The folks at StarQuest Online have announced a number of changes to ship combat that will be implemented with the game's next patch.

This is the ship combat changes patch discussed elsewhere in the forums

Changes:

1- Smaller ships harder to hit
2- Target in motion, harder to hit
3- Shooter in motion, harder to hit target
4- Both shooter and target in motion, harder to hit x 2
5- Both shooter and target in motion, but heading straight at each other, easier to hit
6 -Shooter in motion, target stationary, shooter headed straight at target, easier to hit
7- Damage done to shields by weapon fire, reduced by 50%
8- Targetable systems on target ship, such as engines, reactor, life support, and bridges
9 - Missiles cannot target individual systems, only energy weapons
10 - Targeting a specific system reduces overall accuracy by at least 50%, some systems are harder to target than others
11 - Pirate flags will be changed to time out after 2 hours or so, the faction flagging system now makes it unnecessary to flag ships for months at a time

Notes:
* Targeting a system does not work if there is a shield on the target between your weapon and the targeted system able to block the blow

* When targeting systems, missiles suffer the same accuracy penalty as beam weapons, even though they cannot directly target a ship's system

* NPC ships now have this ability too, based on the experience level of the NPC ship - priorities used by different NPC groups vary depending on the morals of the NPC group, for example, Alliance Fleet vessels do not target life support systems on their opponent's ships

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