Will there ever be a way to effectively defend a ship from an EMP attack?

Good question. Timely question, I think, because everyone's having a big problem with this one, aren't they, in Arena Commander? It's something obviously we're aware of, and it's been around for a while, as you say, but it's been made worse with the new ship, with the switch from, I think, Item 1.0 to Item 2.0. A lot of the items on all the ships have been set with a very low distortion damage protection, so they will get wiped out really easily. I mean, yes, it used to happen just the same before, but now that it's been switched over, those values are low, but we're in the process of upping them and testing them and addressing this problem. It's very much something in flux for 3.1, but we couldn't be more aware of the problem. I'll say that. It's hard to talk about the eventual design of EMP, but I can say that we are aware of the problem and that we want to look and fix it as soon as we can.

I can attest. I'm on that same email thread. I've seen the conversations. They're already kicking around a couple different ideas. Nothing we're ready to share with you yet. We're going to try some stuff.

I'm not so much involved in the design side of that, but I can tweak the numbers. For me, it's getting and looking at all those items and seeing what distortion damage these EMP charges do and then trying to balance that out.

Yeah, because right now what's happening with distortion is it's just taking out your power plant, but because Item 2.0 now powers everything, you take out the power plant, you've essentially taken out the entire ship.

Yeah, it kind of powers everything.