Sabbing MS Capacities

[zana]

Disclaimer - Apologies before hand if this idea has been suggested since my search of common suggestion and with keywords didn't find anything.

It should be allowed to sabotage MS from its capacity. As it gives an unfair advantage to players who are strong and make them stronger. Since any attack on the person can only destroy the shields and fleets but does not take away the capacity thus a little expense of naq they have a powerful mothership again. This is annoying and at times very unfair. As a lot of players have stopped putting their naq into troops building but only into MS. With 20000+ fleets and MS power of 100bill + it is alone more powerful than defenses of probably 1500 rank player.

Allowing the sabotage option for MS with the option to chose sabotage MS or defense/attack would give some balance to small to medium level player to go against an attacker who only has a large MS but not attack or defense capacity and create balance.

[Sphinx42]

You seem to forget that capacities cost increasingly more, while the price of weapons doesn't increase.
Besides, you could only sab another player's MS if it was 'at home'.

[zana]

Well the game has now become the game of the planets and MS.

Also sabbing gives you oppurtunity to fight against it, it improves competition and strategy. Since I am a mid size player but I know my attacker has a very big mothership and is farming me with it. I can divert my resources to Coverts and cover the bases that way if I have enough coverts/anti covert I can avoid sabbing. On the other hand the player can slow the progress on the person who is using only his/her MS against the player since defenses are 100bil but his/her MS alone is larger than that. Now with MS sab you can power down the MS and fight a fair fight. And if the person with bigger MS is little low in covert he/she would think before farming as they will have to think of getting sabbed.

[Lord Apollo]

In the words of REK:

[zana]

Why not build your MS up instead.

Bigger players are bigger, period, deal with it, everyone else has to too.

Well this is a suggestion to build the game strategy and make game more interesting nothing to deny bigger players. And "deal with it" sounds more like a give in to it rather than fight back.

But the idea is to provide newer players a fair chance to fight against it and it builds strategy and planning for mid to small player in order to deal with the threat at hand.

Otherwise their should be an automatic protection call it "Devine Intervention" or "Higher plane of existance protection". Law of existence comes into play and devine protects the smaller player from obliteration from the oppressing power. Just like if you attack some body too many times they phase out of existence.

This protection should work where you cannot attack a player whose total power is x% of the attacker. Like many other games. One example comes to mind is darkbattle where you cannot attack a player planet whose total power is less than half yours. And a galaxy fleet cannot attack a player planet where the total power is less than 12% of the total galaxy power.

[Winter Wolf]

Personally I don't see why you need to be able to sab a mothership. And for your position that it gives the bigger players an unfair advantage......that's the entire point of being a top ranked player. You have bigger stats than others. You want to destroy a ms? Build a bigger one.

[Rich™]

I dont see the need for this, but understand why you may want it, as suggested above just build a bigger MS, if this was a REAL thing, there would be two ways you'd be able to destroy / damage a mothership, 1) go 1 on 1 with your MS against theres whilst it's en route somewhere, i.e. in space, 2) send spys/ commandos to sabotage it while it's in the dock.

re 2) if the target has a big MS it's likely to have good covert, so your spys would need training accordingly and back into game mode and not RL, they'd need a high covert level, which judging from the sound of it you dont have and want to be able to destroy big guys, so either way you couldnt take down their MS as you are now.

p.s. nice sigs Winter Wolf

[Rich™]

yeah 1 on 1 would be cool, not factoring in att/def of account or planets, pure MS battle.