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Deneb Suggestion 1: Remove valks/proms from fighter skirms
I have spent some time on the test server researching Deneb. Also a bit on the main server, but I try not mess with the official score much. I have come up a with a few suggestions that I think would improve the Deneb conflict. Each suggestion will go in its own thread, as per the rules of the forum.
Deneb Suggestion 1: Remove valks/proms from fighter skirms
The Valks in a fighter skirm are overpowered. An Itani pilot can take a fighter skirmish mission and not even fire a shot and win in under 20 minutes if the mission starts with 50 left. The Valks will gank the proms and spam flares (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpSzmreNmmE). This results in fast kills for the Itani side. On the Serco side, the Proms will gat the Itani vultures, and the Itani vultures will just dodge the fire. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6c8lco8JFQ)
When it comes to players taking part, this means to get wins the Itani pilots can just fly around keeping the sector active to win, whereas the Serco pilots must actively take part to get a win in a reasonable amount of time.
From what I can see, it takes Itani player pilots about an average of eight kills to win a fighter. Serco player pilots seem to take an average for 32 kills to win a fighter skirmish. I used numbers from a bunch of different months this year for those averages. I picked randomly and didn’t include any skirms that had zero players or ones that had a player, but zero kills. If you are too busy to look back through this year's Deneb history, the week of APR 20 2020 - APR 26 2020 is good because there a lots of wins for both Serco and Itani:
https://www.vendetta-online.com/x/dwstats/737900
I asked around a bit, and the immediate gut reaction is to add flares to proms. But I feel, that is just going to cause more problems. Instead, I suggest that Fighters in the Fighter skirms be the classic match up of SVGs vs IBGs. This would be rather even, and to make any big gains one way or another, players would need to take part.
Deneb Suggestion 1: Remove valks/proms from fighter skirms
The Valks in a fighter skirm are overpowered. An Itani pilot can take a fighter skirmish mission and not even fire a shot and win in under 20 minutes if the mission starts with 50 left. The Valks will gank the proms and spam flares (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpSzmreNmmE). This results in fast kills for the Itani side. On the Serco side, the Proms will gat the Itani vultures, and the Itani vultures will just dodge the fire. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6c8lco8JFQ)
When it comes to players taking part, this means to get wins the Itani pilots can just fly around keeping the sector active to win, whereas the Serco pilots must actively take part to get a win in a reasonable amount of time.
From what I can see, it takes Itani player pilots about an average of eight kills to win a fighter. Serco player pilots seem to take an average for 32 kills to win a fighter skirmish. I used numbers from a bunch of different months this year for those averages. I picked randomly and didn’t include any skirms that had zero players or ones that had a player, but zero kills. If you are too busy to look back through this year's Deneb history, the week of APR 20 2020 - APR 26 2020 is good because there a lots of wins for both Serco and Itani:
https://www.vendetta-online.com/x/dwstats/737900
I asked around a bit, and the immediate gut reaction is to add flares to proms. But I feel, that is just going to cause more problems. Instead, I suggest that Fighters in the Fighter skirms be the classic match up of SVGs vs IBGs. This would be rather even, and to make any big gains one way or another, players would need to take part.
Interesting, I don't have any problems with trying that, at least.
Perhaps throw in some neutron/aap hogs for varieties sake?
I can really conform what We All Float has seen in deneb. Fighter Skirmishes are really a HUGE pain all the Valks will gang up on 1 single serco ship. Flare it to death move on and so on. THEN your being chased by literally 7 or so serco proms all on your tail through the whole skirmish it really isant savory as a vet and I wouldn't think a regular guy would really enjoy it also.
+1 to that the valks/proms should be removed from fighter skirmishes. So agree to replace them with IBGs and SVG's it would make the skirmish so much more enjoyable.
What I said about the npcs chasing you around might be how they aggro you in a skirmish but replacing the valks/proms with lighter ships will help greatly.
+1 to that the valks/proms should be removed from fighter skirmishes. So agree to replace them with IBGs and SVG's it would make the skirmish so much more enjoyable.
What I said about the npcs chasing you around might be how they aggro you in a skirmish but replacing the valks/proms with lighter ships will help greatly.