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salamiinferno
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What do you think about warp cores? Do you like how they work, what they augment, how they fit as rewards?
Have you found a bug, or just have some general feedback? Please leave it here!
Have you found a bug, or just have some general feedback? Please leave it here!
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I only have one question. Will warp cores be added to existing ship sets for additional set bonuses? (Ex.: Adapted M.A.C.O. Warp Core, Aegis Warp Core, Ect)
That is when the shard is actually online.
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And this may sound like 'begging'; but I also think existing VA characters should at least get a free MkXI Blue (Rare) warp core - because come on, if these had been in the game from day one (Like MANY of us reqiested WAY BACK in 2009 closed beta) - we'd all have at least that, or something better by now.
[If you don't want to do this outright - maybe make the Tribble Test weekend reward a Warp Core instead of another Tribble, or in ADDITION to the Tholian Tribble.
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Very much this. Give a proper reward for once for having playtested on Tribble, and people with come out in droves to test the new stuff. Maybe we can actually get a decent population on Tribble during testing
Btw about them being space drops, that kinda sounds meh to me. Would rather them only be purchasable from stores or rewards from missions or rep system etc. Dont like the idea of them being in drops because well 9 times out of 10 the warp core would be blown up along with the ship. At least tech to a degree is sorta salvagable hence why that isnt too bad.
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I'll float the idea one last time, but I'd like to see warp cores used to swap BO slot/console slot layouts between similar ship types.
I'm halfway done with rewriting my Ships Power Guide. And now I'm gonna have to scrape what I've done and start again?
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slip stream does not exceed warp 10, its at best warp 9.999. thats another thing, look at this warp scale https://secure.flickr.com/photos/aaronpk/5966228932/lightbox/
its fairly linear up to about 9.6, then it slopes steeply upward, as you can see the warp 9.99 is twice as fast as warp 9.9. twice as fast. the steepness is further illustrated by warp 9.9999 being 199,516 faster then light, wile warp 9.99 is just 7,192 times faster then light
so, what is half throttle now should be warp 9, the other half of the throttle should be between 9.0 and a cap of 9.99. slip stream should top out at 9.999.
OR
go the route they did in AGT, ships going warp 13 and all that. sense voyager was topping out at 9.975, ordering exact factors by the decimal was becoming a bit of a mouth full. they proboly repositioned warp 10, infinite speed, as warp 20, and repositioned all the warp between 9 and infinite to everything between 9 and 20.
REGARDLESS, caping players at an in game speed of warp 10 makes absolutely no sense. pick any other number, seriously. thats so, so very far from correct.
Though I can see having a "threshold" speed. Consider it similar to go faster than sound; the physics change a little, and current technology can't easily pass warp 10.
ya, dont read my entire post or anything. and that page backs up everything i said
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This sounds like a very interesting mechanic that I wish I could learn more about.
There are rare warp cores available for dilithium purchase; they're not bad, but I really have nothing to compare them to. They do have some pretty interesting properties, though.
There's a lot of "Add 7.5% of [system] energy to [other system] as a bonus".
I am pretty sure (HOPE) that this is just a placeholder.
It is, in fact, placeholder - rest assured.
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In that vein, is it intentional that there seem to be no warp cores that give a + to maximum weapons power, or have I just not run into any yet?
i could see ship equipment drops require tractoring or stablizing before transport. and/or require repairs before equipped into your ship.
in canon, transporting a warp core from a destroyed ship would be approached very carefully. and the chance for it to fail would obviously increase if it is moved and certainly installed without being repaired or stablized. this could add another element to gameplay and perhaps give a use to crafting sites. (damaged equipment drops)
-could do this with other equipment too
if you have enemy ships around... tractor or approach unstable cores at your risk... if they fire at them, they could detonate. on the flip side.. if you fire at it, you could use it as a mine against enemies.
Further more we need more info. Some of us who have been here for 3 years will get confused by this new warp core thing and a little frustrated that ships we've worked on hard to get just right now require a NEW component.
That's intentional for the time being. We felt that offering a +Max Weapon Power base warp core would make the types a non-choice - everyone would choose and slot that, and the other three types would be ignored. However, Shields, Aux, and Engines all felt like they could be viable choices for particular builds or particular situations.
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Excellent, and I agree with that reasoning fully. To be honest, I hope that you don't add a "best" warp core to the fleet or Reputation stores so that there's more of that encouragement to experiment.