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[omnomnom]

+------------------+
| Timewarp Disabler      |
+-----------+------+-----+-------+----------+-----+------------------+--------------------------------+
| Buy Price | Sell Price | Exp   | Ships    | Max | Ammo             | Item Types                     |
| $65000    | $23000     | 7500  | 123456   | 1   | None             | Emitter, Signature             |
+-----------+------+-----+-------+----------+-----+------------------+--------------------------------+
| This antiwarp's increased strength tends to send effects to the owner's ship.                       |
+------------------+----------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
| Property Name    | Property Value |
+------------------+----------------+
| antiwarp         | +1             |
| bulletenergy     | -1             |
| bombenergy       | -10            |
| recharge         | +1             |
| maxspeed         | +1             |
| thrust           | +1             |
| maxthrust        | +2             |
+------------------+----------------+

 

+------------------+
| Ghost Mount            |
+-----------+------+-----+-------+----------+-----+------------------+--------------------------------+
| Buy Price | Sell Price | Exp   | Ships    | Max | Ammo             | Item Types                     |
| $69000    | $24500     | 7900  | 1234567  | 1   | None             | Mount, Signature               |
+-----------+------+-----+-------+----------+-----+------------------+--------------------------------+
| This system allows a large number of decoys to be deployed.                                         |
+------------------+----------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
| Property Name    | Property Value |
+------------------+----------------+
| decoy            | +6             |
| decoymax         | +6             |
+------------------+----------------+

Edited April 20, 2011 by omnomnom

[spidernl]

+------------------+
| Timewarp Disabler      |
+-----------+------+-----+-------+----------+-----+------------------+--------------------------------+
| Buy Price | Sell Price | Exp   | Ships    | Max | Ammo             | Item Types                     |
| $65000    | $23000     | 7500  | 123456   | 1   | None             | Emitter, Signature             |
+-----------+------+-----+-------+----------+-----+------------------+--------------------------------+
| This antiwarp's increased strength tends to send effects to the owner's ship.                       |
+------------------+----------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
| Property Name    | Property Value |
+------------------+----------------+
| antiwarp         | +1             |
| bulletenergy     | -1             |
| bombenergy       | -10            |
| recharge         | +1             |
| maxspeed         | +1             |
| thrust           | +1             |
| maxthrust        | +2             |
+------------------+----------------+

 

What's that supposed to be?

[omnomnom]

+------------------+
| Timewarp Disabler      |
+-----------+------+-----+-------+----------+-----+------------------+--------------------------------+
| Buy Price | Sell Price | Exp   | Ships    | Max | Ammo             | Item Types                     |
| $65000    | $23000     | 7500  | 123456   | 1   | None             | Emitter, Signature             |
+-----------+------+-----+-------+----------+-----+------------------+--------------------------------+
| This antiwarp's increased strength tends to send effects to the owner's ship.                       |
+------------------+----------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
| Property Name    | Property Value |
+------------------+----------------+
| antiwarp         | +1             |
| bulletenergy     | -1             |
| bombenergy       | -10            |
| recharge         | +1             |
| maxspeed         | +1             |
| thrust           | +1             |
| maxthrust        | +2             |
+------------------+----------------+

 

What's that supposed to be?

 

The idea is that it functions its antiwarp by warping time itself (to a small degree). It is difficult to control its effects and it leaks around the host ship, warping the time around it. The emitter, however is designed to control this leaking by stabilizing and creating useful effects out of it. Pilots inadequately equipped to control this were known to spontaneously com bust or other unfortunate effects.

[Cheese]

its like oracles lost cousin

anyone with 3 brain cells can figure that out

its a perfectly legitimate item

[Cheese]

moved to next page Edited April 23, 2011 by Cheese

[Cheese]

yo spidernl

what are u going to do to bring the shark back to hyperspace

 

multi?

let them attach to lancs?

sigs?

stat increase?

bulletspeed increase?

 

 

my favorite is #2

 

 

.

Edited April 23, 2011 by Cheese

[spidernl]

Working on semi-large modifications to the current item set at the moment, can't be bothered to write down all the changes, buuut..

Here's the list of changed items:

 

1) Reinforcement

2) Gamma Ray

3) Phoenix Missile

 

More coming up.

Edited May 24, 2011 by spidernl

[Arry]

Working on semi-large modifications to the current item set at the moment, can't be bothered to write down all the changes, buuut..

Here's the list of changed items:

 

1) Reinforcement

2) Gamma Ray

3) Phoenix Missile

 

More coming up.

 

Zone pop has always come back after major item changes. Historically major changes have been accompanied by a reset. I noticed you posted this about the same time I posted my thread. I think what you're doing here + reset + what I said in my thread would be a killer combo for curing population problems.

