Cybots Ideas

Another Gamma Idea

2008-07-24T17:50:00.002-04:00

Instead of keeping feds/renegades as enemies in this sector, there should be another side introduced. Someone will have to come up with a name for it, but it would make this sector more interesting because we would have to learn their strengths and weaknesses. To make it even more difficult, these three factions could all combine their technology together to make some very interesting results. So basically each squad you fight would contain a variety of chassis from each faction. Don't know how that sounds, but it's definitely something to think about.

New Bot Idea

2008-07-14T19:02:00.002-04:00

While were on the topic of introducing new bots, we should incorporate a chassis that can hold two reactors. Since none of the other current bots have this feature, it would make a good prototype bot that had to be won from achieving some kind of award in tals.

Customizable Bots

2008-07-10T21:23:00.003-04:00

Everyone should have the option of choosing the color for each of their bots. This idea is simple enough that would just require some editing of the current bot selection to have a variety of colors. I propose this idea because it seems boring to be looking at the same exact color of bots all the time. A variety will make the game seem less boring over a longer period of time.

Other Gamma Mission Ideas

2008-07-10T19:55:00.003-04:00

Base Evacuation:
A nearby base is about to be overrun by Federate Troops. Intel suspects that there are important supplies stored in this base that we cannot afford to lose. Get to the base before the invasion begins, warn the control tower and evacuate the base. Move all of the base forces and supplies safely to a well-fortified base in the region approximately 21 geomets away. It's imperative that we reach the base before the Federates do because then we'll have to fight them too.

Support Units-3
Reward-200 Acc
TRP-100
MRP-50 per recovered object (500 possible)

Staging Area Massacre:
Our satellites have recently discovered a large cluster of powerful enemy bots nearby in what appears to be a staging area. We are unaware of what these bots will be used for, so it's important that we destroy them before they take action.

Support Units-4
Accs-300
TRP-100
MRP-400

Hostile Takeover:
Some of our leaders have been captured by the federates during a failed attempt of transferring them to a new base. The federates are currently holding them hostage in a nearby facility and will kill them if their demands are not meant. This is not allowed. Take your squad to this base, fight your way through the perimeter, recover the leaders and bring them back to the base. Since this mission is very critical, we are equipping you with one of our special lieutenants, which will provide your squad with extra shield deflection.

Support Units-6
Accs-400
TRP-100
MRP-100 per leader (600 Possible)

Research Facility Investigation:
A mysterious research facility has been discovered nearby. We think the federates may be using this facility to develop new weapons. If this is the case, the facility will need to be eliminated. Take your squad to this base and inspect the premises. If it is in fact a research facility, you will be ordered to take it out and bring back any experimental weapons you can recover for testing. Be warned: The fed's are conducting many types of experiments in this region with new equipment, so it's important to proceed with caution.

Support Units-3
Accs-300
TRP-100
MRP-300 (150 extra per recovered equipment)

CyCarrier In Danger:
One of our CyCarrier's was returning to base earlier today but ran into an energy storm which has disrupted their power cores, grounding them in one spot and leaving them vulnerable to enemy attack. Your mission is to form a blockade around this quarantined area until and hold back any enemy forces until the storm subsides. Don't venture too close to the crash site or your bots will be grounded too.

Support Units-4
Accs-300
TRP-100
MRP-400

Riconnen's Challenge

2008-07-09T20:18:00.001-04:00

Update this to have a wider variety of competitions to win and so more people have a chance of winning something.

Workshop Upgrade

2008-07-09T12:06:00.002-04:00

Biometric Workshop:
Awarded when you max TRP.

Repair Rate Bonus: 100%
Chassis Tech Level: 7
Max. Bots Per Squad: 10
Max. Bots Total: 40

Note: If Termi Chassis was released, its Chassis Tech Level would be 7 and you would only be able to acquire it after that point (limit 1 per person). The idea may seem a bit ridiculous, but if the Gamma sector is this challenging, then the termi may be the only way to conquer it.

Cybots Updates

2008-07-09T01:58:00.002-04:00

New Cy Chassis

We have had cychassis for a very long time but its the same old 3 that has always been there (the Marauder, Sentinel, and Overseer). However these same 3 are old and dated so we need to add 5 ( the Reaper, Orbiter, Ranger, Bulwark, and Crusader). Proposed stats for these Cy chassis are as follows:

Cy Reaper:

Crit Hit-5%
Accuracy-20%
Speed-65
Energy Distribution- 75%
M:2/W:3/S:2

Cy Orbiter:

Crit Hit-10%
Accuracy-10%
Speed-90
M:5/W:1/S:1

Cy Ranger:

