Ideas for crew

posted on April 21st, 2010, 3:35 pm

is it possible to combine beaming and a crew killing hidden specialweapon simultaneously? Then we could have stronger boarding.

posted on April 21st, 2010, 3:38 pm

The Borg have a stornger crew strength in the race odf. Every other race is identical, though some should be better fighters than others.

If you want to fix the flaw FO transporters, open RTS_CFG.H (base directory) and search for Transporter parameters. You could change the boarding party strength (boardingpartystrength = X.X) to give them an actually noticable advantage, but you'd need to edit all appropriate ship odfs.

The Transportes do need an upgrade, it can take a small fleet of them to take a Sabre in any worthwhile time....

is it possible to combine beaming and a crew killing hidden specialweapon simultaneously? Then we could have stronger boarding.

The Borg already have that, on the Assimilator.

posted on April 21st, 2010, 7:48 pm

i'm srry to burst your bubble optec but ... only 3 crew per second is a bit... low for boarding and taking over ships(3.5 for dom carrier, 5 at vet) - i personally love boarding onto cloak ships(and detectors) as they cloak and try to decrew them so they stay in shipyard a bit longer, but you can't even capture a tiny ship with 3 crew per second, the only way to capture ships is if you have a large fleet but still you can't really capture anything since they fire on anything and destroy them in a few seconds. only stations remain because of  shields/hull (but sometimes they die cuz of fire delay lag - for borg this is true cuz their beam weapons eat through enemy hull once shields are down) 

now if you can board a tiny bit more per second, they maybe the transporters will be useful, also another thought - why is it borg also have same crew advantage with other races?is it possible to make it so they have .5 or .8 crew advantage per 1 enemy crew ( to show their borg shielding) if not then another 1 so every 2 fed officer or jemhadar can take out 1 borg?


srry to bore you ^^;

Well, boarding isn't supposed to be an integral part of combat - after all, how many times in the Dominion War did we see big battles where everybody is transporting crew onto each other's ships?   . In any case, the troop transports are better now, so you should be seeing more boarding . Personally I think boarding cloaked ships is a bit of a unbalanced feature, as it ALSO prevents you from raising shields (not to mention allowing you to capture things that for all rights should have been able to get to safety). Same as attacking a decloaking ship - the ship will refuse to raise its shields, and get blown to bits 

posted on April 22nd, 2010, 4:01 am

cloaked ships

As long as decloaking is more difficult I feel ok. I hope Rom will not end up as the weakest race again...

posted on April 22nd, 2010, 4:32 am

I'm sure once the cost goes down for them it won't be such an issue.  That has always been the problem in this patch, is that they were just too damned expensive.

posted on April 22nd, 2010, 12:33 pm

indeed, i cant wait to play rom in 3.1.2