I just realized something.

IM GONNA BE A COMMANDER!!!

WTFHAXXAGE!!!

So, JeffL, you gonna add Ships as small as the ghostship? And the ability to deploy like 20-25 of the suckers?

Man Commander would rock, and i would be one.

I say add it ASAP!!!

Sorry for double post, Jeff did it so I am too

Will that mean that every skill will be reset? or just the ones being changed? And if its all will we get money to compensate for the money it costs to get that skill back?

What do you call non combat slave ? a slave that has no gun ?

So could my CA alt be Engineer and Merch?

Has anyone else noticed that you now can't get station mastery + CA/EE? Meaning bases will only get half the bonuses? Or am i missing something here?

So, now that you cant be both a Station master and a SD with a non-combat class of say EE, our bases will all around be 50% worse. Will this mean that EE, CA, etc will have double the station bonuses to compensate for the missing Station Mastery skill?

~BD

That is true, which is another reason I'm so keen on beefing bases.

Man, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE....

Make Commander similar to a DM, only a Commander doesnt require energy to deploy his ships. Just some kind space Fuel.

And to repair/build ships on the go he needs Metals/Microchips/Silicon the works.

Man that shit would own.

Seer+SlaveMaster+Commander...*Drools*

You're right _7_, but you get the bonus of all of your chars being able to have a +2% bonus, so you can lay more bases that are effective.

And for everyone confused on the "can my X char be X and Y?" just look at the regular skill web, only replace Station Mastery with Juice Junky, Colonial Administrator with Engineer, Merchant Fleet Master with Commander and Extraction Expert with Gunner. If normally you couldn't have your X skill with those Y skills, then after the change you can't have it either.

This looks interesting but there's one thing that kind of concerns me. Before, the two primary stm characters were a CA and an EE. Both had two tier levels of skills that combined gave a hefty combined level of 80% to most base stats, 40 from station mastery, 40 from either CA or EE. With only one type of these skills available to any given character class, bases overall will be significantly weaker if you want to make money off of them.

Is this an intentional part of the plan or are all of the base bonuses being tweaked to compensate for this? The idea of protector bases isn't a good one in my oppinion, because people will simply target your money making bases first, and then kill the isolated defender stations. If this is part of the idea then that's fine I guess, I just want to get some feedback on whether or not base power overall will remain the same, go up, or get lowered as we now also have to think about how the level limit cap on base tech will interact with these changes...

Oh thats gay.

So i cant be Commander and Seer...

*cough*

will juice junkie have requirements like electrical engineering? because killing mad sci wont be worth lvl 20 in theskill

can you put the fuel part in?

and wont a skill reset be forcing people to egt all the hard skils back, like programming and stuff liek tracotinrg back, spending 100's of mills in the process, please elaborate

Will MFM, Station Master, EE, and CA leave all together? Or will these have the old skill + this new bonus?

This isn't going to work I wouldn't do this you'll mess up the game and ruin the playerbase.. Also if you don't give a full aug reset with this messing up the economy will be the least of your problems..

Also, You can't keep changing the core of a game that people pay for it makes no since and ruins the game for people who put all this effort into it if you add this you might aswell take it back into beta and do a level reset