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Starship Captain SKILLS Discussion.

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Liquidisim: The starship skills such as Heavy Escort, do those carry thru to higher level ships such as fleet escort. If they apply only to t3 ships, then there is no point in having those skills come endgame.

There is hardly no point, though these skills currently become less useful in the endgame. However, we are in the process of changing this. All ship skills will grant some bonus to the ship above it. So an Assault Cruiser will benefit from Starship Captain, Cruiser Captain, Heavy Cruiser Captain, Exploration Cruiser Captain and Assault Cruiser Captain, but it will get the most benefit from Assault Cruiser Captain Skill. So if you want to maximize your Assault Cruiser, you will need all those skills. Note, the Assault Cruiser will not gain any benefit from the Star Cruiser Captain skill and vice-versa. The bonuses only affect ships upwards along the tree, not laterally.


From a design point of view there is only 2 ways to solve this problem and still balance the game.

1. they will NERF StarshipCaptain/CruiserCaptainSkill/AssualtCruiserCaptainSkill. AND then force you to use the 3 skills that are currently not 'pointed'

Why? Because if they change it where you have to spend points into T3, T4 trees, it will end up making the assault cruiser more powerful then it is now.

What this will also mean is that you will LOSE the skill points you've spent on the other useful talents because there is a CAP on the skill points.


I hope you guys understand what I mean by this.

Currently 3 skills provide a buff to your end game ship. Let's say It provides say "X" % improvement.
(T1+T2+T5= X%)

Adding in T3, T4 skills will either be a nerf to the other skills so that the final "X%" remain the same. or you will have "X% +T3+T4 (buffs)" making the ships too powerful.

The nerf would be. T1+T2+T3+T4+T5 = X% (to maintain balance).

IF X% does remain the same with the new skill tree changes, this will mean you will lose out on points to spend else where.


2. They change the SKILL points you earn to give you MORE points so that you "can" spend points into the T3, T4 captain skills. without losing points else where. Otherwise you will end up losing 2 skills (maxed out else where).
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