Federation Warp In

posted on April 14th, 2009, 1:45 pm

Hello Devs,

At present warp in has a bit of a flaw, that being that i you warp in a descent (4 slots) and a group of normal vessels (3 slots) you have used a total of 7 slots and are left with two useless slots? Could kindly either up the slots to 10?

Otherwise the tru cost od a descent is 6 ships, because for the price of one descent you could have 6 six ships

This still stops people have more than 2 descents at one time and still means people can have a max warp in of 9?

Or could you add a couple of buttons...

One that costs 1 slot and you get a not so great ship

and one that 2 slots but your get something like a galaxy, nebula or steamrunner

and please could we have some more expiremtnal warp in ships...

I suggest an ablative intrepid (always called USS Voyager
A Prometheus (worth a shot, after all it is a legit federation vessel)
I suggest you make another up as i quite like your made up ships say your idea of what the next Enterprise would look like because it wouldnt be a Descent, its too much of a battleship

posted on April 14th, 2009, 2:48 pm

if u suicide 1 ship + 2 usless slots make 3 -> new warpin. that is silly but at least u don't have free slots .

posted on April 14th, 2009, 3:05 pm

tru, i also thought about decommissiong, i do that that a lot with steamrunners depending on the race but decommissioning takes bloody ages...

which reminds me, much liek you've made it that if you start to build something requires slots it instantly is added to the slots so you cant trick the game, is there any chance you can do it for decommissiong them too, rather than waiting for them to be completely decommissioned?

posted on April 14th, 2009, 3:33 pm

Decommision, never, you won´t get resources back anyway, just shoot them down. 

posted on April 14th, 2009, 3:44 pm

That sounds like a good way to get rid of those Nebulas...

posted on April 14th, 2009, 6:47 pm

If only ships gained experience from destroying your own vessels 

posted on April 14th, 2009, 7:35 pm

or your allies. lol

posted on April 15th, 2009, 4:08 am

well personally, although i like warp in, i find it to be quite flawed, in my opinion, i belive that descent should cost 3 i did testing, 3 warpin ships vs a descent, they were equal, and

and i almost want to say, we need more warpin ships avalible, cusa the ones now are rather weak, the other greatest thing i dont like is this

some of those ships have very specific purposes, and because they cant be build, and we dont have mk 2 versions of them, yet........ we cant use them

-for instance the steamrunner is very nice for the feds, cus the feds have no other artilery

-the galaxy is just nice as a strong ship, but i think needs higher defense

-in sock armada the nebula was a very nice science ship with awsome sceince weapons, well no more

- and the excelsior is fast

the problem is you cant get these ships with any reliability so if you want artilery, you have to constantly warp in and decom, if you want excelsior same thing, maybye there be a way to request 3 ships at a time to come,

posted on April 15th, 2009, 5:54 am

the problem is you cant get these ships with any reliability so if you want artilery, you have to constantly warp in and decom, if you want excelsior same thing, maybye there be a way to request 3 ships at a time to come,

But I guess to play devils advocate to that statement....personally I think it would lose a bit of flavour.....calling in reinforcements should be random....you don't know what ships are nearby to respond to your distress call. Just my 2 cents.

posted on April 15th, 2009, 6:05 am

true true, and i like that element to it, but 3 i dont think is enough in alot of cases, and i think steamrunner and excelsior are useful tools, that are hard to get when its random

posted on April 15th, 2009, 6:10 am

Yeah...I hear ya.....its almost like there needs to be some more options....like a button that when selected it sends in 3 randoms ships for assistance...but in times where you are building your fleet you could select 1 ship at a time and you can choose: destroyer, cruiser, of battleship etc.....that way you still have the flavour of...Help im in trouble anyone who is close come help...but also the ability to recall certain ships to augment your "designed" fleets.

posted on April 15th, 2009, 6:39 am

well, maybye, or maybye what we just need, is a steamrunner to, because in part thats what im gettign at, i feel we need a stemarunner, or galaxy or nebula mk2 in game

posted on April 15th, 2009, 1:34 pm

It would be interesting if the there was a small chance to warpin a 'Famous' Ship. Eg the Big E or the Defiant.

posted on April 15th, 2009, 2:45 pm

I like what red's suggesting.

A set of keys to determine which set of ships gets warped in.

for example if a user wants the excelsiors and neb, he presses buttong 1 and it will consume 3 slots.

If he wants a galaxy and steams he presses button 2 and it consumes 4 slots.

If he wants a descent it will consume 6 slots.

If he wants a prometheus it will consume 7 slots.

Or something along those lines.

but I would also like to cool down period to increase depending on the type of ship that is warped in.

the higher the number of slots, the higher the cool down time.

posted on April 15th, 2009, 3:09 pm

Some slots are released when warped in ships gain experience