[UI] Stop the upgrades, give us sidegrades!

I'm sure a new item will come before I got them all anyway, so no need to worry xD

 

Facts:

Spearhead,pusat
Status: crushed by tartarus

LF3:
Status: crushed by sl-2 and sl3

LF4, scatterlasers and spectral lancers:
Status: crushed by LF5 with disguise,ok

Aegis:
Status: mostly crushed by Hammerclaw,fact 450 indocrine very hard

Venom:
Status: crushed by Cyborg not +1 slot laser not superior +6% hit/honor and experienc,fact 450 indocrine very hard

Future Facts:
B02:
Status: crushed by hiperplasmoid +0,5% vs shields with hercules

Rocket launchers:
Status: crushed by sl-3+full demon vants

 

I don't feel like we need more damage just to make the game interesting (or to keep it interesting). There are so many different options when it comes to sidegrades. There are tens, no hundreds of (good) ideas on this forum. Moreover, the more powerfull things they release, the bigger they make the ALREADY MASSIVE SIZED CANYON between new and advanced players. I mean look at these new enhanced LF4, almost forcing you to do gates if you want to obtain enough of them. And the time it takes to get them. Or how about the new ships? I don't really care for new ships because I always stick to Spearhead and Citadel but I can only imagine what it must feel like to see these things, as an Aegis or Venom pilot.

With sidegrades also comes rebalances. They did a great job with the skill design cooldowns, but refused to look into anything else. Why didn't they just buff the old venom and call it a day. Because they needed money...

Unfortunately, I don't think we will be seeing a change of direction soon... as bigpoint indeed remains a commercial company.

 

Wrong, scatter and spectral lasers weren't ever good.

I understand the upgrades, some hard core wallet warriors wanted these stuffs. They have complained about the useless color designs, whose prices were overcharged (that's still a fact). So here we are...that will happen again, if they listen to only few players.

They should stop trying to upgrade our old damage equipment, I rather need more Uri from NPCs and good quests with good rewards. And I prefer better shield generators against the Ufe one shout "heroes". Upgrading old stuffs, this is an often seen feature of free MMo games.

The old situation was way better: reaching Fe in several months, getting some skill points and at the end...having fun and enjoying the events.

 

It was hard to pull of but at least the scatterlasers could be used by faster ships, allowing them to get in and out of range while waiting on the cooldown, again, hard to pull of but could be effective in some cases. For example, spearhead ships have 444 speed with prom and no speed gen, while citadels only have 288 speed with prom and no speed gen. Slower ships could attempt to counter it by using ish and emp when the powerfull shot is about to arrive but see, there is some strategy.

Even if they weren't good, their strategy is crushed, instead of releasing a new even more powerfull lf4 (lf5 with disguise), they could also just have released a more powerfull scatterlaser.

 

Yea or at least extend the range.