Re: [Approved PB] Elite Rec
Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2013 4:16 pm
The dev team will make an attempt to assemble the characteristics for this ship. Check my post on Nov 11, 2011: nothing has changed since my post there. We will take it by the hand to complete it, in respond to the continuous interest of the playerbase.
It will make it in MASSACRE universe, alongside with the improved Massacre Engine (Massacre Engine 1.1)
What needs to be discussed by the playerbase is the ship speed.
The cargo is final; it will be bigger in the expense of greater cost/cargo space in compare to recycler.
Rergarding speed, we have two options:
-Either slow and cheap consumption
-Or Fast and expensive consumption
You cannot get both. Cheap consumption and speed must still be higher than Elite Cargo.
Recycler might get some balancing tweaks with this introduction.
It might not be named Elite Recycler as it won't be a de facto better ship than recycler and therefore it should not confuse the players. You can't expect on a win-win ship; we don't want to replace recycler, we want to add a 2nd choice.
Implementation to other universes will not be imminent. A test-drive phase of even up to 6 months will be needed till we can get a revision perhaps, like we did with Lunar Guardian (two revisions I think, that ship got). Then, we will see IF it will be added in other universes, or not/
It will make it in MASSACRE universe, alongside with the improved Massacre Engine (Massacre Engine 1.1)
What needs to be discussed by the playerbase is the ship speed.
The cargo is final; it will be bigger in the expense of greater cost/cargo space in compare to recycler.
Rergarding speed, we have two options:
-Either slow and cheap consumption
-Or Fast and expensive consumption
You cannot get both. Cheap consumption and speed must still be higher than Elite Cargo.
Recycler might get some balancing tweaks with this introduction.
It might not be named Elite Recycler as it won't be a de facto better ship than recycler and therefore it should not confuse the players. You can't expect on a win-win ship; we don't want to replace recycler, we want to add a 2nd choice.
Implementation to other universes will not be imminent. A test-drive phase of even up to 6 months will be needed till we can get a revision perhaps, like we did with Lunar Guardian (two revisions I think, that ship got). Then, we will see IF it will be added in other universes, or not/