Kraits are the EVO equivilent of TIE Fighters from Star Wars. They only work well in large numbers, are weak, and have limited weaponry. They can be mass produced, and thus you can get huge swarms of them and then use them to overwhelm the enemy.
------------------
To Escape Velocity: Nova and Beyond!
--------------
Millennium. Its coming, prepare for it.
Coming to the (url="http://"http://www.ambrosiaSW.com/games/ev/chronicles.html")EV Chronicles(/url).
I think we agree that kraits are something of a threat under certain conditions, but they are hugely overpriced. I can't imagine ever buying a trio of them and launching them into a firefight - my profits would immediately take a 150,000 credit dent.
Carried kraits contain much which is largely unnecessary; a hyperdrive system, fuel tanks, long range communications array, extended life support, cargo space...
I might speak to a contact of mine who runs an experimental shipyard. If parasite kraits had all the unnecessary bits and pieces deleted, they might be much cheaper, and somewhat lighter than conventional 'interplanetary' kraits. If we can engineer the cost for ship-launched kraits down to maybe ten or fifteen thousand credits, and lighten them such that five can be carried in a krait bay, then perhaps they would be more useful.
What do you think?
------------------
I got this .sig file at insanely_great.com - don't even think about taunting me!
They would be okay against, non-crecent merchants, and human renegades. But they would still be worthless against the Voinians or anything in the Crecent. however, I could do something like that in EVO Enhancer... I think I will...
------------------
Cuz I'm a 21st Century Digital Boy
I don't know the Monty Python but I've got a lotta toys
My daddy is a Renegade, his name is Hellcat Helian
Wait a second...
(This message has been edited by 21st Century Digital Boy (edited 01-12-2001).)
I've got a new graphic for something that could easily be described as a 'Krait Mk. II', if that's any help.
------------------
I got this .sig file at insanely_great.com - don't even think about taunting me!
Quote
Put the ex. generator on a Krait, it is so small, your shields shoot up fast enough, that only a HUGE barrage could kill you! I think......
Bah. Why do that when you can do it with an Azdara or Crescent fighter? 
------------------
Why do it? The point is to make the carried krait fighter a useful outfit resource for players, by simply lowering the cost. At ten or fifteen thousand credits they'd become like an expensive guided missile, which a moderately wealthy player might use.
A cost change wouldn't affect the balance of the game. Changing the effectiveness of the krait would, because it would make encounters with Turncoats in the early phases of the game (and on certain missions) rather traumatic.
Of course, the crescent fighter is also a little on the expensive side... maybe that needs to be economised a little, as well. Maybe reduce the shields and give it a few points of armour instead, so you can bring disabled ones back on board if you have the bay. Hmm...
------------------
I got this .sig file at insanely_great.com - don't even think about taunting me!
How about just doing that to all of the fighters? It would make sense. However, the crecent fighter is already 1/3 the actual cost - though it is very expensive. I ushally just have a large warship equiped for dealing with other warships and just have fighters to deal with other fighters. And if I get swarmed with too many fighters... Cloak... position behind fighter... uncloak... disperal rocket + a few phase blasts... cloak again... fighter goes boom... repeat until all fighters are dead.
------------------
Cuz I'm a 21st Century Digital Boy
I don't know the Monty Python but I've got a lotta toys
My daddy is a Renegade, his name is Hellcat Helian
Wait a second...
(Editied for spelling so Voinian wouldn't yell at me again ;))
(This message has been edited by 21st Century Digital Boy (edited 01-15-2001).)
The Krait bay is the only human bay you can get, unless you get a Carrier w/ UE fighters. The Krait bay simply gives a little help to the traders who stay in UE space and are frightened of renegades.
PS- VoinianAmbassador, can we SEE this "Krait mk. II?"
------------------
I ask you to look both ways- for the road to the atom leads through the stars, and the road to the stars leads through the atom.
Okay, I've created a GeoCities webpage, so you can view some of my efforts. I only spent half an hour putting it together, so don't laugh! Since you ask, I've included several views of the Krait Mk. II
It's at:-
(url="http://"http://www.geocities.com/evodude2001/EVOhomepage.html")http://www.geocities...VOhomepage.html(/url)
------------------
I got this .sig file at insanely_great.com - don't even think about taunting me!
Yeah, you're right about the windshield. The final version of the 3D model got corrupted, so all I have left is the sans canopy version. I can soon correct that, but at a sprite size of maybe 24x24 pixels, I don't think you'd notice.
------------------
I got this .sig file at insanely_great.com - don't even think about taunting me!
I finally bothered to look up how you add images to the noticeboard. Here's a couple of pics of the Krait II that I mentioned.
It might save you the trouble of visiting my website - though I'd be delighted if you did!
(This message has been edited by VoinianAmbassador (edited 01-19-2001).)
Very nice Ambassador!
Holy cow, I just complemented a vickermicwhacker...
------------------
Hi! I'm Alien the Hinwar and I'm a stuiped jerk!
I'm big, mad, strong, and Hinwar! I yell 'LONG LIVE THE UE!', but I smash vikimadegie lovers every chance I get!
Cause I'm Alien the Hinwar and I'm a stuiped jerk!
I'm always making the mods mad doing something or another, but I'll never learn! I'll never turn! Look at my karma!
I just figured out what Kraits are good for!
Minesweeping.
------------------
(url="http://"http://pub29.ezboard.com/b20")Don't click here.(/url)
Do radioactive cats have 18 half-lives?
The Person who misspells "Voinian" knows not of the 50 gigaton nuke coming at their cranium.
Quote
Originally posted by Alien 5672:
**Kraits??? Only dangerous when there's about 16 million of em!
**
Dang right! Recently I was playing EVO with the "Ejacks" plugin. I was doing the last Huron mission while flying an Assault Frigate (one of the ships in the game) and I flew into the Troub system, ready to kick Renegade behind when all the Turncoats or something launched their Kraits at me. All those Kraits started firing at me and I was shredded to pieces in about 10 seconds or something. Only when I hired four Assault Frigate escorts was I able to complete the mission.
God bless,
UE Patriot
------------------
"Turn me over, I'm done on this side."- St. Lawerence at his martyrdom
"The glory of God is man fully alive"- some saint whose name I can't remember
Voinian lovers are ignorant of the UE marines taking over Borb Station.
Reign of the UE: Coming this year!
That's why I always do the Human Renegade missions before i upgrade to a heavy warship. I think the heaviest thing I've done all those missions in is a UE Destroyer.
------------------
Cuz I'm a 21st Century Digital Boy
I don't know the Monty Python but I've got a lotta toys
My daddy is a Renegade, his name is Hellcat Helian
Wait a second...
That's about the weakist ships I've done the HR missions in. Call me a gun lover, but if you can't fit AT LEAST 3 Neutron Turrets on it, I hate it.
------------------
(url="http://"http://pub29.ezboard.com/b20")Don't click here.(/url)
Do radioactive cats have 18 half-lives?
The Person who misspells "Voinian" knows not of the 50 gigaton nuke coming at their cranium.
There's nothing wrong with being a gun lover, I just like lighter ships better.
------------------
Cuz I'm a 21st Century Digital Boy
I don't know the Monty Python but I've got a lotta toys
My daddy is a Renegade, his name is Hellcat Helian
Wait a second...
