Klingon supply gain

posted on May 14th, 2010, 12:25 pm

Maybe someone who's really really hard up for supplies and can't wait for the suicide run would do it.   I don't think it's a bad idea at all.

posted on May 14th, 2010, 12:29 pm

It probably could be done so only enemy weapons destroying the ship gives supplies, but there is still the problem of damaging it before battle 

posted on May 14th, 2010, 6:17 pm

wait i tried shooting my own ships before, it doesnt give xp. has that changed?

posted on May 14th, 2010, 6:19 pm

wait i tried shooting my own ships before, it doesnt give xp. has that changed?

No, that hasn't changed

posted on May 14th, 2010, 6:33 pm

so the idea of shooting your own damaged ship to gain xp and supply is flawed

posted on May 14th, 2010, 6:38 pm

I'm confused... the idea was to change that behavior, and the retort was that it could be exploited 

posted on May 14th, 2010, 6:41 pm

my idea is that being in battle gives all (or some) ships involved in battle a slow trickle of xp. to represent that being in battle is training, u get smarter by practicing battle not just by winning. of course this would only work in battle with the enemy. it would be stupid having ships gaining xp for firing at their own starbase. even though battle drills are sensible, i dont think battle drills should be included, encourages not fighting.

posted on May 14th, 2010, 6:46 pm

I'd prefer battle drills with 5 exp a minute. Most players would probably make the 10th fleets record look less humiliating.

posted on May 14th, 2010, 6:50 pm

if you could xp without attacking the enemy it would encourage people to sit still ranking up slowly. which would be boring.

posted on May 14th, 2010, 10:43 pm

Until a fleet of ships comes in and destroys all the ships in the drill. I doubt that one player would just sit around not attacking so that the other guy could level up a bunch of ships.

posted on May 14th, 2010, 10:48 pm

The part about a fleet appearing and destroying the entirely defenceless fleet is why I mentioned the 10th fleet. I'm sure you remember them.

posted on May 14th, 2010, 11:09 pm

Didn't remember, but Google is even better than memory!

posted on May 15th, 2010, 9:38 am

they got caught with their knickers down during a drill. but an experienced player would hide their fleet on a big map and continuously do drills. even if his base was destroyed he would still have a vet fleet and go om nom nom your base. unless the drills gave xp so slow that nobody ever did them. the balancing would be very hard. either the drills are too useless and nobody uses them or they are too great and everybody uses them.

[Tyler]

posted on May 15th, 2010, 11:20 am

Last edited by Tyler on May 15th, 2010, 11:21 am, edited 1 time in total.

5 exp per minute would make a Sabre take 3 minutes to reach rank2. Experienced players also scout, making hiding not always work.

posted on May 15th, 2010, 11:35 am

on some big maps there are so many places to hide, that scouting would take ages. unless you spent loads of money on expensive scouts. most people only build max 5 scouts.

i just think it would be kinda boring ordering a fleet to go battle drills and level up slowly. id rather go find something to blow up and level that way