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| ID | Project | Category | Date Submitted | Last Update | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0015244 | AI War 1 / Classic | Suggestion - New Unit Ideas - Bonus Ships | May 22, 2014 3:48 am | May 22, 2014 3:52 am | |
| Reporter | Shoat | Assigned To | |||
| Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
| Summary | 0015244: Bonus (Star-)ship type: Nosferatu (grabbing and draining it's victims and spawning drone minions) | ||||
| Description | Hello there. Had another idea for a thematically cool ship that I wanted to share. This one would probably be a bonus starship (it could be made into a "big" fleet ship aswell, but since bonus starships have now become a thing it doesn't have to). It's supposed to be a different type of "vampire" themed ship which isn't simply a combatant with vampirism added to it's attacks, but uses a new feature to utilize it's theme in combat. The basic premise is that, aside from being a decent combat ship (DPS and health slightly lower than a flagship of the same mark), this ship has a special form of tractor beam. It's tractor beam can grab only a few ships (maybe 5 per it's mark level?), but it not only paralyzes the affected ships it grabbed but also drains their life to kill them (drains one grabbed ship at a time per mark), which restores health to the Nosferatu and allows it to build up build points (it cannot gain BP any other way, and the BP diminish slowly if it doesn't have any victims for a while, also it needs to not shoot things it has caught with it's tractor beams). Upon having gathered enough BP, it will spawn a vampiric minion, which is a small drone similar to a vampire claw, but of course with less DPS&health, and also with self-attrition that it can delay by using it's vampirism-enhanced melee attack. So it'd have, say, a 30 second attrition timer and could extend that timer by attacking stuff (how long it can extend it's life depends on it's DPS, it'd have to be tested and balanced). So the final product of the Nosferatu would be a decent-ish combatant that paralyzes and kills small fleet ships and spawns minions while doing so, which in my opinion would be an interesting addition and very much sounds like what a vampire does. As for estimated stats (Note that this is my first time actually trying to find fitting stats for an idea) Attack: Multi-hit attack (around 10 shots), reload 4-8 seconds, DPS similar to Tractor Platform or Flagship (roughly 25000-30000 at mk1, maybe more if it doesn't get damage bonuses), rare attack type (dark matter? acid? energy wave?), medium range (6000-8000), armor piercing (1k per mark) Hull Type: Heavy or Neutron (though so far only zenith ships seem to have neutron) Speed: Decent (70-80) Health: about 8m per mark Armor: 1k-2k per mark Engine Health: 100k Minion Drone stats: They are a drone-ified version of vampire claws, so just those guys' stats but reduced, with DPS adjusted so that the Nosferatu doesn't become too OP damage-wise. Again I cannot estimate this properly, sorry. Thank you for reading my suggestion. I hope you like the concept, and I'd like you to give me suggestions on how to improve whichever parts of this you didn't like. | ||||
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| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| May 22, 2014 3:48 am | Shoat | New Issue | |
| May 22, 2014 3:49 am | Shoat | Summary | Bonus (Star-)ship type: Nosferatu (grabbing and draining it's victims) => Bonus (Star-)ship type: Nosferatu (grabbing and draining it's victims and spawning drone minions) |
| May 22, 2014 3:52 am | Shoat | Description Updated | |
| May 22, 2014 3:52 am | Shoat | Description Updated |