 

EDIT: +Finals ending, summer coming

 

And conquest will be the icing on the cake.

Edited May 24, 2011 by Arry

[Dr Brain]

There was just a reset, so we're not resetting any time soon.

[Arry]

I think what I said will still work without a reset. And it will make population retain longer after a reset when you finally do reset. Edited May 25, 2011 by Arry

[spidernl]

I'm mainly altering items that seem 'out of place', could be balanced a little better, or just had no use.

So, for the 3 mentioned items:

 

1) Reinforcement now has a role as an armor that provides some overall protection. Not a lot, and I'm certain other armors are more useful 9/10 times, but now it has some use. It also offers some early bomb protection during resets.

 

2) Gamma ray was just pulse with a tiny bit more delay and a tiny bit less energy use, which in my opinion was kind of pointless. It did have a role when ammo existed, but when ammo was removed, Gamma Ray was largely obsolete. Maybe it won't be anymore, now.

 

3) Phoenix was an item I never really got the balance right on. I hope I did now.

 

Edit: my point here is that changes like these will rarely affect existing ships, and therefore a reset is not necessary.

Edited May 25, 2011 by spidernl

[Cheese]

'The Gamma Ray deals a reasonable amount of damage while very little energy'

'Combining of Entropy and Falcon, this weapon delivers large amounts of powerful shrapnel'

 

you very good item make

 

.

Edited May 26, 2011 by Cheese

[spidernl]

May 26 2011

Added the Evoker, a limited summoning device that can be used by Spiders, Leviathans and Lancasters without giving up an FTL slot.

It does take an Addon and Signature slot, though.

The limitation is that it can only summon Warbirds, Javelins, Terriers and Weasels.

 

Hope this'll help with small-scale flaggames where getting a lanc gives up such a large percent of the team's firepower that it's better not to get one.

Edited May 26, 2011 by spidernl

[Cheese]

o look another of my ideas made it in

[P Nut]

Fix Gamma Ray please.

EDIT:

I'll explain why nerfing Gamma was pointless. Where Gamma used to be a more efficient, less DPS version of Pulse, it is now a more efficient, less DPS version of Shredder. You said you changed it because it was "redundant"; it is still redundant yet now a weaker item, without reason. It was not obsolete. Many people used it for its superior efficiency.

 

Other than that, you effectively nerfed my Warbird. I worked hard getting Mole to make it as efficient as possible. In a single, swift motion you took that efficiency away. A lot of effort just went to waste. That ship was the only thing that kept me interested in the game still. Now I have none and will not be returning.

Edited May 27, 2011 by P Nut

[spidernl]

it is now a more efficient, less DPS version of Shredder.

 

Despite that being complete nonsense (double the delay and half the energy use is a massive difference making Shredder and the changed Gamma completely different guns), I figured that yet another spam gun in Hyperspace wasn't that great, soooo..:

 

May 30 2011

Reverted Gamma Ray to old state.

Added Binary Cannon.

Added Antiwarp Energy reduction to Oracle System.

Edited May 30, 2011 by spidernl

[P Nut]

ilu

[NuB KiNG]

do everyone a favor. and let us know what guns u are tweaking, i sold my phaser which costs a buckload for that red spam gun, and now its gone and did not get my money back.

[spidernl]

do everyone a favor. and let us know what guns u are tweaking, i sold my phaser which costs a buckload for that red spam gun, and now its gone and did not get my money back.

 

Somewhere at the start of this topic I stated that pretty much everything I do can be changed/reverted/deleted/whatever at will.

It's pretty obvious that when I've just changed an item I may do so again.

 

May 31 2011

Added some protection against common damage types in bases to Evoker to compensate for it being Signature.

Edited May 31, 2011 by spidernl

[Cheese]

why just make it not sig instead

[spidernl]

why just make it not sig instead

 

You should be able to figure out the answer to that yourself.

It might have to do with the fact that pretty much every Spider or Levi will get it if it's just a single Addon sacrifice to have summon.

 

May 31 2011 (Again)

Modified Evoker's additional (armor-like) bonuses to fit more into the 'Addon' slot - They're now antiwarp-, xradarenergy reductions. -Explodepixels stayed.

It also grants a small amount of map/radar zoom, similar to Combat Sensors.

Edited May 31, 2011 by spidernl

[spidernl]

June 3 2011

Added the Evasion Mount, a new type of mount that grants a repel and a rocket.

 

June 7 2011

Added Proton Beam.

 

June 8 2011

Tweaked (generally lowered) Slipstream's weaknesses.

Edited June 8, 2011 by spidernl

[spidernl]

June 15 2011

Added Metaphasic Armor

[spidernl]

June 30 2011

Added Dilithium Matrix

[P Nut]

If you're going to have unlimited warps it should at least have a high delay.