Duel lasting century - Excelsior cheese

[@trueken4728]

The crew on the monitor slept comfortably while in combat

[@unclekanethetiberiummain1994]

But some have to stay awake to monitor the situation.

[@waimerfbr]

@@unclekanethetiberiummain1994 danm. I'll turn off my monitor after that.

[@radio5637]

Some be watching the battle through their widescreen monitors

[@akatsukiwolf2735]

1. Buys a monitor ship. 2. Gets ambushed by space pirates and fanatical technophobes. 3. Explodes. 4. 10/10 would play StarSector again the next day.

[@Kuba_K]

Impossible monitor never explodes

[@ThinBear4]

@@Kuba_K the AI in this game is brain dead enough that somehow it manages to kill itself in a minmaxed monitor with 5 s-mods (Industrial Evolution) while fighting a pirate cruiser and two destroyers. Sometimes when surrounded it just drops the shield for no reason whatsoever.

[@Kuba_K]

@@ThinBear4 fair enough

[@stormweaver9173]

Standing here I realize You are just like me Trying to make history But who's to judge The right from wrong When our guard is down I think we'll both agree That violence breeds violence But in the end it has to be this way I've carved my own path You followed your wrath But maybe we're both the same The world has turned And so many have burned But nobody is to blame Yes, I wish I copied it.

[@Aereto]

If anyone interested in cheesing it a bit faster, slap on some light mortars and forcing it to phase and waste more of its time in time acceleration. but that does mean someone else need to do the mercy kill.

[@Kuba_K]

Wouldnt risk dropping fortress shield while it has more than 0 cr

[@kitten-inside]

Riveting gameplay. I was on the edge of my seat.

[@God-hp2gx]

I know, the best part was when it was firing at the shield.

[@Raum2901]

I really hope the monitor doesnt get nerfed in the next update

[@ThinBear4]

The dev absolutely loves to do the fun police. Considering his track record, yep, this is absolutely going to be nerfed, and I'm almost willing to bet money on it.

[@Raum2901]

@@ThinBear4 well, the most fair thing they can do is making the monitor civilian grade so that it cannot be installed safety overrides

[@ThinBear4]

@@Raum2901 That however would severely gimp it past nerfing this strat, and wouldn't actually make sense, since Monitor is a military vessel. Besides, the question remains... *why* would they even want to do this? This strat is not game wrecking - you're not going to win the game by just having a frigate that can tank damage (while not being able to shoot back btw). There's other things in the game that can still tank a ridiculous amount of damage while at the same time delivering a lot of firepower. But like I said, the dev seems to have some kind of bizarre problem with people finding things that just work, and will inevitably nerf it. Everything in this game has to be highly overbalanced and be just mediocre.

[@Raum2901]

@@ThinBear4 Can you give me an example? I only know about phase ships reducing their velocity overtine while in phase but misteriously the ai seems to pilot those ships better that the player

[@ThinBear4]

​@@Raum2901 I struggle to remember all the things that I used to discuss on the forum, as I don't engage with the community of this game as much as I used to, but among the examples of people finding an effective use out of a game feature and then the dev rushing to nerf it would be: - Gryphon's missile autoforge (reduced to 1 charge, which is a sad joke) - Countless Hyperion nerfs (though right now it seems to be at least *fine* if you chuck SO on it). I'd even say that to me every new nerf to Hyperion is becoming a kind of a milestone denoting a major game version change. - Recall device - Carriers in general Then there's this: - Before: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jaLIhKWkp8eoi8U - After: kzbin.info/www/bejne/emeTeJSKlsucmKc Note the video descriptions, especially in the 2nd one. That's an *officered* Conquest struggling against vanilla simulation capships btw.

[@omitempest6015]

I usually have a fleet of 2 capital ships (Battleship and Super Carrier) and a shit ton of these little guys, they're fun cause of the ai targeting system doesn't care about who it attack, just who is closest so it's just me sitting in the back with tachyon lances picking off ships while these guys just get used as punching bags.

[@T3ss3R]

When an unstoppable force meets an immovable object

[@mahmoudabozahra1936]

Thanks for explaining everything so thoroughly.

[@sebamm6469]

Good ol monitor. Nothing beats it.

[@-NB7979-]

Oh god thanks... I literally lost my entire fleet to this little OP frigate, and now It's time to take a revenge.

[@Llortnerof]

There's pretty much no other reasonable way to beat other than just outlasting its PPT it unless it has a brainfart and smashes itself to pieces on your capital. Was rather confused when it did that, though.

[@aivinni9838]

@@Llortnerof there is another way, the Harbinger can instantly bring down any ship's shields with it's quantum disruptor ship system. the monitor has no armor so once it's shields are down, it's toast

[@Llortnerof]

@@aivinni9838 I'm not talking about the Monitor.

[@achicirno8523]

monitor gaming

[@agungarif1229]

this is mindblowing haha

[@imbw267]

He who laughs last, laughs best.

[@huntermad5668]

You can take some boss ships in IBB, right?

[@Kuba_K]

Yes

[@5RndsFFE]

Generally everyone of the IBB ships are recoverable. Makes for some pretty interesting fleet mechanics once you get a few of them.

[@Raul39.]

u could have probably used a cabal harbinger with a glare mounted in front and just beam it down, would have been still riskier than this this is just funny once i discovered SO monitor, there was no turning back

[@Kuba_K]

First time i killed it with that unique brilliant class with glare mounted on, but it is different feeling seeing vanilla stuff destroying op mod ships

[@Raul39.]

@@Kuba_K thats true, if u want a stronger monitor to distract fleets for longer, the low tech armada's Thunderbird (TB) monitor is a great choice, its got a built in antimatter blaster and light dual autocannon, 43 op, 10% more flux capacity and dissipation than a normal monitor, for the cost of 1 extra deployment point, ive used it so many times, i still cant believe it reaches to the point of killing capitals alone, its got fortress and flux shunt still, its strong yeah, very strong

[@playbabethebookshelf6249]

LMAO WHAT

[@platiuscyndar9017]

That's the monitor for ya

[@pk4mybro011]

Is the Excelsior a modded frigate? And if so, what mod is it from?

[@Kuba_K]

"Ship and weapon pack", really cool mod

[@pk4mybro011]

@@Kuba_K Thank you!

[@emirhankrgl7814]

Peace

[@quasimoto9518]

LOOOOOOLL