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[Solymr]

The human species has advanced a lot since we last saw them. Ever since their first travel to space, they have managed to colonize most of the other planets and satellites of their star system. They have invented methods to travel to, extract, transport and of course, destroy, anything that crosses into their sights. Including themselves.

Humans might have a global government, but they are all but unified. Groups of humans constantly try to get one over other groups of humans, without caring for the consequences or collateral damage. That's why the Terran Government needs an army, to enforce their rule over people who might fight and destroy what other people have been working for their entire lives.

And within the army, a unit specializes in dealing with the hardest missions that the regular army could not hope to get even close...

Welcome recruits, you're lucky, for you have been selected to join the...
Special Space Service (IC)

Spoiler: Who are the players? (click to show/hide)

You will be playing as the new recruits of the Special Space Service, a special forces unit of the Terran Army, whose role involves both space battles and ground combat. For that, the players pilot each a state of the art destroyer outfitted with an advanced master computer, as well as orbital deployment mechs.

Spoiler: And the game mechanics? (Warning: wall o' text) (click to show/hide)

This game works like a standard Tactical RPG (think Super Robot Wars). There are various stats you should read about:

GENERAL STATS

Hit: chance of hitting with the weapon.
Evade: chance of avoiding attacks.
Crit: chance of the attack dealing triple damage.
Critdodge: reduces the Crit chance of enemies.

The total hit formula is: Attacker's Hit - Defender's Evade + Modifiers = Final Hit %
The total hit formula is: Attacker's Crit - Defender's Critdodge + Modifiers = Final Crit %
These are rolled separately and can be an automatic success or failure if they reach 100% or 0% respectively.

Attack Speed: if the attacker's attack speed is 4 units higher than the defender's, the attacker gets a second attack. The reverse can happen if the defender can counterattack and their attack speed is 4 units higher than the attacker's.
Move: the number of tiles you can move per turn. Special tiles might have modified Move costs. Note that you can't move diagonally between tiles.
Range: the range you can attack from with that particular weapon.

Counter attacks: spaceships cannot counterattack normally when attacked, but mechs can counterattack after being attacked as long as they have a weapon with appropriate range. The order of attacks is: Attacker -> Defender -> Attacker or Defender (if doubling).

MENTAL STATS: based on the experience of the pilot. These affect both space and ground battles.

Accuracy: +2 Hit +0.5 Crit per point
Reflexes: +2 Evade +1 Hit with melee per point
Instinct: +1 Evade +0.5 Hit +1 Critdodge per point
Coordination: +1 Attack Speed per point

SPACESHIP STATS:

HP: represents ship integrity. Let it drop to 0 and ship goes critical. The pilot can be rescued within 3 turns of ship going critical.
Armor: provides defensive HP against kinetic projectiles.
Shields: provides defensive HP against energy beams.

Weapons:
-Projectile: targets armor.
-Energy: targets shields.
-Missiles: target either armor or shields, skip hit%, travel as units and deal damage proportional to their HP.
-Special weaponry: drone fighters, e-warfare, support equipment, etc.

Projectiles:
-Ship has built in upgradable railguns, different weapons use different ammo.
-Inert ammo uses the railgun to accelerate and gain enough kinetic energy to strike the target and cause damage.
-Frag ammo accelerates at lower speeds but explodes when approaching the target, sending a cloud of shrapnel to cause damage.
-Homing ammo uses the railgun to launch, but has its own innate acceleration system to direct itself at the target and gain speed to cause significant damage.

Name   |Cat   |DMG   |Range   |Hit   |Crit   |Speed   |Ammo
HV-KP   |Inert   |12   |1-6   |85   |0   |5   |40
HV-FM   |Frag   |11   |1-4   |95   |5   |7   |30
HV-GP   |Homing   |13   |3-8   |90   |0   |3   |30

Energy beams:
-Ship has built in upgradable beam system, different weapons use different configurations.
-Particle beams use radiation to inflict damage on the ship's systems and crew.
-Blaster beams transfer high amounts of energy in little time. This makes them accurate and damaging at the cost of range and cooldown speed.
-Heat beams heat the target over a relatively long time. It's harder to maintain the beam on the target but it can be aimed over longer distances.
 

