posted on October 11th, 2010, 4:19 pm
I would like to know if the following is possible, or even planned.
I wanted to think that if you capture a ship where the owner has already researched its special ability. You can use that ability. Or, you can take it to your starbase, have then take it appart, and then add a copy of the ability to your ships. The copy will be less effective, and will cost more energy than the original. Only specific classes can handle certain captured abilities, some abilities from captured ships (like Monsoon's Proximity Torpedo, K'Vort's shield breaking torp, Warbird's stealth field, etc) would only be available to mix tech versions because of technology compatibility issues. Some abilities (like Descent's shield reset, Generix's shielded cloak, BortaS' nebula maker, S-7's Core blast, etc) cannot be capture-able at all because of very specific technology that cannot be reproduced.
