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zubo100
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Dear all,
Below you will find my personal "this would fix it" patch notes. I think most of them could be implemented fairly quickly. If you want you can join me and post your own. Perhaps this way we can point out the most pressing issues that we currently face.
I should point out that I have no idea about PvP so the things I made up do not take any needed changes there into account.
Patch notes
Bug fixes:
- The Mac client now works
- The quickbar is now fixed
- Fixed several crashes
- Borg red alters now spawn enemies correctly
- All known issues are fixed
- All items now upgrade correctly
- Several additional minor bugfixes
Upgrade System:
- When at max rank (MK XIV) the rarity upgrade chance increases by an additional 20% every time an upgrade fails
- All non-unique space weapons now require the same amount of points to upgrade
Specialization:
- Specialization XP gain is now shared account wide and you start gaining specialization XP at level 1 if you have at least on character above level 50. This only affects XP gain, you can still spend points individually on every character and only if said character is above level 50.
R&D System:
- A critical success on any R&D project now doubles the original R&D experience reward
PvE :
- Normal difficulty R&D rewards now reward 1 very rare crafting material
- Advanced difficulty R&D rewards now reward twice the "normal" reward (2 very rare, twice the amount of rare, etc.)
- Added a 50% chance for a Salvaged Technology reward to advanced R&D rewards
- Elite difficulty R&D rewards now reward twice the "advanced" (4x normal) reward (100% for Salvaged Technology, 4 very rare, etc.)
- All elite space NPCs (this does not include structures) had their HP reduced by ~25% and their outgoing damage of non-special attacks increased by 50%
- Borg STF NPCs have now access to several abilities they assimilated from other species. Be prepared.
Balance:
- All space energy weapons now have the same falloff in damage with respect to distance to the target. This change mostly affects Cannons. (Buff to cannon damage at range)
- The base damage of all torpedoes has been increased by 15%
- The base damage of all mines has been increased by 30%
- The base projectile speed of all non-target-able/non-avoidable torpedoes has been increased by 50%
- The damage component of all science and engineering abilities has been increased by 20%, several under-performing skills have received additional increases in damage.
- All self-buffing engineering and science captains space abilities had their durations increased.
- Increased the shield modifier on most cruisers and science ships.
- Reworked crew mechanic:
- Crew is now disabled at 10% the rate as before
- Crew death (non replenish-able in combat) is now 20% of before and can not exceed 50% of total crew.
- Crew now replenishes at 20% the rate as before in combat, 200% out of combat
- Having more than 50% crew reduces duration of all debuffs/hostile over time effects on your ship (up to 50% at 100% crew)
- Having less than 50% crew increases duration of all debuffs/hostile over time effects on your ship (up to 50% at 0% crew)
- Having less than 10% crew increases all cooldowns by 25%
- Reduced crew of all Scimitar variants to 1000.
I think that covers the most pressing issues and relaxes some of the most grindy features a bit.
Below you will find my personal "this would fix it" patch notes. I think most of them could be implemented fairly quickly. If you want you can join me and post your own. Perhaps this way we can point out the most pressing issues that we currently face.
I should point out that I have no idea about PvP so the things I made up do not take any needed changes there into account.
Patch notes
Bug fixes:
- The Mac client now works
- The quickbar is now fixed
- Fixed several crashes
- Borg red alters now spawn enemies correctly
- All known issues are fixed
- All items now upgrade correctly
- Several additional minor bugfixes
Upgrade System:
- When at max rank (MK XIV) the rarity upgrade chance increases by an additional 20% every time an upgrade fails
- All non-unique space weapons now require the same amount of points to upgrade
Specialization:
- Specialization XP gain is now shared account wide and you start gaining specialization XP at level 1 if you have at least on character above level 50. This only affects XP gain, you can still spend points individually on every character and only if said character is above level 50.
R&D System:
- A critical success on any R&D project now doubles the original R&D experience reward
PvE :
- Normal difficulty R&D rewards now reward 1 very rare crafting material
- Advanced difficulty R&D rewards now reward twice the "normal" reward (2 very rare, twice the amount of rare, etc.)
- Added a 50% chance for a Salvaged Technology reward to advanced R&D rewards
- Elite difficulty R&D rewards now reward twice the "advanced" (4x normal) reward (100% for Salvaged Technology, 4 very rare, etc.)
- All elite space NPCs (this does not include structures) had their HP reduced by ~25% and their outgoing damage of non-special attacks increased by 50%
- Borg STF NPCs have now access to several abilities they assimilated from other species. Be prepared.
Balance:
- All space energy weapons now have the same falloff in damage with respect to distance to the target. This change mostly affects Cannons. (Buff to cannon damage at range)
- The base damage of all torpedoes has been increased by 15%
- The base damage of all mines has been increased by 30%
- The base projectile speed of all non-target-able/non-avoidable torpedoes has been increased by 50%
- The damage component of all science and engineering abilities has been increased by 20%, several under-performing skills have received additional increases in damage.
