Report 320

Report #320
Skillset: Aethercraft Skill: Screech
 Org: Blacktalon Status: Completed Feb 2010
Furies' Decision:
Solution 2
Problem: This is a zero power cost free passive defence that only fades upon
implosion. When you astralsense a ship with this defence active, your ship will
take hull damage and module damage to every single one of your modules. This one
ability will prevent any possible chance of aetherspace combat chasing. And as
rarely as aetherspace combat does happen, chasing is a necessity. The empath
will have to heal the chair then heal each of the modules so that should it
catch up to the target ship, it will not have damaged modules, and then it needs
to astralsense again, which only incurrs more hull damage and damage to every
module once again because the defence only fades upon implosion.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: Make screech cost 5-10 power to put up and fade after
 1-3 times being triggered.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #2: Remove the hull damage and all modules damage effect
 from screech and just let it notify a ship when it is
 being sensed. Make it like ship aethersight.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #3:
Player Comments:
---[Talan on 2/24 @ 18:07 writes]:
I prefer solution 2, with the addendum that it should fade on dock.
---[Viynain on 2/24 @ 20:04 writes]:
Solution 2.
---[Xenthos on 2/24 @ 22:27 writes]:
Make it fade on docking and / or after X time, too-- it being up forever, and
giving a nice bright message to the entire ship, is a bit much. Leave it
costing no power (in an aship, power defenses are pretty darned pointless), but
it should take a bit of maintenance.
---[Krellan on 2/24 @ 22:29 writes]:
If it costs zero power and fades after x triggers then they can just trigger the
fade line to put it back up and thus we're back at the same problem of perpetual
damage to all modules. Power cost is to restrict them from doing so
---[Ixchilgal on 2/25 @ 15:23 writes]:
Power costs are meaningless to an aethership, unless you actively need power -
such as during a fight. For a defense you can raise in advance, it restricts
nothing, because you can just go siphon up a vortex to regain said power.
Thusly, I don't really care one way or another if it costs power to put it up.
Solution 2.