I've got nanites in my pants!

posted on January 12th, 2010, 10:33 pm

I was playing with nanites, the subsystem disabling effect is great!   But the damage seems really high.  Since there norway's aoe damage is incorrect, I was wondering if this was the case with nanites, as well.  I had a mage cube (2 tac, 1 regen, 3 holding) spaming nanites everytime the cooldown was up, and had them all near the AI's starbase.  The base and the surrounding structures lost health really fast.  It's always really hard to balance aoes, they either seem to weak or too strong.  Right now it feels a little too strong.

posted on January 12th, 2010, 10:55 pm

I was playing with nanites, the subsystem disabling effect is great!   But the damage seems really high.  Since there norway's aoe damage is incorrect, I was wondering if this was the case with nanites, as well.  I had a mage cube (2 tac, 1 regen, 3 holding) spaming nanites everytime the cooldown was up, and had them all near the AI's starbase.  The base and the surrounding structures lost health really fast.  It's always really hard to balance aoes, they either seem to weak or too strong.  Right now it feels a little too strong.

Nanites have always wrought a lot of havoc. I think that damage increase was implemented to balance the fact that they no longer disturb the UI. which I am in favor of this because it probably means I will lose less ships to the borg now as opposed to before when I wasn't able to micro manage properly because the UI wouldn't stop shaking. 

posted on January 12th, 2010, 11:05 pm

yep, same for the nanites

posted on January 12th, 2010, 11:10 pm

You'll probably lose more, quaddmgtech.  The system disabling thing is really wreaks havoc on a fleet.  You'll end up shooting less, and energy heavy cubes have a lot more armor, so they can take more punishment while killing your fleet.

Thanks, Optec!

posted on January 12th, 2010, 11:55 pm

You'll probably lose more, quaddmgtech.  The system disabling thing is really wreaks havoc on a fleet.  You'll end up shooting less, and energy heavy cubes have a lot more armor, so they can take more punishment while killing your fleet.

Thanks, Optec!

Indeed  I supposed only time will tell which is better... or worse 

posted on January 13th, 2010, 8:45 pm

Love the new nanites.  Wreaks havoc against Dom and Rom spams!!

posted on January 15th, 2010, 8:27 pm

Love the new nanites.  Wreaks havoc against Dom and Rom spams!!

  What are the rommies spamming?

  Or are you playing AI? 

posted on January 16th, 2010, 9:01 am

I'd love the Nanites if I played as Borg, unfortunately I tend to play as Romulan or Federation, so tend to be subjected to Nanites instead