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Gejaheline Fleet Admiral Galactic Navy
Joined: March 19, 2005 Posts: 1127 From: UGTO MUNIN HQ, Mars
| Posted: 2011-03-25 10:56  
Area-of-effect objects are a pain to "balance" because of the fact that it scales with the number of units in the area. A command dread with a 2% attack bonus effect would become progressively more cost-effective as more units entered the area.
I have no problem with this. A ship that requires other ships to be nearby to become more effective promotes teamwork and sticking together, although it also has issues in that those ships will be restricted to a specific area around the command ship.
However, we already have an area-of-effect ship. The interdictor. The more ships it interdicts, the more effective it becomes.
How do you balance it? Well, for one it's got a fairly high cost in terms of space and energy. Secondly, it becomes a massive target and is, itself, vulnerable to enemy interdictors.
So, one can extend this to command devices on command dreads. The "balance" is that it's a ship that needs to be on the field in order to provide a benefit, which means it can be killed by the enemy. In addition, the enemy can bring a command dread themselves in order to even the odds. Finally, a command dread probably won't be as heavily armed as a main combat ship, so that side will have slightly less firepower. Similar logic on that last one as factions needing scouts to find cloaked K'luth; a scout ship means one less warship.
Finally, it's a situational ship that requires the presence of allies, just like the interdictor. An interdictor can't really kill anything it traps. A command dread on its own won't have any use for a device that enhances its allies since there wouldn't be any allies, reducing it to a sub-par battleship.
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Borgie Chief Marshal Pitch Black
Joined: August 15, 2005 Posts: 2256 From: close by
| Posted: 2011-03-25 17:00  
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On 2011-03-25 10:56, Gejaheline wrote:
So, one can extend this to command devices on command dreads. The "balance" is that it's a ship that needs to be on the field in order to provide a benefit, which means it can be killed by the enemy. In addition, the enemy can bring a command dread themselves in order to even the odds. Finally, a command dread probably won't be as heavily armed as a main combat ship, so that side will have slightly less firepower. Similar logic on that last one as factions needing scouts to find cloaked K'luth; a scout ship means one less warship.
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but unlike what really happens, people QQ about cloak and rage quit when they die to a luth, then make a angry forum post about luth is op.
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NoBoDx Grand Admiral
Joined: October 14, 2003 Posts: 784 From: Germany / NRW
| Posted: 2011-03-26 06:23  
dont forget
being squishy, buffing friendly, and having some kind of special visual effect would make you a prime-target on the field
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DiepLuc Chief Marshal
Joined: March 23, 2010 Posts: 1187
| Posted: 2011-03-26 12:20  
AOE on Command Ship shall make it's the centre of dread hugging.
I would love if it have a special gadget to paralize a ship in 5 seconds and recharge after 1 minute. But it would be OP.
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Lrd_Hunter Grand Admiral
Joined: August 16, 2006 Posts: 245
| Posted: 2011-03-26 12:32  
well if this thread prove anything it does prove that the dev are actually thinking of ideas to make the game more teambased. I like the idea of them actually doing something to the command dread they havent been useful since 1.483 like alot of the ships in the game now.
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NoBoDx Grand Admiral
Joined: October 14, 2003 Posts: 784 From: Germany / NRW
| Posted: 2011-03-26 16:34  
yay,
suicide-dreads
only 1 single weapon
enough damage to blow up multiple stations at once
edit says: srry this just came to my mind when chlorophyll mentioned dred-hugging [ This Message was edited by: NoBoDx on 2011-03-26 19:19 ]
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Xydes Grand Admiral
Joined: August 07, 2009 Posts: 276 From: England
| Posted: 2011-03-26 16:35  
This is something that would make me want to actually stick my nose into the server again, and it would give Command Ships (Dread and Station) a reason to be use more frequently again. Maybe push the Rank Req on it abit higher to make it more... wanted
Great Idea. Well Done.
Give it Two Weeks (TM).
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