So I see many past threads posted here, in the tribble and PvP threads about the damage npc spam is doing to PvP. These threads started before the most recent weekly series.
Yet it would appear that the devs have gone out of their way to increase npc spam in ths game in response, with fighters and cloaked mines etc.
I am going to assume that this is part of an overally strategy for the game and not three people sitting around on a Friday morning discussing "What would be cool and shiny and a cheap PvE win"
So my question is what is that strategy? These new devices may be great for PvE but they are ruining an already unloved part of this game: PvP. The very least you could do if you insist on sacraficing PvP on the alter of lowest common denominator PvE is give us a way to target the next player controlled ship on the tab command - on the face of it an obvious and simple request?
PvP Is:
- a visual mess with mines and fighter and klingon spawn all over the screen - npc spam was the sole reason I stopped PvPing against the Klingons rather than the myth that they are OP
- Now the least Trek-like aspect of the entire game. Mines and fighter class craft were used so infrequently as to almost not be considered canon and might be more fitting to DS9 Online rather than Star Trek Online
- Obviously and blatently unloved by Cryptic as the whole system is uninspired, unimaginative and uncared for
Comments
Snix and Chaddington posted on it before:
http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?p=3414690#post3414690
http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?p=3419943#post3419943
http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?p=3420904#post3420904
http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?p=3421243#post3421243
This is the most specific response after the "spam crisis" meeting:
I would probably recommend adding any further thoughts to either the thread started by snix or the thread with Chaddington's replies, as that is most likely to be monitored directly.
As always, please keep it in the right threads in the right forums. The PvP forum is the place to be for PvP discussions!