Dark Marauder Discussion

My point was that inorder to pull off a UW it seems you need a huge mess of folks committed to you with an army or arti`s... Where as getting 400 planets as a guard is very difficult (look at the missions complete list) but can be done without the assistance of most of the good players in the game..

Im dating myself... The TV show cheers had a character named Norm..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_Peterson

Norm`s entrance into the bar is a running gag on Cheers, typically beginning with a welcome by the bar crowd followed by a joke from Norm. A typical entrance went:

Norm enters
Norm: Afternoon, everybody!
Customers: NORM!
Coach: How`s life treating you Norm?
Norm: Like he caught me in bed with his wife.

Norm?? What in the world does that mean?

Well if were talking Guard only (through missions) I think the current missions are pretty hard as it is:

Act 2 - Mission 9 Objectives : Control 400 planets

Really how many guards with their 10 colony limit will get that one done? Heck Ching is having a hack of a time doing it on fast, and if we look at the completed missions list (for guards) versus UW`s neither would swamp the server with D.Maru`s...

This would allow folks to go for the race without having to rely on their fed and other feds... IOW, folks that have not been around long enough for half the server to yell `Norm` when they walk in the room..

yup.. but there is way around it i guess.. for example, the guard who is at the max pr and on the top of richest lists for all server can jus pm the admin to check.. which is really easy even for non-admin to determine it.. then the admin could jus allow the guard the option becoming dmaru :P

ArchAng3l, refer to my previous post. If you can get Stephen to actually tinker with the missions, that`s an accomplishment.

since guard cant set off uw.. it might be fair to let them be dmaru thru mission.. extremely hard mission of course.. such as max credits and reach max pr :P

Heh, if you can get Stephen to modify the missions to improve them, or actually give any of those races missions that would be useful, that would be quite an accomplishment. ^_^

Why not make a set of missions (impossibly hard) for viral, maru or collective to get the d maru race? I think restricting it to just UW winners (or keeping it at 5 per server) give the race a huge advantage...

Maraudian wants to limit the number of d.marus to about five per server anyway.

I agree Ragnarok. Therefore I think it should be playable for former UW winners.

3 - 4 people in a two year time period I might add unless you let previous winners have the option of restarting as D Maru as well.

Then make the mission more difficult, lets face it its a waste of time to create a race that at most 3-4 people per server will be using...

if it`s only available to uw winners, i think it`s just a plain waste of time.

Bah act2 mission 9 is easy server would be crawling with dmaru specially on rt

I missed the part where we are tying this to the UW`s, that seems rather wrong... Why not make it the reward for act2 mission 9... It will still keep the numbers of Dark Maru`s pretty low but not require that you get dozens of people behind you to pull off a UW...

I mean really, count out the UWs done so far per year. 5 so far this year, 10 in 2007 and 2006, 9 in 2005, 14 in 2004, and 12 in 2003.

If this were done 2 years ago and everyone did D Maru, you would have in each server

RT - 4
Ultra - 3
Fast - 5
Normal - 3
Slow - 6

Except for slow, that`s not a lot of D Maru per server. Assuming the stats remain the same, this is the number you would have to deal with. So in other words, there would be more guards and collective than d maru on most server (except for slow, which appears to run on its own rules).

Well for petes sake people, it`s not like there will be a million D Maru floating around. Only people who do the freaking UW will actually be able to play the race anyways. UWs simply don`t come around too often for any given server, and many times the player is just gonna quit anyways (retirement UW and all that jazz). So whoever is the first to play D Maru will end up being a guinea pig for the race.

Of course, if MK were to pull off another string of UWs like they did in the past, then it would be pretty insane have 4 or 5 of em on the server at once all in the same fed. 0.o

what does the cost have to do with anything? im saying, why is making completely new ships so out of the question when the next alternative is to give them huge ridiculous ships?

if all logical input is going to be instantly disregarded like it has been in all these other threads involving race/ship changes, PLEASE just tell me now so i can stop giving my two cents.

Its insane depending on race modifiers... If the K class ships are sufficently expensive in terms of minerals and upkeep they can be no more effective then say the G class cruisers..

Also, nobody else uses the K class battleships, maybe we just mod them down a bit