Based on the amount of info in this thread, should we not post 2 separate threads?

PVP Space issues?
PVP Ground issues?

Also have it so that everyone posts generically eg.

Item / Ability concern:
On activation of attack pattern epsilon, we are led to believe based on the description that everyone in team should get 15% tac buff, but all enemies die instantly.

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This is not actually true, and it's not your fault at all (intuitively I thought the same thing when I first started toying around with resistance).

A good opportunity is here for me to make a very simple request that (if Jesse is to be believed) the devs are already on board and thinking about carrying out:

Tooltips need a complete overhaul. Both as developers and as players, we need to know just what exactly each stat, skill and item in the game does. In OPvP a dev agreed with me that the quality of in-game information was poor and often confusing.

For what it's worth, I think such a planned change could be easier to sell to the higher-ups than others, because tooltips/in-game info isn't a PvP-exclusive issue.

Good point.

Lost? No, My problem isn't with that.

My problem is that logic is:

There is a problem tactical officers or game balance in general, therefor -instead of fixing that- take it out on all caitians.

That is just one 'proposed' solution. The recool with Lunge is going to happen and only affects Tacs. The exploit to expose would affect all professions and I do not endorse that specific change. Borticus is not asking for solutions. He wants us to point out the balance concerns.

Covert trait is not a Cat specific problem, but it causes a lot of problems by allowing a player to stay cloaked 100% of the time and cannot be uncloaked with sensor scan. Using Tactical Initiative, Operative kit, Omega set cloak, shroud Generaters, Ambush cloak, it is possible to remain invisible and untargetable while continuously attacking and 1-shotting opponents. The frost boots allow a cloaked player to negate the movement penalty.

The current OP ground PvP build = Catian/Ferasion Covert, Pounce chained with Lunge, Cloak kit with Omega cloak, Cryo pulsewave. Player remains invisible, has a weapon that negates armor resistance, has 2 chainable exploit attacks that put him at point blank range for maximum pulsewave damage, has Doffs to stun opponent on melee and increase crits on melee. These travel in packs and so share Tactical Initiatives and stack Omega dodge bonuses. You cannot shoot back or debuff them unless they make a mistake and uncloak for a second. Sonic pulse is negated by willpower and does nothing to stop an attack. Neural Neutralizer has a delay that allows a player to kill you before it activates. Non-covert cloaking can be seen at close range, covert cloaking cannot.

It may have a higher shield rating but has only 1 sci slot, so your not going to get some HUGE shield cap number on a bug,,,secondly,,the 2 universal slots are only LT,,with an ens eng,,,,then commander and LT comm tac slots,,,it has higher hull because it cannot create a large shield cap,,,and what is the point in a large shield cap as a tac captain anyway? You more than likely dont have the sci slots to heal such a large cap, on my jem bug i dont even use my sci slot for a shield boost,,i stick my rom zero point console in it,,and run nothing but hull heals on Boff buffs.

The 5 tac slots is not OP,,,i used to think that would make some huge difference,,,,its nice yes, but its not some ungodly weapon power, if you run into people who know what they are doing and have the right setup even with a jem bug with 5 mark XII purple mags in tac slots you will have problems.

Wait, so I can stack 5 Neutronium Alloys and get full benefit to damage resistance with no diminishing returns? Can you please clarify what's exactly not true?

Yes you can stack them to gain resistances where the fifth will provide nearly as much EHP as the first one did.

Yes they do have diminishing returns but it is not extremely severe until you start pushing over 100 raw resist.

The ironic thing is, to me anyway, resist consoles are more effective in the long run on a ship that lacks multiple hull heals like escorts. Whereas cruisers will tend to really hit the diminishing returns issue while abilities like Aux2Strut are active.

Iirc it basically goes as follows:

1x10% resist console

100 incoming damage -> 90

2 x 10% resists console

100 incoming damage -> 90 (100-10) -> 81 (90-9)

Instead of 10x2 = 20, then 100-20=80

What I don't know is if you have say 36 % console vs 2x18%

64 vs

82 - (82x.18)=67.24

In otherwords it seems it's better to have 1 high Kinetic resist + 1 high Energy rather than multiple lower ones.