Name   |Cat      |DMG   |Range   |Hit   |Crit   |Speed   |Ammo
EB-EX   |Blaster   |14   |1-3   |80   |10   |2   |30
EB-HT   |Heat   |10   |3-9   |70   |0   |6   |40
EB-ER   |Particle   |11   |2-6   |90   |0   |5   |30

Special:
-Missile weapons shoot swarms of missiles. Missile swarms act like a unit that can occupy the same space as other units and deal damage to armor proportional to their remaining HP. Missiles don't take hit% into account, guaranteeing a hit if they reach their target.
-Drone launchers launch swarms of drones. Drone swarms act like a unit that can occupy the same space as other units and deal damage to shields proportional to their remaining HP. Drones can target units at a small range, taking hit and evade% into account.
-Point-defense weapons automatically target swarms in range.
-Other special weapons: minelayers, computer virus beams, repairing/restocking, etc.
 

Name   |Cat   |DMG   |HP   |Range   |Hit/Ev   |Crit   |Move   |Ammo
MS1   |Missile|15   |3   |1-9   |-   |5   |3   |15
DS1   |Drone   |10   |5   |1   |80/30   |0   |4   |10

Equipment:
NB1: Basic Repair Kit: repairs 10 damage, 3 uses. Every player starts with one of these.
RE1: repairs 15 damage, 1-2 range, 20 ammo.
PDW1: targets one swarm within 3 spaces, dealing 1-3 damage.
MCVB: 80% chance of reducing Hit, Evade, Speed or MOV of an enemy for 3 turns.

Classes:
Inert Launcher: 20 HP 20 Armor 20 Shields 5 MOV Inert Base
Frag Launcher: 20 HP 23 Armor 20 Shields 6 MOV Frag Base
Guided Launcher: 20 HP 17 Armor 15 Shields 4 MOV Guided Base
Particle Beamer: 20 HP 17 Armor 23 Shields 5 MOV Particle Base
Blaster Beamer: 20 HP 20 Armor 23 Shields 6 MOV Blaster Base
Heat Beamer: 20 HP 15 Armor 17 Shields 4 MOV Heat Base

Secondary choice:
-EMC: +10 Evasion
-Combat Sensors: +10 Hit
-Reinforced Hull: +5 HP/Dodge
-Repair Ship: start with RE1
-Point Defense: start with PDW1
-E-warfare specialty: start with MCVB
-Weapon Master: start with second weapon choice with -15 Hit and -3 DMG penalty
-Missile Launcher: start with MS1
-Drone AI unit: start with DS1

MECH STATS

HP: represents mech integrity. Let it drop to 0 and mech goes critical. The mech can be repaired within 3 turns of going critical, but the amount repaired is halved and the next time it goes critical the counter will start 1 turn lower, down to a minimum of 1 turn.
Armor: provides Damage Reduction: weapons have armor penetration (AP), if the mech's armor is higher than the weapon's AP, the damage the weapon does is multiplied by AP/Armor.

Weapons:
-Melee has Energy weapons < Physical Mass weapons < Martial enhancement programs < Energy weapons.
-Ranged has Shotguns, Longrifles, Autocannons and Rocket Launchers.
-E-warfare infects mech comp with viruses with varying effects.

