Developer blog from November 16: Command Fighter Update

Mercenary Center Developer Blog
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3 minutes ago, ORCA1911 said:

I meant the free ways, i dont know about the cash ways.

Nah in free, the only way you’re getting to R15 is through 100hrs and possibly money. At least now. Back in the day sure yeah you might be able to get to R15 in a day or two if you grinded non-stop. But now that you gotta grind ALL THE OTHER AWFUL SHIPS TOO it’s impossible without paying. Either sell your soul for a month, or pay.

 

I hate it so much. That you gotta fly everything you hate just to get one more ship you might actually like.

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I covered the free easy way to level up but its still a nolife heavy grind to get in one day (24hours) to r15.

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On 11/16/2017 at 6:48 AM, CinnamonFake said:

today we will look at a whole role

 

We already have a lot of specialized ships now… why are we making so many more, each with unique stuff when we don’t even have a game that can feasibly support the acquisition of said unique stuff?

On 11/16/2017 at 10:47 AM, EndeavSTEEL said:

These sounds awesome changes! I wonder if r8 dessy will get something too :o

R8 destroyers are entry level, they already have specialized (enough) special modules, maybe for R11 and add more to R14.

22 hours ago, Tillowaty said:

How is MM for R1-8? Is there a chance to get a game to test dem awesome changes?

Testing will be on the Public Testing Server… too bad I can never connect from where I live anymore.

20 hours ago, DeathWasp said:

Um… im wondering, is this that new “big” December update? cos if it is, seems kinda lame and not much, i mean its great that they are updating the lower rank ships to make it more appealing for new people to play buut i have not seen a single bit of advertisement of this game which would increase the playerbase exponentially therefor thinking its a lame update.

I don’t expect this to happen until spring or summer.

7 hours ago, EndeavSTEEL said:

I want a high fire rate em weapon for fighter! we don’t have any of these ![:(](<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/003j.png “:(”)

Thar’Ga’Tok can fire 226rpm, Phaser can fire 113rpm.

6 hours ago, xXThunderFlameXx said:

Well actually Empire uses thermal damage, Jericho uses kinetic and Federation uses EM, each being effective against eachother, Empire>Federation>Jericho>Empire, its just rock paper scissors unless you equip other weapons, the updates shouldn’t be dead on the basic attributes, it never hurts to diversify with classes, it was this way since the beginning, or at least since classes were a thing, then we had destroyers and ellydium which further diversified what different classes can do, just because you are a recon it doesn’t mean you cannot be a damage dealer, or a debuffer, or a healer, as long as you have the equipment you can do anything out of anything, but the effectiveness will vary, its up to you to find a playstyle that balances on effectiveness and fun, its what makes this game unique and fun, in some aspects.

Ellydium ships didn’t diversify classes, they removed them, Ellydium ships are all gunships.

43 minutes ago, ORCA1911 said:

I covered the free easy way to level up but its still a nolife heavy grind to get in one day (24hours) to r15.

You would end up sitting in queue for 10 of those 24 hours, if you joined mid-game/late-game every battle you’d spend 15…

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Yep guys, it’s possible reach to rank 15 in approximately 24 hour (free way), i confirmed it by myself. If you are not a noobb and make good scores you can do it, if you still doubt, try yourself. 

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1 hour ago, PapyMcBites said:

You would end up sitting in queue for 10 of those 24 hours, if you joined mid-game/late-game every battle you’d spend 15…

OS has no queue ![:D](<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/006j.png “:D”)

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3 hours ago, PapyMcBites said:

I don’t expect this to happen until spring or summer.

wont be that long

3 hours ago, PapyMcBites said:

Thar’Ga’Tok can fire 226rpm, Phaser can fire 113rpm.

only for thar’ga and the fire rate is slow imo, phaser is slow and can’t hold fire :/, i want real high fire rate like 700rpm

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4 hours ago, aldermatias said:

Yep guys, it’s possible reach to rank 15 in approximately 24 hour (free way), i confirmed it by myself. If you are not a noobb and make good scores you can do it, if you still doubt, try yourself. 

