Is this a Bad Idea?

posted on December 21st, 2009, 3:31 pm

Okay, I was working on a Fed-Borg Mixed Tech ship. And I was going to give one of the Veteran Abilities as a Computer Override. This is the entry thus far (pretranslated).

Computer Override:
    -Breifly takes control of the target ship.
    -The owner of the target vessel looses the ability to relay any orders to it.

    Weapon Range: Short

I was thinking the effect could last 8 seconds. You can only target ships, not stations. And of course it would drain all special energy of the ship that fired it.

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I'd like any comments, criticism is welcome in moderation. And please tell me if it IS a bad idea, because I'd hate a bad idea to be part of a release.

posted on December 21st, 2009, 3:57 pm

sounds good, the vanilla diamond had that special.

it is a sensible feature, maybe give it a chance of failure. with bigger nicer ships have a higher chance of failure. or have a lower time effect for better ships.

posted on December 21st, 2009, 4:58 pm

Hmm I don't think it should use all SE though...

posted on December 21st, 2009, 6:10 pm

that feature / weapon was SO cool, when ships had self destructs.  hit the Sovereign class with it, set it to self destruct, order it to attack its allied ships untill it exploded  >:D

posted on December 21st, 2009, 6:13 pm

yh that was a bit op, maybe make it so that it dont let u control the enemy ship, maybe just interfere with its running, either completely disabling it, or making it slower and weaker for a time.

posted on December 21st, 2009, 7:10 pm

How about draining an amount of SE per second instead of fully throwing SE away?
The amount of SE used per second could be similar to the holding beam, adjusted for the smaller max SE capacity of the mixed-tech vessel.