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xlocutusofborgx
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Ive been playing mmo's for sometime now. Ive played SWG, played some... WoW for abit, then rushed out the door on that one, and finally was hooked on this. Over the course of a games life, Ive always noticed game dev's would always try to spice thngs up abit, try new approaches and new avenues. One thing I have found that tends to happen frequent in an MMO's life span is that they tend to bring out new classes for their games.
My question to you all is.. is it time to bring a new class into the game "spice things up", and what class would you like to see come forth?
For myself Id really love a "Command" class. We have Engineers, Tactical Officers, and Science Officers, just seems to be the right approach to bring forth a Command Class.
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My question to you all is.. is it time to bring a new class into the game "spice things up", and what class would you like to see come forth?
For myself Id really love a "Command" class. We have Engineers, Tactical Officers, and Science Officers, just seems to be the right approach to bring forth a Command Class.
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(if anything command class feels like "playable character".. but thats jsut me ^^)(that or command class sounds like someone who has to shuffle papers
For a new captain class, I say not a person with abilities but with a bunch of passives. With a boost in achievement, reputation, and trait passives as well.
In my eyes (sorry i cant stop lauphing at the shuffle paper work comment) the "Command Class" would offer more command abilities to groups. Maybe see more group formation abilities/buffs, maybe the ability to enhance a groups weapons performance, which I kinda got the idea when Cpt Picard took control of the fleet during first contact and ordered the fleet to fire on the set of coordinates on the borg cube. Maybe take this further, abilites that could find weekness's in the enemies the group is fighting.
Same principles would go with the ground. Im sure it could get expanded alot further.
Elim Garak
For sure that could go as well. Defenetly.
Ohh i like that idea, and its something we really dont have in this game. Something with a "stealth/lurk in the shadows" if you will profession/class.
Personally, I'd rather just have some more tactical variety with our loadouts. Rapid fire missiles, long range artillery and channeled beam weapons as standardized equipment, etc.
Wizard. I'd love to finally do some real space magic. They can even expand Starfleet Academy to have a Hogwarts Annex.
Factions are the way forward, more power to them
Now if Cryptic actually implements a Civilian / Merchant / Freelancer faction, I could see them adding that as a fourth option. Of course you wouldn't be doing Starfleet Military missions and such.
I would rather have them remove all classes altogether. We are captains, we are in the command chain. We don't pilot our ships our self, we don't fiddle with the engines our selfs, we don't fire our ships weapons our self. We tell our flunkies to do it.
I like this idea a lot. Kits kind of allow players to specialize to some degree but it's not enough as-is. Getting the ability to prestige and further specialize our classes into subdivisions would be great, at max level or anywhere else. Especially if it has an effect on non-combat gameplay like crafting and such.
Maybe the Rep system should be the start of this, or Prestige/Specialization/Whateverwecallit could be an entirely new tab on the character sheet.
As an Engineer primarily I'd love to see Fabrication Engineer become an official Prestige class. But all three classes should ideally have at least three possible Prestige paths. The existing kits form the groundwork, but that could probably be expanded upon.
This would be especially great if we could use Prestige options to create hybrid characters.
A "Command" class might also be concentrated on group abilities... buffing all team damage a certain percentage, or crit chance, or shield strength. They'd be weaker solo, but good additions to teams.
I understand that in MMOs part of the reason for division of abilities is to encourage/force player interaction but I honestly hope no more classes are introduced and would much prefer if existing specializations were moved into the skill trees so players had more flexibility with their captains capabilities. The needs of commanding a combat capable spaceship that is used for a variety of purposes in deep space should require captains that are cross trained in a number of different disciplines. The demands of command are the completion of orders while guaranteeing the survival of ship and crew, everything else is and should be side professions.
Tactical: tactical officer, security officer
Engineering: engineer, operations officer
Science: science officer, medic
They could add a whole lot of fun stuff to the game by doubling the careers available and adding new abilities to each.
Cheers
In SWG we had a variety of different non combat classes, crafter, entertainer, maybe something along those lines could be introduced. Maybe allowing them to branch out also to have military abilities so they could par take in combat activites. I know later in SWG's life they introduced a tree for entertainer that allowed them to be combat orienated.
Just for starters, ships dont have cargo holds, instead everything goes into character inventory. How do you have merchant class when an unarmed Tuffli and a heavily armed Defiant carry the same amount of cargo? Their revenue model depends on selling backpack space and bank space ($10 for a row of cells, they know exactly how much the demand is). There is zero chance of them adding a ship with a cargo hold--everybody would use it for supplemental storage.
Also the fact that there's absolutely no risk to being a merchant, so no room for a risk/reward model. Sector space does not support combat (its a lobby not part of the game space), and even if there was you can transwarp everywhere via several mechanisms. No room for the traditional risk-reward when there's no room for risk.
Really all you could do is have some missions that fake it. Must use ship class to land, pick up a token, take it to another place, fight off the gorn and nausican pirates, and dock. Boring.
Its not an MMORPG
If so why not.. make a trader class, that you could obtain a tuffi (though would neglect the whole thing from the dof packs) at max level and you would be allowed an option to visit "special" locations around each sector that contained an asteroid where you could go on there and mine eather the special crafting traces, or dilietheum itself and you could unlock a varied set of new shematics even some rare ones (which of course could be a very hard drop rate). Could also have boss fights for "traders" that they eather have to team up to take down and also drop special loot.
Maybe even allow traders to help other none trader classes refine more dilitheum at a cost, say refine up another 3-5k.
Just thinken of ideas :P
This is good. I can see them being split more for Space/ Ground focus. Tactical gets more of the Attack Patterns and Security can use Lunge like a TRIBBLE.
But then the exploration missions would have to be greatly expanded. And there'd have to be a mechanic for talking your way out of a problem added to all of the missions. And let's face it, those Borg aren't the negotiation types.
Not really. Just give it equipable slots that accept everything, but do nothing. Tah-Dah! Instant cargo ship!
As for supplemental storage, A. People do it anyway, and B. It's a pain in the butt, so people buy bank slots anyway.
Sector space needs a revamp anyway.
This already exists.
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