I am writing about balancing issues in SFC 3,(i saw the list of fixes in the final version of the patch but they didnt even mention sth. about balance issues).
Well here i start:
1)a]I am going to say sth about in balance for Federation and other races:
Ok first about the shields lets see shield-X has 32 strenght,and weights 8000 mass and sucks 10.67 power,and Borg class V-armor that weights 3000 mass sucks zero power has 250 strenght,the mass is almost as federation shield-VI which has 14 strenght and on top it sucks power,federation with 4 Shields-X and level V-armor can have (if you reinforce a shield) on one place 178 strenght(for that it is required a mass weight of 35000 and power cost of 42.68)that alone is heavy as default nebula class,and it is still much weaker then Borg armor,and Borg dont need to worry about reinforcing their shields.But what about other races? Well Romulans and Klingons dont need that much protection because the cloaking device bails them out big time,simply cloak, leave,return with charged weapons and slash.If yours and his officers are of the same skill level it will be very difficult for you to descover him with yours anti-cloak,especially if he goes very slow on impulse,and probes have a small persentage of finding cloak ships as well.
b]About wapons:Federaton has very little arcs pointing forward,and lots of arcs are on the side so in order to utilise them you need strong thrusters to be able to bring your charged arcs at your enemy very quickly,but no you are too massive,remember the 35000 weight of your defensive equipment,and the power requirements for it,so what do you need a bigger warp core for more power,and additional mass,so that doesnt leave you with much to go,but with warp core-IX you can implement a level IX-thrusters on Sovereign,but with all that it turns again way too slow,you still need additional mass for your weapons,computer,transporter,tractor beam.
Second problem is insufficient damage,federations quantum torpedo does 13 damage,has 300 mass and sucks 10 power,well for 2 less power cost and 50 less mass you can mount an Ion cannon on klingon ship and it regenerates as same as quantum,well it loses some damage proportional with targets distance but since you can cloak you can come very close to your enemy and discharge it,i know i would trade quantum for Ion in a second.And other thing, i manage to mount on a sphere prime 4 Medium-F cutting beam and 2 Heavy-F beams,6 gravimetric torpedoes,with all that i implemented level IX-warp core,and was still overpowered,with all that i manage to achive (with legendary officers)an astounding turn rate of 1.20,the thing is turning so fast that it seems that it fires all the time,whereas i tried to mount same number of phasers with same damage on a Sovereign,phaser -XIF have the same damage as medium cutting beam F,then i put 2 XIIF phasers(they dont do as much damage as Heavy-F cutting b) and went to heavy weapons,there was quite a shock,with all those primary weapon i manage to put 4 PHOTON torpedoes,and heres the result i was underpowered,was making less damage,and got lousy turn rate.
After i realised that i kept tracks of the battles over the net play(D3,gamespy).In D3 lots of people use federation,and win because thers too much of them,but they are never confronting another players,just AI,on gamespy almost noone uses federation ships,and if they do 80% they lose,not because they are bad players.When we play 3 vs 3 and someone on the opposit side uses federation,do you know what is the first sentence that fleet leader will say?Well the sentence is:"Everyone on the Federation 1st",it is a good tactic to destroy weaker opponent 1st.So after all that i concluded that Federation is slightly non ballanced,everyting i wrote didnt just came over night,i played lots of battles with my friends,people over the net,and always
payed close attention on who is using wich race,wich ship,battle outcome,and so on.Dont miss understand me,i am not some federation lover that wants to see federation to be the stronges.i use all the races and dont prefer a single one,but federation is the weakest,so i rated the races:
1)The Borg
2)Klingon/Romulan(they are in perfect balance with each other,and still can take on the borg with sound tactics)
3)Federation
So i concluded that there should be some balancing to do,i dont want Federation to be the strongest,but well balanced with other races,what i think you should do is to improve their thrusters,or drop mass on some equipment,or make their warp cores generate more power so it is possible to implement level VIII warp core and still be able to maintain decent power level,so that will leave enough room for bigger thrusters.At least improve thrusters,because other races can compensate their lack of mobility with cloaking device(R,K),and without shields borg are able to have excelent turning rate.
I am sorry this was so long,but its like i said this wasnt written over night.Thank you for your time.
Topic: Something about balancing issues in SFC3 (Read 2553 times)