On 2010-08-31 00:28, Ironhawk wrote:
To: The powers that be.
To the volunteers who gets reminded about this atleast once a week.


IMHO, I think Supply ships could use a little beefing.
IMHO, everything doesn't need a buff or nerf, we just need to tweaking it so it works again with the system. Buff or Nerf only leads to QQ threads.


It's like they're made of paper, but they fly like a brick.
Tripple hull, cargospace and repair machinery the size of a large shopping mall with a engine. sounds about right if they fly like a oil tanker.


I dont even think they are very good at thier primary function,
let alone anything else.
Repairing other ships.. i think they do that.
But i guess you are thinking about MMO Tanking, or expecting to be able to fly next to a dread and not get hurt.


IMHO, Flying supply is not fun in Darkspace.
Same with Bombing, Capturing, building, guess what the main DS focus is combat.


If I didnt need or want the badges, I'd never fly these things.
Take one for the team. NO? well guess we have to make you fly em a bit before giving you access the the big ships.


I would not blame anyone else who didn't want to either.
I won't blame you or myself. but i still fly them.


It used to be somewhat fun to fly these ships. They seemed as if they could take more damage back in the day.
Due to the demand of the players we Buffed everything to beyond sanity, this includes weapons damage, same with armor buff, but supplies didn't got a extra armor gadget, everything else did.


I flew supply at times because I enjoyed it. It was not easy, but it was rewarding.
You could fly with your Fleet and be useful.
Still can do that, if your fleet doesn't abandon you. coordination is lacking we know.


Now, you had better jump when the battle starts, or else if your targeted it only takes a few seconds before your floating with Major Tom. // QQ
Who is Major Tom? and you never fly with the combat team you fly after them, keeping your allies between you and the enemy.
Keep your JD charged in-case that annoying luthy pops up, and just run around repairing allies..


I dont mind being killed... it's part of the game. If some dread jumps me and alpha's me... well, I was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Exactly, but why would they jump you. wouldn't that dessie/cruiser/dread that you are repairing be a more interesting target.
Hint for the people who shoot supply ships. they repair your target, they provide more prestige for you in the same target.


But when I need to put down some super fast repairs, or I need to manvoer in fleet engagements, the designers of these ships
should have know that defense, and the ability to TURN would be required.
They turn like engineers/destroyers, they have a armaments like a transport, they carry loads of resources and ammo to resupply and repair ships.
If you ask me that sounds about right.


They should have been aware that these ships will be targeted and required to be flown along side combat ships.
They should have a combat escorts.

Thus inheriently, they are in harms way, and should have been designed
with a military mindset.
look up "T-AOE" there fast, don't pack a punch and turn like a transport.

As it is now, these ships feel like the Yugo's of Darkspace.


My sugestions... faster acceleration, better turning radius, 3 repair drones,
and more armor,and or shields.
Trust & top speed looks about righ. Turn ratio we might change that with the upcoming ship modifications that include armor and shields.
But the 3 repair drones = a big NO NO Never. we might tweak the reload capacity of the drones but supply ships won't be getting 3 or more drones.

Thank you for your time, and consideration.
Your welcome, hope you haven't found me to annoying with my replies.


Ironhawk.
Eledore Massis

P.S. I Could be wrong.. and the intended function of these ships is to sit around being bored until someone is willing to let me repair them somewhere....
[/b]Follow the group, look around where combat might occure.
Supply points gets added to the amount/duration your drones are active.
Reloading everyone's jump fuel helps you and them.[/b]

Althought Honestly, that doesnt sound like fun game mechanics to me,
Thus, my QQ.
[/b]Every fun part is counters by a boring part. DS has verry lttle boring parts, we are happy the way it currently is.

On 2010-09-01 17:04, Cearwyn wrote:
But those are just my thoughts on this and i havent been here very long so they probably arent very sound.

On 2010-09-01 17:04, Cearwyn wrote:
and people dont think that they can get more pres. from letting the larger ships get repaired and repeating damage done to those, i think Kenny_Naboo put it nicely in the chat when he said people just like to pop the lowbies and put them in their place rather than get prestige from them and lets face it once people have the support station unlocked just about everything else because obsolete because they can repair and fight at the same time.

On 2010-08-31 23:25, Ironhawk wrote:
A professional reply looks like this:

" The game mechanic in question is working as we intended.
We feel that no review, or updates to it are needed at this time.

Please feel free to submit any other ideas to the team, as you feel nessasary, as we value all players feed back, and enjoyment of our game.

Thank you for playing darkspace!

-Development Team."

-Lord Ironhawk.