 

Tried. Failed. Sorry. I would need 38 hours to get those 27 ships to the required levels. 

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9 hours ago, ORCA1911 said:

OS has no queue ![:D](<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/006j.png “:D”)

I suppose, but you don’t have open space until you get to rank 4(?).

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52 minutes ago, PapyMcBites said:

I suppose, but you don’t have open space until you get to rank 4(?).

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Getting to R6 is actually fast and easy, R6 itself is slower as your synergy income can come only from open space tasks or coop. At R7 you have access to Imperial Transport Hub, which is one of the fastest synergy generators.

 

But we are digressing here, can we stay on topic, please?

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This almost reads like, devs were thinking that Commands were underpowered to unplayability.

Really funny to read.

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14 hours ago, niripas said:

Tried. Failed. Sorry. I would need 38 hours to get those 27 ships to the required levels. 

You tried reach to rank 15 in 7 hours? -__- Well, i do it. This is happened some time ago. But if you get +50% synergy of free license for complete the training and more +50% synergy bonus of weekend, you got +100% synergy bonus for one day. It is completely possible reach to r15 in 24 hours. However, in this old times, it is not required those 27 ships to unlock r15. Ok let’s focus to topic now. What we are talking about? Oh, Rank 15 ships negligence.

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1 hour ago, Oregyen said:

This almost reads like, devs were thinking that Commands were underpowered to unplayability.

Really funny to read.

Every role is getting bunch oh mods, weapon and actives. About 200 in total. Its just so happened commands were blogged 1st

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7 minutes ago, xKostyan said:

Every role is getting bunch oh mods, weapon and actives. About 200 in total. Its just so happened commands were blogged 1st

look like ppl want everything at once :confused:

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On 18.11.2017 at 3:39 PM, aldermatias said:

You tried reach to rank 15 in 7 hours? -__- Well, i do it. This is happened some time ago. But if you get +50% synergy of free license for complete the training and more +50% synergy bonus of weekend, you got +100% synergy bonus for one day. It is completely possible reach to r15 in 24 hours. However, in this old times, it is not required those 27 ships to unlock r15. Ok let’s focus to topic now. What we are talking about? Oh, Rank 15 ships negligence.

Just to get this aspect a little closure:

  • with +50% synergy and a premium license you will get 125% synergy boost (license is multiplicative)

  • synergy is not a problem in tier rushing (at R7 you just can go to Imperial Transport Hub and kill hunters and pirates for 1-2k synergy per kill - it really goes fast) 

  • the main barrier are credits - if you are trying to do it solo you are limited to defense contract and fire support with average yield of 50k/minute, but you are then not generating synergy as fast as in Open Space (of course this point is moot if you have 2-3 friends and can do Ariadne’s thread speedruns)

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11 hours ago, niripas said:

Just to get this aspect a little closure:

  • with +50% synergy and a premium license you will get 125% synergy boost (license is multiplicative)

  • synergy is not a problem in tier rushing (at R7 you just can go to Imperial Transport Hub and kill hunters and pirates for 1-2k synergy per kill - it really goes fast) 

  • the main barrier are credits - if you are trying to do it solo you are limited to defense contract and fire support with average yield of 50k/minute, but you are then not generating synergy as fast as in Open Space (of course this point is moot if you have 2-3 friends and can do Ariadne’s thread speedruns)

+125% synergy bonus of weekend and free premium liscence for complete the tutorial +25% synergy bonus of daily reward = +150% synergy bonus. If you don’t get synergy bonus daily reward for the first time, just create other account. 

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10 hours ago, aldermatias said:

+125% synergy bonus of weekend and free premium liscence for complete the tutorial +25% synergy bonus of daily reward = +150% synergy bonus. If you don’t get synergy bonus daily reward for the first time, just create other account. 

Synergy isn’t the problem creds are. As niripas stated creds are hard to get solo, you simply won’t have enough creds. 

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any info on what engineers are getting? any cool deployable items for Styx?