Marauder Upkeep

D DeilocheOP

OP 10/02/2009 · 12:56 PM #1

Suggested new upkeeps. This has nothing to do with virals. Marauders should have a more balanced upkeep scheme. All of these upkeeps fall between 12% and 20% (unless the math was done wrong, I outsourced the actual math and just gave rough percentages. ^^; You can blame me for not checking if something is wrong.)

Ship - old upkeep - new upkeep

Pyth - 750 - 2,707
D.Angel - 1,065 - 3,481
D.Hammerhead - 570 - 601
D.Bullhead - 660 - 1044
Pike - 410 - 256
Barracuda - N/A - 432 (New barracuda)
Shark - 345 - 347
Tiger - 468 - 284
Eel - 22 - 11
Manta - 30 - 13
Ray - 37 - 13
Piranha - 165 - 60
Sting - 272 - 257

D DrunkenMasters

12/02/2009 · 06:08 AM #32

Well TWU, that is destroying a whole game concept. There are a good number of plunder marauders on TB that has played/play simply to get enough money and artis and destroy UWs with them spamming pyths and angels. You get the upkeep up, you kill that conspect of the game. I am not one of them and I am not a pyth/angel spammer at high PR(if I ever reach it) but you simply get everything from your own point of view.

T TheWorldUnited

12/02/2009 · 04:35 AM #31

how would this kill off plunder marus on TB???

yes the upkeep is alot higer ... buts its still low >.< still would barely notice it below 1mil

the only difference it would make is cost more to spam them at higher pr thus makes them slightly harder to use at high pr.... which what the whole point of this is ..............

D Deiloche

12/02/2009 · 04:26 AM #30

It`s only canceling it out for marauders who do nothing but spam pyth/angel/bullhead. For those who like to play with the other ships, it`s benefiting them.

D DrunkenMasters

12/02/2009 · 12:52 AM #29

I am not sure either. It is really about RT. And will basicly kill all plunder marauders on TB which is naive imo. Just take D class from virals, problem solved I guess.

A Archaeoptyrex

12/02/2009 · 12:50 AM #28

i see what africa`s driving at ... currently the only server where marus actually have an advantage in income from plunder is slow (even normal, can`t match other races)

you`re cancelling it out a little with the upkeep hikes if they ever can consider UW ... there really is no way to just change viral upkeep?

I`m not sure there was any problem with current ship upkeep for marus anyway ...

D DrunkenMasters

12/02/2009 · 12:47 AM #27

There aren`t that many marauders on TB anyway. And there should be a compromise variant between TB and RT.

A Africa

11/02/2009 · 11:22 PM #26

Well, as Ive noted in other threads, this is about turns, about hull per turn and damage per turn. On turn based its mostly about how turns. Not upkeep. At least not for the well established empires.
Sure, pyth and angel could use an upkeep bounce, but you wont see 10 mill pike stacks instead of pyth angel stacks for that reason.

This looks tough on marus and it seems to affect them more than the virals. Especially on turnbased.

C {Ching}

11/02/2009 · 10:11 PM #25

really? that sucks

D DrunkenMasters

11/02/2009 · 09:59 PM #24

Lowering the cost is impossible without stephen.

C {ching}

11/02/2009 · 09:49 PM #23

increase pyth upkeep to 5k and lower the cost a lot

O OpusDei

11/02/2009 · 07:50 PM #22

agree with ching

C {Ching}

11/02/2009 · 07:10 PM #21

whats the point increasing d class upkeep if virals cant use them? why not drop them back down and wack pyth up a bit more

C {Ching}

11/02/2009 · 07:07 PM #20

ye drop hammerhead a bit

C Crack

11/02/2009 · 02:30 AM #19

changes for the sake of changing is really unnecessary.. changes coz the need for it calls, then change..

no one ask u to spam so and so ship.. its ur choice.. try a balance stack.. at 1st u won`t succeed, try and try again.. thus if someone spam pike too bad if the other party know.. every ships has their own pros and cons..

for eg if a viral juz came out from dp by his own choice, and every 1 or 2mins or so he`s building up slowly at a certain rate, most probably he wanna get his spam of vborrs 1st..

R Raistilin

11/02/2009 · 02:23 AM #18

Big spams or pike and tiger? sure you can spend the 5 days it`d take to build them up to a respectable spam :P

T TheWorldUnited

11/02/2009 · 02:20 AM #17

i think the pike and tiger upkeep might be abit low... would make it easyier to big spams of pike and tiger

D Deiloche

11/02/2009 · 12:59 AM #16

Good for you crack! That`s completely relevant to this thread. That tells me so much about what you think of the new upkeeps! I`m glad you stopped by. :P

C Crack

11/02/2009 · 12:05 AM #15

i rarely spam.. unless i know the other one party is spamming..

B Biohazard

11/02/2009 · 12:03 AM #14

spamming pikes to 10M is a pain,
and than if you run into a guar that leads Li`s......

No spamming pikes won`t be done i guess

C Crack

10/02/2009 · 06:08 PM #13

my fav rev engineer was pike n tiger.. when viral juz came out.. that was quite some time ago..

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