Emphasis on Smaller ships.
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I think bigger ships is hard to build and manage alone, but with a large group you can take advantage of maybe ship building facitilies, or mining equiptment and ore storage. I would assume the developers might include ore refining and even ship building ability on larger ships, allowing larger teams to use have something to use larger ships for.
In either case, bases might also be a bigger part of the game than larger ships, and so such actions such as refining and building will be limited to stations.
I think bigger ships is hard to build and manage alone, but with a large group you can take advantage of maybe ship building facitilies, or mining equiptment and ore storage. I would assume the developers might include ore refining and even ship building ability on larger ships, allowing larger teams to use have something to use larger ships for.
In either case, bases might also be a bigger part of the game than larger ships, and so such actions such as refining and building will be limited to stations.
According to current knowledge, large ships won't be very useful in direct open space combat.
Hypothetical small vs large ship combat:
1. Small ship is more nimble, so can choose range and angle.
2. Railgun has the highest range, but it may take up to 5s for the projectile to hit
3. At not that high speed of 50m/s you'd need to leed shot up to 250m ahead of 5x5m target that can change movement vector.
4. Even if big ship has rail cannon that managed to hit (almost impossible), small ship could have all armour concentrated in front.
Of course large ship would be probably accompanied by escort of small fast sniper killers. Or in case of base siege you can't just kite your opponent infinitely. And large ships would be great as respawn/repair/rearm combat support. But that's not direct open space combat.
Hypothetical small vs large ship combat:
1. Small ship is more nimble, so can choose range and angle.
2. Railgun has the highest range, but it may take up to 5s for the projectile to hit
3. At not that high speed of 50m/s you'd need to leed shot up to 250m ahead of 5x5m target that can change movement vector.
4. Even if big ship has rail cannon that managed to hit (almost impossible), small ship could have all armour concentrated in front.
Of course large ship would be probably accompanied by escort of small fast sniper killers. Or in case of base siege you can't just kite your opponent infinitely. And large ships would be great as respawn/repair/rearm combat support. But that's not direct open space combat.
A smaller ship would only require 1 player to maintain or 2 if under gun fire but if it gets shot by a big freighter ship it has a high chance of getting
shredded in a single shot. A big ship would require multiple players to maintain but would require a lot of gun fire to destroy. I believe that large
factions would have large battle freighters or container ships meanwhile loners or small factions would be using fleets of smaller ships.
shredded in a single shot. A big ship would require multiple players to maintain but would require a lot of gun fire to destroy. I believe that large
factions would have large battle freighters or container ships meanwhile loners or small factions would be using fleets of smaller ships.
This is assuming you can even get close enough to the large ship to get semi accurate shots in before getting ripped apart by flak, else you are just putting some holes in not essential areas. You have to balance distance with accuracy, which can be difficult when getting shot at by multiple types of weapons, even more so since there doesnt seem to be a camera like item that zooms in your view.
It just doesnt seem worth it to me to utalise smaller ships in these sorts of fights
It just doesnt seem worth it to me to utalise smaller ships in these sorts of fights
Quite happy to stick with smaller, specialist ships personally. I'm generally a specialist pilot in these types of games anyway. I flew recon in EVE Online for years, long after my Corp buddies had all advanced to larger ships for pew pew. I flew mostly combat recon (Curse was my baby) but did a little bit of force recon too. With Starbase being a much more 'real time' kind of game than something like EVE I'm really looking forward to testing my skills in small skirmishes. I'll leave the flying of larger, pricier vessels to my victims 
Quite happy to stick with smaller, specialist ships personally. I'm generally a specialist pilot in these types of games anyway. I flew recon in EVE Online for years, long after my Corp buddies had all advanced to larger ships for pew pew. I flew mostly combat recon (Curse was my baby) but did a little bit of force recon too. With Starbase being a much more 'real time' kind of game than something like EVE I'm really looking forward to testing my skills in small skirmishes. I'll leave the flying of larger, pricier vessels to my victims
I haven't played EVE for a long time tbf, quit in 2012 and have only subbed occasionally since then. Spent the past few years primarily playing Worlds Adrift and more recently Star Citizen, with a side serving of Empyrion Galactic Survival, Space Engineers and the Dual Universe alpha so it shouldn't be too much of an adjustment hopefully The YOLOL will take some getting used to though, since I'm pretty useless when it comes to programming, even with simple stuff but hopefully I'll end up crewing up with someone who can handle that side of things
The YOLOL will take some getting used to though, since I'm pretty useless when it comes to programming, even with simple stuff but hopefully I'll end up crewing up with someone who can handle that side of things
I haven't played EVE for a long time tbf, quit in 2012 and have only subbed occasionally since then. Spent the past few years primarily playing Worlds Adrift and more recently Star Citizen, with a side serving of Empyrion Galactic Survival, Space Engineers and the Dual Universe alpha so it shouldn't be too much of an adjustment hopefully The YOLOL will take some getting used to though, since I'm pretty useless when it comes to programming, even with simple stuff but hopefully I'll end up crewing up with someone who can handle that side of things
The YOLOL will take some getting used to though, since I'm pretty useless when it comes to programming, even with simple stuff but hopefully I'll end up crewing up with someone who can handle that side of things
As for crew and such, that depends very much indeed who you go with, plenty of Industries, factions & guilds to choose from
Not necessarily, you should make use of more careful aiming and predictions. The number of guns you have should not influence the number of hits you get on an enemy vessel in such away. That also means you would be wasting a LOT of ammunition on the attempts that more guns mean more hits.
It would be better to just practice aiming and predicting what trajectory the enemy ship is moving in. As having fewer guns but more accurately placed shots would cause more moderate damage than a few stray bullets from a mass of them.
It would be better to just practice aiming and predicting what trajectory the enemy ship is moving in. As having fewer guns but more accurately placed shots would cause more moderate damage than a few stray bullets from a mass of them.
I may have badly expressed myself. What I meant is that, based on the devs battle video and the lack of any zooming aiming features, aiming at an enemy ship that is not close by seems really hard. More weapons would then not mean more hits on enemy, but rather a suppressing fire with more chances to have at least on hit.