you are correct, why anyone over level 70 does not have one of the most important hulls in the game is a huge mystery. This one hull can lower your repair times 40%.
a multiplicative of 40%... more like 10-20% after native resistances and compound armor, but I agree with its significance. It or the harlock aegis should have been on everyone's radar since their introduction to the game.
Im surprised they have tridents in this raid.... its basically pointless and was out did right after the raid it was in with the blades. BTW FOR THOSE WHO GET IT THE COUNTERMEASURES DONT WORK ON REMOTE TARGET HULLS. found that out the hard way and if the missile range is higher than the countermeasure range
If you have it on a Remote Targeting Ship such as the Mastodon, you can use a higher Range Missile such as the Blade in order to self-Remote Target. However, the Trident Missile doesn't have Penetrative Defence Bypass like the Harrier does.
Ya thats what i did with my rhinos i used harriers to make the tridents shoot the same distance but at the cost of not having the counters shooting at all
With all the talk from DOOMrooster of lowering build times,Why is there no tokens in a raid for a second strait month? I mean TBH i was almost to the point That they KIX was trying with a monthly Token weekend and tokens in the raid and now in the mini. but now we get a hull with 3 armors and with a armor research to lower repair times,is it me or is Kix being run by a crackhead who throws darts at the wall to decide what direction they go from month to month. Are we ever going to get tokens in a raid again? a mod or Kix response is needed, Thank you.
Is this the new way things are going to go for the time being (unless a change occur). We have not seen any official decision regarding the continuation of tokens. They got removed last raid and we were told it was becaseu it was a hull raid. This month is not a hull raid yet again removed.
Right now, they are only available throught ELite FM and FAT. Is this suppose to be new direction chosen by the BP team until further notice.
Has the team decided to remove tokens until the rebalance is completed ?
They are able to be gained from all Tiers of the FM, though only the Elite Tier has Ship Build Tokens.
There is an overwhelming response from the community that this is unacceptable. We were told there were no tokens in Dec raid as it was a hull store, alright fine, I accept that. However, Jan is not a Hull store so what is the excuse this time? With 36 hours still remaining till the raid, as CM please take this back to Kixeye to ask them to reconsider.
If this is it you can tell KIX they r killing the game maybe next raid in 3 months with better prizes cause this is it not for me!
What is missing:
TOKENS
SCATTERGUNS
Whats Wrong in this raid
A cannon without range
and more hulls after an hull raid
And last but lost least an original Raid Name.
A weapon without range? Did you not look at the modifiers on the new ship? This thing will do 95 range easy with the hull and specials already in the game, it would do that on a crusader and this hull way out classes the crusader.
how come the arblest cannon is not offered or blades you seem to skip prizes that would push ppl to do the raid these have not been offered in a long while
If the punisher has a 40% increase in range. What is it with nuclear accelerators with the new gun or arb? And yes I'm lazy
The same as SCX/Crusader/Templar/Goliath/(non Gamma)Behemoths. With Nuclear Accelerator + 50 Range Ballistic Weapon = 95 range.
I get all that. My question was in addition to these. The Punisher also adds 40% range...So it is more than 95. So if its 105 as another stated. Is that the longest range out right now? Or the drac carrier with the chaining?
LMAO! This is almost to funny guys and gals. The Crusader has a 40% range increase, just like the new ship. The Arbelest has the exact same top range as the new gun (50). With the nuke accelerator buff of 50% this will result in exactly the same range as a crusader with nuke accel and arbelest, 95!
how come the arblest cannon is not offered or blades you seem to skip prizes that would push ppl to do the raid these have not been offered in a long while
There is an overwhelming response from the community that this is unacceptable. We were told there were no tokens in Dec raid as it was a hull store, alright fine, I accept that. However, Jan is not a Hull store so what is the excuse this time? With 36 hours still remaining till the raid, as CM please take this back to Kixeye to ask them to reconsider.
Hate to break it to you but the overwhelming response from the community means exactly nothing.
Kixeye makes the decisions. Not you. Not me. Something the community sees as "unacceptable" is not necessarily unacceptable in the eyes of the company.
I think I have to disagree with most here, in that I kind of like what I see for the prize list. We have been told in the State of the Game that tech was running away (power creep) and the team was working on it. Here we have a new weapon, its not so different from the arbelest we already have, but it is slightly different, I will be interested to see how it does in FvF and in base attacks, I cant imagine that it will cut thru walls any faster than the arbelest does, so the accuracy and piercing is the difference I see, variety without power creep is good. I think the hull can be built as a tank fairly well, its also fast, not as heavy as a crusader, kind of like a drac version of the crusader in my eyes (My only beef here kix, FORESAKEN are supposed to be the specialist in ballistics hulls, why are you giving the dracs one? Could have been a new missile hull or nuke cruiser, let them find their own niche! ) again more variety without a super jump in power creep, though I believe this hull is right at the edge of serious power creep. The rest of the tech in the list, geeze pirates, if you dont like it you dont have to go after it, get what you want next time it comes around! To my eyes this new set of ship/weapon is exactly what they promised us.
Getting tired of all the rants, why does everybody seem to think they need all the tech right now? For that matter why does everybody seem to think they need ALL of the tech? Get what interest you, if that is attained (or un-attainable) get the next best, have some fun, help some little guys, and just enjoy! If you dont like the raid sit it out (what I did for the scourge raids, not only because of the fact my fleets were just not suited for those raids, but because I simply am not much of a sub guy [admitted, those tigers are awefully nice...]) go build the other hulls everybody is yelling about not having time to build because of new stuff, lol, dont get the latest new stuff, build your other new stuff! Just saying.......
