I thought it would be nice to give a very slight buff to engineering frigates just to balance out the nerfs of recent updates.
Engineer Balancing : Once the engineer ship has it’s maximum capacity (2) of drones, it can place extra drones on nearby ships in a 100m radius. <u>One drone per other ship.</u> If nearby ship has low shield, equipped drones will heal that ship just like they heal the engineer. 200m radius for healing. Drones on non-engineer ships will not heal, only shoot.
This will give other players more insintive to stay close to engineers and protect them, while also giving engineers’ special module more usability.
I’d like to re-ad the drones’ ability to take out missiles, but that’d probably be overkill.
It can also produce a nigh on umbreakable frigball where any ship that gets close is being shot by half a dozen drones on top of all other fire. Bad idea.
It can only place one drone at a time though. And one missile would wipe 'em all out. It’s just a fun idea.
Frig balls tend to have guards. Guards may or may not have AMS. Ten seconds of drone fun per guard per frigball doesn’t sound too fun. Plus, each drone already heals wild amounts of shields. The only real limiting part of the engi special is that the range for healing is only 500m.
It’s my job to conceive the ideas. It’s y’all’s to make them work.
This is… I have trouble expressing how frustrating this kind of mentality is to deal with in real life. Have you ever worked with a group that just lumped all the work on to you, and pretended to be useful? No? I have. Lots. It’s not enjoyable. Don’t just abdicate responsibility like that. It’s not smart, it’s not fair, and it’s definitely not going to get results. There are so many reasons I hate this kind of mentality, and…
Well, I guess it’s a bit unfair to blow up on you like that. Seriously, though. It’s not our job to make the things you want a reality. If you want cooperation, it’s a two-way street. To be honest, I think this is an idea that’s impossible to rescue. Now what absolutely is your job, is to convince me that it isn’t.
Frig balls tend to have guards. Guards may or may not have AMS. Ten seconds of drone fun per guard per frigball doesn’t sound too fun. Plus, each drone already heals wild amounts of shields. The only real limiting part of the engi special is that the range for healing is only 500m.
This is… I have trouble expressing how frustrating this kind of mentality is to deal with in real life. Have you ever worked with a group that just lumped all the work on to you, and pretended to be useful? No? I have. Lots. It’s not enjoyable. Don’t just abdicate responsibility like that. It’s not smart, it’s not fair, and it’s definitely not going to get results. There are so many reasons I hate this kind of mentality, and…
Well, I guess it’s a bit unfair to blow up on you like that. Seriously, though. It’s not our job to make the things you want a reality. If you want cooperation, it’s a two-way street. To be honest, I think this is an idea that’s impossible to rescue. Now what absolutely is your job, is to convince me that it isn’t.
But even this simple statement is making y’all think, isn’t it? And even with AMS, think about eclipse/coil/kinetic accel. :3
But even this simple statement is making y’all think, isn’t it? And even with AMS, think about eclipse/coil/kinetic accel. :3
No. I don’t think you quite understood what I meant. It’s your responsibility to make your suggestion work. Thinking has nothing to do with it. Coil mortars may destroy drones rather quickly, but they’re also not that hard to take cover from. Singularities are harder to take cover from in a frig, but I have no doubt that a slightly spaced out frigball could destroy a fighter before it destroyed, say, a Styx.
No. I don’t think you quite understood what I meant. It’s your responsibility to make your suggestion work. Thinking has nothing to do with it. Coil mortars may destroy drones rather quickly, but they’re also not that hard to take cover from. Singularities are harder to take cover from in a frig, but I have no doubt that a slightly spaced out frigball could destroy a fighter before it destroyed, say, a Styx.
Hmmm… Quite… So, what I’m getting from this, is that for every good thing, there must be another bad? Like every update ever to this game? So if they add this, they would have to do something bad to someone, say… Draw energy? They would already be seeable through a cloak. They wouldn’t break cloak, just be a floating drone. They don’t heal when on a diff ship. Maybe they would make ships slower? Idk… I’ll keep thinking of bad things and get back to ya.
While I would always welcome a buff to my engies I just can’t see any being necessary. When I am where I am supposed to be, the healing and damage I produce feels just about perfect.
And if I have a fighter watching my back…and I could give that fighter some drone goodness…wait would I get credit for the drones kill or the person I place the drones on?
