Capture prestige

posted on January 9th, 2011, 3:30 pm

Is it possible to have the Klingons gain supply (or a rank) by capturing veteran ships? It would give the Vutpa' Refit another reason to be built.

Veterans typically have long kill-lists, which would likely include several Klingon warships, the Klingons would likely want such a ship to be 'brought to justice for crimes against the Empire'. Klingons have been shown as wanting to capture Enterprise because of the prestige they stand to gain from the capture.

posted on January 9th, 2011, 3:31 pm

i like

posted on January 9th, 2011, 3:39 pm

I like this idea. I always thought about a better integration of alien vessels in the own fleet.

The first approach is mixed tech, where a ship is created in this manner. The second one would be capturing an alien ship an building in own tech that might give certain abilities. But this would require a vast amount of odfs and would be OP for borg...

So the idea of giving prestige is nice. Maybe, if a troopship takes over an enemy vessel, it will gain experience and while being klingon, you would also get supplies (your idea).

And at THIS point, I have an idea for a klingon hero:
- Capturer
This klingon hero is able to take over an enemy vessel if beamed on board. Take down the shields of an enemy ship, beam him over an the ship is yours. (Wont work for borg or vessels with a crew-amount > 500)

posted on January 9th, 2011, 3:44 pm

giving experience for capturing as a troopship would be good, hopefully not too much experience.

the instant capture hero i dont like.

posted on January 12th, 2011, 7:58 pm

I too like this idea.

posted on January 16th, 2011, 6:31 am

Me too. I would favour rank bonusses..maybe give the target ship, once captured, a rank ( or maybe even a high rank? )? Hmm

posted on January 16th, 2011, 7:52 am

I like it if the option was integrated into transporter assault, however it could only give experience to one ship, which would require the program to put them in some order (since each boarding tick happens simultaneously for all ships)

I also like the idea of a boarding avatar, or at least an avatar that's good at it in addition to other things.  Martok already gets a boarding strength bonus so it wouldn't be hard to convert him.

I suggest a boarding avatar work like this:

-vutpa refit cap increased, refit research cost reduced.
-a new ship with the shield breaking torpedo special:

Fires a torpedo that does moderate damage and has a 70% chance to disable the enemy's shields for 3 seconds (a short window for the klingons to begin boarding it).  Can be used while cloaked, but causes the ship to de-cloak after firing.  (if the shields drop the damage is dealt to the hull, treated as a regular shot i.e. it has the regular chances of hitting a subsystem.  The damage is high enough that it will destroy any subsystem it hits on small or medium vessels.  On the one hand it may damage their prize before they capture it, but the special can still do something if the kling player misses his chance to board)