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I feel the I-III scout starships are just redundant to scouts or the IV scout starship in terms of actual scouting, and somewhat to the cloaking starships (1k/2k knowledge for MK1/2) for the role of anti-sniper range, albeit they only have 2/2/2 ship cap. To tachyon beams, the decloaker is a much more better solution, and it might be displaced if the scout starships are buffed in that respect.
Dunno, a hard one to decide. I think they need more. |
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Well mk I scout stars are definitely useful as is; they have a lot more lastibility uner fire than fleet ship scouts. I use them most games to get a permanent spy across the core and onto the AI homeworlds before I start my assault, which would be much harder or impossible with scouts, while spire scouts self-attrition into oblivion in like two minutes on the core . For 250 knowledge I can see Mk II as that but slightly more so. But I can't see a time when i'd want to drop 4000 knowledge on the higher tiers as is. |
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Give it a radius that it can cloak other units, then give it the ability to act as a warp gate for the player so it can do some sneaky deepstrike then finally change its name to something more appropiate :P |
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the only time i had to actively chase the scout line instead of the scout line was because of the counter spy ai type. the scout 4 can still be autokilled by them. but the scout 4 starship is utterly immune. but that is a really niche role. i agree that they need something. also they have a problem in there is not an escort command so anything done to order a fleet they need to escort doesnt command them to follow. this is a severe problem in their usefullness as a countersniper/darkmatter |
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If they had some cloak boosting, the could at least get smaller scouts deeper. A small speed boost aura would work too. |
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@motai: you could control-group or shift-select, but having an option to change their filter from civilian to military ships would be helpful. Forwarded as a report 0006072 (http://www.arcengames.com/mantisbt/view.php?id=6072). |
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