[FILE] Need opinions on the Weapon Rates I made for competitive play.

[EpicN]

I'm messing around with the weapon charge rates to see if I could make fighter combat more balanced and competitive, plus making the ships faster. What I did is increased the weapons decharge and recharge rates with each craft's design to make charging and decharging more risky; however since I have no one to actually test this system with anyone without getting destroyed by AI I'll upload the files onto the forums for you guys to try. What I don't know is if the rates that I put into the texts are overpowered or not so that higher skilled players don't become invincible with this balance. Right now I messed with a few of the main fighter craft used with the campaign. I left the Z-95 untouched for now (since it's an old school clone wars fighter).

XWA WeaponRate Competitive Set (experiment).rar

The changes I made are listed here:

• All unshielded Tie Fighter variants are able to regain a higher charge after draining all weapon power

• Shielded Fighters can now charge and drain shields faster without having to redirect engine power into the shields

• Lightly readjusted the Missile Boat's rates to keep the SLAM from ending too soon (I didn't want to adjust this craft due to the fact it has missiles loaded in by default without requesting any warheads which makes it op, but I did it anyway since it is one of the main craft of Tie Fighter)

• Made it harder to recharge weapons on T-Wing, Tie Bizarro, and Tie BigGun

• Both Tie Avenger and Tie Defender are now high tier fighters

The only known issues I'm having with the changes I made:

• When the hull indicator is destroyed, it's harder to measure game balance with shields

• The Tie Advanced x1 and A-Wing are having recharge issues when firing

• Not sure what the defaults are on weapon rates for each craft

These issues I'm having are the reason why I need opinions and why I uploaded the files into the forum. I'm trying to make the game feel more rewarding and fast-paced to make it more appealing to today's standards for competitive gaming.

[Phoenix Leader]

What I did is increased the weapons decharge and recharge rates with each craft's design to make charging and decharging more risky

To actually make recharging energy weapons more risky I think you need to break the rule of 12.5% slower (1/8 less) than maintenance speed each time a recharge is increased +1 level.

[Phoenix Leader]

When the hull indicator is destroyed, it's harder to measure game balance with shields

I know this is a problem in missions too. When your shields are very low and an enemy fighter hits your hull indicator, you are blinded for the rest of the mission.
There is a simple thing you can do to display your shields and hull percentages regardless of the hull indicator status: press Alt+C and then open the map (M).
Your craft will be automatically targeted on the CMD.