So here is an Ally idea:

Nefertari, Safeguard Ally
Starting Stats:
Defense: 100
Hull: 200
Scan: 100
Rank 30: Safe Lock (All Defense +3%)
Rank 60: Lock Down ("Lock Down" buff - Removes/grays the attack and hack button when a halc is set off and grants immunity to Containment Missiles; buff duration is 12 hours)
Rank 100: Conservation Insurance (Upkeep -50% if you have not been disabled within the last 1 Week - and - Immunity from multiple debuffs (>1 of the same type) if you have been disabled within the last 48 hours)

To Rank Up: Collect Daily Reward or Complete a Daily Mission while a Halcyon Trap is set.

Lock Down:
Ability
"The next Halcyon Trap to be tripped will produce an "Improved Halcyon" effect for 12 hours. Can only be used if you have not performed an offensive action in the last 48 hours."
Duration: 1 Week (same as a Halcyon Trap)
Costs 250 Energy
Cooldown: 20 hours
(will be placed under traps such that enemy players will not see the ability waiting to be activated)

Improved Halcyon: Enemy Players cannot attack or hack your ship, but you may not attack or hack an enemy player's ship. Enemy's also may not target you if you are guarding a planet while under the Improved Halcyon effect (however, you may NOT guard a planet that has been attacked in the past 1 Week if you are under the effect of Improved Halcyon), but you may not attack or use any artifacts or abilities on any planet other than your own. This effect is immune to all forms of removal.



I changed the Rank 30 because it seemed to have some drawbacks. A grid console can be CM'ed away and the disarming bomb would increase you action count, so someone could simply attack you to force it to do those things, get your counts up, and hack you into infinity. Changing them into abilities also seemed slightly overpowered since it would be almost like a permanent +20% defense to you when attacked and -10% attack to enemies when being attacked if they -couldn't- be CM'ed and/or caged away.

So, I changed the Rank 30 to be in line with Anubix (which is designated an "Assault" ally, which would be the opposite of a safeguard ally) which gives a +3% attack. So, the safeguard ally would give +3% to all defense.

I also added in Scan since that can "protect" from hacks and Anubix gives cloak that helps successful hacks.

I changed "Lock Down" because I've always felt that current Halcyons, while helpful, were too short for those of us that are away for more than two hours. Plenty of times I've had someone trip it, wait two hours, then just disable me. So, I turned Lock Down into a buff that you must activate to keep it from abuse/auto-halcyon all the time. It has the same duration as a Halcyon Trap though, so you do not need to keep activating it each day. By limiting the "Improved Halcyon" to 12 hours of "Immunity", it means players would still need to check in at least once a day if they wanted to be absolutely certain they weren't taken down, so it still gives players a reason to log in each day (good for Dan), but it is a long enough time frame that the majority of players should have time to check before the buff goes off and they get attacked a second time. With this, theoretically you could be under Halcyon 24/7, but important to note is that Improved Halcyon is immune to all forms of removal and you cannot use artifacts except on your own planets. That means you cannot use an engineered virus on an enemy planet to remove the halcyon and take another planet. If you are under Improved Halcyon, you have to wait until it's up on its own with no "workaround". This way, it prevents people from "hiding behind IH".

I also tweaked the Conservation Insurance wording a little. The Conservation Insurance comes in 1 Week after not being disabled (the length of time of a Halcyon Trap) and reduces upkeep by 50%, since presumably if you're not fighting they need less upkeep. However, if you get disabled it will remove this buff and upkeep will revert to normal. However, if you have been disabled within the last 48 hours, you are immune to "multiple debuffs" (meaning you cannot have more than 1 of the same type of debuff; 1 disarming bomb, 1 quantum flare, etc). If you have not been disabled in the last 48 hours, then you are not immune to multiple debuffs, so this wouldn't be too overpowered in that department.

I chose the Rank Up requirements to be collecting the daily reward and completing a daily mission because that means you can get 3 ranks each day, but you must have a halcyon trap on, which means you must effectively be removed from all PvP to rank. However, I agree that 100 days of no PvP is a bit too long, so I chose these requirements to give 3 ranks a day (like Anubix with 3 bases each day), which would mean it would take 34 days to get Rank 100 on the safeguard ally, which is about what it took for Anubix.


So, as you can see I remodeled some things after Anubix to give the more defense side, but I do like the Conservation Insurance idea since it would make sense with the "defensive" side of the game.

As for the ranking, I thought there were only 2 Dailys (the Klorvis and the Science Summit) ... did I miss one? That's why I said it would be 3 ranks a day, so 33 days to Rank 100. Claim Reward would rank (1 per day), and the 2 current Dailys would rank (Klorivs, 1 per day, and Science Summit, 1 per day) for a total of 3 ranks per day just like Anubix.