On 2010-08-06 08:33, Gejaheline wrote:
While you could probably get away with a human-versus-human deathmatch by removing all the jumpdrives from ships, k'luth would be pretty much impossible to adapt for quite a few reasons.
Firstly, their combat style is completely different. They deal a lot of damage in a short period of time, and can fairly easily pick off damaged ships or cause severe damage without taking much back.
Secondly, they can hide with cloak and can auto-repair, giving them a huge advantage over other deathmatchers who can't just turn invisible when they're not attacking others.
Thirdly, removing cloak and AHR causes them to become appallingly bad at combat due to their limited ability to fight for sustained periods and their weak hull and armour.

So, basically, you'd see a bunch of UGTO and ICC ships fighting each other, and whenever one was weakened sufficiently a K'luth ship would appear and kill them in one shot before vanishing again to repair. Eventually, you'd just have cloaked ships lurking around, waiting for someone to decloak first.

Alternatively, someone gets in a scout, fits lots of ECM, and flies off into the sunset until everyone else gets bored and leaves.

I think UGTO ships would fare the worst, ICC ships second, and then k'luth ships (particularly dreadnaughts) would come out on top, since in a free-for-all a lot of it is about how well you can endure, and while UGTO are tough, they can't stay in a sustained fight for as long as the other two factions due to their slow/nonexistent armour and hull regeneration.

AI wouldn't be much help since they can't see hidden ships any more than humans can.