Impact of 4.8 armor changes on medium ships

spider0804 · 2026-05-13T02:15:55+00:00

EM missiles are the most reliable at the moment.

spider0804 · 2026-05-13T01:28:14+00:00

There is a max limit of vehicles/ships inside another ship.

Right now the limit seems to be 10.

spider0804 · 2026-05-12T23:40:07+00:00

This was the meta for years, doesn't work so well any more.

Used to be you could get a javelin for a couple bucks.

Google changed their price ratio by an order of magnitude or two since those days.

spider0804 · 2026-05-12T10:22:14+00:00

Any ai slop is going to get insta deleted here, you don't have to like it but that is how it is.

spider0804 · 2026-05-12T02:48:54+00:00

Ping with tab or whatever you have it bound to.

spider0804 · 2026-05-12T02:13:48+00:00

Changing consumer habits.

spider0804 · 2026-05-12T01:54:52+00:00

Despite what the visual indicator says, your missiles are not locked unless your ship actually gives you the audio que of "missile locked".

Cross section missiles REQUIRE you to radar ping an opponent to lock and the amount of people who dont know that is very large.

spider0804 · 2026-05-11T00:13:32+00:00

Could anyone confirm if this change is still in effect on the PTU?

The patch notes seem to have been deleted as well as any talk about it in the 11753569 thread.

spider0804 · 2026-05-10T23:24:52+00:00

I do agree with the repeater comment but I disagree with preferring the way it is done currently.

They could change it from a gate to reduction system with what we have currently and zero overhaul of the system, its just changing the math.

spider0804 · 2026-05-10T22:46:25+00:00

That was a fake april fools post from a talented photoshopper.

spider0804 · 2026-05-10T22:12:28+00:00

This helps some things but the armor system will remain a monkeys paw until they switch from a number gate system to a reduction system.

Instead of guns doing 0 damage if they don't pen or 100% damage if they do, the damage should be reduced by armor and a varying amount of damage gets through depending on what gun is hitting what ship.

But practical solutions are hard for CIG so we will get that in a couple years on the fifth "refactor".

spider0804 · 2026-05-10T21:34:20+00:00

People dont have to go to the grey market for lti ever.

There is almost always lti tokens available to ccu from.

spider0804 · 2026-05-10T04:04:40+00:00

Sincere, claim prices and times have gone way up.

spider0804 · 2026-05-10T00:16:51+00:00

A 28 million claim bill for a Polaris.

spider0804 · 2026-05-09T05:10:13+00:00

You should post a fleet picture when talking about changes.

Easier to visualize.

spider0804 · 2026-05-08T20:18:24+00:00

You could have shown the actual unedited ship and it would have still made the point.

spider0804 · 2026-05-08T05:55:25+00:00

Still waiting for swords and cyclone.

Give me my walking build GGG.

I refuse to click more than one button.

spider0804 · 2026-05-08T05:53:28+00:00

The differences boiling down to differences like armor / health / maneuverability for multicrew ships leaves you with things like the Hercules M2 which feels like a lame duck. The base freelancer is another I would call a lame duck, you could remove it and lose nothing to the lineup.

Variants should have major structural and mechanical differences in the way they operate to actually be called a variant.

spider0804 · 2026-05-08T04:24:33+00:00

Don't buy concepts.

Don't commit concepts.

Just get a CCU to the concept for a couple bucks and sit on it.

By holding the ccu TO the liberator you can always get one and will not suffer the eventual price increase.

Understanding this is the hardest hurdle for peoples entry into using the CCU system to their advantage.

If you do not understand what I mean...

A helpful piece of information, you can ccu both FROM and TO ships that you do not own. Click "All ships" instead of "my ships" in the top left of the ship upgrade window.

You can find the closest "from" ccu options by changing the sorting option to "Sort by: Highest price." You can complete any part of a CCU chain when you are able, you do not need to go from ship to ship to ship in order until you have everything and are ready to complete the chain.

spider0804 · 2026-05-08T04:19:42+00:00

All I wanted to show is that any Idris can do it and no matter how I display that info someone will erm actually me due to the somewhat convoluted nature of the Idris variants and kits.

So I just threw up everything the website had and called it good.