Melee:
-Melee weapons take reflexes into their hit%, and have advantages or disadvantages against other melee categories. When using a melee weapon with an advantage over the enemy's weapon, the advantaged user gets +15 Hit and +1 DMG, and the disadvantaged user gets -15 Hit and -1 DMG.
-Mass weapons are made of heavy materials, doing damage by gaining momentum.
-Energy weapons use plasma or superheated materials to burn, melt and slash through armor.
-Martial programs use the mech's body to punch, throw or redirect the enemy.
-Mass > Energy > Martial > Mass

Name      |Cat   |DMG   |AP   |Range   |Hit   |Crit   |Speed   |Ammo
Tomahawk   |Mass   |12   |6   |1   |70   |10   |3   |-
Beam Saber   |Energy   |11   |4   |1   |80   |0   |5   |-
Streetfight   |Martial|10   |3   |1   |90   |0   |7   |-

Ranged:
-Autocannons are average weapons that fire fast.
-Shotguns have short range but can use a variety of ammo that can have different effects.
-Longrifles shoot a bullet at high speeds and are usable even at large distances.
-Rocket launchers shoot guided rockets that deal high damage, but are very slow to reload.

Name      |Cat      |DMG   |AP   |Range   |Hit   |Crit   |Speed   |Ammo
SPAMS-12   |Shotgun   |12   |3   |1-3   |80   |0   |4   |20 Spreadshot 20 AP Slug
   Spreadshot: +5 Hit +2 DMG
   AP Slug: +2 AP +10 Crit -5 Hit
M2K Vulcan   |Autocannon   |11   |4   |1-5   |90   |0   |7   |40
XM102 Beam Rifle|Longrifle   |13   |4   |3-8   |75   |5   |3   |30
RPG-M      |Launcher   |14   |5   |3-5   |95   |0   |1   |20

Other Equipment:
NB1: Basic Repair Kit: repairs 10 damage, 3 uses. Every player starts with one of these.
RE1: repairs 15 damage, 1-2 range, 20 ammo.

Classes
Marauder: 30 HP 5 Armor 5 MOV Killer Instinct: killing an enemy with a shotgun grants a second action.
Valkyrie: 30 HP 4 Armor 5 MOV Hail of Bullets: when equipped with Autocannons can get extra attacks if AS is high enough.
Jaeger: 25 HP 2 Armor 5 MOV Range Superiority: when attacking with a sniper rifle someone who can't counterattack, +15 Crit.
Ranger: 30 HP 4 Armor 6 MOV Reactive Defense: for each enemy within 3 spaces gains +10 Evasion up to +30.
Goliath: 35 HP 7 Armor 4 MOV Interception: can intercept attacks aimed to adjacent allies.
Archer: 25 HP 4 Armor 5 MOV HEAT Ammo: attacks made with rocket launchers reduce enemy armor.
Guardian: 30 HP 5 Armor 5 MOV Savior Protocol: after repairing an ally, grants +20 Evasion to the ally and itself.
Shogun: 25 HP 5 Armor 5 MOV Holotargeting: attacks mark enemies, giving +10 Hit to allies that attack marked enemies.

Spoiler: How to join? (click to show/hide)

Fill the sheet and see if you get a spot:

Name: Your name and/or alias
Personal info: Things like age, backstory, etc.
MENTAL STATS
ACC: x
RFL: x
INS: x
CRD: x

Distribute 6 points and 200% progression between the four (Max 3 points and 75% in one stat, min 10% in all stats).

When leveling up from experience, numbers are rolled against your stats' prog%. If the number is lower than the % chance you'll gain a point in that stat. You'll gain minimum one point per level, in the stat you have the highest %, or a random one if you have more than one with the highest %.

SPACESHIP STATS

Class: pick one of the six classes, which will determine your starting weapon.
Subclass: pick a secondary choice.

MECH STATS

Class: pick one of the eight classes, which will determine your special ability.
Weapons: pick two weapons, or one weapon and RE1.

I'll be accepting 6-8 players for this test game. Any questions are welcome and any mechanic, weapon or class is subject to change. We will be starting once I have a full roster and finish making maps/sprites.

