would get close, they would light up like Christmas. Parked it 1,000m away and went in EVA as well with a new core in hand to replace the one Reaper took out. The Nomad sustained minor damage from defenses. Once we had control, we looted it, got it set up, and now Reaper is stationed there indefinitely, as the shipyard will be our new base of operations from this point onward. Once the rest of the crew log on for transport from Akua orbit, we will be fully set up to finish our takeover. Due to this new acquisition, we will now have to build a small CV for transport purposes around the system.
unintentionally too now that i look at it. literally flip the Nomad aft to fore and it DOES look like a Leviathan indeed XD
Many foolish things, I'm still learning how to armor my vessels apparently. I got too close to a factory in my SV not realizing they're heavily fortified and defended, lost the ship, built a HV to go try and rescue my backpack, lost it too, now thinking I need to rethink how I'm building ships. It seems several layers of armor might be required to be able to sustain more than one or two direct hits from cannons and plasma cannons? Still had a lot of fun doing it though...
If ya can find a way to path to 150-200ish Meters from Base Turrets without dying, ya can make those Base Turrets answer to a Player Rocket Launcher. They cannot survive a single direct hit from a Rocket.
Yeah, just realized I can build a rocket launcher and made myself one. Gonna armor up a hover vehicle to try and get close then make those suckers pay (maybe). This time I'll back up my game before the excursion, always forget to do that.
Sadly this Post is gonna be kinda boring. All i've managed to do this far is continue work on my new Survival Mode SV & FINALLY remember to Screenie the completed front part of my Tyrax Starter SV: Spoiler Now here's to hoping one of these days I ever actually remember to Blueprint the thing.
@Tyrax Lightning i like to bp in stages, especially bigger projects like cvs and bas. i even have some basic flight skeleton starters bp'd for even faster starts on designs- just load and build a shell, move components as needed. i find it helps to leave a note in the name like "world beater- shell."
I'm too experimentive for that, but to each their own. Update: SVs Wings are almost done, then time for the back & bottom of it. Wow Ships can really eat Blocks... I can't quit underestimating how many square Hull Blocks to make...
I am just about to finish up my Hammerhead CV. The culmination of my survival mode play to this point since buying the game, and first CV I have made so far, in any mode. Clearly modeled after her namesake, the hammerhead shark, I wanted to make something that could do it all, while doing it all with style. She can handle herself in a fight, comfortably house a crew of up to a dozen, fit a small SV within her interior hangar and two large ones, or multiple small ones, along her outer hull. One floor contains engineering where all the mechanical components are found, 5 large fuel tanks, o2 dispenser and 4 large tanks, gravity generator, warp drive, two large generators, two large constructors and three large ammo boxes along with all of the thrusters. There are three RCS placed throughout the ship so far, have yet to really test fly it so may tweak there but have tested the thrust in all directions and am happy with the results there so far. Has a full living quarters, bunk beds for 8 people, two queen beds, full eating area with two fridges, two full bathrooms each containing vanity, shower and porcelain throne, a lounging area, a full on movie theatre for the crew, can also function as a video conferencing room, the living quarters also has a medbay. Above the living quarters is the biodome area where food is grown and storage is kept, just finishing up that area now before doing a double check on everything and testing her out at which point will likely post the blueprints for the community. Also has a private captain's quarters and flight deck, the flight deck containing a redundant large generator, plenty of console decorations, seating, observation deck and the cockpit as well as a medbay. For weaponry theres an artillery turret on her head, two minigun turrets on the side fins, along the body prior to the tail fin is two plasma turrets. She also has two rocket launchers and laser cannons fireable by the captain while flying.
I have literally been waiting for these aloe vera to rot so I can finish making the grow pots I need :O
