[VIDEO] WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE CHANGES COMING THIS WEEK

snipey47a

Hi All,

The changes hitting Holodeck this week are wide ranging and impact every element of the game. This will tell you the things that will impact you the most particular for Tactical & Engineer.

Sorry Science... they kept tinkering with Science Captain abilities etc. I just haven't had the time to sit down and look at it.

I hope you find this useful. I present you - What you need to know about the Space Balance Pass in 12 minutes.


https://youtu.be/0obIrwK0CwY

nikephorus

snipey47a wrote: »

Hi All,

The changes hitting Holodeck this week are wide ranging and impact every element of the game. This will tell you the things that will impact you the most particular for Tactical & Engineer.

Sorry Science... they kept tinkering with Science Captain abilities etc. I just haven't had the time to sit down and look at it.

I hope you find this useful. I present you - What you need to know about the Space Balance Pass in 12 minutes.


https://youtu.be/0obIrwK0CwY

Nice video with good information. Thanks!

nekofury86

I've been messing around on Tribble over the past few weeks, but haven't gone through every single detail, I was most interested in whether or not carriers would finally be a viable option... the answer is still maybe. The still have trouble keeping up and docking with the ship. At any rate, thanks for the video.

darkknightucf

Well done packing in the major changes into this vid!

postagepaid

nekofury86 wrote: »

I've been messing around on Tribble over the past few weeks, but haven't gone through every single detail, I was most interested in whether or not carriers would finally be a viable option... the answer is still maybe. The still have trouble keeping up and docking with the ship. At any rate, thanks for the video.

The inability of carrier pets to keep up with the player is their biggest issue. Fighters blowing up not so much as the respawn on them means they can be replaced faster than having to hope they wander over to shoot something or better despawn so they can be replaced with a new set of belligerent muppets.

It'll be interesting to see if you'll be able to summon a single wing of fighters in combat in the tholian RA while the torp spam is going on. At the moment you're lucky to get 1 alive.

Some obvious ways are simple checks for player being in combat or not and if they're not then pets form up. Is the player at full impulse, if yes then pets engage at the same speed. Are they more than 20km away, if yes they hightail it to the player.

Slightly more involved would be to dedicate more command abilities specifically to pets and have the carriers converted to have a command boff seat at the cost of subsytem attacks. You could then have abilities, similar to deploying mines, where they go into set formations or wing attack patterns which could have procs that take down subsystems (specific or random) instead of the players beams.

Docking strikes me as an issue with the ship models having the docking bays as a specific point but rather than being outside the visual model its inside and that breaks what little ai they have.