Out of the level 50 ships, I like Revenant the most. Vindicator can compete with it, but I personally like Revenant's compact hull more. The Scythe supports are more fragile than a Warrior, but they're also faster. I wouldn't say there's a huge difference in power between these two ships, however.
Thought I'd keep doing Fleet Combat even thought I am level 50 to get some Celestium faster for ship upgrades. Instead of meeting fleets costing around 100k to 2m that other players usually have, I've now had one or two Epic Owl fleets per combat sporting over 20 million worth of ships in their fleets -- needless to say they only contribute towards wasted cash and I for one can't figure out why players that aren't a part of the ladder are affecting ranked players cash/celestium flow. Same goes in meeting EO ships in combat, they mostly have wacky builds and are pretty much free wins even with carrier vs super carriers, so meeting a lot of them 1on1 increases the likelihood of getting win streaks that boost your rating a lot. So I guess in Fleet Combat EO fleets punish you too heavily, but in actual 1on1 they are free rating for most players.
Hi, Trying to figure out some of the modules. Would having 2 warp drives increase my rate of warping? If the shield radius was around the same area, would both take the same damage at the same time? Or one will go down before the 2nd one gets hit?
Twice as often, yes. They can't be exact the same area anyway andt from my experience one goes down before the other yes. That said, for slower bulkier ships, be sure to not just slap a lot of shields in, Point Defense and Junk launcher can be very valuable for a real low power cost. I usually have 1 PD + Junk for every two 4x4 Shield on my large supportless ships. Ships with supports are more agile and get less benefit from Junk Launcher as they tend to fly out of the protective debris faster. Junk is also very nice against ships that have a lot of torpedoes and zero fast ballistic fire, since they will eat a bullet as effectively as they eat a torpedo.
This was answered by the developers on page 4: There's no way to find out exactly how often a ship will teleport, but having more than one Warp Drive doesn't cut the time between the jumps in half. It should reduce the time by some amount, however.
Current bugs or weird behaviour I've observed: - Support ship design isn't always cleared when selling a ship design. - Crashed matches result in -1 rating, but don't count as a loss for win streaks. No idea what the intended behaviour is, though. This just seems a bit weird. - Win streaks don't count matches where the opponent is too far below in rating. This means that instead of just a win streak, you need to keep winning until you get +1 rating four times before you start getting +2 and higher rating per match. - Player named "eXe", who was said to have hacked the game, is still attacking my ships at around 1400 rating. He's not on the top-100 list, and I never get matched against his ships, so it doesn't really affect anything.
@Ribatzki: Today, I got matched against a Corvette class ship with the player name "Epic Owl", who was at exactly 1500 rating. I suspect it is some kind of leftover from testing, pushed so far up in rating that nobody runs into it. Now that we've actually started running into it, you may want to do something about the ship. The Corvette had a couple, shall we say lopsided, battles against my Revenant.
Same happens if you force close the app right when the fight is starting. I tried this a few times since I figured the winner is already decided when "FIGHT" button shows up, and what's left is just a "showmatch" shown to the player. My reasoning was to quickly go through 6 fights, since I only had a few minutes time. Instead, I ended up just hurting myself since the ships went on cooldown, I gained no money and lost rating.
Yes they improve the rate of teleporting as i have noticed so far, but not that much as you would think. As about the shields : of course they are taken down one by one, it would be pointless to have them taking damage at the same time, and pretty illogic.
No problems with other games, been using the phone for about 9 months now. As for Starside, replay button used to work on an earlier version (around when I was still using Wanderer etc). There's pretty much three bugs: missing achievements (game doesnt know I entered Silver and Gold league), statistics not working correctly, but I guess this is a general problem? I've still only destroyed 150 ships and the number goes up and down (Wins/Losses work tho, 1446/1279) and also my "Friends" tab shows just a Facebook Connect button and I'm already logged in via Facebook. Pushing the button will actually log me out and then I need to relog.
May probably be a problem with your connection to the server. As for the "friends" tab, it also shows me the "connect to facebook" button altough i am connected to facebook already. This because the devs haven't yet implemented things like adding opponents to your friend list and other stuff. It's just a dead tab which shouldn't be there but it is so that you know it's gonna be a mmo in time
Well I've experienced no connection related problems and 90% of the matches are play are on WiFi. Achievements and Statistics being wonky is a known issue but I guess they've given up on it since it's been this way for some months now. At this point I'm just hoping they'd just hide the things that don't work.
Thanks for that! Indeed, nobody was ever supposed to go against that one. We'll be fixing that shortly... Also, Ribatzki is no longer responsible for community management here so I'll be doing my best to cover for him. Keep your discussion going and I'm sure active members of the community can also answer most of the questions as we have seen. I'll be checking here on a daily basis and help out whenever I can. Thanks a lot for your support, it's great to see how much love you are giving Starside Arena here! - Juha / CEO, Epic Owl
Biggest offline win total just now.... 11 wins vs 3 losses. Seem to be winning a lot more with these defensive wins rather than when I initiate a battle. Last few days have just been loading the game but not starting any battles. I know these defensive wins don't make my ranking higher, but at least it's not going down either! Need something else to aim for, something else to spend credits on and save up for. New weapons, ship designs etc. Any new features or game modes or customisable colours/names/emblems. Anything to extend the end game. Not actually bothered any more with climbing higher rank - have been number 10 or 11 for a while now. Still have love for the game - having racked up 3596 battles, winning 1756 of those, lost 1840.
Wow, and I thought I had a lot with 2787 fights (1491/1296) and currently hovering at rank 7. I still need to upgrade one captain to a supercarrier and will probably end up buying something over my Thane as well, the ship is just too slow to turn to be really effective against Vindicator/Revenant, so it boils down to Warp drive RNG which I dislike. On a sidenote, updated to Android 6.0 and replays function again, yay!
Tempted to buy another ship to mix things up, but then don't want to spend credits or celestium in case EO suddenly drop a huge update on us!!!
True, we are working on a huuuuge and fantastic update at the moment but unfortunately it will take a while still to implement. So don't worry and feel free to get your ship. Here's a sneak peek from our facebook page in case you missed it: https://www.facebook.com/starsidearena/photos/a.754209881356488.1073741828.719199464857530/833988520045290/ - Juha / EO
I haven't seen anyone else to complain about crashes, ecxept Mythago and me, so i don't know if this is just a problem with iPhone 4S? I also have 16 Gb iPhone 4S with the latest iOS 9.2.1, 3,6 Gb free. Most of my matches are played on Wi-Fi, but it seems it doesn't matter where, when and what kind of connection i have. The bigger and more complicated the ships get, the more likely the game crashes. I'm in a situation where it's unlikely to get my 8 matches played without a crash. Today i had two during my morning matches. They happen usually during a fight, the game freezes for a few seconds, then screen goes black for a moment and then goes back to home screen. It is extra annoying when it happens when i'm about to win the fight! Like i can see the enemy ship's powercore disappear, waiting the explosion but instead of it i'll see black screen of frustation. Anyway, i'm enjoying the game and loving my Captains. I have found a build that works at the moment and i can win against Mjollnirs and Vindicators. No such luck with Revenants. I'm afraid of when i will face mostly Revenants, i'm only on level 46. Hovering around 18th place on list with 1339 wins and 1196 losses.
