posted on February 21st, 2011, 11:26 pm
I just had an idea that a player could use the chat box to warp-in a ship that is only of the faction that they are playing as. And only a single ship for a specific time interval.
Example, playing as federation:
"/warpin fed_nebulaA"
Once this command is given, the user clicks on the map where he/she wants the warp-in to go (like with starfleet command) and in a few seconds, it's there.
To prevent abuse of this, two new settings should be put in place for use on a per-game basis. Actually, three settings.
1 - The host chooses whether or not the command is allowed.
2 - The host chooses how long after a game starts before the command is allowed if it's allowed at all.
3 - The host chooses how long to wait between warpins. A multiplier based on how long the ship would take to build. This would be " times ".
If the warp-in interval is set to 2x, then if a player warped-in a Nebula "scout", that player would have to wait 184 seconds before warping in any other vessels. If the player warped-in a Sabre, using the same multiplier, than that player would only have to wait 138 seconds before warping in another vessel.
The initial time limit is mainly to prevent the Borg from warping in a tactical cube right-off the bat. A Descent could do a ton of damage, but just one vessel couldn't take-out an unupgraded starbase, could it?
To prevent factions from becoming too powerful because of the initial wait time (which kind-of acts like a cease-fire setting), a faction could have a "WarpInCommandDelayMultiplier" in the faction.odf file so that each faction has to wait X amount longer based on the power of their most powerful vessel.
Just an idea to introduce a new feature without disrupting the balance very much.
