Thread: The Ash'taari
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Re: The Ash'taari

After a couple of healthy discussions (thanks to everyone involved), there are a couple of points we agreed on.

1) EMPed reflective ships won't reflect any damage.
2) Damage will be reflected only to ships with lower init than the reflective ship itself.
3) Not all of Ashtaari's ships are going to be a reflective type.
4) Ashtaari attack ships that are part of their roiding fleets will consist of lower init, which will reduce the amount of ships they can reflect damage to, which allows for the defenders to actually cover an Ashtaari attack without guaranteed losses.
5) The cost of all the ships in the universe should perhaps be reduced with 5-10% to compensate for the bloodier battles that the inclusion of the Ashtaari will definitely bring.
6) The name will be Ashtaari due to coding issues (thanks, Fiery!)
7) The reflective shields don't work vs EMP/Steal (meaning Ashtaari can't emp/steal by reflecting those).

My initial idea made the Ashtaari way too strong defensively and hopefully with these changes we can balance it out. We are working on an eventual set of stats for r75, which will include the Ashtaari.
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