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Being able to pick off whatever weak fleet you want sounds overpowered to me. Expensive maybe on the CR recovery, but OP.Stronger than the ability to leash a personal Radiant or 10 extra vents + a 3rd S-mod slot?
So I dislike the idea.
Just to check up, you're claiming that the most realistic reaction of:if thats the case, I think what would square this circle is the game dropping a hint somewhere else in the game implying that someone else has done this before, so that ur player isnt the first/only person to have ever figured this out in the entire (known) galaxy (which would be very unlikely seeing as "figure out how to use the gates" has to be the most #1 researched thing in the entire galaxy. Cuz, you know, people can probably see that ur using the gates. & if someone had figured it out & kept doing it, even if they kept how they were doing it a secret, it would be pretty unlikely that there wouldnt at least be a rumor that somebody had a magic trick to use the gates.
The most realistic reaction would be that all major powers would want that device. And they would be willing to do anything. Offer you untold riches, and failing that, direct violent action. And not by sending a single fleet after you, they'd probably be willing to send almost everything they have. But even more likely they'd send a million agents to steal it or assasiante you.
And if you somehow managed to elude them all, keeping it to yourself, I also see it as very likely the factions would usnite against you. A combined armada to take it form you.
Realistically speaking, the player would be in deep, DEEP s***.
That'd make the problem worse, not better. The mines are 2k damage apiece which can tear apart armor effortlessly, so all energy damage would do is double shield damage.QuoteDo remember phase is acting at 3x speed, so it’s tripled DPS like temporal shell but better.Only for as long as the system and the Doom's flux reserves (while phased) hold out, which I don't think would amount of much of anything in either case.
A better solution IMO, other than making Doom+skills not crazy overtuned and instead more in line with just Doom, would be to change the mines from HE to Energy damage (and maybe tinker with their damage numbers a bit, not sure). As far as I know that's what causes the omni shield problem in the first place, since ships want to try and take the HE damage on the shields and don't account for the quad+ anti-matter blasters staring them in the face.
But isn't it ironic that the most people who want to nerf OP ships are the people who aren't using them?"No
If Doom for example, just went *poof* right now, how would that improve your gameplay experience, if you didn't even use it to begin with?
And what would the point be? Fighting a ship made to counter another ship instead of making a ship that works against all the ships in a single player game?The point of an AI Fleet Tournament would be to prove once and for all that you're correct and your massive text walls of theories work. After all, if what you said is true, it should be demonstrably provable through some fair fights.
A 4 tachyon paragon can't duel for crap unless it has a very specific timid officer trolling all over the map in a 1v1 (or 1v3) scenario, if I wanted to cheese to get fake results against ships you'd never encounter in the sector I'd probably abuse something like autopulse and/or heavy plasmas for a very specific scenario, instead of having a great centerpiece capital flagship capable of erasing anything below capital level in a single burst, and taking care of doom swarms (the fight before the Ziggurat, for example, was basically carried by the tachyon spam)
For a full meme tournament kind of shenanigans one could just abuse the broken Derelic contingent skill with meaingnless D mods on low tech ships instead and abuse not being able to take damage at all.
