Hello,
I attained #1 rank on the IOS Battlestation: Harbinger today with a score of 13387. And now when I checked back it says unranked in hard difficulty, what's going on??? I have pictures to prove it.

Okay, uh.. First thing im kinda new here in the forums. So.. umm,greetings. Second thing is the level up system, i know that the game is still new and the extended version is comming. But i could easily level up from 1 to 9 in about a few hours (rough calculation) and it really kills the fun (if your a hard diff-loving-masochist like me, except the masochist part... If you are 1, congrats). And 3rd thing, i signed up 4 the testing. But no update, need help cuz i can't tell if it's the tester version or not. And that's all, again im new here, so.. Nice meeting you all *flies away using BSS Falcon*

I know it's supposed to balance the upgrade system that you can't acquire unlimited of them but by the end game I'm feeling like the 40k scrap is just doing nothing and if I lose one of my ships I can buy a new one but it won't do anything close to the old because of how little upgrade cores I have left... I would like to suggest that it would be possible to buy upgrade cores to at stations but at a more reasonable price like 100 scrap or maybe 150 scrap per core to make it fair and more endgame so that my almost unlimited scrap can be useful again because to be honest after the mobile game was upgraded about a week or so ago when the new races where added the game suddenly became very hard and I can't win normal games and I have problems winning normal games now please consider my suggestion

Right now the ships are balanced such that, in theory, each one you unlock with rank is slightly better than the previous one, with things mixed up a bit to keep things interesting.

However, since most players will unlock all the ships rather soon, it might be a bit better to modify this paradyme so that the ships of a given "Tier" are balanced with each other.

My thought being that there are basically 3 ship categories in each tier.

There is the Shooter (all guns, big armor and hull) Carrier (2 bays, less guns,armor,shield), and the inbetweener Cruiser (1 bay, 1 less gun).


Hence most start with one of these 3:

Armada 2000 / 600 5 gun, 0 bay, 8 PD.
Liberator 1000 / 500 4 gun, 1 bay, 7 PD.
Valhalla 900 / 500 3 gun, 2 bay, 6 PD.

In theory these should be balanced with each other. It seems that depending on how much one values a Fighter Bay over a Gun Turret, that the Liberator kinda gets the shaft.
I would expect its armor to be closer to 1500 maybe with a 550 shield. Oddly, even though it is higher ranked than the Valhalla, it seems weaker overall.


Then, as far as purchasable sidekick ships, I would expect to see the next "Tier" down of each category of ship.
In this case picking one of these 3:

Achilles 1850 / 600 4 gun, 0 bay, 8 PD
Avalon 1100 / 450 3 gun, 1 bay, 7 PD
Resolute 800 / 450 2 gun, 2 bay, 6 PD


However, something wierd happens here! Instead of the above, the top 3 choices are:

Liberator AGAIN! 1000 / 500 4 gun, 1 bay, 7 PD.
Resolute 800 / 450 2 gun, 2 bay, 6 PD
RAVEN!?! 1600 / 400 2 gun, 0 bay, 6 PD.

What the heck?!?
Hence, the obvious choice is the Liberator as the strongest sidekick (since it is actually a Tier 1, even though a bit too weak).
Otherwise the player takes the Resolute if they really want to trade 2 turrets and some armor/shield for that 1 extra fighter bay.
Even if the Raven's armor is tempting, its extra speed is totally wasted as a sidekick and it is a whole tier removed.


Therefore, the suggestion is to tweak the balance of ships with this new paradyme in mind, focusing on the categories of ships which probably makes more sense in the long run.

Obviously, there is lots of room to work with to make other desirable options within any Tier:
A bigger "Raven" could be made with 3 guns, 9 PD with very heavy armor and shields with high speed meant for outmanuevering. This would allow the actual Raven to be used as a sidekick for a high-speed ship fleet.
A 5 gun, 1 bay Behemeth with weaker armor relative to the Armada could be made, but the bay can only hold Bolter Fighters. Or it gets a 6th slot that is only for Utility (repair,shield boost, teleport,etc).
and so on.

A thread for stupidly awesome things that will probably never make it into the game due to balance or because coding it would be prohibitively difficult and time consuming. Do not bother submitting things that aren't utterly ridiculous in some way.

My first submission - A swarm missile launcher that launches FORMATIONS of missiles. No, not burst-fire missiles. (Well, yes, that ALSO.) Missiles that spread out into a formation. The first missile launched acts as the flagship for the formation, (or the second if the first is destroyed,) and is slowed slightly. The other missiles catch up, taking up position on the missile's wing. Base launcher can be a phalanx formation of three missiles. An upgrade to burst would be a diamond formation, with the flagship missile as the head of the diamond. Another upgrade would be an 'x' formation, with the flagship missile at the center. The final upgrade would would be a reverse pyramid - a row of three, with the flag missile in the middle, followed by a row of two, just behind the flagship missile, followed by one more behind that. A dense formation designed to penetrate point defense, and broad enough to often hit fighters even if they try to jink out of the way.

Could we get some patch notes with each release? It is really hard to know what has changed. If we have patch notes we can give better feedback!