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Power armor for ships? - Jacob S. - 06-17-2009
Ha, this rather reminds me of Star Trek, rerouting Engine or Weapons power to the Shields or vice versa, sounds like a decent idea to me.
Power armor for ships? - Errant.Venture - 06-17-2009
hmm i like the idea....what if we could have this idea, with three different power bases.....
so lets say if you have a tachyon shield multiplier, then weapons that do nothing to said shields, provides energy......so to speak...
so like...wait no invincible battleships would be horrid
Power armor for ships? - johnpeter - 06-17-2009
Heh, yeah like in the campaign... "TRENT GIVE MORE POWER TO THE ENGINES" Sriusly, I don't know if this is a good idea after all. Can't you imagine the power trading transports?
Power armor for ships? - Errant.Venture - 06-17-2009
*cringes* guess ghosts willhave to rip said transports apart
Power armor for ships? - Jacob S. - 06-17-2009
Perhaps a Cap to engine speed. I wouldn't mind seeing it though, seems like an interesting concept.
Power armor for ships? - Errant.Venture - 06-17-2009
or implement a system balance like in that old school game tiefighter....where to boost laser power, and weapon power, you lost speed, dumping shields or weapons, or both boosted it...
but in order to implement this you would have to have the Sourcecode *grimace*
flooping greedy microsoft
Power armor for ships? - darthbeck - 06-17-2009
i say no.
discovery is fine without turning it into another game. which is what this would pretty much do.
Power armor for ships? - Bass_masta992 - 06-17-2009
I would say this would be very nice for the trade ships that need some more defensives, arguing that they don't want more firepower
Power armor for ships? - FooFighter - 06-23-2009
' Wrote:why not remove all the armor once and for all, saving everyone billions of credits in useless investment
This is a quite good idea, after all. Especially when you consider that when it comes down to it, *everybody* who wants to PvP flies with a hull upgrade Mk8 anyways. At the moment, it only exists to artificially raise the price of a PvP-worthy fighter/GB. Just remove the hull upgrades and boost the ship armors themselves.
Power armor for ships? - khran - 06-24-2009
' Wrote:why not remove all the armor once and for all, saving everyone billions of credits in useless investment
God. YES. PLEASE.
Armor Plating is a huge waste of time and money. Its essentially a required grind. Everyone has it because the benefit of equipping it is so great, so any new character you create essentially has to have it to be competitive (we're speaking purely about PvP of course here).
I am fully in favor of removing Armor Plating COMPLETELY. All ships should be balanced properly around their base armor value ANYWAY. And because plating is multiplicative and not additive it gives more benefit to more heavily armored ships which makes balancing even more difficult. Additionally, plating simply draws combat out unnecessarily.