Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 7:19 am
these are my notes as of right now (more like a month ago) for gigacorp
what i'd probably most like to do is just get rid of the base payday mechanic (although it will return elsewhere in the near future) as well as the light base mechanic. It's kind of a big gigacorp thing, but seriously as everyone knows it is such an enormous pain in the ass to balance at all, and Giga has always sat at either "lol we have so much money we're unstoppable" or "what the $#@! we can't do anything," and there's never been any middle ground. It's completely irrelevant in smaller games because teams don't have enough people to kill them in a reasonable amount of time, and in larger games Giga gets steamrolled as soon as a team gets dis2/df2 enh figs, and often will just turtle in 2-3 sectors with 1 spec ref for an hour while they payday @#(!, which is really irritating to try and deal with. I could keep the current design, but I think the nature of light bases has proven itself over a long enough period of time to be a kind of cool idea that doesn't work very well in practice.
It would leave Giga as a faction with a pretty good early-midgame and Giga would be able to expand very efficiently, but wouldn't have any tech cost advantages. Patties are somewhat hard to hit atm, but the fact that they're really really good is kind of justified by the fact that you have to pay 7.5k off the bat in order to make use of them at all. pretty sure I'd have to nerf them some degree if they were free.
blah blah homogenizing factions, $#@! you, etc. I can just as easily nerf giga into the ground and it can go back to never getting played very much, but I like having every faction being worthwhile to play, and certainly far more interesting than having two or three factions to choose from if you REALLY want to win a game.
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Gigacorp:
Gigacorp no longer begins the game with enhanced constructors.
Gigacorp now begins the game with patrollers.
General Changes:
Faction Attributes:
Payday modifier reduced to 0 [+.25]
Starting money modifier reduced to 0 [+.25]
He3 Capacity reduced to 1 [1.25]
He3 Speed increased to 1.2 [1]
Station Hull modifier reduced to 1 [1.1]
Station Shield Modifier reduced to 1 [1.1]
Garrison:
Spec mines (Ca, Ur, Si):
Disabled.
Patrollers:
Scale increased to 14.55 [13.22]
Newly available:
Gigacorp can now purchase an upgrade in Garrison for 7,500 credits that upgrades all existing and future light bases into minor bases which do not generate income.
Expansion:
Lxy Interceptors:
Lead indicator removed.
Supremacy:
Lxy Fighters:
Lead indicator removed.
Tactical:
Lxy Stealth Fighters:
Medium shields removed.
Rip time reduced to 12 seconds [15]It would leave Giga as a faction with a pretty good early-midgame and Giga would be able to expand very efficiently, but wouldn't have any tech cost advantages. Patties are somewhat hard to hit atm, but the fact that they're really really good is kind of justified by the fact that you have to pay 7.5k off the bat in order to make use of them at all. pretty sure I'd have to nerf them some degree if they were free.
blah blah homogenizing factions, $#@! you, etc. I can just as easily nerf giga into the ground and it can go back to never getting played very much, but I like having every faction being worthwhile to play, and certainly far more interesting than having two or three factions to choose from if you REALLY want to win a game.