hmm,cr combat,you just move as you can,but remember stay in range,you don't need lock coords.also get crew can complete mission easyly
about star conquest and miriani,the weapon fire have roundtime,so you just need to calc time,and keep flying,get less hit,stay in range,most weapons range are 1.
i say you want to move east,fire and repair your laser turret 2,first fly by type 6,when ship moving,the emeny at 3 3 4,type aim 3 3 4,wait ship stop,and you type the fly number begin moving again,when moving,type la,but do it faster as you can,because you must no rounttime when ship stop moving,next moving you type rep turret 2,if you still have enough time,you can fire again,this can repeat.
hope it help

always one of the biggest drags about these space moos was how their combat systems were at their core. It was all built around doing shit and doing that shit as fast as it is humanly possible to do. Jump about like a demented bee, regardless of the size of the ship you are in and shoot fast... Faster than that.  It really just makes combat the reserve of those who have the mind for omg fast fast fast, or those who have sub 150 ms pings. Now, would it really do harm to slow ship combat down? It would really give developers of these things much, much more room to innovate. Watch a space battle in any film and you'll most likely observe the following things: capital ships, destroyers and frigates and the like do not jump about like hyperactive children on speed. Their movements are much more calculated than that, They will move out of the way of oncoming fire, but they'll do it slower than a fighter. Big ships more often than not sit and take punishment, relying on their superior armor/shields/magic/ unicorn powered diversion fields to soak up or misdirect oncoming fire.  Short range combat is solly the job of the fighters that these things spit out in droves. These are usually filled with badass pilots/people with death wishes that'll fight it out in short range dogfights, sometimes breaking off to make a run on an enemy capital ship's sensors  or weaponry. They'll even go as far as attempting to board an enemy ship for the chance at a bit of internal sabotage. All this goes on while the big ships are constantly exchanging massive salvos, attempting to blow the other up. To date, no space moo I've ever played has attempted to replicate this, sticking doggedly to the model of jump about and shoot fast. This form of spacemoo combat has been about for years, why has noone really bothered to try something knew?

Thumbs up there exodus.
I don't think though that sort of system would be quite as difficult as Kile suggests.

First, simply slowing  the rate of  fire and increasing damage would make a pretty huge difference I think, as would making the deployment of defensive systems a bit more tactical, anyone remember how in startrek ships can't fire while cloaked, but the movement of cloaked ships could be determined by looking at the traile of where they have been?

For fast combat there could always be fighter combat working more like the way ground combat does, though with the proviso that you could buy drones or have auto targiting lasers if you were on your own.

It seems in cosmic rage at least, avoidance pretty much isn't an option, it's basically a case of how much punishment your defense systems can take vs how fast you can hit t, number and type weapon codes.

I'm not sure on the "prompt instructions" there Kyle. Flying a capital ship wouldn't necessarily have to mean following, it'd just be more a process of thinking slowly and taking into account information as opposed to just typing fast.

Hopefully though Dardar will comment on this topic since I'd appreciate his take on things.

While I wish for more strategic combat, I'm afraid it would displease a lot of the players. I thought it's hard till I got to just mess with the weapons. Remember about scripts and aliases, too. Can't target fast enough? Take the target down message and make the script send t 1 to the mud. Weapons name too long? Make an alias

If we're talking about CR, again, make an alias that would set a course/put in speed. Still having problems? Wait till you get warp. Remember the weapons range as well.

Hello everyone
First I am honestly a little honored people wanted to hear my thoughts on the subject, so thank you.
Cosmic Rage, as many of you know, recently ditched the old style of ground combat in favor of a more strategic unique setup.
It is my hope to do the same with space combat.
The current system is floored in many ways and we as in the other hosts and I have been tossing ideas around for a while.
One thing i will say, as a personal promise to each of you as individuals, is Cosmic Rage will have a unique space combat system and it will be one focussed around you. That is a promise
A mud is nothing without players, with out you. That's why at Cosmic Rage we care about you
It WILL be done

hi Nathan, John Smith from cr here. nope I don't mind people knowing who I am in rl. anyway to business.

the 1 thing I would like to see in space combat is distants between you and the target play a part. for example, if plasma missiles travel at a speed of 10 galactic units per second, if your target is 10 units away then it should take 10 seconds to travel to target assuming it's not moving and hit the target. by travel time I'm not talking about roundtime that would be impractical. especially if you are shooting something at extreme weapons range. but distants should play a part in combat. equally for more energy based weapons they should perhaps pack less of a punch at more longer ranges.

but that's what combat is though. you'd never see static combat in a mainstream game.

this is the thing, acceleration and deceleration should be different depending on type of vestle. ok a ship still may be able to reach warp 15 but a fighter should be able to get from 0 to 15 far quicker than a larger ship. also included in that equasion should be the load the vestle is carrying.