Crit Hit-10%
Accuracy-30%
Speed-85
Damage-40%
M:2/W:1/S:1

Cy Bulwark:

Crit Hit-10%
Accuracy-25%
Speed-85
Shield Projection-30%
M:3/W:5/S:2

Cy Crusader:

Crit Hit-25%
Accuracy-55%
Speed-40
M:3/W:1/S:5

Tals Additions

Before we jump to adding a new sector (which im getting to) alpha needs a bit of work. First off Goshawk squads need to get stronger as your squad gets stronger just like everything else in tals. The TRAF's also need to have another award in the vaults after you get the Ravager even if its just a cash reward. 2 New achievements need to be added. The first should be for maxing your TRP and the reward should be a second cy chassis of your choice. This should be the only time the Cy Bul and Cy Crus are available because they are so much stronger then the other cy chassis. The 2nd achievement should be made for killing 100 battle cruisers and the reward should be the Evicerator super weapon. Max TRP should also be raised to 25k and a Cy Bul and Cy Crus should be added to the support units list. Proposed stats for the Evicerator are as follows:

Evicerator:

Weight- 700
Required Tech Level: 800
Shield Damage- 6000
Armor Damage- 4000
Energy Drain-750
Shots Per Turn- 0.35
Energy Per Shot-800
Accuracy-100%

GAMMA SECTOR

This aint your mama's sector. This is were even long standing vets should be struggling. We are talking uber bm needed to even be able to stand a chance. 10k TRP should be required to enter. A list of 7 new missions are as follows:

Federate Havoc Control

Large Federeate Super Squads have been wreaking havoc in the sector. We need you to eliminate them to make the outlands a bit more safe.

Support Units-3
Reward-200 Acc
TRP-75

Destroy Federate Omega Cruiser

An insanely strong cruiser has been spotted in the sector we need you to eliminate it.

Support Units-5
Reward- 400 Acc
TRP-200

Gamma Free Patrol

Reward Point Limit- 1000
Support Units-2

Cy Corps. Leader Escort

The Cy leader is being transfered to another base. We need you to act as a convoy and protect the leader from attack on the way to the new base.

Reward- 500 acc
TRP- 300
Support Units-4

Intel Recovery

A Cycarrier carrying extremely valuable intel has been destroyed and the intel has been stolen. Track down the federate squads carrying the intel. Destroy the squads, recover the intel, and return to base.

Reward- 200 acc
TRP- 100
Support Units-3

Super Bunker

An overly fortified bunker has been spotted in the Gamma Sector. We believe it to be housing a high priority target. Take out the bunker.

Reward- 300 acc
TRP- 150
Support Units-3

General Vangould Assasination

After 50 succesful Gamma missions you are given the options to take this mission. The object is simple Destroy Vangould. He will be guarded by 2 Omega Cruisers and he will be in his new Omega Hulkram Tank. This mission can only be done once

Reward- 200 acc and the Federate Assasin Achievement
TRP-400
Support Units-0

Federate Assassin Achievement

Reward- Terminus Chassis

Miscelaneous Updates

Last Set Scoreboard-Add a scoreboard that shows the stats of the previous set.

MAX Pod- make a super Dax pod available for purchase in Talsia for 5000 accs each

Set Increase- Increase set length to 30 days

Rename MC's- Suggested Renaming are as follows:

Levi- Crimsons
Mara- Tammy
Ran- Number One
Seer 1- Jimkirk
Seer 2- Maximo
Sent 1- Triton
Sent 2- Nightowl
Orbiter-Jc1
Val- Cipher600
Reap- RHershey8

Tals Update

2008-07-08T23:08:00.002-04:00

+ New Missions
+ Ability to purchase the following during missions:
+ Exp/Cash Mults
+ Coords (TRAF, base, ruins, etc.)
+ More rewards
+ Different equipment available from TRAF's after rav is found

I'll add on to the list if I think of more.

Mining Bases

2008-07-07T15:09:00.002-04:00

First off
The bug that are mined should always be visible. Personally I've defended over 10-20 tons but it still sais 0 tons defended off some weird fucked up reason.

but now my idea.

Tons mined should be personal. The clan score is comprised of the combined number of tons defended by all players, thus in kalorfulls case, all the tons his accounts defended are only accountable for the clan he is in right now.

That way you'll mess up the clan tactic kal is using right now to dominate the clan scores board, and make it less interesting for him to do keep doing this similar tactic + you make it more interesting for other clans to build bases too as they actually have a shot at some clan-vet-rank.

MC Update

2008-07-06T15:15:00.002-04:00

MC bot names need to be changed. I was thinking that they could be named after the current top veterans, after resetting veteran ranks of course like Krogzar said.

