Klingon Construction Ship?

posted on May 4th, 2004, 12:55 pm

I also agree.

posted on May 4th, 2004, 2:05 pm

hm, interesting idea, but releasing it may be irritating, we will test this in a dev game soon. It *may* be fun but also *may* throw a lot of gameplay out of armada. Also your freighters may decide to leave their dilithium moon for a good fight

DOCa Cola

posted on May 4th, 2004, 4:43 pm

well it's just an idea thanx

posted on May 4th, 2004, 6:52 pm

i didn't say that your idea is not good, but we have this to consider the points i talked about, just for you to know

DOCa Cola

posted on May 4th, 2004, 7:08 pm

I'm sure you guys can make freighters and conners fire their weak weapons while they mine or build a building. Plus they would be weak to just deter any light BoP or Saber attacks so no prob with balance, thats how I see it anyway ^_^

posted on May 5th, 2004, 10:33 am

Meh, im gonna stick with escorting them, like in DS9 (IKS Rotarran escorting 3 of those Klingon freighters). IMO it looks cooler

posted on May 5th, 2004, 10:55 am

But time consuming, in the beginning you dont have any ships to spare and thats when you need protection the most

posted on May 5th, 2004, 6:56 pm

well i don't midn if they don't change the miners, but this topis is about the klingon const. ship, and they said that it's gonna be changed, so that's all i want

posted on May 5th, 2004, 7:06 pm

Thats true I suppose but lightly armed freighters and other races con ships should be considered, maybe someone could make it a request?

posted on May 5th, 2004, 9:40 pm

But time consuming, in the beginning you dont have any ships to spare and thats when you need protection the most

Hmm perhaps. Although it does make it more challenging. Its part of the strategy, i mean if you have a bunch of armed freighters, then you can build your base without worry at all, its too easy. With the danger of your convoys being attacked, then 1) you get your priorities right 2) its a good challenge and leads to good strategy and 3) its realistic to Trek

On the other hand though, most maps have moons etc right next to the base, so there's no distance involved, so it would be pointless escorting them. And later on, once youve mined that area clear and moved to the further ones, youve got more resources and base stuff anyway, so if one or two get destroyed, it doesnt matter.

Complicated, i dont mind either way.

[Anonymous]

posted on May 6th, 2004, 12:14 am

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Well first off these freighters will only be a deterant and 3 BoPs could take them easy, how I invision it anyway.

Secondly, most people move out of the main base very early and usually the con ship or mining outposts outside of the main base are vunerable, so I just thought for the sake of realism, give the cons and freighters a type 8 or 2 phaser to keep them pesky rushers off yuor back til you can build some stuff.

We should move to an offical post of Optec wont answer I don't think. My 2 cents, all I got to spare

posted on May 6th, 2004, 4:38 am

i considered that too..
but many players try to attack their enemy in the eraly game stage.. with 3 pobs for example. it would mean a disadvantage to them if the frighters and construction ships get weapons, it's hard eneough to avoid the big starbase

posted on May 6th, 2004, 6:08 am

Hey I do that too, but I ment only strong enough to maybe take out 1 BoP each and mainly a deterant to the AIs scouts, not larger warships. Of course Optecs word is final

[Anonymous]

posted on May 6th, 2004, 8:19 pm

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Hmm perhaps. Although it does make it more challenging. Its part of the strategy, i mean if you have a bunch of armed freighters, then you can build your base without worry at all, its too easy.

dude we made a request to arm the miners with the same weapon that the ventura or talon has, any ship could destroy them if going 1 on 1, nobody would make 16 of them in the begining of the game, they are quite expencive, and besides, by the time someone makes enough freighters the other one already has enough spaceships to destroy them all. it would be for defence only, if i got a penny everytime a cloacked bird of prey attacked my miners, whoa, would i have enough money for a pack of chewing gum ^_^