New - Weekly Discussion/Q&A Post (7/29)
Ahoy Pirates,
We’re trying something new to make it even easier to hear from you on the forums. As of today, there will be a weekly Q&A/Discussion post where you are welcome and encouraged to share your questions, ideas, and feedback about Battle Pirates that week. This, more than any other post on the forums, is your primary vehicle for discussion directly with the community team.
We will be removing the weekly release notes discussion and all other event-related discussion posts to keep everything in one centralized place. This will help us to better capture and consider your feedback on a week-to-week basis. It will also create a less cluttered forum-reading experience.
If you have any questions, please post them below. We’re looking forward to hearing from you.
Cheers,
CM Ghillie
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Question/Comment: when will it be available for non facebook players?
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So we have already seen the implementation of Silverfish tech having reduced times compared to say older tech. My question is when or if the old tech will be modified to fit the reduction times that we have in place for the future?
Question/Comment:When will upgrade parts be visible and where? Would be nice to see them in Limited menu.
Comment: I enjoy the ship to ship combat which surprised me but there needs to be some rework to points payouts. One thing that would help in my opinion is a payout for being the person to take the shipwreck initially (I like the idea of more than the periodic but less than the final this will encourage people to want to take it sooner versus just before the first initial payout). The cost of prizes to points awarded ratio is so another issue and is going to make the gap between top players and players even almost there grow rapidly (maybe not exponentially but close). If it only impacted shipwrecks it would not be so bad but as I got over 80k points but not 160k I will be upgrading another howler which is base hitting not shipwrecks.
Subject: Fleet slots
Question: Is there any plans to give us a third row of fleet slots?
Comment: We currently have 16 slots. One of which is base defence. One of which is taken up by expeditions (assuming you do them). One for base hitting. One for shipwrecks. This leaves us with 12. Might sound a lot but there is currently so much going on in the game that we have to keep swapping fleets out for different tasks.
Maybe the third row could be for PvP hulls only.
Would kixeye ever consider converting any of the ship build tokens to ships like the punishers monos centurions since someone us players have no use for since those ships are out of date and it might help us build up fleets for current raids and or wklys.
Comment: I too enjoy the ship to ship combat - I like the battles (even though I win as many as I lose) and I really enjoy watching the truly masterful pirates go at it. I did a mix of shipwrecks and outposts - no alliance wrecks as we are a small alliance and I am not a masterful pirate - more a plug along and add a little coin now and then pirate.
I have around 225k points - individual effort ranking 769th globally, 144th in my world and 5th in sector. IMO - my rankings for individual effort deserve more than the one prize (new turret) I will get. Frankly I lost heart half way through and reduced coining when I saw I would not be able to compete with the boogeyman alliance points to get the prizes I am used to earning.
This is not a complaint about big alliances; it is comment about poor (counter-productive) planning by kix. If you look at the leaderboards the big alliance members are missing or way down the list (meaning they did not significantly coin this event) - yet they will get all the prizes based on the efforts of a few. Changes this time removed alliance points from the individual effort leader boards, but these alliance points still really skewed the reward point system - effectively shutting most non-aligned from top prizes.
I did not get the new interceptor - so will be less competitive the next event - less likely to participate and less likely to coin.
Question/Comment: When exactly are we going to get the Tier-[5/6?] and below tech in the labs?
Also will the build time on these items be reduced like previous research tech? The worst offender of the build time issue are the hulls. The standard Missile Cruiser takes 4d and has mediocre retrofit upgrades. Meanwhile the Missile Cruiser X has better base stats, much better retrofit bonuses and comes with all 10 levels of retrofit right out of the box for about 1/4 of the build time. Now compare that with the Punisher which gets 24d of build tokens and a lot of VXP every week basically for free out of the FM and is a monster compared to either of those ships.
I would suggest making these ancient items instant build. Would help out fresh bases a lot and old players can use the instant build time as a way to dump resources they don't need in exchange for experience rather than waiting for someone to come steal it. The tier system essentially stops you from doing anything useful with older ships anyways so there's not really any way to exploit them being instant build.
Question: Are the 2 extra slots in sub sector resource bases still "coming soon" or have they been forgotten.
Question: Is there any help coming for Upgrades kits/days coming up other than LTO? I want to play the game and don't mind coining a little while playing the game, but I do not want to be buying outright fleets/upgrades every week.
but that certain page many count on for intell buried every post about how to do it ,,and pinned all the coiner fleets doin well
the TFC page has become a joke for this reason,,dont know if its been hijacked by the likes of megan and apex,,
what i do know is they are no longer serving the player base and have become a tool of the company
#robyn shut it down
friggin joke you have become
Comment: I for one am more likely to buy Specific hull build tokens as well as Ship build tokens to complete upgrades. As I would still be building fleets I would need to also replenish those tokens as needed for normal builds. The ability to be able to choose the tokens I want and purchase the amount needed rather than a block amount of tokens would also encourage me to spend more knowing that what I purchase I will use and not waste any.
Also when it pertains to the TLC's you make it to where you need a full fleet of Saturn, Nexesis X etc to even get past the 1st attack. To me you all nothing but a money grab. You don't want anyone to advance unless you coin everything when you bring out packages and even those suck with the crappiest fits on them so we have to refit them to make them any good.
I would rather the tokens be able to be cashed back in for points of some kind(base parts Titanium Uranium)
Could kixeye find a way for us to use them? or will they be forever forgotten in our inventories...
Subject.. question
When you give answer? Please
In my account there is no campaign available from ls 4 year... can u repair it? Telling same things repeated ly last 4 yrs... hope company changed...new company will hear my problem.. thanks a lot