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Lazuli
Grand Admiral
Joined: October 11, 2010
Posts: 5
|  Posted: 2011-07-06 09:00
I have a suggestion to make regarding the enhancements.
I noticed that almost nobody uses Minor, Limited and Standard enhancements, not even when picked up from a destroyed vessel. Certainly no one ever bought Minor and Limited enhancements and very seldom, Standard.
The reason is that players don’t think it’s worth the credits to put on enhancements that only provides you with a 1% to 3% increase in, lets say, damage given.
My suggestion is to make the enhancements from Minor up to Advanced have an output of 6%, but with a durability limit:
Minor = 6% output = durability of 1
Limited = 6% output = durability of 3
Standard = 6% = 5
Improved = 6% = 10
Enhanced =6% = 15
Advanced = 6% = 20
For example: you have eight Minor Weapon Multiplexers on your ship. They give you a damage increase of 48%, but they all have a durability of one time, that is, when you die, they disappear. When using Limited, you can die three times before they will work out and so forth.
In this way, Minor will mean an enhancement of a low durability, not an enhancement of low increase.
That way, I think, players will be more willing to buy low durability enhancements to test out the different special enhancements before deciding on buying the longer lasting ones to put on their ships.
I would have bought Minor, Limited and/or Standard enhancements to put on my ship before, if they had given me the same increase as Enhanced and Advanced.
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Borgie
Chief Marshal
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Joined: August 15, 2005
Posts: 2256
From: close by
| Posted: 2011-07-06 10:26
no, want better enhancements pay for em and support the game.
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apate
Fleet Admiral
Joined: March 21, 2010
Posts: 205
| Posted: 2011-07-06 10:36
I like the idea, but the current system works afaik, why break it?
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Alcedo
Chief Marshal
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Joined: June 03, 2010
Posts: 136
| Posted: 2011-07-06 10:41
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On 2011-07-06 10:26, Borgie wrote:
no, want better enhancements pay for em and support the game.
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It seems you don't understand the post quite correctly. You'd still get better enhancements by paying more because you'd have increased durabilty.
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Talien
Marshal
Templar Knights
Joined: May 11, 2010
Posts: 2044
From: Michigan
| Posted: 2011-07-06 11:10
It might sounds nice in theory, but almost nobody would need to buy enh because you can farm AI and get massive amounts of minors-limiteds to use. An hour or so of killing AI in the beginner area will practically fill your garage with various low end enh.
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Kenny_Naboo
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Joined: January 11, 2010
Posts: 3823
From: LobsterTown
| Posted: 2011-07-06 13:54
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On 2011-07-06 11:10, Talien wrote:
It might sounds nice in theory, but almost nobody would need to buy enh because you can farm AI and get massive amounts of minors-limiteds to use. An hour or so of killing AI in the beginner area will practically fill your garage with various low end enh.
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Bingo. This is the reason.
No one would buy creds.
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Ray[OU]
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Joined: December 07, 2010
Posts: 189
From: Some where in deep space, From another galaxy. [Origin Unknown]
| Posted: 2011-07-06 16:11
no i say its bad idea leave it how it is and dont say no one uses standrads all i got is standards 1) they last longer and actually some wat make a difference in ship performance 2) the lozy ehn drop system never gives me anything above standard except some times ppl do use standard and perhaps that ehn drop system needs some work went elits hunitng this guy was there 1 minute he got 2 zlars and some blues i was there an hour and got minors and limiteds and the only good thing i got was a advanced engine tuner wat the crap is that 1 hour of my DS time wasted tryin to get some thin good and they say its just random HA i laugh at that-Grand Admiral Ray has spoken.
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Fatal Mack Bolan(WildCards_58th)*COM*
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Joined: June 12, 2010
Posts: 184
From: home planet: Exathra
| Posted: 2011-07-06 20:35
ditto what ray said
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Lazuli
Grand Admiral
Joined: October 11, 2010
Posts: 5
| Posted: 2011-07-07 10:58
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On 2011-07-06 11:10, Talien wrote:
It might sounds nice in theory, but almost nobody would need to buy enh because you can farm AI and get massive amounts of minors-limiteds to use. An hour or so of killing AI in the beginner area will practically fill your garage with various low end enh.
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This is true.
Droppings from AI should be limited or completely removed, then.
When AI don't drop Minors or Limited or any other enhancements in such profusion as they do now, people will start buying the stuff they want.
By the way, too many players go Elite hunting instead of supporting the game by buying enhancements. I realise, offcourse, that there are some players who cant buy credits, nevertheless, the game need all the support it can get.
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MarineKingPrime
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Exathra Alliance Fleet
Joined: October 04, 2010
Posts: 239
From: CSS CheezyBagels
| Posted: 2011-07-07 11:10
lots of people have minor enhacements, they're people who don't pay for credits.
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Azreal
Chief Marshal
Joined: March 14, 2004
Posts: 2816
From: United State of Texas, Houston
| Posted: 2011-07-07 17:22
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On 2011-07-06 20:35, Mack Bolan(GA)(WildCards_58th)®© wrote:
ditto what ray said
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you were able to read that mass of unpunctuated words?
What I see is that it would give everyone the 6%, and only limit the duras. I don't like it. I think that it works ok now. I don't see issues with the enhancements, other than some stacking shouldn't be allowed on certain enhancements. That's just my opinion, but that is the only thing I would like to see changed on them atm.
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Enterprise
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Joined: May 19, 2002
Posts: 2576
From: Hawthorne, Nevada
| Posted: 2011-07-07 20:05
I'd really like to see more unique enhancements, and those being ones that drop mostly from players.
But then I'm a big fan of telling Darkspace to shut up and take my money. The more interesting enhancements there are, chances are, some of us will shell out for them. Me being one of them.
Stupid sexy enhancements.
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Talien
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Templar Knights
Joined: May 11, 2010
Posts: 2044
From: Michigan
| Posted: 2011-07-07 21:48
Maybe a "design an enhancement" contest, like with designing an elite. Some guidelines would obviously be needed but it should be interesting to see what people come up with.
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Kenny_Naboo
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From: LobsterTown
| Posted: 2011-07-07 22:00
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On 2011-07-07 17:22, Azreal (Ret) wrote:
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On 2011-07-06 20:35, Mack Bolan(GA)(WildCards_58th)®© wrote:
ditto what ray said
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you were able to read that mass of unpunctuated words?
What I see is that it would give everyone the 6%, and only limit the duras. I don't like it. I think that it works ok now. I don't see issues with the enhancements, other than some stacking shouldn't be allowed on certain enhancements. That's just my opinion, but that is the only thing I would like to see changed on them atm.
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Yeah. Some changes to the stacking system would make things more exciting
What I hope would be
- All ships get 12 enh slots instead of 8, or we can scale it. (Dreads & Stations get 12, Cruisers get 10, Dessies and below stay at 8 )
- Max stack effect of 4 enh
This will make things more interesting. U would be able to create a ship with 3 types of enh, but each limited to only 24% max. Still not OP, but it opens up a world of possibilities.
eh. Dread with 4 x Weap multis, 4 x Def Upg, 4 x Beam Muktis
or Cruiser with 4 x Weap Multis, 4 x speed upgrades, 4 x ammo racks
Also, we need the enh space in the garage to be doubled.
It might encourage players to buy more enh.
[ This Message was edited by: Kenny_Naboo[+R] on 2011-07-07 22:07 ]
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