Player List:
1. Master Ko (ATHATH)
2. Rachel Honeysett (My Name is Immaterial)
3. Melissa Cross (Culise)
4. Loic Brown (Felissan)
5. Karine Arianne (Tiruin)

NPCS:
Cpt. Roman Bastian

[Haspen]

PTW and a blessing, spaniardo ;v

[My Name is Immaterial]

Any questions are welcome and any mechanic, weapon or class is subject to change.

I like statistics and number crunching (and a bit of powergaming, but I've been trying to cut down on that). So when I noticed that Streetfight had really bad damage and AP, but great accuracy, while the Tomahawk had great damage and AP, but average accuracy, I knew that something was off. So I ran the numbers.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

First off, melee weapons are imbalanced. Over a Tomahawks' lifetime, it will do twice the damage of a Streetfight. I recommend swapping their AP values: It'll smooth out the imbalance. I'd also suggest bumping up the Saber's speed by 1, and the Streetfight's by 2.
Second, autocannons and shotguns are pretty bad, compared to the the (good) melee weapons and the Longrifle/Launcher. The Autocannon may have a great speed, but not enough to make a difference. It either need a higher speed, crit, or hit chance. I think the damage and AP are fine. As for the shotgun, a bit more accuracy on the Spreadshot, and a crit on the AP would go a long way to making them more viable.
Third, the EB-HT, the heat weapon, is literal trash. It does a fraction of the damage of any other gun. If it's role is as a long range shield sniper, it is outclassed in that by the particle gun, in exchange for a little speed and range.

Sorry to take a huge dump on the mechanics. :/

TLDR: Tomahawks are OP and mechs punching other mechs needs a buff. Shotguns are and autocannons are like airsoft and peashooters, respectively. Heat weapons are terribad.
I'm working on a character right now, I just got distracted by number crunching. If you have any questions, I'm going to hang around on the spreadsheet, so, if you want, I can walk you through my calculations and my suggestions.

[Solymr]

Ye maybe weapons are imbalanced, that's why this is test game. Appreciate the feedback.

I might have slightly underestimated the effects of mech armor on damage as per the system I made myself, 2 AP on 4 Armor is half damage. So I think bumping up Streetfight, SPAMS and Vulcan AP by 1. I'm also thinking about bumping the damage of SPAMS, Vulcan and Streetfight by 2, RPG, Beam Saber and  Beam Rifle by 1 and Tomahawk by 0.

Now about specifics: I wanted Streetfight to be relatively low damage/high hit and speed, and a counter to the Tomahawk. So I'm boosting Streetfight Speed to 7 and lowering Tomahawk's to 3.

Vulcan was also this sort of low damage high speed, but I'm going to switch its hit with the Beam Rifle's.

As for the SPAMS, it's supposed to be versatile at the cost of low range, I need to see how to do it.

Last, probably restrict the RPG to 3-5 to make it so there's always a risk of getting countered.

Now for ships: I thought about reducing HP by 5 and bumping up their Armor and Shields by the same amount, bump all weapons' damage by 2, Heat and Frag up by 3 and change Heat to 3-9 Range and 7 Speed, to emphasize long range fast attacks. And lowering Homing to 3-7 Range.

Also I can't really see spreadsheet because phone hates g-apps v:

[My Name is Immaterial]

I might have slightly underestimated the effects of mech armor on damage as per the system I made myself, 2 AP on 4 Armor is half damage.

AH! I totally misunderstood that system. I thought that AP was a flat damage reduction. I've updated the calculations to account for that. AP is really powerful. It can make the difference between crippling or roiding out a gun.

Now about specifics: I wanted Streetfight to be relatively low damage/high hit and speed, and a counter to the Tomahawk.

Well, it certainly counters the Tomahawk very well (two 8.8 damage hits vs the Tomahawk's one 9., but it's going to be scoring 7.5 damage shots on most mechs. It can really fuck up snipers, but it's not viable on the frontlines, which is what you're going for, it sounds like.

