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chrisevans34
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I just love flying my carriers, i just love the idea of having my own little fleet of ships at my command who i send out in battle.
I just wish they would do a major overhaul of the whole carrier/pets situation in the game, like more gear/reputation/spec tree, specified towards being a carrier.
The way i look at it is, my ship is the base and i send out my ships to do the battle, id like most my dmg coming from my pets.
I have been working hard at unlocking stuff to help boost their dmg, and still working on this, but its just not gonna be enough, id like to see changes to the pets, like how pets come with abilities like FAW3/TS3/RAm etc.... it is really hard to tell if they are even using them, or how often they get used.
Would also love cryptic to make pets universal, (obv faction specific) but if ive spent lots buying the specified ships to unlock certain pets to go with the carrier (like bug ship, baltim raider etc..) i should be able to use them as i see fit.
would like cryptic to really take a good look at the whole thing and work on them, yes i know there people who don't like the whole carrier thing, and some think working on pets, buffing them is a waste of trait slots/console slots etc.... but i enjoy using the carriers and i'm sure there are loads of other folk out there that enjoy this aspect of game-play, and its also great in a role play aspect, i mean we are ALL admirals after all lol. Please cryptic think of us carrier lovers out there!!
I just wish they would do a major overhaul of the whole carrier/pets situation in the game, like more gear/reputation/spec tree, specified towards being a carrier.
The way i look at it is, my ship is the base and i send out my ships to do the battle, id like most my dmg coming from my pets.
I have been working hard at unlocking stuff to help boost their dmg, and still working on this, but its just not gonna be enough, id like to see changes to the pets, like how pets come with abilities like FAW3/TS3/RAm etc.... it is really hard to tell if they are even using them, or how often they get used.
Would also love cryptic to make pets universal, (obv faction specific) but if ive spent lots buying the specified ships to unlock certain pets to go with the carrier (like bug ship, baltim raider etc..) i should be able to use them as i see fit.
would like cryptic to really take a good look at the whole thing and work on them, yes i know there people who don't like the whole carrier thing, and some think working on pets, buffing them is a waste of trait slots/console slots etc.... but i enjoy using the carriers and i'm sure there are loads of other folk out there that enjoy this aspect of game-play, and its also great in a role play aspect, i mean we are ALL admirals after all lol. Please cryptic think of us carrier lovers out there!!
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Currently the sphere frigate pets are in complete idiot mode where they will sit 30km away from you doing nothing during combat unless you summon them when a fight starts. On a par with the vogon frigates that they stupidly thought giving mines to was a good idea, all they do it sit and dump mines when they trigger combat from half a map away.
And yet despite being 30km behind you they can still trigger red alert status from things 15km ahead of you. There was a time when pets did that and actually zipped off to start the fight before you got into range, NOW though you're lucky if they get there in time to see the fires burn out.
Last MI event I was having hangar pets despawn not from damage but because they simply refused to move and vanished due to the distance.
Generally beam pets are better since all that's needed is for the pet to limp within 10km and not having to figure out what a strafing run means. Overload trait from the escort carrier pairs really nicely with the rommie drones.
Command specialization could have been used to do some cool pet based things such as formation flying for bombing runs, likewise the built in carrier subsystem attacks could actually be a pet command rather than beam ability.
As with a lot of systems in the game, carriers are one with wasted potential because it won't sell escorts to the meta chasers.
Does anything else really matter? 200k dps is not required to beat the game :P
It's all according to preference, as always. Some love them and some hate them and some are middle of the two.
I agree with this, work on a top end game build to liquidate the hard stuff, but keep a few 'fun' projects on the side. This is mostly a casual MMO anyway, there is not a ton of elite endgame content to go through.
I'm still waiting for a T6 KDF Kar'Fi and/or Vo'Quv so I can tell Cryptic to shut up and take my money. Sadly, the Sarcophagus only has Lt. Science not Lt. Commander so its space magic is too weak.
I slapped on the quantum phase set that was released concurrently and I was all set. Yes the thing looks like and turns like a beached whale (so much so I've nicknamed it the Beluga) but I don't regret buying it in the slightest!
Being primarily a pure KDF player though I'm limited in choice of carriers, I have a mirror Vo'quv with the fleet BoPs and the rep scorpions. Good for one pass and then they derp around, but do make nice distractions for enemy fire.
I may well buy the Jupiter though, though no idea which pets to get for it when I do though. I want a Vengeance first though.
That's another one where I'm waiting for the T6 version before I throw money at my screen.
We can beat an MMO RPG? When was the last time someone said they beat Everquest?
I remember playing Homeworld game. Yeah, a space RTS game so different type of game than STO, but it came out in 1999 and they had a decent AI if I remember right. Lots of commands you could do.
that would be totally awesome if they could do this, as someone was saying may have to sacrifice somat on my main ship to boost pets, but i believe in alot of cases things get sacrificed for a certain type of build all the time!
Some of the missions are not designed with carriers in mind. For example that new mission Scylla and Charybdis is downright horrible to play as a carrier. Your pets de-spawn every few mins. Scylla and Charybdis was that bad it made me stop using Carriers.
So true.
But it is fun melting things faster.
The Recluse is very good, but I'd have to say the Advanced Obelisk Carrier is the best. The 3 piece set: Enhanced Carrier Synergy is 'possibly' the best pet buffing power and can only be used on that ship.
Any pet buffing Tac console that wasn't a 'Locator', would be balance enough.
Console players have it slightly easier for missions that bounce from place to place due to the basic power management, flip it over to full aux and you have your shuttles or frigates out much faster.
Of course a better option would involve have the game not despawn pets on transitions especially ones that don't bump you into sector space or a ground map. For example on S&C they could use a much larger map split into chunks for each of the space zones in a similar way to how ground maps bounce you between parts for ground missions. But they'd maybe then have to fix the bug that randomly sets the compass map zoom to fully out.
id did it with the new tzenkethi carrier had no issues!
one ship ive never owned! that the recluse