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Of Dinosaurs and Mirror Ships

gradiigradii Member Posts: 2,824 Arc User
I would like to make 2 suggestions, one for each of them.

Dinosaurs: Make the V-Rex gain a scaling HP and damage buff based on how many players are currently in combat with it. Champions Online already uses such a mechanic so it should be a piece of cake with STO's engine which is basically the same thing.

Mirror Ships: You wanna sell more upgrade tokens? Make those lockbox mirror ships you get in the requisition packs upgradeable to T-5U.
Easy Profit.

"He shall be my finest warrior, this generic man who was forced upon me.
Like a badass I shall make him look, and in the furnace of war I shall forge him.
he shall be of iron will and steely sinew.
In great armour I shall clad him and with the mightiest weapons he shall be armed.
He will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight him.
He shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best him in battle.
He is my answer to cryptic logic, he is the Defender of my Romulan Crew.
He is Tovan Khev... and he shall know no fear."

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  • mewmaster101mewmaster101 Member Posts: 1,239 Arc User
    While they are based on the same engine, that means very little, if the STO engine does not already have that system in place, expect it to either be in a massive update and used ONLY in stuff made after that update, or not at all.

    This, this i agree with, I would love the mirror ships to be T5-U!
  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 59,174 Community Moderator
    The problem with the first suggestion is that when the first V-Rex goes down, everyone runs to the next. If the second is almost dead and a bunch of people show up, next thing you know you might have a V-Rex who just jumped back up to 50% HP (based on getting more HP thanks to the influx of players in the area) and hitting harder.

    The second option... well... Fed Mirror ships were quite common and dirt cheap on the exchange at the time. The ONLY reason they jumped in price is because of the release of the Admiralty System, so people were snapping them up for the cards. So T5 consolation ships from before T5U kinda would have flooded the game. While I would love to see them up to T5U... I doubt we will as we might start getting either upgradable versions in the next lockbox or straight up T6 versions. And... well... lockboxes might pay more than Upgrade Tokens.
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  • gradiigradii Member Posts: 2,824 Arc User
    rattler2 wrote: »
    The problem with the first suggestion is that when the first V-Rex goes down, everyone runs to the next. If the second is almost dead and a bunch of people show up, next thing you know you might have a V-Rex who just jumped back up to 50% HP (based on getting more HP thanks to the influx of players in the area) and hitting harder.

    Change the HP buff to a resist buff and you don't have that problem.

    "He shall be my finest warrior, this generic man who was forced upon me.
    Like a badass I shall make him look, and in the furnace of war I shall forge him.
    he shall be of iron will and steely sinew.
    In great armour I shall clad him and with the mightiest weapons he shall be armed.
    He will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight him.
    He shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best him in battle.
    He is my answer to cryptic logic, he is the Defender of my Romulan Crew.
    He is Tovan Khev... and he shall know no fear."
  • misterferengi#8959 misterferengi Member Posts: 486 Arc User
    How about something is just put in place to prevent silo campers. That is the biggest problem in Voth Battle zone. Again yesterday zone 80% complete and running past city silo, there were 6 players camping waiting for it to spawn. Very little chance of anyone in the Park or Outskirts to tag that v-rex, as it already has 6 players and 12 buffs waiting for it to spawn.
  • thay8472thay8472 Member Posts: 6,376 Arc User
    or more T6 (Red) Mirror ships!

    P.S. More Tier 5/U (Yellow) Mirror ships!
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    Thank you for the Typhoon!
  • warpangelwarpangel Member Posts: 9,427 Arc User
    rattler2 wrote: »
    The problem with the first suggestion is that when the first V-Rex goes down, everyone runs to the next. If the second is almost dead and a bunch of people show up, next thing you know you might have a V-Rex who just jumped back up to 50% HP (based on getting more HP thanks to the influx of players in the area) and hitting harder.

    Which would actually be a good thing, because then the players who were actually capturing nodes and thus arrive late could get credit for the dinos too, instead of just the campers.
  • gradiigradii Member Posts: 2,824 Arc User
    warpangel wrote: »
    rattler2 wrote: »
    The problem with the first suggestion is that when the first V-Rex goes down, everyone runs to the next. If the second is almost dead and a bunch of people show up, next thing you know you might have a V-Rex who just jumped back up to 50% HP (based on getting more HP thanks to the influx of players in the area) and hitting harder.

    Which would actually be a good thing, because then the players who were actually capturing nodes and thus arrive late could get credit for the dinos too, instead of just the campers.

    Good point.

    "He shall be my finest warrior, this generic man who was forced upon me.
    Like a badass I shall make him look, and in the furnace of war I shall forge him.
    he shall be of iron will and steely sinew.
    In great armour I shall clad him and with the mightiest weapons he shall be armed.
    He will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight him.
    He shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best him in battle.
    He is my answer to cryptic logic, he is the Defender of my Romulan Crew.
    He is Tovan Khev... and he shall know no fear."
  • ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,573 Arc User
    Well if they instituted Tiered Rewards like all the subsequent Battlezones (Ground or Space) you can mitigate this BS. People should get NO credit for just tagging and running off. Stay and fight or too bad.

    I tend to show up a bit early at one of the VRexes after most of the Zones are controlled. I will stay there until he is dead. I usually do not move on to another as I usually don't make it in time and found that I received no end reward. So I tend to stay at the dead body. I am in it for the Implants and not gobs of Dilithium.
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