Vikingmando, post: 282, member: 223 wrote:
I did a side by side comparison to the stats of both ships. The differences are are definitely something to consider. After comparing the two I would say a fair and valid change would be to adjust the modifiers in the chart below to increase the modifiers on the TIE/ln to that of the heavy variant but keep the mass the same **ONLY **due to the fact that the resource costs are so vastly different. Unless we'd be willing to adjust the costs of making the Heavy TIE to be more in line with the TIE/ln. But then you'd have to consider adjusting the resource cost of the Heavy Scyk and Heavy Z-95 as well. Overall it is a welcome change in my book
Crafting:
TIE/ln
- 12000 units of Steel
- 3000 units of Aluminum
- 6000 units of Low-Grade Ore
- 3000 units of Inert Petrochemical
- 3000 units of Iron
Heavy TIE
- 24000 units of Steel
- 6000 units of Aluminum
- 12000 units of Low-Grade Ore
- 6000 units of Fibreplast
- 1000 units of Iron Asteroid
- 1000 units of Petrochemical Asteroid
The next thing to consider is the differences in mass
TIE/ln
80k mass
*Heavy TIE *
95k (according to wiki)
Next the modifiers:
[TABLE]
[TR]
[TD]Weapon Mounts (same for both ships)[/TD]
[TD]Projectile weapon x1
Ordnance x1[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
[TABLE]
[TR]
[TD]Acceleration[/TD]
[TD]400 (heavy 500)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Deceleration[/TD]
[TD]600 (heavy 500)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Yaw Rate[/TD]
[TD]300 (heavy 500)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Pitch Rate[/TD]
[TD]300 (heavy 500)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Roll Rate[/TD]
[TD]200 (heavy 250)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Speed Modifier[/TD]
[TD]0.97 (heavy .98)[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
That's definitely a conservative analysis which is unusual and much appreciated. I think the concept of crafting should be discussed at the end of the conversation however. It's not without merit and certainly an important topic. I wonder if maybe we shouldn't start with the topic of changes and then finish with the topic of crafting.
I'm kind of the mindset of thinking outside the box on the changes. It will never be a pve ship and frankly we have plenty of those anyway. I'm thinking maybe creating a niche. For example, leaving everything exactly the same but adding another gun slot. Or... Changing the speed modifier to 1.15 making it the only ship that gets a boost to speed instead of a cut.
Those are just a couple ideas I've had. But we truly have a blank slate here so lets throw everything at the board and see what/if anything we agree on.