[TI] Citadel ''Travel'' ability

A 3 year long ''bug'' removed

From the beginning, the speedboost given by the citadels' ''travel ability'', depends on your current speed. The higher your current speed, the lower the boost and the other way around. Till so far I always thought that this was the whole idea and therefore I wasn't suprised when i could reach 570 speed with 10% slowdown from the infection event.

After a while, me and my friend did some testing and we found out that if we lower our base speed even more, we could increase our speed when the ability was activated even further. With crab formation we could reach 615 speed, and with crab formation and infection, we could reach 683 speed. This has been a usefull ability for a verry long time.

Unfortunately now it has been removed, allowing the citadel to reach a speed nowhere higher than 540 (unless in combination with wheel). Personally, I feel like the travel ability was the only good thing that made the citadel worth flying in for me.

Why has this been removed? This ''Bug'' or skill, as I like to call it, has been here for more than 3 years! I ''ve seen no complaints from anyone about it, and there are only a few citadels left! To further add to the frustration, my crab formation that I bought recently now became a waste and I am once again useless with my 528 base speed, especially with this new wheel formation.

Or write, I get it, 683 or 616 speed is to much in citadel, especially for the short cooldown, but still, now I only have 540 -.-. I already have the lowest base speed! If it would get a longer cooldown or if the boost would become lower, I wouldn't care about this so much.

Unfortunately it probably won't change again, and nobody cares because nobody uses citadel. And so Citadel became even more useless, speed seems to be all that matters now. Use a pussat with wheel design and your're almost invincible (just run) -.-

I think yet another citadel player is gone, good luck with those missions :I

-1 bigpoint,

 

I was thinking about getting a Citadel for Spaceball for the speed boost ability......Looks like I will stick with my lightning Vengi now....Sorry to hear they nerfed your ship

 

Yeah, citadel is basically a base defense ship. What travel ability it has, use to get from port to base and then sit.

 

As useful as it may have been it was a bug, but perhaps you could start and idea thread to bring it back as a feature. After all, it's a short duration burst for a ship that is slower than any other when it's not on that boost with limited firepower. If a pusat dies to one from that well... but yeah it snot used for PvP much anyways. There's a guy who uses it solely to kill cubers with mines and to not die in the process. I only use mine for base defense and transfers atm.

 

Thank you all for assisting the player with their question.
Bakjam, If it was indeed a bug, then it was only a matter of time before it was corrected. As suggested above, you can make a post >Here< to see if they can bring it back as a feature.

Do you have any further questions on this topic or may we close?

Best regards.
.-Raijin-.