The Balance Thread

posted on September 7th, 2006, 12:11 am

the DOm do really lack a proper cruiser but then again they have the best Battleship in the game so it depends

i wouldnt mind seeing the escort cruiser Buffed so it could be like teh Akira but personally from when ive played with you Barron

The dominion are fine you always seem to manage quite well the dom are great the way they are u just have to manager yourfleets

fight large battleships take the bombers and breen

if u need to fight destroyers the T15 is perfect

and as for cruisers u will always have more bugs than they have cruisers
and thats where suicide run comes in

posted on September 7th, 2006, 12:31 am

the DOm do really lack a proper cruiser but then again they have the best Battleship in the game so it depends

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LoL best battleship? Hardly Its special weapon is really cool tho



Well yeah u can fight cruisers with bugs, thats true. The only problem is when the enemy realizes this and combines for instance: Defiants and Akiras or Vorchas and Kvorts etc etc -.-
I dont mind it the way it is, dont get me wrong. I just got that feeling when I saw hypercubes fleets fight hopelessly against Skitzehs Akiras And I want to see if anyone else feels the same way and what should the solution be

posted on September 7th, 2006, 12:33 am

I dont mind it the way it is, dont get me wrong. I just got that feeling when I saw hypercubes fleets fight hopelessly against Skitzehs Akiras And I want to see if anyone else feels the same way and what should the solution be

ill cherish that moment forever!

posted on September 7th, 2006, 12:56 am

hehe, you should, it was a good moment.

on the subject, i must say, that the dominion do lack a proper akira/vorcha/generix strenght ship, but it's not necessary to give them one, they could get stronger cruisers or battleships, on the other hand, they do have ships capable of fending them off, but only in mass, since they don't have anything that could go 1on 1 against the akira/vorcha that would be in it's price range.

I urge Optec or Doca Cola to answer on this thread, becuse this is a really pressing issue.

posted on September 7th, 2006, 6:44 am

I urge Optec or Doca Cola to answer on this thread, becuse this is a really pressing issue.

write a PM to them; helps most of the time

posted on September 7th, 2006, 9:28 am

actually it will and having the grid on scouts was cheap cause all u had to do was keep a venture with the fleet and it was over for any cloaked fleets before they could even get a shot off

I personally love the cloak and regular playing has taught me its perfectly balanced if you use the cloak right

Like the last match i played where i cloaked and snuck into rhaz's base and obliterated him with 2 fleets of Rheins and warbirds

i love being able to do that

his fault he didnt get the grid

keeping the cloaked ships on green alert worked for me.

posted on September 7th, 2006, 9:45 am

The military units of the Dominion wont probably change very much until the final release. Yep the Dominion has the weakest cruisers - basically they have none - and the federation is up with the strongest. The largest advantage of the Akira is that it can support a fleet due to defence patterns - and multiple Akiras can support themselves rendering a federation fleet quite durable but greatly reducing its fire power.

posted on September 7th, 2006, 4:19 pm

Yeah well its fine the way it is

except maybe the supply cost of a few things but thas not really important right now

posted on September 7th, 2006, 5:54 pm

The military units of the Dominion wont probably change very much until the final release. Yep the Dominion has the weakest cruisers - basically they have none - and the federation is up with the strongest. The largest advantage of the Akira is that it can support a fleet due to defence patterns - and multiple Akiras can support themselves rendering a federation fleet quite durable but greatly reducing its fire power.

but from what i can gather from the series and movies is that the Akira is more of an offensive ship than a defensive one, inside a fed fleet that has to mean something. perhaps a switch, with the monsoon's proximity photon

posted on September 7th, 2006, 7:19 pm

Hmm yeah i didnt think of that ur right

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posted on September 8th, 2006, 5:08 am

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All fed ships are basically defencive ships, as thats their policy and thats how they build their ships. I agree 100% with the way these policies are atm in FO(kligons-offensive, fed-defensive, rom-system, dom-balanced)

posted on September 8th, 2006, 5:18 am

The Akira is literaly a ship meant for war-time. What peace time ship serves as a major hanger bay and has like 16 torpedo tubes. Wouldent be the only time the feds made a ship for war but called it a peacetime ship.

posted on September 8th, 2006, 5:42 am

Well then make it a light battleship and stop the crap with the cruiser and just make it canon

Or leave it as it is

posted on September 8th, 2006, 6:20 am

i'm for leaving it as it is, since it could just tamper with the balance and since the romulans, federation and the klingons are balanced up to a point already, the devs atleast have somewhere to start for the borg and the dominion.

posted on September 8th, 2006, 8:47 am

Even if this question was asked in some other ways earlier.... I didnt find a clear answer to it:

What are you planning for the Dominion ?
As far as I know:
1. Dreadnaught (Special Abillities - maybe the artillery ?)
2. A third mode for the Construct ship - Tetracel collector.

Something else ?

And to the akira:
Well, its a battleship and ist strong. (And looks soooo much better then the one from Armada2) But I think you can led it be how it is.... maybe change something on the costs....