In the Dogfighting Module, how will you balance ships by class/size? Will there be limits on the number of Hornets? Freelancers? Etc? I can't see a round of dogfighting with 8 Constellations against 8 Hornets being fair :)asked by Christopher Mallec
TL;DRChris Roberts says eight Constellations versus eight Hornets might be closer than expected, and that matchmaking will offer options like point budgets per ship and same-ship-only matches, with illustrative numbers only.
Well let's see, I think I would be interested to see eight Constellations against eight Hornets 'cause I'm not so sure it will be quite as one-sided as you think. They both have different pros and cons, so depending on how you're fighting and what you're doing, it may be a closer fight than you think. But we're going to have various categories in the matchmaking. We've been playing with various matchmaking set-ups. One of them is you assign points to ships, so an Aurora would be something like one point, but a Constellation could be five points. Don't quote me on these points because this is just for illustration purposes. Then each team gets to have 30 points or something like that. So you can make the trade off between lots of little ships or a fewer smaller-bigger ships. Then we'll probably also have matchmaking that just Hornet v Hornet or Aurora v Aurora. So we'll have various options that you'll be able to choose from the matchmaking system in the Dogfighting Module.