Re: MRCAcct: I'm definitely not doing anything of the sort for my warm-down supplement. No sir, not at all.../whistles

Here are all the shipyards and some design notes. I had to save them, then zip them here for some reason.

And, for some reason, the zip programme doesn't like text files, so here's the last thing:

And here are the above three in a printer-friendly format--smaller font (11--9, 16--12 etc.)

*grumbles*

My wallet ain't happy with you Mr Kast...:D

I'm not that keen on it, myself, mainly because you have the ability to lessen higher shield ratings--they're called Piercing and Modulating. I can see how some might wish to lessen the effects of high shielding, but I'd say leave it as-is--but if you want it optional I have no problem.

(this is mainly because otherwise I'd have to re-do my mammoth setting AGAIN and I have no desire to do that, but also because I genuinely believe that, unlike some other forms of defence, you CAN mitigate shielding somewhat, whereas with Ionized Hull, Stealth etc you can't)

There could be something in it, but I'm in a bit of a rush (trying to do some Xmas shopping early so's I don't have to deal with the rush--rushing to avoid the rush...hmmm...)

I've been thinking of doing a 'sprint-mode' version of a seeker to 'boost' the SU requirement of seekers and, co-incidentally, allow Starfire capital missiles to be represented. For me, that's a reasonable thing (and something I'm likely to keep up as, while simple changes to my copy of Drydock is simple, trying to do this alteration on my own to the Drydock is not going to end well).

Everything was fine but as there was no conversations going on, I decided to stay cloaked.

Yesterday I finished up the setting--and 'tis a monster--500 (yes, 500!) ships, ranging in size from 1 to 35 hulls, including civilians, raiders, FTL ships and ways to travel between star systems for STL ships, an existential threat and a specialist force for dealing with said threat. And the background work for it isn't exactly minor either...

There are a few things I've had to take liberties with (basically, using equipment types for other purposes)--namely, utilising Ionized Hull (for raiders) for Q-Ships, Fire Control for remote-controlled units and various combos of auxiliary systems for different behind-the-scenes things, but it'll all be in the manual. I've tried to think of everything so that, once you have a copy, there should be no need to release supplements.

Of course, it'll take me a few weeks to get everything sorted out, but once it's done, I'll post it here.

Here's hoping it'll be on these forums by the beginning of December (ideally by mid-November but the setting-up of the Drydock alone's going to take a day or two...)

And mine, especially as most of my settings have them. I could have taken the coward's way out and said that, since most of my settings are meant to be self-contained, that it doesn't matter, but I would always feel that it wasn't 'right' somehow.

And, besides, one advantage of having to tackle everything again is that before the Great Carronade Re-Ordering the light weapons I had weren't great at attacking even lightly-shielded vessels--now, they don't possess the NPr trait and are thus better. I also stopped using the multi-weapon mount rules--well, for most weapons anyway--and it does make the maths easier. I even improved on the missile weapon and have a weapon that is effective at all ranges and has a mode that gives them a hefty punch close-in. It might lose the 'cluster of weapons' feel the earlier designs had, but it's not too much of a sacrifice, especially as they still have a respectable number of weapons.

There's a lot of thought going into the setting--there's an attempt to have multiple FTL systems, for example, and in-universe explanations as to why some weapons can't be used on certain hulls. It does mean a few equipment options have been co-opted--for example, Ionized Hull for certain vessels actually replicates a Q-ship, while shields of 5 and a shockwave replicates a side-effect of something else.

I'm posting this up in all my design threads to address the new Carronade modifiers.

Because of the new modifiers affecting Carronade weapons, I'm just going to point out to any potential users that these ships, being designed with the prior modifiers, will be unbalanced when going up against ships designed with the new modifiers. Seeing as they are mainly designed to duel with themselves, that shouldn't be too much of an issue, but.../shrugs

Yay! Sorry I found them after so long, but I haven't been doing pen+paper designs much so I didn't have much opportunity to spot the error until I was playing around with the new setting. I'm pretty much finished on that setting, BTW, but doing the transcribing and entering into drydock here will take a while--I'm thinking close to 250, 300 ships in total--and the worrying thing is--I think there's possibility to add more. Be afraid, be very afraid...:D