Originally by: ShadowDraqon

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Not to be mean, but add a few more gaps to your text. Wall-of-text is not good for ze eyes.

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Originally by: silken mouth

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i have a better suggestion: make em cheaper!

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Originally by: Lilla Kharn

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Edited by: Lilla Kharn on 15/05/2009 19:19:03
Who says Jump Portal Generation doesn't affect black ops? I noticed quite a difference in my fuel consumption and it actually lines up with the equation when I jump ships. If you're saying that it doesn't affect fuel consumption you:

A. Haven't trained it yourself.
B. Listened to someone who hasn't trained it themselves and are unwilling to test it out for yourself.
C. Trained it to whatever level you wanted and didn't check each level.

The skill Jump Portal Generation DOES affect the covert portal. And this is confirmed by running the fuel equation per each level and jumping ships through to see if it actually does work.

*EDIT* Reposting the formula. Click Me.

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Originally by: Lilla Kharn

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Simple, it's not meant to be a combat ship. So the scan res shouldn't be much of an issue.

And you could always do the math yourself on jumping a ship through instead of waiting for a dev to respond. Not that difficult...

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Originally by: Pringlescan

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Edited by: Pringlescan on 14/05/2009 23:06:31
Edited by: Pringlescan on 14/05/2009 23:05:32
As it is black ops battleships are still facing a very annoying problem, mainly that the fuel use for jump bridging around other ships is still very very high. This combined with the fact that Jump Portal Generation serves no use at all for black ops battleship pilots past level 1 means as a pilot there is nothing you can do to help with that. So all you have to do is making Jump Portal Generation affect the fuel consumption of Covert Jump Portals and you would have a lot of happy black ops/recon/cov ops pilots happy.

Currently as far as I can tell (there is NO documentation) through recorded fuel use the formula for covert jump bridging people around is 43.35 x Lightyears x mass in Million KG, is for a falcon which has roughly 14mkg mass to go 4.5 ly (the maximum distance with jdc 5) it takes 2731 racial isotopes. This takes up 409m^3 of fuel which is aprox 80% of the free space of a black ops battleships cargohold. To go the same distance yourself is 1080 racial isotopes with jfc 4 (although they may have adjusted this in the last patch im not sure)

However if you add a 5% or 10% reduction in racial isotopes needed for covert jump bridging for each level of jump portal generation (which is a really high rank skill 14) suddenly that becomes more manageable without just handing it to the player and the specialized black ops battleship pilot becomes better at what he has trained for months to do.

With a 5% reduction per level and jpg 4, that becomes 2184 isotopes for that theoretical bridge. If you make it 10% which I recommend you make it, 1620. Suddenly recons can hold enough in their cargohold for a round trip which opens up more options for fast roaming gangs without dragging along a blockade runner.

In any case even if you don't decide to use this recommendation PLEASE change the description of the jump portal generation skill to be more specific. Right now it reads "Skill for the generation of jump portals to distant solar systems. 10% reduced material cost for jump portal activation per level. " Since its is covert JUMP PORTAL people think that the skill affects covert jump portal generations as well when it does not. My current understanding due to lack of documentation is that it only affects the strontium needed for titan to jump bridge.

If you decide that you want to leave this skill alone for ease of progamming could you possible then introduce a skill "covert jump portal generation" which reduces the racial isotopes needed for covert jump bridging by 10% per level?

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