On 2005-12-27 11:16, Polaris {Kit} wrote:
It's spelled like "alpha", not alfa, dangit!!

On 2005-12-28 10:13, Cataclysm Bum wrote:
I'm a new player to DS. I decided in my infinite wisdom not to bother with the tutorial or the newbie server so I headed straight to the MV. Once there I didn't have a clue so I went k'luth (due to having the best name imo) and grabbed a talon (the description told me it was best). So I went in and flew around a bit in sirius wondering what I was meant to do, I soon spotted a massive ship so jumped to him, very friendly guy told me a few hints and gave me about 500k to use to upgrade my ship.

So for a few days I flew around smashing into random planets getting killed by people etc. This continued iuntil i tried our the transport, this combined with the manual allowed me to seek out undefended planets and take them for prestige. Although the manual says nothing more than to bomb them not how I soon picked that up too. So I've worked my way up to 1st rear admiral on K'luth and subscribed and invited to join the three amigos, done quite well for myself so far I think.

But through this time I have discovered several problems with this game that the elders here are all too aware of.

1. Newbies should get supply ships from midshipman so they can get easier prestige. I see there is a reasonable explaination as to why they do not get drone engineers (they would probably make a mess) but why not give them supply ships?

2. K'luth are totally underpowered imo. Although we have cloak and can cause a bit of havok you only need to look at the MV every morning to see what I mean. Every night we are totally overrun, not only do we have a lack of players but we have a lack of ships that can scratch paintwork. Sure our bombers are great but if faced with equal numbers there's not much we can do. For this reason I have seen many new and old players go on k'luth for 5 minutes and leave forever.

3. Dreads SUCK. Although I see how having a Brood or a command dread would be useful I don't see many other dreads that would help out. This is probably the reason why nobody flys them anymore except the K'luth. How often do you see the massive UGTO fleets filled with cruisers and destroyers with no dreads. What is the reason for this other than these ships are overpowered and Dreads are underpowered.

4. Sort out the balance of power and adapt it constatnly to account for shifts in the player base thats the only way to keep things even imo. The balance of power seemed to be with ICC until FS went on strike now UGTO control the MV. I haven't come on the MV to seeing k'luth with more than 30 planets in a while now, actually its quite rare to find any left . We seem to be the easy option atm when it comes to invasions, we'll build, you'll mirv - process repeats - That gets boring after a while. Sure my bomb count is high but what else is there to do when you have no planets

Yea pok im just ranting SOMEONE TURN ON THE MV

On 2005-12-28 20:12, -Viper- wrote:
K'luth is by far the hardest faction to play on, they have their strengths, but their weaknesses outweigh them by a long way (since the changes).

Before the patch a small team of K'luth could slaughter a larger group of ICC or UTGO. It wasn't because of better ships, it was because a lot of the vets played as K'luth and knew their tactics, the communication on K'luth side was excelent (I dunno how it is now, not played since a couple of weeks after the changes). It seems some saw this as a faction being overpowered and stuff got nerfed here and there