Read the link in my sig mate. Additive interaction, not multiplicative. It's the same range as the Crusader with Arbalests (identical boosts, 40% on hull, 50% from special, from an identical base of 50), which is *GASP* 95!
I'm starting to understand Magic Bunny's perspective...
if i can get this new hull, i'm gonna stop everything i have going and build a fleet of these for the express purpose of gathering uranium from drac 75 armadas. at 30k per, uranium should no longer be a problem for me. thankfully i'm in a sector that always seems to be in the yellow, so this way i can help out and keep us in orange!
Is this the new direction the BP team is taking to reduce ship build times? Will tokens no longer be offered to players via monthly raids? At least in the near future?
Doom, I would really appreciate a response on this.
Last month was an outrage we didn't have tokens. We were told then it was because it was a hull raid. Now here we have a non-hull raid and we have no tokens again?????? That's ludicrous. So what's the story on the reason for the tokens drop now?
There is an overwhelming response from the community that this is unacceptable. We were told there were no tokens in Dec raid as it was a hull store, alright fine, I accept that. However, Jan is not a Hull store so what is the excuse this time? With 36 hours still remaining till the raid, as CM please take this back to Kixeye to ask them to reconsider.
There's nothing for them to reconsider - they think that now they've reduced the build times on 7 weapons and thrown out the R&D bullcrap the game is fixed and players don't need/want tokens any more.
My guess is that the FM will be the next thing to lose tokens then the FAT will get another "overhaul" after the regular arena has been dicked around with a bit and we'll see the last source of tokens go.
This is the Time Limited Campaigns of old all over again - Kixeye are taking away what the players like, benefit from and want to keep under the guise of "cutting down the chores." It was bullcrap then and it's bullcrap now..... but now the CM isn't even bothered to try and put glitter on the ****, he's just throwing it at the community and expecting them to take it because at least a few out there will do exactly that and continue to pay for the privilege.
Kixeye, please just add seawolves to the raid for us all to fight so we all have it easy, and have all prizes available to us to keep the moaners happy. They demanded everything they ask for, they have no patience and if you don't do as they say they will fire the "and you say you were changing?" comment at you.
Good golly God folks, it is what it is. If there is nothing you want to win, don't play it. It's not a must. If you're not happy with the build times, don't build them. Life goes on, and so does this game. Accept what we have and fight back the tears. Yes, there's not an awful lot that I could use at the moment, but i'll still give it a go, and if I get nothing, I won't be crying, I just get a few days off the game.
You will never keep everyone happy Kix, so don't change the prizes for those few greedy bastards. Keep it as it is, and work on future things instead of worrying about adding some tokens or prizes.
So Kixeye, please, Heavy Plating III? Pretty please?
Kixeye makes the decisions. Not you. Not me. Something the community sees as "unacceptable" is not necessarily unacceptable in the eyes of the company.
We have been told in the State of the Game that tech was running away (power creep) and the team was working on it. Here we have a new weapon, its not so different from the arbelest we already have, but it is slightly different, I will be interested to see how it does in FvF and in base attacks, I cant imagine that it will cut thru walls any faster than the arbelest does, so the accuracy and piercing is the difference I see, variety without power creep is good. I think the hull can be built as a tank fairly well, its also fast, not as heavy as a crusader, kind of like a drac version of the crusader in my eyes (My only beef here kix, FORESAKEN are supposed to be the specialist in ballistics hulls, why are you giving the dracs one? Could have been a new missile hull or nuke cruiser, let them find their own niche!
Getting tired of all the rants, why does everybody seem to think they need all the tech right now? For that matter why does everybody seem to think they need ALL of the tech? Get what interest you, if that is attained (or un-attainable) get the next best, have some fun, help some little guys, and just enjoy! If you dont like the raid sit it out (what I did for the scourge raids, not only because of the fact my fleets were just not suited for those raids, but because I simply am not much of a sub guy [admitted, those tigers are awefully nice...]) go build the other hulls everybody is yelling about not having time to build because of new stuff, lol, dont get the latest new stuff, build your other new stuff! Just saying.......
woohoo! thanks! limiteds appear very affordable
Will tokens no longer be offered to players via monthly raids? At least in the near future?
Doom, I would really appreciate a response on this.
Prizes
Players are limited to 3 prizes for Tiers 1, 2, and 3 and 2 prizes for tiers 4 and 5.
its in the briefing
My guess is that the FM will be the next thing to lose tokens then the FAT will get another "overhaul" after the regular arena has been dicked around with a bit and we'll see the last source of tokens go.
This is the Time Limited Campaigns of old all over again - Kixeye are taking away what the players like, benefit from and want to keep under the guise of "cutting down the chores." It was bullcrap then and it's bullcrap now..... but now the CM isn't even bothered to try and put glitter on the ****, he's just throwing it at the community and expecting them to take it because at least a few out there will do exactly that and continue to pay for the privilege.
When will you add HEAVY PLATING 3 to raid or FM list ?
Thx
Good golly God folks, it is what it is. If there is nothing you want to win, don't play it. It's not a must. If you're not happy with the build times, don't build them. Life goes on, and so does this game. Accept what we have and fight back the tears. Yes, there's not an awful lot that I could use at the moment, but i'll still give it a go, and if I get nothing, I won't be crying, I just get a few days off the game.
You will never keep everyone happy Kix, so don't change the prizes for those few greedy bastards. Keep it as it is, and work on future things instead of worrying about adding some tokens or prizes.