Minor oversights that could really spruce up Entrenchment

Info-cards, ranges, info on banks

Hey all,

Just played a rare game as TEC last night and realized that their neat little defence platform upgrades don't actually show up in any way on their info cards -- so there appears no way of determining whetherh these upgrades are doing 1 damage or 50. This has the obvious effect of making them somewhat anomalous upgrades. This is a minor 'issue', more of an oversight than anything else.

It mirrors a similar 'oversight' in the game with regards to the range of Starbases. Now, this is probably a problem with all units with multiple weapon types (i.e. cap ships also could really use this), but is most notable with Starbases. The 'range' that is displayed when you hold alt and mouse over a starbase is only one circle.. even if you have the three different weapons types, all of which supposedly designed for different purposes -- shouldn't we somehow be aware of a difference in the range of these weapons? I am not totally certain, and maybe someone else can check on this, but I also don't even notice the 'extreme' range of the missile weapons on, say, the missiles for the TEC or the psy-attacks for the Advent. It seems only logical that the highest-level weapons upgrade for starbases should be REALLY long range weapons which make sense of the whole fixed-defensive emplacement idea; these final long-range weapons really should counter anti-structure ships effectively, otherwise I am hardly entrenched against a few torp cruisers.

Final suggestion that I have to throw out there is that the inclusion of multiple banks has really made the tactics more interesting with cap ships and starbases in particular. However, there is no easy way to decipher the number of banks on a particular ship or structure, the way they are facing, or what each is firing on. It would be nice if there was some bank info on the unit cards, as well as some information depicting range and degree/width of attack range of each bank.

Hopefully these suggestions are noted, or the reasons for their exclusion may be detailed, because at present they seem oddly left out and somewhat irritating in-game.

Thanks for all the hard work Ironclad, I have loved what I have seen so far!

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Reply #1 Top

huh? there is all the info you need for tec turret upgrades. just not on the info card. select one of them and you will find the upgrades as autocasting abilities. burst rockets do some 70 dmg to 4 targets every 10 seconds or so. the beam ... not quite sure something like 200 or 250 and minus a bit armour.

Reply #2 Top

Huh, don't know how I missed that, but thanks for the info.

Would love feedback on other two suggestions regarding range and bank information.

Looking forward to finding out I am oblivious! :blush:

Reply #3 Top

I would love to see the range updated as well or even have 3 different colored circles showing each level upgrade for weapon upgrade on the starbases so you know how much it affects them.  An in game info on the banks would be nice but I found that http://www.clansofsin.com/ was very helpfully in showing how much damage each bank does and dps for all the capital ships here.