If it's making tedious, drawn-out matches, it's because you won't attack it. Yes guys, you're supposed to attack the ship. To people who found Lurg too hard: The intended solutions to the Lurg Prawn are Chmmr, Utwig, and Yehat big bruisers which can chase the Prawn down, withstand its attacks, then punch its face in. Being defensive and perhaps irritating itself didn't matter if it made the player try other tactics. With that in mind, I wanted this ship to be something players absolutely could not kite or snipe at from safety, something that forces them to be pro-active against. This carried over into PvP, where new players trying out online melee in #uqm-arena would default to running away and kiting most of the time, much to my disgust. Remember kiting things with Fwiffo? I do! Most enemies in SC2's adventure mode could be picked apart while playing "keep away". The plan was for the Prawn to break many common strategies players learned from SC2 and force them to try new things. It follows a very defensive script, keeping away from its opponent as best as it can, deploying pods everywhere, and turning back around to hurl out shots when a pursuer follows after it.
The other 6014 ships never got proper AIs written for them, but this one did. Finally, the Prawn passively regenerates crew at a very slow rate.
The ship's battery can be depleted for a time if the main gun is used too heavily. The main gun draws a moderate amount of energy to fire, while the pods are cheap and spammable. The pods block projectiles such as Earthling missiles and absorb shots from Chmmr satellites. Its secondary armament deploys many defensive pods that linger for a long duration before expiry, inflict no damage upon contact with the opposing ship, but slightly impede the opposing ship's trajectory and turn rate. Its primary armament shoots a long-range projectile that travels forward and swerves left and right in a serpentine pattern, inflicting 4 damage on contact. Quick refresher: The Lurg Prawn has low top speed, medium acceleration, and fast turning. I thought I'd put up a response detailing what I was trying to do when I designed it. P6014 got dropped a long time ago obviously, but I recently read some old forum posts and watched some YouTube videos to see that the Prawn has garnered some negative reactions.
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