Introduction

2008-07-06T05:45:00.001-04:00

Hi y'all,

Just a quick hello and i hope to be able to contribute some ideas that may be of worth.

Chris

Achievements/trophies

2008-07-03T03:11:00.004-04:00

System like on xbox live where you get medals for each achievement you complete These never reset and you just keep them on your profile (another new feature) to show off. Possible achievements:

Finish 1st

Finish top 10

Each Tals award

Get all tals awards with perfect mission success rate

Mine 100 tons in mining mission

Play a full set without letting your KC get above 3000 (not including at set start, so once you drop below 3k, you never go back above)

Defeat MCs and get cychassis without mercs

finish top 25 without getting greed once

Play 10 sets in a row

etc

These would only be counted if you have contrib status.

be4 any new changes

2008-07-02T00:51:00.004-04:00

the game needs desperatly a real player forum thats "official" and that works
both in game and outside and a real web site a fixed up base game that shows logs of what happened who attacked and who defended ..and bugs to be fixed
of course newer tougher post talsia place for the uber squads we got

i got a few more ideas bouncing in my head i'll post em later

i want to add .. a long time ago in a previous era when colin and marty ran the game
colin once asked me "so what would i do to market and increase players in the game ?
its a question pretty much any business asks "how to increase customers" in a nutshell

in any business that has a product
1)have a good product
2)good customer support both be4 and after selling the product
3)marketing which is selling yourself to customers, acquiring a name

lets analyze this for a moment (ive been in sales for 20 years )we have a product its called cybots
its a good product that could be better
we have soem players usually the same i dunno consistent 50 or 60 players
we have many more that moved on
can we acquire new customers?to whom would we sell ourselves to? and where would we advertise?

one idea is to give certain considerations to players who bring in friends who never played be4
(considerations i.e like 1 code good for 1 months play )
point number 2 is customer support for so loong the product (i.e the game) has been ignored
for so long the game has been stagnant heck even i get bored at times espoecially early part of the game
yes changes must be made it has to be made so every set is a bit different just to keep it honest and fun

and customers (thats us who pay) have to be treated as err well customer not as enemies who are muted or banned at first offense players shopuld be warned in private by a monitor that if they continue they will be muted (i know damo and or colin and or griswald used to warn me in private message numerous times i should watch it )

Post Tals

2008-06-30T04:04:00.002-04:00

I mentioned this already, but heres a start to the idea:

Either create a new area after tals, or rework tals as so:

War of the Outlands

Before entering, players must choose a side in the war. Could be 2-5 'teams'.

Once you choose a path, there is no turning back. Each team has a strength and a weakness, but all sides are equal. There is a unique and focused goal for players of each team.

During the last days of the set the teams receive bonuses for how well they achieved their goals and the war begins. Players will compete squad vs squad until all squads are eliminated. Last man standing wins the war for their team. Some sort of award is given to top player/top team.

Base Bug

2008-06-29T18:06:00.001-04:00

One of the bugs that needs to be fixed for basing is the bug that makes new bases wait 2 minutes before attacking others... I'm not sure if this was intentional or a bug, but either way I think it should be revised. The only way I see this as being fair is if we go with Rays idea of making bases harder to break. Otherwise it gives the other clans who already have a base a chance to raze you before you even get a chance to attack.

Firebase exp multiplier

2008-06-29T10:20:00.001-04:00

it should increase multiplier instead of keeping it @ x2

Temporal vet rank

2008-06-29T09:38:00.002-04:00

Instead of resetting vetrank there should be another vetranking system.

Instead of alltime vetrank this system works for the last 10-20 sets (not sure on the precise amount but a years history would prolly work quite nicely)

The points you get are the same as normal vet rank but the vet rank you had from a year ago would fall of the scale.

Hence keeping this list with rather new vets

you could prolly call it a "top-player-rank"

It should also have it's own colour sceme just as veterans etc.

top 25 top-players should for instance have a yellow colour and the top one gold

/Krog

Another superweapon (or maybe another ravager)

2008-06-29T09:07:00.002-04:00

Right now there is nothing you can do with accolades when you got all techs and 3 oblits. There is no use for getting more oblits etc.

How about a superweapon you can buy in talsia
costing 10.000 accs and 500 Trps

It should be a cranked up oblit, probably similar to the ravager.

The cost of the weapon is soo expensive that you can hardly get more than 1. Further more it will make sure people do more missions, so safe acc's.

my 3 cts

Muting

2008-06-29T08:52:00.002-04:00

I got muted today for a single offence blablabla

but I feel the 10 hours is way to long for a mute. Surely for something as "harmless" as a single curse of anoyance.

Further more mutes should be for public chat only, private messages and clan chat should be available for the player.
Or at least there should be some way to appeal to the mute to an admin. Preferably the admin who placed the mute.

