Game is far far too easy ?

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Game is far far too easy ?

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Even without missiles and novabrone all ships are far too easy to kill, and also to capture, i end up with a giant fleet of stuffs i could not even sell due to shipyards full.

I tried to add hull shiled, mod to add extra shields on modules, decrease player weapon... still too easy.

I will try to add 1000% on shield cap and *10 on recharge speed later but i wonder how players without any mod feel the dificulty by now (without bugs subject, just difficulty) ?
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Re: Game is far far to easy ?

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SieurNewT wrote:Even without missiles and novabrone all ships are far too easy to kill, and also to capture, i end up with a giant fleet of stuffs i could not even sell due to shipyards full.

I tried to add hull shiled, mod to add extra shields on modules, decrease player weapon... still too easy.

I will try to add 1000% on shield cap and *10 on recharge speed later but i wonder how players without any mod feel the dificulty by now (without bugs subject, just difficulty) ?
Hmm, yes it's easy.
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Post by Informer »

Yes, I must agree. The AI is very bad. Most of the time the ships are just hanging around and wait for you to give the first shot. Fighting is not a lot of fun this way. :(
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Post by Trillsiker »

It just need some balance with the weapons stats, also more option to customize your ship : mk1 -> mk 10 instead 3useless options. Same here, just tweak the stats.
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Trillsiker wrote:It just need some balance with the weapons stats
No. We need a far more aggresive response to hostile player actions from npc factions. Npc cap ships needs more drones to cover their blind spots. I can board as many cap ships as I want without any challenges at all.

In the long term, I need a challenge that gives me reasons to put together fleets. I want to defend and I want to attack; I want to start war and I want to have wars declared on me! :)
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Trillsiker wrote:It just need some balance with the weapons stats
No. We need a far more aggresive response to hostile player actions from npc factions. Npc cap ships needs more drones to cover their blind spots. I can board as many cap ships as I want without any challenges at all.

In the long term, I need a challenge that gives me reasons to put together fleets. I want to defend and I want to attack; I want to start war and I want to have wars declared on me! :)
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Post by dzhedzho »

Artean wrote:
Trillsiker wrote:It just need some balance with the weapons stats
No. We need a far more aggresive response to hostile player actions from npc factions. Npc cap ships needs more drones to cover their blind spots. I can board as many cap ships as I want without any challenges at all.

In the long term, I need a challenge that gives me reasons to put together fleets. I want to defend and I want to attack; I want to start war and I want to have wars declared on me! :)
Then again in previous x games you could hire a TL, instruct it to go to quite place and board it there :P

Don't think they ever had the boarding right... Though now it is even more ridiculous, as you can board a ship with a half billion worth in wares...
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dzhedzho wrote:Don't think they ever had the boarding right... Though now it is even more ridiculous, as you can board a ship with a half billion worth in wares...
I believe the current system would be quite good if the cap ships could defend themselfs better. Freighters should have more fighter drones in them and they could be able to contact local support and, perhaps, a response fleet (that would take some time to arrive depending on where it is located).
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Post by pirke123 »

Yes, this game is too easy. The biggest challenge is working around the bugs to get your station built :)

But I'm enjoying it anyway...
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Post by TDQuasar »

dzhedzho wrote:
Artean wrote:
Trillsiker wrote:It just need some balance with the weapons stats
No. We need a far more aggresive response to hostile player actions from npc factions. Npc cap ships needs more drones to cover their blind spots. I can board as many cap ships as I want without any challenges at all.

In the long term, I need a challenge that gives me reasons to put together fleets. I want to defend and I want to attack; I want to start war and I want to have wars declared on me! :)
Then again in previous x games you could hire a TL, instruct it to go to quite place and board it there :P

Don't think they ever had the boarding right... Though now it is even more ridiculous, as you can board a ship with a half billion worth in wares...
I agree. And on the other hand a Q or I was a nightmare to board. One had to load/reload tons of times. The boarding of terran ships were more or less balanced (in AP).

(And how can you board a spaceship which has no living things on it and just a machine? It was at least as funny when in XR Yisha requests landing permission from the Xenon station. But that's beside the point.)

Anyway, Egosoft always had problems with balancing (anyone remembers the build missions from vanilla TC? where the reward was 10+ million for even the cheapest stations and having very low trade rank). I guess it's good they never tried to make a multiplayer/MMO game. In a single player game balancing only becomes an issue when everything is just too easy so people get bored of the game too fast or everything is damn hard and not fun anymore.
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Post by FinWiz »

You guys abusing weak spots much?
How can you say there is no game under the bugs when bugs so far have prevented us from fully playing it.

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Post by ravage_za »

You guys abusing weak spots much?
I think the issue is that there are an abundance of weak spots.
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Post by Nomenluni »

Starting the game in a ship as rugged as the skunk makes it too easy out of the box.

In a game such as this I would of thought starting off with a weaker ship would of made more sense and instilled more of a challenge from the beginning.
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Post by ezra-r »

Force field projectors go down too easily, as some say I agree lots of drones for AI capital ships, 3 or 4 times stronger force field projectors, turrets hurting a tad more and main zone rapid response military police...

And after all this the only thing left would be to hire someone who can make AI small ships do proper dogfighting.
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Post by TDQuasar »

FinWiz wrote:You guys abusing weak spots much?
We are being critical, I see no problem with that.
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Post by LastChime »

Yeah the skunk is a friggin beast of a corvette, being the biggest problem. It's the Hyperion Vanguard on steroids.
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Post by nnndoh »

Am i so bad? i get killed every time on that boording mission :/
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Post by Bobucles »

The Skunk is a Hyperion Vanguard crossed with a Springblossom, dropped into a world that consists only TL-strength capitals and M5 fighters.

It is, for all intents and purposes, an Arcade-game ship.
Am i so bad? i get killed every time on that boording mission :/
Get a pile of shield regenerating drones, and rebind your boost to an easier button. Shift is decent for keyboards, while controller boost is better on the left shoulder button (swapping with reverse).
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Post by laminblake »

Trillsiker wrote:Don't think they ever had the boarding right... Though now it is even more ridiculous, as you can board a ship with a half billion worth in wares...
You would think a ship carrying sever hundred million dollars worth of goods would be escorted by fightercraft......
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Post by FinWiz »

TDQuasar wrote:
FinWiz wrote:You guys abusing weak spots much?
We are being critical, I see no problem with that.
Nor do I, it was honest and I still don't have an answer.
How can you say there is no game under the bugs when bugs so far have prevented us from fully playing it.

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