posted on June 18th, 2009, 8:41 am
So, the idea is:
We capture an enemy construction ship, build a mixed-tech research station and this will grant your ship additional active and passive abilities and even new ships.
Hmm... difficult, because on the actual way, you build mixed tech ships when they are superior to your vessels you now have. When the bonus is decreased, they might not be worth the whole investment and you simply save your breath in order to beat your enemy with normal ships.
Lets think about it:
I make an example for the defiant class:
When you are fed and you capture:
Romulan:
- You get a cloaking device for your defiant vessel and a slighty increased system bonus
Borg:
- your ablative armor of the defiant class is getting to a tactical armor and it will grant your ship a higher defensive value. Also, your system resistance and your repair rate is incereased
Thus you have a stronger energy reactor now, your shields are a little bit stronger
Klingon:
- The defiant will get through its pulse phasers and quantum torpedos also and additional standard phaser (weak) on the front and an additional photon torpedo in the back. This ship is now able to attack two enemies at the same time. Sure, through that your offensive value is increased
Dominion:
- The speed of this ship will increase and will get a quantum/polaron torpedo, that got the same destruction rate, but a higher reload rate
This is nice and the boni are given all togther. So you dont have to add either the cloaking defice or either the tactical armor.
Problem: The ships will get a massive power boost and we see in later games only Uber-ships fighting against each other
Maybe you can, when you capture a dominion constrcution ship even buil a federation defending-perimeter
How do we outbalance this?
Well, I would say it is NOT enough to capture a construction ship. I would change it into: Capture an enemy starbase. This is MUCH harder, you only get it, when you are already overwhelming an enemy player (so you simply take his part) and when the starbase is set up as we have it in intention to the battlestation/deep space mod really hard to capture.
This will reduce the chance, that you ever get your hands on mixed tech, BUT when you do, you get a great deal out of it.
The system now is: You get your hands pretty fast on it and the bonus is in most cases not worthy to mention. A few points here, a few points there. It is not bad and a nice gimmik, but the real punch I wait for when I see the holy word "mixed tech" is not really given.
Damn, I want to have the Deep Space Battlestation Mod. This one could boost the stategic possabilities into a new stage. Battlestation, mixed tech defense perimeters, borg defense cordon... damn, I would like to help out but dont have the time for it. Hngh!
