Third Avatar

posted on March 15th, 2010, 12:46 am

not finding what I was thinking in a quick thread search or on the first 6 pages of results, so I'll post it here ant wait for the flames for something I missed but should have seen.

Right now, and since their inception, the avatars basically encompass either an offensive or defensive mind set, the Roms and Feds have a set with upgraded turrets, the Klings get thier ranged attackers for stand off capabilities, and the Dominion of course get their massive sensor platforms. The borg are a bit odly balanced, but you could say the assimilate feature is defensive, gaining you cheap units for defense or skirmishing.

And of course, there are build credits towards certain bases or units.

So, why not a third avatar, with a research or tech mindset? Provide a new science vessel, or an acceleration of special energy recharge, and a discount to most types of research and science stations, or perhaps add to the already developed Cloaking tiers with either an unavoidable detector or a perfect Scorpion-like cloak.

Again, forgive me if this is somewhere I missed it.

posted on March 15th, 2010, 12:48 am

Yeah, discussed many times

They will be integrated in much later patches.  like 4.0, ect.

posted on March 15th, 2010, 1:26 am

To add to what Adm. Zaxxon stated, Avatars will also be less geared to early/late game in the upcoming patches. Every avatar will get early and late game features and so there should not be this: Mayson > Risner, TaQ'roja > Martok, etc

posted on March 15th, 2010, 3:13 pm

I think the 3rd ones also get a slighty different approach to what you'd expect of their empire, too.