[Declined] Choose the structures you attack?

[higginz]

i think u can get ships that attack structures right?

if u can, u should be able to scan the planet for the buildings and then choose what target should be priority, maybe things like the heavy factories to stop em building bigger ships etc?

jus an idea... tell me if im wrong and its stupid!

[Elder]

then we would concentrate all our fire on factories and ruin the planets porspect of ever recovering.. sounds like fun

[noah02]

Well I suppose it would be a good idea (just look at the structure killers thread for what i think)
If we could all just kill all Noobs factories so they cant build ships to defend themselves if they get a few more roids than they should do
Seems like an excellent idea actually, just give your self a pat on the back and think about all them lil planets who depend on there finance centres coz they keep getting roided constantly and now they also lose there mines and finance centres constantly.
Must make you like what do they call them again??? BULLY???

[Kal]

I think this deserves more discussion that it has got so far.

[Gerbie]

It's interesting, but I think that if something like this were implemented then structure killing would get too powerfull. Maybe then the maximum amount of structures to destroy should be lower. If you kill all factories, you can seriously handicap someone.

[barney]

maybe an option coulkd be incorporated to choose to attack EITHER random structures OR scan structures specifically, would leave us in general at the same situation as now (which to me is neer satisfactory) but would solve some problems mentioned in other threads about scan planets, distorters/amps. would give players a fair crack at the scan planets without resorting to cov ops (which most scanners are prepared for).

but to allow ppl to specifically target a particular structure, i.e a factory or a mine will just discourage newer players

[noah02]

Choosing to attack some lil planets light factory is just down right evil no structure targeting please its annyoying to be there but its fine the way it is.

[Banned]

Originally Posted by Kal

I think this deserves more discussion that it has got so far.

So why don't you contribute* something?

I think it'd open up some interesting possibilities, like taking out some guy's sec centers so that alliance covoppers could get through on him, hitting scanners to destroy their amps, etc.

* Thanks for taking an interest in this forum, btw. I think what you've done today is pretty cool and hope you or someone else from PAteam can keep following up on this.

[Kal]

Originally Posted by barney

maybe an option coulkd be incorporated to choose to attack EITHER random structures OR scan structures specifically, would leave us in general at the same situation as now (which to me is neer satisfactory) but would solve some problems mentioned in other threads about scan planets, distorters/amps. would give players a fair crack at the scan planets without resorting to cov ops (which most scanners are prepared for).

I quite like that idea

[Cochese]

Much along the same lines as the 'xp for structure killing' thread, I think you'd have to have salvage for constructions before you give incentives for people to destroy them more frequently.

There should also be a cap on the % of each type of structure you can destroy, so you don't totally obliterate a scanner's amps (example), but instead maybe 20% of them.

This is especially the case in a situation where you could focus all your siege ships on one type of structure.

[selenyum]

No, atack as ramdom!
keep these feature as it are!

[wakey]

As others have said that would be plain annoying as everyone would go for the factories. I can see where this might be an intresting thing in a big alliance war situation but seeing as an awful lot of players seem to like totally bashing considerable smaller planets using structure killers when on random raids it would be overall very annoying.

Perhaps as Barney suggested would work, targeting something that fairly critical BUT which doesnt cripple a planet but as Cochese said it needs a tougher cap on it if you choose to be more specific like this. Plus some salvage would be useful as replacing these buildings can be very expensive

[Ferretus]

I don't like the idea but I'll throw in a suggestion as per normal.

Structures should be grouped in a certain way so that structure killers may choose a specific grouping as part of the mission. For example:
Structure killers may choose between:
-Planetary Bombardment (Same as now, hit random everything)
-Specific target (Targets a grouping but with a much lower destruction rate to reflect them searching for target)

My suggestion for the groupings would be this:
Factories: Light, Medium and Heavy factories (would give a point to building multiple factories)
Mining: Metal, Crystal, Eonium mines and finance centres
Operations: Wave amps/distorters and security centres. (this would help reduce those annoying scan planets and also remove the amount of players with immunity. Both of which are detrimental to the game)

Essentially though, the ability to target specific building would lead to bullying and farming of planets which we all agree is bad. The same option could be given to fleets to target a specific ship type rather than say firing at fighters in general.

I'm not a fan, but there is something else to discuss.

[MAdnRisKy]

I think one thing that may need to be changed first is the co-op structures.
Waves are split into amps and distorters, perhaps co-oping should be split into say agent training (a "kremlin" if you will) buildings and infiltration detection buildings.

I say this because I like Ferretus's idea of grouping and then impossing a penalty but that currently grouping waves with co-op is unfair as people tend to have far more waves and amps than they do anything else and it makes it disproportinatly harder to get at what you want to than say compared to mines or production. And by splitting them you provide a random element other than "hit security centres because it'll kill both" (you could say build a lot of agent training to cover your infiltration levels the same as you do with amps and distorters now to protect more important buildings like factories)

[Ferretus]

I put those together as players will often have a disproportionately larger amount of those buildings meaning that if you select to target them the liklihood is that you will kill more of them. That was my reasoning behind it anyways.

[Troll]

How about structure killers can only fire if the opposing planets VALUE is lower than the target planets VALUE. This removes structure killers from there normal day to day operational value and instead puts them in the hands of the alliances where they can be used in the alliance wars. Then XP can be given for structure kills. As for the concern that this would allow scan planets to go unhurt my answer is hey they are scan planets use covert ops to hit them. Although they are harder to covert op no doubt perhaps make an Amp nullify .5 sec centers requiring them to have to have double the sec centers to receive the max bonus.

Just some random thoughts
:gollum:

[Kal]

strucutre killers = evil, we don;t want to make them more effective - declined