ok, thats a good start, but...for noone to use em, and admins to be working on em...kinda seems a waste of resources

That idea is going to screw up my fleet idea for myself at lvl 600+

Dreadnought for me

3 Battlcruisers equipped with MTR and
1 destroyer equipped with a MTC

all 4 as slaves


this'll screw almost all Fleet Commanders as slaves suck even with slave mastery, but why put combat slaves in if no one uses them, now you're missing half a focus.

so what if half of the aura generators are fleet com only, I'd like to see instead of taking away capship slaves, make it so no aura generator can work on a slave, meaning if the slave has one, it just can't use it; only the flagship can use one, and the flagship is the player

it means that all fleet coms that stay fleet coms will have to lvl alone very very slowly, or lvl in a squad, which not many ppl will help one lvl on the fleet com's own time; why would someone help a lvl 100 fleet com lvl to lvl 500 without pause?

I must admit, the cap ship combat slaves are kinda broken. A teammate took an EF Frigate with an energy aura on a copper run, which boosted everybodies elec/energy by quite a considerable amount. This counteracted the Blobs aura iirc. But then again, I'm not complaining

Exactly. Now imagine if everyone brought a slave like that with them.

Still, just when Slave masters had the ability to do shit, it gets removed.

Then again, Slave masters could be the ones in the cap ship.

But I like my cap ship that trades metals between my base

If anyone has any good ideas on how to make combat slaves more useful then make sure to post about. Jeff likes combat slaves himself so Im pretty sure he wants them to be useful.

Seems to me that the biggest problem is that they drift away in lag and things like that. Which is a bit tricky to fix.

well hurray for completely killing my fleet commander's setup

3 frigates down the drain, now it will be nice and easy to sit in a base all day instead of leveling >_<

Isn't it possible to just make it so you cannot slave a ship if a non-in-built aura generator is equipped?

/me agrees and waits for response.

I agree as well.

I never tough about using some aura with capital ship slaves (i dont have any aura yet), but yea, they seem to be unbalanced when you look at them this way.

But its a little too radical to just prevent them to be slaves at all. Like i said earlier, they are somewhat the only power fleet commander have...

What if you leave things as they are, but make it so cap ship only aura gens cant be slaved? so, if one is equipped, you cant equip a controlbot.....that way, it suits all the ppl that use E-frigates to level and slave with, and those like me that have used em to Trade slave, and they arent able to be broken by having three slaves, with three various aura's....

Win-Win situation imo.

I must say that the capital ships are the only reason that make a struggling lower level Fleet Commander like me have a chance when playing solo.

I use an entourage of Earthforce Frigates exclusively for multiple reasons -- although I had no idea bout the aura gen trick. Disallowing them as combat slaves would quite possible destroy my entire strategy as a player; and really ruin slave mastery again. It is one of the few advantages I have as a player. The change in the class structure was the main reason I came back, I don't see why one over sized bug of aura gens should be reason to completely dismantle a an entire class of players.

I agree that the best solution is to just disallow aura gens on combat slaves -- more specifically Capital ships. I also think the Capital ship fleet could be diversified more.

Making non-built in field generators not work on slaves sounds like a viable alternative. Let me think about it a bit. I might go with that.

woot!

+1 Good Idea for PA

yay!