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Capital Ship Buff ideas

March 24, 2012 2:35:53 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

So i was thinking about capital ship buffs and how well they work with fleets, so i propose that a new series of buffs get added.

For example, there is an achievement which you earn by having all types of capital ships built at the same time. My idea is this: If you have in the same gravity well one of each type of flagship they get an added bonus buff. Or, if you have say 4 dreadnaughts in the same gravity well they get a buff to increase bombardment damage. The buffs could be even be high powered, because if you were to even take out one capital ship the buff would vanish. Might be helpful if the buff were only to be given with fleets of 4 or more capital ships.

 

thoughts?

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Reply #1 March 24, 2012 4:48:14 AM
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Are you saying that capital ships are too weak, or they don't buff a fleet enough?  I am also not sure what giving them additional abilities by having more of them together is meant to accomplish. 

 

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Reply #2 March 24, 2012 10:45:08 AM
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Because having multiple capital ships in close vicinity already causes them to boost each other (sometimes greatly, depending on the abilities and levels of the ships), I don't think extra buffs are really needed. You could try something like this in a mod and see if it really improves upon the existing gameplay but I think capital ships work fine the way they are right now to be honest.

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Reply #3 March 24, 2012 12:05:53 PM
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What  i was trying to say through my delerium from sleep deprevation is that having buffs for having certain types of ships would be cool. Not all of the buffs would have to be combat related either. Say you have 4 dunovs, then you would have a buff that would give them area of effect shield restore because some of the shield energy bled off of the original beam. Or if you had 5 carriers you could convince your pilots to become suicide bombers dealing higher damage. stuff like that.

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Reply #4 March 24, 2012 3:14:13 PM
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Hmm suicide bombers would be funny!

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Reply #5 March 25, 2012 3:00:05 AM
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If they are going to give multiple cap ships a special buff by being near each other, they might as well allow 5 or 6 of them to link up together and form Voltron, as I have illustrated below.

Voltron vs Titan

 

 

 

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Reply #6 March 25, 2012 3:09:03 AM
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Quoting travitar,
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If they are going to give multiple cap ships a special buff by being near each other, they might as well allow 5 or 6 of them to link up together and form Voltron, as I have illustrated below.

Reduced 77%Original 740 x 416

 

 

 

 

careful, the devs might take your idea and run with it lol.

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Reply #7 March 25, 2012 2:02:46 PM
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Quoting travitar,
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If they are going to give multiple cap ships a special buff by being near each other, they might as well allow 5 or 6 of them to link up together and form Voltron, as I have illustrated below.

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Reply #8 March 25, 2012 2:17:48 PM
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Quoting travitar,
reply 5
If they are going to give multiple cap ships a special buff by being near each other, they might as well allow 5 or 6 of them to link up together and form Voltron, as I have illustrated below.

 

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Reply #9 March 25, 2012 10:56:42 PM
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"Transformers...titans in disguise!"

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Reply #10 March 25, 2012 11:03:58 PM
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I never understood... if the thing is sooo much more powerful when combined... why start off separated? 

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Reply #11 March 25, 2012 11:41:17 PM
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Quoting SithLordAJ,
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why start off separated?

Well, since they were selling toys based on the toon and it was on commercial tv, it had to be at least 22 mins long so they can sell up to 10 mins of commercials. Otherwise, 2 min cartoon battles and 28 min commercials will suck.....

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