The Balance Thread

posted on September 1st, 2006, 1:22 pm

the only problem is, Defiant is not a battleship
Plus it is ok that way, Ryan was just replying to redshirt who was talking out of his arse

posted on September 1st, 2006, 5:30 pm

I think he secretly wants the Defiant to retain it's power.

By the way, I look like a ninja when I pull my tank top over my head.

Other than that, it's sad that the only things that can fight it are really expensive support ships.

posted on September 1st, 2006, 9:41 pm

thats funny as i tested the defiants against the remoores, yesterday. (couldn't post cause my internet connection keeps misbehaving)

are you ready for it... the defiants won every time in both 1 v 1 and 16 v 16 battles. 3 defiants destroyed in the first 16 battle, and 4 in the second one ( bear in mind for the second 1 i was using most specials independantly.
In the 1 v 1 battle the defiant had about 20 to 40% hull depending on which weapons of the remoore were used.

How many defence upgrades?

posted on September 1st, 2006, 10:20 pm

obviously, all research and upgrades available to both of them.

[Anonymous]

posted on September 1st, 2006, 10:21 pm

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We had sheilds but no weopons.

posted on September 2nd, 2006, 9:13 am

Something else:

Is it possible to make the Dominion Prototypes imune against the romulan sabotage ? I just played the Romulans against Dominion and with two shots of the sabotage, even the biggest battleship-Prototype exploded.

Can you do something about that ? Or maybe make the Prototype a little bit more effective....don't know.

posted on September 2nd, 2006, 10:54 am

Something else:

Is it possible to make the Dominion Prototypes imune against the romulan sabotage ? I just played the Romulans against Dominion and with two shots of the sabotage, even the biggest battleship-Prototype exploded.

Can you do something about that ? Or maybe make the Prototype a little bit more effective....don't know.

I agree with prototypes being a bit stronger, but that the Rommies were able to sabo you is entirely your fault. You should look for a cloaked scout in your base or at least move them to a position that has tac detection around it so they cant see you

posted on September 2nd, 2006, 3:35 pm

Assuming that you were dominion in that match, of course. If it was AI dominion, they do tend to do stupid things.

[Rhaz]

posted on September 2nd, 2006, 5:11 pm

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The Dominion is too effective without that one weakness, if you break through their thick lines and take out their battleship prototype you can stall production, and I love that idea, don't change it.

Plus Romulans...they love to sabotage prototypes and steal technology, so it's a very fitting end.

posted on September 2nd, 2006, 6:03 pm

Only to make it clear, I was playing the romulans ^^

If the prototypes become a little stronger than I think its ok.

posted on September 2nd, 2006, 6:21 pm

Mabye just a greater resistance to the sabo would do the trick.

posted on September 2nd, 2006, 7:02 pm

Mabye just a greater resistance to the sabo would do the trick.

nope, surely prototypes should be MORE sensitive to power overloads and the like.

posted on September 2nd, 2006, 7:42 pm

hmmm that just makes the problem worse, hence a BALANCE ISSUE.

posted on September 2nd, 2006, 7:55 pm

i wud really like 2 see non cloaking races (feds, dominion*) equipped with some way of detecting cloaked ships at the start (tachyon on stations), even if it is with stations or something of the like, just need SOMETHING to stop rommies and klingons having complete LOS on you as you build, from that point on your chances are slim. half of this game for me is the risk associated with going to an enemy point, hoping that u have more ships than the opponent, judging when u can afford to attack.

a change that would make cloaked fleets more used against other fleets would be ace, atm its too much cloak vs base.



*yes i know the dominion can get the breen cruiser, but it doesnt make them a cloaking race

posted on September 2nd, 2006, 9:24 pm

This will be the day...

I agree 100% with Ryan.

These ships have electronics equipment over weapons, they are testbeds and should be EXTREMELY vulerable to sabo and such.