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nakedcrook
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I decided to buy this ship a few weeks ago, and I must say...I love the ship, despite what some people say. However, I got two gripes about this ship:
1. The cooldown on the Phaser Lance is a little excessive. That should be 120 seconds tops. For a cruiser with only 6 base turn, and a weapon of 45 degree targeting arc, giving it the ability to fire more often is not asking much. It is not like this is the pwn gun or anything.
2. The Phaser Lance should be renamed to the "Forward Facing Auxiliary Lance" and it should use whatever weapon type the the rest of your ship uses predominately, whether it be plasma or AP or whatever. I am sure the main reason for the low popularity of this ship is the required use of Phasers in order to optimize the damage output of the Lance. So, why not make the lance use whatever weapon type the rest of the ship uses?
Like, the ship is fine as it is, but it could be made more popular and practical with a few simple changes. I dunno, how do you guys feel about this?
1. The cooldown on the Phaser Lance is a little excessive. That should be 120 seconds tops. For a cruiser with only 6 base turn, and a weapon of 45 degree targeting arc, giving it the ability to fire more often is not asking much. It is not like this is the pwn gun or anything.
2. The Phaser Lance should be renamed to the "Forward Facing Auxiliary Lance" and it should use whatever weapon type the the rest of your ship uses predominately, whether it be plasma or AP or whatever. I am sure the main reason for the low popularity of this ship is the required use of Phasers in order to optimize the damage output of the Lance. So, why not make the lance use whatever weapon type the rest of the ship uses?
Like, the ship is fine as it is, but it could be made more popular and practical with a few simple changes. I dunno, how do you guys feel about this?
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I agree. It's a barely noticable damage spike.
Why should they? From a canon point of view, it wouldn't make sense (although then again, neither does being able to load your feddie ship up with polaron cannons). But in essence, it's like asking to be able to switch your Point defences or DHC's.
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Perhaps I worded it poorly. What I mean is that if your ship uses...Disruptor single cannons, the lance would be of the disruptor type. It would basically be a massive disruptor beam. If your ship uses tetryon single cannons or tetryon in general, the lance would be of tetryon type. Do you see what I mean?
Basically, whatever type your ships uses (Polaron, AP, Tetryon, Disruptor, Phaser, Plasma, etc etc etc) would be the type of the lance. THis way, no matter what you choose, the lance "fits" with the rest of the ship.
But I would like a couple of seconds shaved off the recharge time on it. As you pointed out, for a weapon that does moderate damage and has such a narrow firing arc, on a ship that is inherently slow, a few seconds off the recharge for it would make it a bit better than it is now.
This weapon certainly is a let down... It certainly is not a going to break the game to improve it a bit.
I bought this ship just to get the cloaking device for my Defiant.
Actually, the lance does pop off two or three shots when you fire it.
And the dev team actually did improve the damage on it (just once, though).
Regardless, the weapon does need some work done for it, yeah.
For #2, no. Feds are Phasers mainly, that's cannon and it should stay that way. The unique weapon on a unique Fed ship should bear the Fed weapon of choice.
For #1 - I must be out of the loop. Or have my Tac officer set up differently because spiking a double-hit of nearly 40k seems a bit much when I can strip a shield off an enemy and just about guarantee to kill anything that's not an absurd boss ship or like a Tac Cube.
The weapon is good, but it needs support. 3x Phaser Tac consoles, Tac Team, EP>W, Alpha, Fire on my Mark and maybe another boost somewhere I am forgetting off my head... and the thing packs a punch. You just need to know when you can pack that kind of punch. Its a rare shot setup for high rewards - but limited when you can do that.
Although I do agree, a little faster recharge would be nice in-between.
I understood exactly what you meant.
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I mean look at it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0R0mdEP5fc
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Might be a silly question, but why didn't you just buy the Defiant Retrofit instead, as it also comes with the cloak console?
Not silly. The reason is I already had a Fleet Defiant, and I wanted a different type of ship. SO... if I'm going to spend Zen, I could pay 2000 for the defiant retrofit and never fly it, or spend 2500 for the Dreadnaught and maybe play it when I feel like it later.
I got the dread myslef, but before they nerfed the TRIBBLE out of it (2 weeks before actually). Talk about an irritated player.
From what I've seen, the game says it's a devestating weapon that can tear through ships. Well it did in TNG... because apparently their shields weren't up. I've always wondered, shouldn't their be like a realistic view on how the lance works and how ships work. Ships activate shields when say, they are twelve km near a ship, doesn't matter if it's friend or foe and it takes a four second kick start to start shields.
That's why the dreadnought has the cloak. It get's in like 5 km of a ship, decloaks when the enemies' shields are down and fire that lance and rips the enemy ship apart. Then it would seem more cannon wouldn't it.
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The Klingon ships there were already engaged in combat - I'm pretty certain they had no shields for the same reason half the foes do - it's more dramatic. If they'd sat there and popped of 15 shots to drop the shields, you'd have gotten bored.
Also, the proposed gameplay changes would massively benefit KDF & Rom, while leaving fed at a severe disadvantage. I'd be all for it.
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I haven't flown my G-X in years, because the Sovereign and Regent were better, but I wouldn't be surprise that with the skill and ship changes when F2P went live, that the Phaser lance's potency got nerfed.
But the lance was going to get worked on with the upcoming Galaxy-X saucer seperation. Perhaps the damage model could be looked over again.
God, watching that reminded me of how Cryptic still can't get the Klingon Disruptor sound effects right. :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6pYUq1hU0g
I love that video. Not about the ship, it's how you fly it. The cpatain of that ship, known as Hakashinlegion, had gotten nerve damage from a tour in the middle east in his right hand. As such, fly escorts with his mouse was difficult. So he opted for something different. And the Hakashin dreadnought was born.
I've personally flown this type of ship, and it's a MONSTER. Not underpowered in any way. When it comes out with a fleet version, with a new lance, saucer sep, and four tac consoles, I'll be on that like the fruit flies to my sink right now, even without the saucer sep.
This ship was designed to be a tactical application of force, and I really haven't found a use for it anywhere else.
Now, thats an OLD video, about a year and a half old, just after the oddy came out, but I don't think the galaxy-X has been nerfed since then. These tactics should still work.
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