Newton Ideas

[Anonymous]

posted on July 31st, 2010, 11:37 pm

Last edited by Anonymous on August 1st, 2010, 1:02 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Recent discussions about the newton have given me an idea about it.

I'm working under the assumption that the newton will lose its phaser soon, which i am happy with.

1) remove its repair beam, i never liked its repair beam, it always seemed a little powerful and too useful.

2) give it a tractor beam, and maybe a larger model to make it look like its got enough grunt to pull large ships. no need to make it massive as we saw a danube class runabout tractor a galor class.

3) give it the repair team special from stock, so it can send a repair team over which will vastly increase the repair rate of an allied ship, repairing subsystems really fast.

4) make its tractor beam do a small amount of healing on critically damaged ships. so ships with less than 20% hull will have their hull slowly repair up to 20%. maybe by 1% every second. call it an ability to transfer power to the allied vessel's structural integrity, enough to get the vessel to hold together in one piece until it can return to a shipyard.

5) maybe a slightly higher defence value, so it can take a couple hits, it no longer has a pop gun so it cant be exploited.

so now a newton can use repair team on a vessel and tow it away at the same time, soon the engines will be repaired and the vessel can move on its own.

or if the newton has no energy left it can just tow. but when tractors are active the special energy regen rate is cut by 75%

EDIT: murdered a typo

posted on August 1st, 2010, 2:16 am

Interesting ideas . Something along those lines would be cool if it was codeable 

posted on August 1st, 2010, 3:19 am

hmm might be good  I was just playing as the Romulans and was getting aggravated at having to send my ships to yards for minor repairs  when the feds can just send a Newton to repair the ship and have em siting in fleets to repair on the spot right away.

posted on August 1st, 2010, 6:09 am

Ah, was playing as the romulans last night and the Feds were very kind to send a Newton right near to my base very early on.  Captured that and so had both shield regen and repair abilities quite early on.  Who needs shipyards.

Anyway, some nice ideas there Myles.

posted on August 1st, 2010, 9:34 am

hmm might be good  I was just playing as the Romulans and was getting aggravated at having to send my ships to yards for minor repairs  when the feds can just send a Newton to repair the ship and have em siting in fleets to repair on the spot right away.

you sound like you would like the mixed tech talon repair refit

thanks for the positive comments guys

posted on August 1st, 2010, 12:22 pm

3) give it the repair team special from stock, so it can send a repair team over which will vastly increase the repair rate of an enemy ship, repairing subsystems really fast.

So tell me, why would the Feds want to repair an enemy ship? 

Anyway it is a good idea, we might just see it added. 

[Anonymous]

posted on August 1st, 2010, 1:02 pm

Last edited by Anonymous on August 1st, 2010, 1:30 pm, edited 1 time in total.

So tell me, why would the Feds want to repair an enemy ship? 

Anyway it is a good idea, we might just see it added. 

wow that was a big typo, i was really tired when i wrote this. still am. its now corrected, thanks for pointing it out.

for clarification the idea is only to repair allied ships.

EDIT: murdered that typo's brother that was in this post

posted on August 1st, 2010, 2:13 pm

So tell me, why would the Feds want to repair an enemy ship? 

I thought he was referring to captured enemy ships.

posted on August 1st, 2010, 2:25 pm

Then it would be an allied ship, it ceases to be an enemy ship when it's not an enemy.

posted on August 2nd, 2010, 1:36 am

No shit, Professor...

My literal remark was that a captured enemy ship IS an allied ship.  But, that doesn't change the fact that it was taken from the enemy, which ALSO makes it an enemy ship. (former)  It can be both.

An Example: If my friends show up and smack you around with a baseball bat, and then steal your car... It's still your car, but you could kind of say that its allied to me now. making it a 'captured enemy vehicle.'

posted on August 2nd, 2010, 6:18 am

not gonna join that senseless discussion about the typo.

but:
i like those Ideas! 

posted on August 2nd, 2010, 6:41 am

Anything that makes the newton more like a truely valuable ship, rather than like an addon to a turret field (which is an evil thing to do with one), is good by me.

posted on August 2nd, 2010, 7:02 am

To answer NuclearDude's  Question  " Why  would you want to repair a  captured ship?" Simple,to not use a ship that Is all ready  built  and  will cost your opponent  Time , Dia/ Tri and  other consumeables to replace  is a not a  good use of a "Free Resourse".  Once repaired they can  be used to suppliment  you fleet . A nother good use is to  protect you rear areas freeing up your own races ships for battle . To just to blow it up to watch the  pretty lights makes little tactical sense.  In the real world Captured , repurposed  combatant vessels  allow a opposing force  the ability to Confuse , subvert and have  the  opponent, possibly ignore a vessel till to late. 

posted on August 2nd, 2010, 7:53 am

Unless i'm really strapped for ships I don't repair captured ships unless im playing as a race without cloak abilities and i capture a cloaking ship, that is a keeper of course.

Otherwise its off to the shipyard for deconstruction and conversion into lovely resources.

I think i said it elsewhere though, when playing as the Borg I love to make up fleets of captured ships and send them on suicide runs into enemy bases just for laughs.

posted on August 2nd, 2010, 10:15 am

captured ships are more useful as ships than resources as u get back reduced resources on decom.

the ship is free and can be used in combat with the rest of your fleet. instantly giving you more dps.