We all know of the test patch on Tribble, and the massive rumpus its causing. well I've had an idea on how to fix it. Due to HDD space and time Issues I can't get onto Tribble, so am not allowed to post on the forums.
I saw a post about the cooldown issue, By Faithborn. The following comment kicked an idea into life. He said:
Skills need drawbacks to using them, not arbitrarily long cooldowns. Drawbacks that discourage spam but still enable to player to use them as they need them - a mana base without a mana base:
Well why not use the Aux Power stat as a limiting factor? That way you want weapon power for DPS, you can't run many Bridge officer buffs, yet it gives Science ships a reason to use the seemingly useless Aux. Plus some of the Science Bridge officer skills use Aux, and it would make sense with the +15 Aux those ships are getting.
It also means that EPS consoles are useful again.
Either use each power used as a drain, or Limit the number of abilities that can be fired off, cosponsoring to the amount of Aux power. That way we get around the issue of multiple Buffs being stacked on top of good weapon Damage. As An escort pilot I could quite happily set my Aux to zero at the moment, and have no further issues. With the above changes I'd have to start thinking again, and maybe take out some of the Weapon power to beef up my aux.
All in all I see it as a balancing factor. It also seems to answer all the complaints I've been seeing on various forums. The beauty of this is, apart from a few minor Nerfs to skills, and crit severity (which are needed) you could pretty much leave the game as is.
Well I hope this idea gets into the Dev's mind for assessment, but there's not much else I can do. Maybe someone on the forums can point a Dev this way or re-post this? Anyway have fun, and thanks.
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Yeah I agree, however I'm not allowed to post, as I don't have Tribble access.
Oh I found that, and I did hit the sign up. It still wouldn't let me post. I guess you have to import a Character and such before it'll let you in. Which does make sense, cryptic hardly want thsoe who have not tested it crayoning all over the Development forum. Additionally from my first post on the subject:
But thanks, I appreciate the attempt at helping.
And now I have more time allow me to expand on the idea.
Cryptic have said the problem is people stacking stuff, Others have complained about chaining powers together (Such as RSP). Currently you have 200 points to split between all power settings. So if you want to chain RSP under this system you need to use 100 to Aux. Meaning that while it'll be hard for people to kill you, you'll have weak shields and weak fire-power to achieve it, thereby limiting your ability to influence the battle.
The same applies to stacking the attack buffs. If you want lots of buff's you'll need to sacrifice your DPS from weapons to achieve it, which balances it all out.