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Using your other ships as wingmen in battle

lingeringsoul888lingeringsoul888 Member Posts: 509 Arc User
edited March 2015 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Just an idea, dont' know if it's been mentioned before. Now that most of us have built up a decent array of ships, Cruisers, Battleships and science ship, it's a shame not being to utilise them all in battle. Wouldn't it be good if they allowed us to take our few prized ships as wingmen? Like the ground battle sustem where you take 2 people with you, you designate 2 ships to fly with you. You could hide behind your 100k hulled cruiser while you do massive DPS and your science torpedo boat sieges from afar.
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    imruinedimruined Member Posts: 1,457 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    Been mentioned alot... Something that Cryptic seems to want to do, but no idea when, or even if, it will ever happen...
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    js26568js26568 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    They'd need to work on the AI first, something that they've been seriously inept at so far.

    Do you really want to see your favourite ship blown up because it can't fight a borg sphere on its own? Are you looking forward to killing an enemy and then seeing one of your ships charge headlong into the warp core breach and explode?

    Carrier pet AI is that stupid. They'd stick the exact same AI onto "wingman" ships without even changing a single thing except maybe the graphics for the button you have to mash 10 times before they respond to you pressing it.
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    jellico1jellico1 Member Posts: 2,719
    edited March 2015
    I would love to see this happen

    Because my cruiser pets would probably be better than most of pugs are :P
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    robertcrayvenrobertcrayven Member Posts: 355 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    js26568 wrote: »
    They'd need to work on the AI first, something that they've been seriously inept at so far.

    Do you really want to see your favourite ship blown up because it can't fight a borg sphere on its own? Are you looking forward to killing an enemy and then seeing one of your ships charge headlong into the warp core breach and explode?

    Carrier pet AI is that stupid. They'd stick the exact same AI onto "wingman" ships without even changing a single thing except maybe the graphics for the button you have to mash 10 times before they respond to you pressing it.

    As mentioned in another thread, look only to the mindless incompetence of the saucer combat pet and the Aquarius combat pet to see just how horribly your ships would fare under the control of the AI - and remember that the Aquarius is actually a playable ship.
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    imruinedimruined Member Posts: 1,457 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    robertcrayven wrote: »
    As mentioned in another thread, look only to the mindless incompetence of the saucer combat pet and the Aquarius combat pet to see just how horribly your ships would fare under the control of the AI - and remember that the Aquarius is actually a playable ship.

    Console pets are even worse than hangar pets... At least with hangar pets you can recall them in the last few percent, and hope they get clear in time - console pets you have to wait 2minutes+ to respawn them...
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    icsairgunsicsairguns Member Posts: 1,504 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    id love it if they let us use ships gear and crew we already own but then give us command like starfleet command had. where stayed in formation and fired at targets as we define them. not just take off on its own and do really stupid stuff that the games AI does now.
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    jaymclaughlinjaymclaughlin Member Posts: 630 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    But surely you'd then need to grind for more gear and upgrade that gear for your other ships? Most people only have 1 space set they actually use, and stick with a single weapon type... your other ships would enter battle with no warp core and tac consoles otherwise
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    stuart1965stuart1965 Member Posts: 691 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    jellico1 wrote: »
    I would love to see this happen

    Because my cruiser pets would probably be better than most of pugs are :P

    Wholeheartedly agree on this one.
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    tunebreakertunebreaker Member Posts: 1,222 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    I'd like to see it as well. Preferably with option to take every ship i have with me.
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    willomallywillomally Member Posts: 90 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    If you played the Star Fleet Command games this was one of the mechanics the game had so it is doable in theory.
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