Mega Ships
Read the forum post :https://www.kixeye.com/forum/discussion/635450
What can I do with it?
With the new Mega Ships, you can only attack other mega ships, or hit certain targets marked for mega ships. However, when attacking a player's mega ship, you can have 4 people join up with normal fleets, on both sides. To clarify, if I was to hit Doxy's mega ship, I can have four people help me hit, and he can have 4 people help him defend. Mega ships can be attacked by normal fleets at anytime.
How do I construct the Gantry?
To build this awesome weapons of war, you need to have your research up to level 20, and have 120 Gantry fragments. Once you have both of these conditions, you have to wait 6 weeks for the Gantry to finish building. During this time you can still upgrade buildings and use your dock.
The Gantry Fragments are found by Drac Uranium bases in Level 91 Assault Targets, and they spawn every 90 minutes, according to Laredo. About 1/3 the way down. The countdown to spawn is independent of the countdown clock until the Sector threat resets, but rather relies upon PDT.
The targets are the elite Mega Hull target from last raid. Playlist of 5 different fleets hitting the mega ship. The best fleet to use that I have seen so far is a combo of Tank/Rhino/Aegis.
The best video I have seen let of someone completing the target is Insector Gadget, of The Forsaken Council, and his Punisher/Rhino/Harlock's Aegis fleet. Speaking of the Forsaken Council, check them out, really useful things there. Either here or here.
https://www.dahippo.com/bp/ship/#!9P6Z01R1R401R6F39345P251A1B1A1A1BPNH01T1T1T3817390344522A2A2A1B1B1A1A1A1AP6V01T1T1R1R1T396F34356E52525252525252525252525252521AP6V01T1T1R1R1T396F34356E52525252525252525252525252521AP6V01T1T1R1R1T396F34356E525252525252525252525252525219dC
Each target will drop 2-4 fragments, you will earn a fragment each time you defeat a target. With 120 fragments being needed, the maximum amount of times you need to hit a 91 is 60 times.
List of what you need to complete to reach level 20 in R&D, here you go.
Each Faction will have their own Mega Ship that you can build. The Forsakn hull is called the Hyperion. No other names have been released, or starts for the Hyperion.
You have 6 different ways to customize your Mega Ship, by using Modules. There are 6 different types of Modules; weapon, engine, bridge, defense, fleet, support. Within each of these modules, there are subtypes, mortar weapon module. You can retrofit and upgrade each module, and you can swap each module out whenever you please.
Hiving is a new feature, where you can 'link' up with other mega ships to boost the damage, health, etc of your mega ship. I don't know how this will implement.
The bad part is that the repair could be days long, if Kixeye really want to improve PvP, they would make it so you only repair for the armor added, and not base armor.
The Reaver and Scoruge Mega hulls will be interesting to see, we have already seen the Drac version from raids past. The Scourge will be weird, seeing that we have only seen subs from them, a land ship will be cool to see. Unless Kixeye will make a Mega GhostCrawler.
Prepare your base defense if you are currently research R&D, as some people will be hunting down bases to get that 16 hour research deduction.
The 91 assault target can be useful, as it allows the players to try out new tactics on the elite without the time limit of 4 days. The bad side is of the spawning depending upon the sector threat level and the real time. This limits the amount of fragments available, and on Kixeye's view of things, results in less coin.
The Gantry Fragments are found by Drac Uranium bases in Level 91 Assault Targets, and they spawn every 90 minutes, according to Laredo. About 1/3 the way down. The countdown to spawn is independent of the countdown clock until the Sector threat resets, but rather relies upon PDT.
The targets are the elite Mega Hull target from last raid. Playlist of 5 different fleets hitting the mega ship. The best fleet to use that I have seen so far is a combo of Tank/Rhino/Aegis.
The best video I have seen let of someone completing the target is Insector Gadget, of The Forsaken Council, and his Punisher/Rhino/Harlock's Aegis fleet. Speaking of the Forsaken Council, check them out, really useful things there. Either here or here.
https://www.dahippo.com/bp/ship/#!9P6Z01R1R401R6F39345P251A1B1A1A1BPNH01T1T1T3817390344522A2A2A1B1B1A1A1A1AP6V01T1T1R1R1T396F34356E52525252525252525252525252521AP6V01T1T1R1R1T396F34356E52525252525252525252525252521AP6V01T1T1R1R1T396F34356E525252525252525252525252525219dC
Each target will drop 2-4 fragments, you will earn a fragment each time you defeat a target. With 120 fragments being needed, the maximum amount of times you need to hit a 91 is 60 times.
List of what you need to complete to reach level 20 in R&D, here you go.
Each Faction will have their own Mega Ship that you can build. The Forsakn hull is called the Hyperion. No other names have been released, or starts for the Hyperion.
You have 6 different ways to customize your Mega Ship, by using Modules. There are 6 different types of Modules; weapon, engine, bridge, defense, fleet, support. Within each of these modules, there are subtypes, mortar weapon module. You can retrofit and upgrade each module, and you can swap each module out whenever you please.
Hiving is a new feature, where you can 'link' up with other mega ships to boost the damage, health, etc of your mega ship. I don't know how this will implement.
Personal thoughts
Kixeye is trying to make Mega Ships the same as current ships, with the modules being the weapons, armor, specials. The good part about this is that the Gantry doesn't interfere with building anything else, and repairing the Mega Hull won't take up dock time.The bad part is that the repair could be days long, if Kixeye really want to improve PvP, they would make it so you only repair for the armor added, and not base armor.
The Reaver and Scoruge Mega hulls will be interesting to see, we have already seen the Drac version from raids past. The Scourge will be weird, seeing that we have only seen subs from them, a land ship will be cool to see. Unless Kixeye will make a Mega GhostCrawler.
Prepare your base defense if you are currently research R&D, as some people will be hunting down bases to get that 16 hour research deduction.
The 91 assault target can be useful, as it allows the players to try out new tactics on the elite without the time limit of 4 days. The bad side is of the spawning depending upon the sector threat level and the real time. This limits the amount of fragments available, and on Kixeye's view of things, results in less coin.
Un-Level Locking
The 30 and 40 armadas were un-level locked today. Meaning any level can attack them, but if you were over leveled to begin with, you won't earn base parts. Useful to those players who are behind in Ballistic fleets but unable to hit 60's for the crusader.
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