Romulan Inteligence center

posted on March 17th, 2009, 9:19 pm

for me it worked even with a sensor turret. romulan spy on sensor turret = view of all enemy movements.

[mimesot]

posted on March 17th, 2009, 10:03 pm

Last edited by mimesot on March 17th, 2009, 10:35 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Huh, I just tried it and I can't even select a station as a target with the romulan spy? (I'm using 3.0.5a)

posted on March 17th, 2009, 10:05 pm

im referring to A1 and A2 stock

posted on March 17th, 2009, 10:35 pm

PS: I recently realized, that rank 4 shrike vessels gain that ability again. It appears to be seldomly that they survive that long. I usually don't build spy ships to rank them up by sending them into battles, only then using them for initial purpose.

I think a spy ship should gain experience by spying, not by fighting.

posted on March 18th, 2009, 10:43 am

Well, judging from the weapons and shields that vessle has its hardly just a spy-ship

posted on March 18th, 2009, 6:46 pm

You're right! It's a highly offensive ship. Now, from that point of view, the spy-ability is clearly put on the wrong ship. That's even worse than just gaining skills in spying through blasting away enemies woth a rapid fire disruptor.

Since this is a feature request forum I shall clearly say, that there has to be done something about the shrike to discern it's role and to provide further realism to FOPs.

posted on March 19th, 2009, 1:11 am

There's no reason it can't be a multi-purpose ship. Star Trek ships are rarely single-use.

posted on March 19th, 2009, 2:24 am

agreed

posted on March 19th, 2009, 9:20 am

Yep it could be, but it cant be very good at everything Either keep it good at fighting or make it better at spying and decrease its fighting capabilities.

posted on March 19th, 2009, 10:54 am

@ Tyler

Yes.there could' be multi purpose ships, but they have to be carefully balanced.

And there's still the unrealistic feature of advancing your spy ability through fighting. Are you gaining skills in making cakes through washing your car?

posted on March 19th, 2009, 12:12 pm

If you want balance, then why does the Tavara have cloak? Having the big, powerful Tavara able to sneak around undetected is more unbalanced than the Shrike having good weapons. Even if the thing is Romulan.

posted on March 19th, 2009, 3:24 pm

Well right now you cant spam tavaras but u most certainly can spam Shrikes
And the Tavara was unbalanced when 5 of them were available, so they were limited to 2 now

posted on March 19th, 2009, 4:27 pm

@Tyler

I want realism first, then balancing. A cloaked taara doesn't bring balancing to fall, but is realistic (iff cloaking is realistic at all, but wee need it necessarily for gameplay). It's not realistic, tht a tennis-player gains experience in tennis through playing chess, though he miht be able to do both.