Vulcan was also this sort of low damage high speed, but I'm going to switch its hit with the Beam Rifle's.

The Vulcan changes have really done a lot of good for it. Give a Valkyrie a pilot with good Coordination and an Autocannon, and it'll rip through anyone who didn't invest enough in Coordination. Two 9 damage hits means your health vanishes instantly. That said, almost any weapon will eat through a mech caught in its line of fire (expect SPAMS, which will take about 4-5 turns to finish off a mech), especially the RPG-M. An RPG-M will down anything but a Goliath in two shots, and a Goliath in four. Because not only will it hit with a 95% base to-hit, it will bypass all armor with its AP 5. Trimming its range is probably a good idea.

Now for ships: I thought about reducing HP by 5 and bumping up their Armor and Shields by the same amount, bump all weapons' damage by 2, Heat and Frag up by 3 and change Heat to 3-9 Range and 7 Speed, to emphasize long range fast attacks. And lowering Homing to 3-7 Range.

I can't speak too much to ships, as they've got a lot more factors to take into consideration, like different HP types. I think that more Armor and Shields would make for a longer start to a battle, followed a quick and bloody crescendo. Bumping up damage only makes that quicker. A fast heat weapon should now be able to mess up anyone who didn't invest in Coordination with two shots.

I'm noticing that Coordination is almost required if you pick mid-speed weapon, so if you fight a high-speed weapon, you don't get hit by two shots.

Also I can't really see spreadsheet because phone hates g-apps v:

[Solymr]

Coordination is important. Now imagine if Attack Speed also gave Evasion like in other games v:

But anyways, if no one is interested in playing, it doesn't make much sense spending time talking about it.

[Felissan]

I'm definitely interested. I'll wait for the class balancing to settle before I make my character, though.

[Solymr]

I'm not gonna bother with balancing if there won't be enough players to actually play it, so the people who are interested should post about getting a spot and I don't mind if a sheet is not immediately made.

[ATHATH]

IN!

Making a min-maxed unkillable tank now...

[ATHATH]

Name: Master Ko
Personal info: A monk who has trained for his entire life in the art of mech martial arts.
MENTAL STATS
ACC: 0 (10%)
RFL: 3 (75%)
INS: 3 (75%)
CRD: 0 (40%)

SPACESHIP STATS

Class: Frag Launcher
Subclass: EMC

MECH STATS

Class: Ranger
Weapons: Beam Saber, Shotgun

What does +5 HP/Dodge (in the description of Reinforced Hull) mean?

[Solymr]

+5 hp and +5 critdodge

Also remember % is capped at 75%

[ATHATH]

+5 hp and +5 critdodge

Also remember % is capped at 75%

I've fixed my sheet now (I think).

[My Name is Immaterial]

Name: Rachel Honeysett
Personal info: Rachel was born on an asteroid mining colony in the Belt, where she learned the mining trade. Fed up with an unsatisfying life of painstakingly breaking apart 'roids in the Black for a faceless corporate master, she enlisted in the Terran Navy, with dreams of traveling the solar system, meeting new people, and then shooting them. It took her a few tries, but she eventually did well enough in her pilot exams to be placed at the helm of a ship, where she earned enough prestige to get her picked for the SSS.
MENTAL STATS
ACC: 2 50%
RFL: 1 50%
INS: 0 25%
CRD: 3 75%

SPACESHIP STATS
Class: Heat Beamer
Subclass: Combat Sensors

MECH STATS
Class: Valkyrie
Weapons: Autocannon & Streetfight

[Solymr]

I'm gonna bump this to see if anyone else wants in. If not then I'll have to close it then.

[Culise]

Solymr, I'm curious, but I had a couple questions:

1. How far do missile and drone swarms move in a turn?
2. When using an MCVB, is the stat lowered based on the player choice or random probability?  Can it stack, and if so, how much?