A New Research System
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posted on March 9th, 2012, 7:40 am
MadHatter wrote:A five minute research time is not an "easy upgrade".
A option to shell out a little cash and sit back and wait till you get your instant sup-up, is easy IMO, What is needed is money not time. Time is to ficlke of a resource between the different facions, feds have time, borg don't, rom don't, the dom do.
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posted on March 9th, 2012, 5:08 pm
Styer Crisis wrote:A option to shell out a little cash and sit back and wait till you get your instant sup-up, is easy IMO, What is needed is money not time. Time is to ficlke of a resource between the different facions, feds have time, borg don't, rom don't, the dom do.
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well depending on how much time and supply it takes i would agree with you. In my opinion it shouldnt be a super cheap freebe but it shouldnt be too expensive cause this can be applied to several or all ships.
I think it would be cool to have it in the rank up system like i expressed earlier. rather than an instant upgrade if you want it. You wouldnt need the station then but it would still cost supply whether that be a little of everything or just supply.
Also this wouldnt have to be for every faction it could be for 1 or 2 just to change up how each faction plays so they all have a distict difference.
posted on March 9th, 2012, 6:25 pm
Yes, I liked bringing rank into the system as the last part of my post got into, but I'm not so sure if I want it to be dependant on there being a certain rank.
Generally, I think it seems fairly realistic. I mean, yes a research station conducts 'research' of whatever sorts, and all of a sudden presto my entire fleet magically gets the upgrade instantly? It seems almost too good to be true.
I don't want to limit it to only double gold bar can get this or that upgrade. I do think however that more advanced ranks should give the research at a lower cost.
If you think about it, its like recalling ships in the field in for an overhaul and upgrade. You are going to go to your highest tiered vessels, and most experienced first. I mean, its just natural to take care of your best ships on the line. But you wouldn't really get those enhancements to lower level ships of lesser importance. As if I'm going to upgrade my mirandas, oberths, constitutions, and constellations first. No, in fact if I ever did give them upgrades, it would cost a whole heck of a lot to upgrade them to current level tech.
So I do like giving it to ship my ship basis, and rank effects costs.
I think it should be a fairly quick research time wise. The station should be in under a min. Most of the specials researched at the stations should also be pretty quick. And installing it on the ship should be pretty quick too.
Cost is the main factor. But it shouldn't even be that expensive either.
What prevents it from being OP is that it is ship by ship. I don't want to turn FO into a game of 'upgrade wars' but for a specific faction or avatar, I think this would be neat.
Generally, I think it seems fairly realistic. I mean, yes a research station conducts 'research' of whatever sorts, and all of a sudden presto my entire fleet magically gets the upgrade instantly? It seems almost too good to be true.
I don't want to limit it to only double gold bar can get this or that upgrade. I do think however that more advanced ranks should give the research at a lower cost.
If you think about it, its like recalling ships in the field in for an overhaul and upgrade. You are going to go to your highest tiered vessels, and most experienced first. I mean, its just natural to take care of your best ships on the line. But you wouldn't really get those enhancements to lower level ships of lesser importance. As if I'm going to upgrade my mirandas, oberths, constitutions, and constellations first. No, in fact if I ever did give them upgrades, it would cost a whole heck of a lot to upgrade them to current level tech.
So I do like giving it to ship my ship basis, and rank effects costs.
I think it should be a fairly quick research time wise. The station should be in under a min. Most of the specials researched at the stations should also be pretty quick. And installing it on the ship should be pretty quick too.
Cost is the main factor. But it shouldn't even be that expensive either.
What prevents it from being OP is that it is ship by ship. I don't want to turn FO into a game of 'upgrade wars' but for a specific faction or avatar, I think this would be neat.
posted on March 9th, 2012, 7:45 pm
Maybe you purchase the upgrade and the only way to get it is to actually go into a repair yard and have it upgrade that way so it take so many seconds on a repair dock and then gets the upgrade? hehe
posted on March 10th, 2012, 1:54 am
I think if anything this could replace the rank system of a faction as a race specific feature, nothing more.
posted on March 10th, 2012, 2:58 am
Last edited by godsvoice on March 10th, 2012, 3:03 am, edited 1 time in total.
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How does that work?
Instead of ranking (Freely) through combat and experience, I have to rank my entire fleet by paying for a research station, and individual upgrades, instead of them happening automatically?
Do you mean replace the rank system, or replace the research system?
(If the ladder, replace research, well... that is the idea of the thread... new research system)
How does that work?
Instead of ranking (Freely) through combat and experience, I have to rank my entire fleet by paying for a research station, and individual upgrades, instead of them happening automatically?
Do you mean replace the rank system, or replace the research system?
(If the ladder, replace research, well... that is the idea of the thread... new research system)
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