Poll: What shall we rename Siege Starships to this time?

[keith.lamothe]

Yea, people kept seeing the name and expecting something pretty devestating, and being underwhelmed (even at various points where it was pretty useful).

So I added a proper DN to the game in LotS.  It's the biggest, baddest thing you can control in the whole game, unless I'm very much mistaken

[Hearteater]

My only complaint (once I figured out that Siege Starships weren't all that useful) was how often they and Bomber Starships would fly into point blank range when attack moving and no valid targets were present.  That was really annoying and basically forces them to be controlled separately.

But I very much welcome a name change, since I too was very mislead and confused by them at first.

If you can't think of anything else when you do look at their functioning:

* Maybe make it so any target damaged by a Siege Starship recently will explode on death, damaging nearby enemy units as well.  It doesn't even need to be a lot of damage.

* If you go with the Paladin name, give them some minor defensive/support effect on their allies, say a small armor boost maybe.  Because if you designed the ultimate weapon and it turned out to be a dude most of the time, you'd want a second selling point for your ship too.

[BobTheJanitor]

Voted antimatter starship. I agree that none of the options really stand out, but I feel that just calling it what it is matches the general naming theme of the other ships. None of them really have fancy nicknames either. Bomber starships bomb things, etc.

[Entrenched Homperson]

Anti Entrenchment Starship.


I like this

[x4000]

Anti Entrenchment Starship.


I like this

Added.

[chemical_art]

Anti Entrenchment Starship.

I think a more accurate name is "anti anti entrenchment starship" because entrenched positions (defensive units) are precisely those units immune to the sieges right now. But since they stop any units that could threaten defenses (starhips, golems) they are good are preventing attacks.

If that makes any sense.

[x4000]

"anti anti entrenchment starship"

Almost as good as "not non-uninvisble."

[Coppermantis]

Is there a way to change my vote? I voted paladin starship, but now decided that I like Contraheavy Artillery better.

[x4000]

Is there a way to change my vote? I voted paladin starship, but now decided that I like Contraheavy Artillery better.

Oh, sorry, I forgot to toggle that option on.  It's on now, so folks can change their votes.  There's new options now, too, so it's possible people will want to for that reason, also.

[zoutzakje]

hmm, I'm afraid I don't like any of the names currently listed above, yet I can not come up with a good name myself.
Name it Starkiller perhaps. The name gives you the idea that they have at least the firepower to kill the bigger stuff.

[x4000]

Added Starkiller to the list.  Wasn't that originally going to be Luke Skywalker's last name?

[zoutzakje]

that I do not know, but I do know that the name Starkiller shows up occasionally in some of the Star Wars games.

[keith.lamothe]

Perhaps the "If you're small, it' can't see you; if you don't move, it can't see you; if it sees you, it eats you" starship

[x4000]

that I do not know, but I do know that the name Starkiller shows up occasionally in some of the Star Wars games.

Oh yeah, they used Starkiller in the new Force Unleashed games, didn't they?  Like they made it Revenge of the Sith since ep6 was going to be Revenge of the Jedi.  And this concludes my Star Wars minutia for today.

Perhaps the "If you're small, it' can't see you; if you don't move, it can't see you; if it sees you, it eats you" starship

T-Rex Starship?

[doctorfrog]

"Antimatter Starship" as the name with a short, descriptive "Capital killer" or similar, early on in the flavortext, would work for me.