Originally Posted by Insane4cefed

It just seems like to me that the science class of ships are getting the short end of the stick in the games content and rewards.

When you do fleet enguagements the points only seem to figure in DPS; healing, buffing and debuffing dont seem to apply to your score. I did about 900 on the score chart i the beginning ship and now in the science ship the score for me has moved to only about 1200. While in my current sector of feel engaugement the escorts seem to bring in nearly 3x the score touching over 3000 sometimes, winning all the fancy loot and leavin me with white item i vendor for 500 energy credits.

Sure escorts are the DPS ships so they should do more damage, but 3x is crazy. It doesnt just impact the special fleet engaugements either. Take a the classic deep space encounters everyone farms. I warp into one and typicaly all the other ships in there are escorts. I fallow them around as they enguage the enemy but my DPS is so much lower then theirs I will never get a loot drop, which for me.. is half the fun of an MMO is to collect loot and stockpile your own inventory.

I cant compete with the escorts so I stray off on my own from them and take on targets by myself, I find im shooting a battlecruiser for nearly 2 minutes before I blow it up. While escort flys in and pops them in 20-30 seconds.

Anyone else feel like their science ship is the bottom of the totem pole?

Originally Posted by Insane4cefed

I think fleet engaugements should reward 3 types of rewards to each of the classes. If your escort you should be competeing with everyone else flying escort in that fleet engaugement. Cruisers should be in their own catagory too along with science in theirs. That would give me a way better chance to place #1 in a fleet engaugement if my score was only against other science ships based on loot rewards.

Originally Posted by Vadirus

No science vessels didn't get shafted. Here is the reality:

This is a game. As such, the 3 different classes of vessels need to be balanced against one another. So each class has something to complain about (their weaknesses by design) and to brag about (their strengths by design).

Escorts deal the damage. But they are glass cannons - fragile. They don't hold much room on them either.

Cruisers are the tanks. Huge storage, lots of weapon mounts, lots of crew, lots of hull, lots of power (energy to run the systems). But their maneuverability stinks.

Science Ships are the jack-of-all trades. They don't have any real weakness, but they don't have any real strength. They innately can target subsystems and get a bonus to aux power to run all their CC abilities.

Its just the nature of the beast. You'll find the cruiser captains complaining to high heaven about their turn rates, you'll find escort captains complaining they can't take anywhere near as much damage as everyone else, and you'll find the science ship captains complaining about their damage.

Its called game balance. Now go play and do what most do: Focus on building a strength around your game style.

Originally Posted by Vadirus

No science vessels didn't get shafted. Here is the reality:

This is a game. As such, the 3 different classes of vessels need to be balanced against one another. So each class has something to complain about (their weaknesses by design) and to brag about (their strengths by design).

Escorts deal the damage. But they are glass cannons - fragile. They don't hold much room on them either.

Cruisers are the tanks. Huge storage, lots of weapon mounts, lots of crew, lots of hull, lots of power (energy to run the systems). But their maneuverability stinks.

Science Ships are the jack-of-all trades. They don't have any real weakness, but they don't have any real strength. They innately can target subsystems and get a bonus to aux power to run all their CC abilities.

Its just the nature of the beast. You'll find the cruiser captains complaining to high heaven about their turn rates, you'll find escort captains complaining they can't take anywhere near as much damage as everyone else, and you'll find the science ship captains complaining about their damage.

Its called game balance. Now go play and do what most do: Focus on building a strength around your game style.

Originally Posted by Airwren

How the f*** does being a good tank or an awesome science officer help me win loot in a dps based mechanic?

Originally Posted by Insane4cefed

I think fleet engaugements should reward 3 types of rewards to each of the classes. If your escort you should be competeing with everyone else flying escort in that fleet engaugement. Cruisers should be in their own catagory too along with science in theirs. That would give me a way better chance to place #1 in a fleet engaugement if my score was only against other science ships based on loot rewards.