BucaneerBill
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Hey,
After playing on the PTR for a bit I'd thought I would give my thoughts:
A) Bounty - Pirate Player Locator
I think this is going to lead to players farming Vega and low level system players for the bounty, as it will tell them where they are and the bounty points they will receive are not so different from a high level. Plus as a Pirate your always going to have to have people after you so where's the point of being in Pirate Mode, especially as the Bounty will just be turned into warscore anyway which you can get from shooting Mantis and probably more of it. The 5% XP bonus or whatever it is, is not worth it.
B) Instant on Pirate Mode
Will lead to much opportunism, I much prefer the 30 seconds countdown as it doesn't lead to many opportunistic kills on Pirate Mode. This is another reason why not to go into Pirate Mode.
C) Repair Droid being less effective
I think this will have larger impact in PVE than PVP, as will the other improvements to the Mantis AI suggested, its going to be very much harder to do the missions and grind etc. Also concerned about the team play in PVP. May also kill off the shock
as PVP is all its good for really and damage dealers will be more effective than it as it relies on it own repair droid and nullifying the other players repair droid. Also the ships seem to have a little less health ( not sure if this is true or not ) making it that bit harder. Guess their will be alot of engineers. Especially in Vega where the best repair droids repair little over a bar of hp on a lvl 10 ship..
This are the things I don't really like. Theirs alot of good things too like being able to land at conquest planets without pirate mode on.
After playing on the PTR for a bit I'd thought I would give my thoughts:
A) Bounty - Pirate Player Locator
I think this is going to lead to players farming Vega and low level system players for the bounty, as it will tell them where they are and the bounty points they will receive are not so different from a high level. Plus as a Pirate your always going to have to have people after you so where's the point of being in Pirate Mode, especially as the Bounty will just be turned into warscore anyway which you can get from shooting Mantis and probably more of it. The 5% XP bonus or whatever it is, is not worth it.
B) Instant on Pirate Mode
Will lead to much opportunism, I much prefer the 30 seconds countdown as it doesn't lead to many opportunistic kills on Pirate Mode. This is another reason why not to go into Pirate Mode.
C) Repair Droid being less effective
I think this will have larger impact in PVE than PVP, as will the other improvements to the Mantis AI suggested, its going to be very much harder to do the missions and grind etc. Also concerned about the team play in PVP. May also kill off the shock
as PVP is all its good for really and damage dealers will be more effective than it as it relies on it own repair droid and nullifying the other players repair droid. Also the ships seem to have a little less health ( not sure if this is true or not ) making it that bit harder. Guess their will be alot of engineers. Especially in Vega where the best repair droids repair little over a bar of hp on a lvl 10 ship..This are the things I don't really like. Theirs alot of good things too like being able to land at conquest planets without pirate mode on.