[UI] Infection VS Disinfection Event + Ship ideas

- General event explanation -

I liked the parasite tide event and the Goliath Surgeon but I feel like there were a lot of missed opportunities to create a very fun event for all. I know that, with the current issues (server merge, MCC) introducing new ideas may not be the best time but I am gonna go ahead and do it anyway

The idea is to create and event where good and bad (infection vs disinfection) fight against each other. All players will be granted with a choice who they want to fight for after which they can score points for their side by killing infected or disinfected players (depending on the side they chose).

All players that chose the winning side will be granted with the following items:
25,000 uridium
10,000 UCB-100
500 UBR-100

To help you scoring points and distinguish your side, there will also be a release of known ships in an infected and disinfected coat .

Depending on your choice, one of these ship types will serve you well but you are not limited so don't hesitate fighting the infection with and infected ships. After all, sometimes you will have to fight fire with fire!

The ships can be crafted which will require a blue-print that can be obtained by completing various infection or disinfection missions. Apart from a blue-print, the ships will also require a new type of ore, in addition to the other ores and hardware required: Infected or disinfected crystals. These crystals can be obtained by collecting boxes, completing galaxy gates, completing missions.

Because the infection mechanic and the ships may change the current meta, it could be possible to make it so that the ships can only be used during the event and then one day per week or so (depending on how it goes).


- New infected ships -

Before I start with the stats of the new ship types, Ill start by changing the current infection debuff. This is mainly done to make it less annoying as I feel like the speed reduction as it currently is is to much of a game changer. So here are the new infection stats:

Infection stats:
+10% laserdamage
-5% speed
-10% HP
Cannot be removed by an EMP
Duration: 15 min or until death

Furthermore, note that only the stats are important, of course the Spearhead Infector could also be the Pusat Infector or it could be a completely new ship, I only chose the Spearhead, Aegis and Citadel because I feel like the current stats are alternatives for their original role. Last but not least: Red indicates a potential downside while green indicates a potential upside.

Spoiler

Spearhead Infector

HP	125,000
Max base speed	588
Lasers	9
Generators	10
Hellstorm	1
Passive	Infected burst: For as long as this ship is infected, it deals 10% more laserdamage

Poison-build-up
This ship is now infected.
Duration: instant
Cooldown: 30 seconds


Removal
This ability disables all passive abilities of the affected target.
Duration: 10 seconds
Cooldown: 45 seconds


Amplifying vial
Fire a rocket at an infected players to double the virus effect (does not stack).
Rocket can’t miss.
Rocket has a short range
Duration: 10 seconds
Cooldown: 2 minutes


Citadel Butcher

HP	500,000
Max base speed	528
Lasers	12
Generators	14
Hellstorm	1
Passive	Absorbing force This ship instantly restores 20% of its HP and 10% of its shield whenever a player kill is made (player killed must be above level 17) Deadly desire: If this ship is not infected its shield will be drained by 0,125% per second

Infective shockwave
This ability generates a shockwave that infects all players in range (including yourself).
Duration: instant
Cooldown: 2 minutes


Damage burst
Grants a 10% laserdamage boost while active
Drains your shield by 2,5% per second while active
Duration: turn on/off
Cooldown between toggle: 5 seconds


Speed burst
Grants a 10% speedboost while active
Drains your shield by 2,5% per second while active
Duration: turn on/off
Cooldown between toggle: 5 seconds


Aegis Condemner

HP	250,000
Max base speed	540
Lasers	12
Generators	14
Hellstorm	1
Passive	Regenerating virus: For as long as this ship is infected, it will heal 0,25% shield per second

Poison build up
This ship is now infected.
Duration: instant
Cooldown: 30 seconds.


Infected armor
This ability infects every player that deals any damage to your HP.
Duration: 3 seconds
Cooldown: 2 minutes


Infected heal
This ability heals both you and a friendly locked player by 10,000 HP and 10,000 shield per second.
Heals 50% less for non-infected players.
Duration: 5 seconds
Cooldown: 45 seconds.

- New Disinfected ships -

Spoiler

Spearhead - Supporter

HP	135,000
Max base speed	588
Lasers	7
Generators	12
Hellstorm	1
Passive	Antidote: This ship can’t be infected, in any way, by any means.

Containing cage
Reduces the damage output from a locked infected player by 5% (stacks).
Duration: 8 seconds
Cooldown: 30 seconds.


Hybrid-virus
Gain the reversed boosts and penalties of a standard virus.
Duration: 10 seconds
Cooldown: 1 minute 30 seconds


Quick-desinfection
Remove an infection from a friendly locked player.
Duration: instant
Cooldown: 30 seconds.


Citadel – Exterminator

HP	550,000
Max base speed	528
Lasers	9
Generators	17
Hellstorm	2
Passive	Anti-virus: Any damage done to this ship by infected players is reduced by 10%

Anti-infection-shield
This ability removes infections and grants immunity against a new infection for both you and your outfitmembers.
Duration: 15 seconds
Cooldown: 30 seconds


Protective-shield
This ability grants a 25% laserdamage resistance from NPCs and infected players for both you and your outfitmembers.
Does not redirect damage towards your ship.
Duration: 10 seconds
Cooldown: 45 seconds


Desinfective Armor
This ability reduces the laserdamage from infected players against your ship by 35%
Reduces your speed by 10%
Duration: turn on/off
Cooldown: 5 seconds between toggling


Aegis – Savior
Not really ideas for this one yet xD

Let me now what you guys think

 

Sounds actually good, but it really wonders me if it's really worth to craft the infected ships only for event and they're not pretty logical to use after the event itself, meanwhile I love to see new ships with different purpose and timings and not for all-around just like other ships are. Spearhead, Aegis and Citadel were exactly built as situational and team up ships, while Aegis still became a common all-around ship. Surgeon is a good all-around ship for this event, but it could be changed also for this event.

But this still leaves me with questions like

• Will this new event be completely PvP sided or will PvE affect also on this?
• Depending also the length of the event, are the rewards worth in terms of how much we lose on it?
• Will the Spearhead, Aegis and Citadel (if they were chosen) have their regular abilities as well?
• If the ships / designs benefit of being infected, will the enemies have a possibility to cure them with the Anti-CPU? (I don't know if it's already possible.)
• The companies still exists, but if you're in the same team, then what happens if you kill each other? Nothing?

And it left me with ideas like

• If the duration is 2 weeks, why not swapping the teams after the first week, as it could turn the battle completely over?
• Infection booty boxes with possibly having these ships, drones, P.E.Ts similar to Obsidian and Apocalypse but infection stuff in general.
• Making also new Hellstorm / Rocket ammo for the new event(?) (Highly questionable, as the PIB-100 ammo is already enough annoying.)
• Making different level of infections. Level 1 could be like stated in your post, level 2 would be a bit more disadvantage and level 3 would make significant damage to your ship, while also slowing it down and making it weaker. Levels could be increased after using x amount of times the Spearhead ability, but not making it too easy, as it might break the game.
• What if every ship would be turned like these during the event and not making new ones?

Some of the ideas might not be good, but at least I tried. Waiting on the disinfected ones if they all makes these ideas bad.

Might actually play this event if it will become in the future.

 

Hi, thx so much for your response, I've quoted it and added comments in yellow (open the quote to reveal them). I also added the Disinfected Spearhead and Citadel.