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mli777
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I wonder how difficult it would for Cryptic to make matches where players are forced to use a particular ship, with fixed consoles, weapons, etc. They get 30-40 secs to set their BOFFs, then all heck breaks loose.
Imagine if there was an all-Miranda match, or all Galaxy-class match, or even an all TOS match, with one side using TOS Constitutions versus D7s.
It probably would favour premades, but there wouldn't be the power creep. The key would probably be having the ideal BOFFs for the preset ships.
Any thoughts?
Imagine if there was an all-Miranda match, or all Galaxy-class match, or even an all TOS match, with one side using TOS Constitutions versus D7s.
It probably would favour premades, but there wouldn't be the power creep. The key would probably be having the ideal BOFFs for the preset ships.
Any thoughts?
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Together with power-limiting abilities shown in Nimbus, they could make such matches the standard intro for new players, rather than Ker'rat which is an atrocious way to intro new players to PvP (seriously, having PvP Ker'rat available at what, Lt Cmdr level so players stumble in and try to fight Borg on one side and Fleet Gear-fitted B'Rels flown by veteran Generals on the other? What were they thinking?!)
It could also be a way of introducing new income streams, by having PvP ship unlocks that are limited to being playable in such scenarios (e.g. Jupiter and Typhoon Classes) so that such behemoths aren't unleahed across the whole game.
Such a game mechanic would also allow for one-on-one as well as team-based, and would provide a much more balanced PvP introduction that isn't reliant on your fleet's tier or individual player's grind equipment. It would also make sense to have leaderboards for such matches which would be meaningful: it would be entirely based on playstyle and little-to-nothing to do with how much stuff the players involved have acquired.
Of course, I doubt anything like this would ever happen, as I can't see a significant number of players used to using grind equipment advantages appreciating the idea of giving it all up for PvPs in a level playing field. Would be nice to be wrong on that, though.
There would have to be C-Store/Lobi ships too... gotz to monetize it. Those ships would be obviously superior and instantly become must haves... pre-set PvP ruined by Cryptic.
Something like the Battle of the Mutara Nebula would make a great 1v1 situation, a special Miranda vs a special Connie set-up.
Or a more PvE situation and the Battle of Wolf 359 where every player has a set-in-stone ship against the single (but uberfied) Borg cube.
Historical battles I think would be pretty awesome, as there have been a lot of them. Heck, could allow the devs to flex their figurative 'muscles' by giving players access to ships and combinations we wouldn't normally have, like having nothing but 'hero BOFFs'. Tuvok would be a Lt. Cmdr and the USS Voyager would have a Lt. cmdr tac slot, something it wouldn't normally have, as an example. Or along the lines of having REALLY powerful equipment and bonuses because it is meant to be a recreation of certain events.
Or even have 'what-if' scnearios where you play as Chang's Bird of Prey, fighting the Enterprise and Excelsior, but winning. Or battles we didn't see, like Picard's 'battle' against the Ferengi before he, at the time, knew who they were.
I do think the idea, for PvE and PvP has a lot of merit and interesting stuff the devs could do. Would add an element of 'Star Trek' back to the game, even though it isn't about 'exploration' or 'diplomacy' or other things.
(This post brought to you by the word 'or')
-Lord Commander Solar Macharius
they were good fun but relied a lot on player honoring the rules.
a system like youre suggesting would be awesome for that.
Do you even Science Bro?
Makes the game way too one lined, who's going to make sure the weapons and consoles are balanced at all? Because at this point they are far from balanced.
Who's going to balance out tac consoles vs engi consoles? Knowing cryptic they'll put on those rediculous +4 +4 +4 conzlolez haha.
Really, this game is too simple any way with the arc system where you really dont need aiming, it would be a total game of numbers without much user effort or input.
The other thing is with picking boffs, even those arent balanced. abilities are either good or bad, and we all know what that is, so picking the boffs is going to be easy pie for most people.
Perhaps im not making sense? who knows.
Damnit MT, if you're gonna drunk post at least link something NSFW while you're at it.
While the notion could make for some fun, and yes, balanced, PvP that was immediately accessible, I really can't see Cryptic going out of their way to create game modes that deprive folks of their precious fool's gold, especially right after the recent announcements regarding the reputation system.