Romulan Miners and Shielding

posted on June 13th, 2011, 6:15 pm

Just had a thought that some might like.

As the Romulan freighters are really weak I had a idea on improving them by removing their shields , but the mining station can expend its shield to encompass 2 or 3 miners as long as they are in a certain distance from the station.

This makes the roms have their mining stations next to their moons, so they don’t get covered by the starbases fire. Or that their miners travel away from the station without shields.

posted on June 13th, 2011, 6:55 pm

Sounds interesting. Would be another step to more indiciduality which i greatly appreciate.

posted on June 13th, 2011, 6:58 pm

I see losing every single one of my miners to Arash's Borg.  :D

posted on June 13th, 2011, 7:01 pm

Improve the miners by making them weaker? I'm not sure I follow the logic here...

posted on June 13th, 2011, 7:02 pm

YAAYZ ROMMIES GET NERFED!!!!!!!!!! lol, retreating your miners to the SB is one of the best defences, although time and time again i just go in and kill them any way, just becuz scube swarm can, but this would make already weak retreating miners, extremely vulenrable, and to easy to pick off too fast, this would actualy minimize losses in a raid,

posted on June 13th, 2011, 7:18 pm

I like the idea of the station providing the shields for the freighters.  I even know of a way to implement the idea.

posted on June 13th, 2011, 7:55 pm

Sounds interesting. Would be another step to more indiciduality which i greatly appreciate.

Agree on this. Perhaps let the shields on the freighters and give the romulans an expansiv research that the miningstation can faster recharge the shields of the freighters within closer range or maybe while docking and download/upload resources. So you don't have to send 'em back to the yard.

posted on June 13th, 2011, 8:12 pm

The romulan mining defo needs something , the miners are the weakest out of all the races and the turrents are useless without a power source.

posted on June 13th, 2011, 8:24 pm

That's the point, their miners are supposed to be fragile and their defences are supposed to be less capable than the other races.

posted on June 13th, 2011, 8:45 pm

That's the point, their miners are supposed to be fragile and their defences are supposed to be less capable than the other races.

Aye, but with the cost of the combat ships (and the almost-always needed research stations/specials), even a decent early game raid can be GG. I'm not asking for Mayson-style turrets here, but the ability to NOT lose your entire mining in one raid would be good.

posted on June 13th, 2011, 8:48 pm

That's the point, their miners are supposed to be fragile and their defences are supposed to be less capable than the other races.

where did you get that info from you forgetting the shields the cealar has, the tavara..... none of the romulan ships lack particually in defense so i dunno where you get your info from.

posted on June 13th, 2011, 8:57 pm

Wrong type of defences, don't try to redirect the discussion to something unrelated. No-one ever told you turrets are defensive structures, making them a form of defense? No-one brought up ships.

It's a well known fact that Romulan expansions are supposed to be vulnerable because their attacking is powerful, it's actually the most common rebuttal to attempts to get the Singularity Generator removed. Look for any discussion about that.

posted on June 13th, 2011, 9:17 pm

Rom Miners already require more babysitting then a daycare full of obstinate two year olds. If this gets changed in this manner it will make Romulans impossible to expand with, especially early on.
Wasn't the reason that they were made weak was for balance? Well they are now very weak. It should be balanced now. Iron further balance issues out some other way. I mean really, no shields at all?

Reminds me of that Chinese SUV that was lethal to every occupant in a 40MPH crash :
YouTube
- ‪Chinese car crash test failure‬‏

posted on June 13th, 2011, 9:34 pm

Wrong type of defences, don't try to redirect the discussion to something unrelated. No-one ever told you turrets are defensive structures, making them a form of defense? No-one brought up ships.

It's a well known fact that Romulan expansions are supposed to be vulnerable because their attacking is powerful, it's actually the most common rebuttal to attempts to get the Singularity Generator removed. Look for any discussion about that.

I never said anything about the singularity generator its you thats bought up this unrelated thing, i just said they need something since the turrent is usless(untill you can spare resource for power) which was half agreeing with the thread creator i just dont know about extending the shields over the miners because that would make raiding very hard but the romulans do need something to add to their protection since their miners are just too vulnarable even if they got the same def as the dom miners it might give that added bonus. But atm they die too easy.

Its you that brought up the turrents that was just a side point i mentioned because they lack in turrents and their miners lack in def, not really fair.

[Tyler]

posted on June 13th, 2011, 9:43 pm

Last edited by Tyler on June 13th, 2011, 9:45 pm, edited 1 time in total.

The Generator was an example of where the information comes from, as my suggestion to look for the discussion should have made obvious. As I said, they are supposed to be fragile and turrets are not useless, just not as useful as the other races.

Answering your post is not unrelated, you bringing up warship shields in reply to a post about freighters and turrets is.