Could we please lower the combat level for the valk to 11? 12 is insanely high and very difficult to get. Serco can trade in the prom (combat 10) and get one in 18. Itanis are usually locked out of 2/12 and can't get the prom. Don't tell me I am supposed to have good standing with Serco to get a prom. We are at war for crying out loud.

The Valk is supposed to be insanely hard to get.
Plus, the devs are just testing to see if the skill system works. They aren't trying to exactly calulate how much XP is needed to get a Valk right now.

Either way, I think its a bit too easy to get a valk. 1 month (or 2?)of hard work to get the BEST ship in the game is bad.

If you are in good standing with NT, you can get a Maud and trade up (for cost of Maud + 100,000 credits). I believe Both the Prom and Maud are available at the same levels (though not really sure what they levels are). And the Valk really *NEEDS* to be insanely hard to aquire. The game is too unbalanced otherwise.

It doesn't make sense for the devs to tweak the balancing issues of xp when everything is going to change soon. We'll have a new universe, missions beyond the basic low lvl missions which is what all the current ones were supposed to be, as well as Player vs Player missions.

btw its:

12/x/x/x - valk
x/x/10/8 - prom
x/x/x/11 - maud

Wrong, AgY
I have 9/10/10/9 and I cannot get a prom.
afaik its 10/10/10/8 for a prom.

I actually think specials are still too easy to get. They should all be 12/12/12/8.

Its 10/10/10/7 for a prom. No 8 required. And its really not that hard to get either. Whats wrong boys? Serco stole your advantage?

Most sercos train to get 10/10/10/7 and rush to s18 to buy a valk... Hm..
Since all 'fighting' levels are genearaly very close to each other (+-2 levels of each) it's much easier to get even 11/11/11/x than 12/x/x/x.

So I suggest moveing prom up to 11/11/11/8 :)
A maud should be 10/x/x/11, so the 'pure' traders won't be able to get it (they will need to combat a little)

Why shouldn't pure traders have access to the best trading ship in the game? If they're Neut, it's because they want to avoid combat.

Maybe make it more like 8/8/8/11 for the maud?

I don't care about Serco stealing our advantage. All I know is that the only valks I've seen since the reset (yes, I don't play much...) were serco, and that's probably because of the low prom xp requirement.

actually, it's easier to get to trade 11 than 10 10 10 7.

also note: for a serconian to get a valk, the serconian must
(1) fly to serconian homesectors.
(2) buy a prom and outfit it.
(3) fly from 12-11-17-18. the journey is long, and sometimes lining up s18 is troublesome.
(4) trade the prom on black market. pay an extra 100 000 just to get another special
(5) fly out: 18-17-11-whereever

I say, when everyone has high levels and the Itanis can have the Valkyrie whenever they want, you'll really see the painful difficulty for serconians to acquire Valkyries, unless they stock valks in every station.

and you know what else? if someone is locked out of s18 (and is non-itani), this pilot will not have access to the valkyrie at all

"I don't care about Serco stealing our advantage. All I know is that the only valks I've seen since the reset (yes, I don't play much...) were serco, and that's probably because of the low prom xp requirement."

Ya just contradicted yourself. You dont care about us having your old advantage yet you care about there being a lot of Serco valks? Ummm... yeah, Im not really serious about this, sorry if you took it as bait or whatever. Cheap shot, sorry.

Evoli is right about this, too. You destroy a valk and it takes 150k and 20 minutes to get another.

Besides, this is all working with the current system, which ain't permanent. Its the barebones, and not really worth balancing out yet, right? At least not until the floodgates are opened with the signups. Its pretty much been tested out, so its fine to say "this isn't fair" or "shouldn't it be like this" but to make threads saying "THIS needs to be done NOW" when its still early on in development. Feedback is good, demands are bad.

You tell'em UncleDave!!

I've been playing as much as I could since the rest... and I still cant get a damb Maud... you dont hear me complain...


MorbidlyWrong[VC]

As far as i'm concerned the whole level thing with regards to equipment is a moot point anyhow. The devs will be drastically changing the universe, and I highly suspect that we will be getting all new toys when they do. (or at least lots of new toys to go with our current ones.) Lets not worry about balancing the levels where we get the items we have now, lets let the devs get the missions completed, reputation fixed, and oh yea a wicked new universe. (how bout a reset with the new universe? wipe everyone stats again to make exploring a challenge)

as for having the valk, I have access to it, i've crashed 3 of them, I dont get far enough to loose them in combat, i bounce them off of asteroids and stations.

I bought one.. it's somewhere around s6 waiting for better times :)

I saw a marauder today. It was red. I wanted to cry.

aww Magus!
/me lends Magus her mauds for a spin!