0008893: Make Hybrids individually stronger, but decrease their spawn rate

ID	Project	Category		Date Submitted	Last Update

0008893	AI War 1 / Classic	Balance Issue		Jul 11, 2012 9:01 am	Aug 30, 2013 11:26 pm

Reporter	TechSY730	Assigned To
Status	considering	Resolution	open
Product Version	5.040

Summary	0008893: Make Hybrids individually stronger, but decrease their spawn rate
Description	See http://www.arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,11085.0.html for the discussion leading up to this idea. Credit should also go to Varone who also came up with the idea I was trying to express, but communicated it in far clearer wording. Besides a stat buff, if the hybrid spawn rate was to go down, the number of "drones" an individual hybrid is allowed to tow per around should be increased.
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Internal Weight	Feature Suggestion

Bognor Aug 29, 2013 9:26 am reporter ~0033348	I initially liked this, but since this was proposed additions to the game have turned me against it. There are now two new categories of big ships that stalk the player - nemesis shadow frigates and dire guardians - and making hybrids bigger would make them less differentiated from those (and also from the Super Hybrid). Also, I think having a larger number of weaker hybrids helps them seem more "intelligent" and menacing. 30 hybrids all co-ordinating an attack simultaneously from three angles seems far more diabolical than 3 big hybrids attack at once.

Tie-Viper Aug 30, 2013 11:26 pm reporter ~0033353	Agreed.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
Jul 11, 2012 9:01 am	TechSY730	New Issue
Jul 11, 2012 9:01 am	TechSY730	Relationship added	related to 0008867
Jul 11, 2012 9:08 am	tigersfan	Internal Weight	=> Feature Suggestion
Jul 11, 2012 9:08 am	tigersfan	Status	new => considering
Aug 29, 2013 9:26 am	Bognor	Note Added: 0033348
Aug 30, 2013 11:26 pm	Tie-Viper	Note Added: 0033353
Apr 14, 2014 9:29 am	Chris_McElligottPark	Category	Gameplay - Balance Issue => Balance Issue