I realized 1 major flaw: Overcomplication. But here was the idea if you still want to look at it.

Practically the whole idea behind this game is balancing out your energy to get the most benefits/fun out of it. Sorry but I'm heavily opposed to this.

Argh, dear god no. I played a game with this, and it was horrible. -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1

I'm a PVPer, but I can autorank on NPCs (without XP buffs) if I desire. I typically have Energy Cubes and Tri Matrices stored up to help me if there's a steep energy requirement on a choice mission. I do have to make a decision as to what I'm going to focus on at any given time, but that is part of the appeal - strategy is required.

I don't think this is atypical either. A strong PVPer will be a strong NPCer (even autorankable, given a sufficient energy bar). A strong NPCer will be a strong PVPer (unless they fall into that Drannik autoranker who barely hits their ranking XP with a tin ship niche, then they've painted themselves into a bit of a corner that they're going to have to work out of slowly). And a strong mission ship can easily load on enough TOs and ship mods to at least slog through some PVP or NPC combat.

Edit: if that doesn't make it clear, I am very strongly opposed to an arbitrary boost for player's energy to things they haven't done historically.

-1.5billion . ill spend my NRG where i want it.

-1.

as others mentioned, there is strategy / personalization in deciding where to use your existing energy.

anyone who 'specializes' exclusively just built their ship wrong, at least if they want to get the full experience from the game.

at rank 235, i am #17 on the raids board, have all 4 auto-blasters and still collecting reds for future base scans. with my damage cap resulting in a minimum of 55 hits (w/o shield) and 67 hits (w shield), i think i have the pvp build covered.

i have 600 medal points (and aiming for 700 for vortov), with 34 missions completed to unlock the chron-transistor to bring my energy recharge to 64 per hour (still missing 2 silthion hubs). i will have hyperchannel relays by the end of the month to get me up to 82 per hour. with energy mods, i can get up to 3500 energy, so auto-ranking missions will not be a problem.

npc's are currently my weakest area as i have not focused exclusively on t.o.'s. instead, i will have 2k of each crew type by the end of this month. with my arti/hr around 8500, i intend to slow rank a bit and gather in some more prisoners. that said, i have gone up a rank a day this week, mostly from npc'ing for legion mission tasks ... garnering 3 terraformers, 3 toxic purifiers and 2 extractors in that time. i can't complain.

being able to do all this has taken planning and sacrifice. having multiple energy bars may encourage more well-rounded play, but i think i've shown that it can be done without this kludge.

however, i do think that your initial intention to find a way to encourage well-rounded play is good. medals have been one way that Dan has attempted to do this ... but allies or modules that give bonuses for different playing styles might work as well. here are a few rough ideas to add to the pool:

- next mission completion reward beyond the ones there now, you could have an ally that gives an energy bonus for each of the pvp kills / hacks / raids medals that you already have (say, 5, 10, 15 for each medal level, so max 45 energy) ... and it would rank via every 500 npc kills
- a mission module drop that has the ability to debuff npc's if your pvp action count is over 100
- a base crate reward artifact that boosts your TM limit by 50 for an hour, so you can rack up some more pvp hits.

While I see the you point, I still give this idea a -1. There is a pretty easy solution- don't do everything at once, spend a few rank on this, a few ranks on that, etc. You get all the stuff, and have alll the fun. Problem solved Remember, all the High rank PvPers have by now completed pretty much all mission, and have all NPC mods, and so on. Its the Mission folks that don't get the best part of the pie. (But that's their own fault)

I am sorry, but this is a terrible idea. There is a reason that there is only one energy bar, and that reason is that you have to decide what you want to do with it. If you want to spend it on missions, fine, but there are NPCs out there to be killed. If you want to spend it on NPCs and do the missions later, that's fine too. If you want to PvP and get your disables, raids, and hacks up, you can do that. On of the greatest things about this game is that you can do pretty much whatever you want to do with what you have. Dan doesn't try to control us. Look at Namalak and all the stuff he's done. We can use our energy for whatever we want, but it may have consequences, like missing out on NPCs and PvP. Balance is the name of the game, and that is why it is so fun. You cannot go all one way or all another, you have to balance your ship to get everything you can get out of this game.
I hope this shows you why I give this idea a (9-10).

Ummmm, speaking as someone who is an enormous NPC'er, i had no issue changing my ship around to fit a PvP build(3k+ kills) or a mission build(high energy is great for that, which NPC'er's have in spades. In fact, i didn't even need to change my ship at all, as an NPC build works perfect as a PvP build.

No need to have a 2nd bar of energy for something specific. Just be smart about how and when you choose to do things, like do missions at the end of a rankup, to use excess energy.

Get your PvP things early, or failing that, get them later in-game, once your NPC'ing pays off and your 100k aph gets you an awesome rank 1500 ship.

The real purpose of this idea was to encourage more PvPing, since besides red/yellow/blue badges there's nothing enticing me to PvP.

Seems like by encourage you mean force. and thats not the way to go. adding better rewareds maybe the way to go.

-1

There are much better suggestions for getting people into PvPing without this idea. Also, the premise is flawed ... PLENTY of us have enough energy to auto-rank on NPCing (thus enjoying it in all of its glory) and plenty of us also have enough energy to simultaneously PvP or do Bases if we desire and then some of us have enough to also do Missions here and there.

I don't have the highest energy bar in the galaxy by far, but I can auto-rank on NPCs without a neural and PvP/Base when it comes up without worrying about not having enough to go back to NPCing. On top of that, I can do all the daily missions and still have energy to go back to NPCing or Base. If we battle a level 8 base that takes more energy from repairs or something, then I toss on a neural and voila no more worries (and absolute worst case scenario I have plenty of energy sacs from NPCing to restore if I need it, which I usually don't).

I have all NPC modules in the game (that I'm aware of), I have all Missions completed (except for Legion Mission of course), and I have all of the PvP modules (except a few of the newest upgrades, but this is more choice, just don't enjoy it as much on my own, so I PvP from alerts to help the legion) ...



So ... remind me again, what exactly am I missing that I need help with?


Note: All players start out going one route ... in the end, this game has two cookie-cutter builds: Biggest ship with everything on it or Small ship build. Everything between is just a slightly less effective version of those two, in my opinion. Both of them will have energy (eventually) to complete everything without a new bar.