- All self-buffing engineering and science captains space abilities had their durations increased.
- Increased the shield modifier on most cruisers and science ships.
- Reworked crew mechanic:
- Crew is now disabled at 10% the rate as before
- Crew death (non replenish-able in combat) is now 20% of before and can not exceed 50% of total crew.
- Crew now replenishes at 20% the rate as before in combat, 200% out of combat
- Having more than 50% crew reduces duration of all debuffs/hostile over time effects on your ship (up to 50% at 100% crew)
- Having less than 50% crew increases duration of all debuffs/hostile over time effects on your ship (up to 50% at 0% crew)
- Having less than 10% crew increases all cooldowns by 25%
- Reduced crew of all Scimitar variants to 1000.
I think that covers the most pressing issues and relaxes some of the most grindy features a bit.
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-R&D 20 h projects now reward 10000 Technologypoints instead of 6000
- Romulan, Jem`Hadar, Breen and Hierarchy Boffs now have access to all Uniforms unlocked by the player. (including Khan, Romulan senate Robe and Off Duty)
- All XP rewards have been increased to the same amount they had prior to Delta Rising at Level 50 but are increasing with Level to 1.5 times the amount they had prior to Delta Rising
-Dilithium Rewards have been Increased by 50% but all Requirements have been lowered by 20%
-STF Objectives are Optional again
-STF Siffivulty has been decreased. Advanced is now the same as the Old Elite
-All STFs now reward either Dilithium or Lobi Crystals
-DOff assignments are now Available in the Delta Quadrant, the Jenolan Sphere and the Delta Command
These would be literally the best things ever. Especially the first. Coz i'd love to play What lied beneath later today, if i wasn't still about 2 weeks away from getting to lvl 60 and actually playing any of the DR storyline.
Obviously, you've never worked on a large software project. These things are always considerable more complicated then first appearance from a layman...
Most would come back if half of it was true.
This is literally all I want to make me happy!
Um, specialization points are a level 50 plus thing becuase they basically take over for leveling.
- All upgrade costs have had their prices reduced by %50.
- Very rare component costs have been reduced by %20.
- All XP gains have been increased by %25 and all quality increase now gives at least %1 extra gain per upgrade component used.
General
- All Ground combat XP has been increased by %100 and all Space combat XP have been increased by %50
You mean you do not enjoy the skill bar shuffle game? it is the IN THING with the in game mini gamesi enjoy it very much!
now we just need 16 more people to say they enjoy it then we will be having 17x to much fun and it will get nerfed
Damnit now I sprayed coffee all over my keyboard...thanks a LOT lmao
would you like a telaxian outfit to clean that up with?
These are terrible suggestions. Increase torp damage by 15%? We already have problems with insta-ganking with the Neutronic torp. Increasing the damage component of sci and eng abilities is the worst way to go. It should be the other way around; increase the defense component of sci and eng powers, and fix Aceton Beam and CPB so they aren't so lousy. Also, increasing sci and eng captain abilities' durations seems rather pointless. We don't have a problem with the duration anyhow.
Anything you do in terms of suggestions must take into account everybody that will be affected - including PvP players, as well as the other groups (RPs, etc). Everything you suggest has repercussions down the road.
Missing the good ol' days of PvP: Legacy of Romulus to Season 9
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I'd gladly do without all the "fun" features and content that we introduced with DR.
Tosk couldn't agree more lol
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Easy enough to address the PvP issue. Just need an asterisk on torpedoes. (*Does 1/10 damage to players) Then they can be useless in PvP as well.
Honestly though, my issue with torpedoes is on ships not using DHCs and slow turning whales. In other words, ships in which you lose firepower to launch a torpedo, as well as essentially lose a weapon slot when the torpedo(s) can't be fired.
A torpedo modifier, much like the shield modifier, to buff torpedo yield on such boats would be nice.
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But after you grind up to 61, 62, and etc you only get magic 1 to use ton specialize features. Which should be really 10 points out of that large number you need to reduce to get that 1 point to use.
So bottom line reads if the patch notes read 50% increase then 20% lowered = 30% increase then.
Time will only tell!
It also doesn't make sense given that a continuous beam should have less energy drop off than a self-contained globule of energy.
Instead, Rapid Fire should be the ability that temporarily allows less damage drop-off at range due to basically overcharging the cannons to put more firepower and shots out there. It would also make it a bit more useful the way Beam Overload is currently somewhat useful. Maybe have it also take power from Aux to reduce and offset the weapon drain. This would still keep the balance of having powerful but micro-managed cannon vape builds, since unlike BO, it affects the firing duration rather than one shot.