To make mutes "better" I also suggest to put them on player ip's not on player-accounts.

Now most people who get muted just change accounts instead of sitting out their mute.

but those are my 2 cents

Buying of uplink

2008-06-29T06:39:00.002-04:00

What I would like to see is that you can buy percentages of mod uplink in your squad. For instance, you buy 10% energy efficiency for 1000 trp (dunno about the amount or the prize). By doing that you can make your own decision to go for trp or for a squad fully boosted because of the mod uplink without use that many modules in your seers.
Well, I hope this makes sense.

And on a different note, I don't like to reset Vet ranking, therefore it is vet ranking.

Fixes that have to be done

2008-06-28T06:45:00.002-04:00

The history in basing must be fixed... I miss the info that gave you

imo the chat is shitty, there should be a irc server with a java chat box below :p but that's just ma 2 cents

Ranking

2008-06-27T22:13:00.003-04:00

No matter what, under the current scheme the top players will set into boredom once they get amfds etc, and this is what drove many people away. A way to counter that is reinstate tourney, or maybe new areas in which players can battle each other - eg. having different criteria for entering a squad for different arenas other than BM (bot types, no. of bots in squad, weapon bm limit), and of course change basing :p

Something else which should change ranks is having a score for other areas of cybots which affects your rank score (so it's not based purely on exp which is boring) although only slightly ofc. If some 'drastic' changes are made then this would level the playing field I think.

There needs to be more equipment types added (new tech could also give excuse for introducing a new outlands area) instead of just changing BMs around, because the stuff we have now has been done to death - bases should be much harder to kill, instead of each and every setup being HS'able. Basically we need an element that will allow lower level bots to be somewhat effective at basing as well as the higher level ones (perhaps patrol/basing/tourney/arena-only equipment?) so that people can keep bases up without being on 24/7.

Some people are missing out because they feel it would take too long to get blue, or w/e. An old Hall of Fame list could be kept for the top vets/clans, and then reset everyone's vet points, make everyone equal again.

And if changes ever get implemented, would be a good idea to send a newsletter to every email ever used to sign up for cybots :)

Not really specific there ^, just for others to chew on.

Faster KC recharge

2008-06-27T18:31:00.001-04:00

I miss the good old days where you could click much faster...

I'm not sure bout p2p (pay to play)

but the current system is working ok I guess and this way the new buyer will prolly want to invest

New Account Types

2008-06-27T01:48:00.000-04:00

Voice activated accounts along with bots that can talk.

Leviathan History

2008-06-27T01:42:00.002-04:00

Ths Leviathan Class Chassis has a rich history. It was the bastardized version of several decorated and battle hardy cybots that had finally been destroyed after years of battle. By interspersing several different classes of bots into one supersized behemoth, it captured the "spirit" of each of the fallen warriors of the cybernetic battlefields.

Future Idea

2008-06-27T01:38:00.001-04:00

This may seem a bit too far planned ahead, but it's still an idea... It would be awesome if we could turn cybots into a 3-D game where YOU could take the place of any bot in your squad and attack as you would normally, but you would be the person making all the actions instead of clicking a mouse.

New Super Weapons & Tals Rewards

2008-06-27T01:05:00.001-04:00

Need I say more?

Update Tals Sector

2008-06-27T01:01:00.000-04:00

Basically it would be nice to add a few more sectors to Tals to give us something to look forward to after mastering alpha. It will also make longer sets worthwhile because the more experienced players will have the opportunity to patrol a new sector with more difficult enemies so they're not bored to death in alpha.

Improvement

2008-06-27T00:54:00.001-04:00

...Bring back orbie start...
reason why is because with val it easy for us old players to just get right to it but for new players it a little hard. with the orbie start it will make things a little easier and it will give more choice from the start. plus it fun

...Sent Shield Tech Lvl to 15...
reason been, it counter-part cySent starts you off at 31 if we have half of that it will be a great hel p without having to waste too much kc and time.

...For Basing add a 5% Accuracy to the wall...
reason been is that it will give the perfect added basing stat to run an efficiency base testing for beginner

...End game Boss Battle or like a mission or something...
i know many people will agree on this one but after a few days the game gets mad boring right after u can get your ravager.. and been able to beat True Guard with out any merc
we need an End game mission where you need like 150 mission completed and over 20m bm and the quest would be like a base defend type but you will have nothing but cruisers mix in True guard or a new General from the Fed and like only hardcore enemy's to fight

I have an idea

2008-06-27T00:47:00.000-04:00

Let's kick the shit out of kal's bases

cool, got it it works, word

Test

2008-06-27T00:38:00.001-04:00

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