we got an artifact that could add an ability to the Apparitious, Bane Familiar during the Bane season, so would like to see something simular for the Anubix


Anubix remote mining Drones
cost 1 Anubix, AI Assault Drone, 10 Thermionic Intensifier, 200 Phase Cutter Chassis and 2000 energy
Raise the Rank cap on the anubix +50 rank (new max rank 150 or 200 if you have already installed the auto target system), and add this ability
Rank 150, remote mining, all mining +5% (fixed, no rank bonus)


Anubix auto target system
cost 1 Anubix, AI Assault Drone, 10 Gravimetric Flume, 20 Flux Probe - Tracer and 2000 energy
Raise the Rank cap on the anubix +50 rank (new max rank 150 (or 200 if you already have installed the mining Drones), and add this ability
Rank 0, scan 60
rank 200, increase the rank 100 alll attack bonus from 3% to 5% (fixed, no rank bonus)


final stats for a rank 200 Anubix (if you get both items) is

Anubix, AI Assault Drone
Rank: 200, Type: Mechanical

Defense 50 * 4.98 = 249
Shield 90 * 4.98 = 448
Cloak 60 * 4.98= 299
Invasion Attack 160 * 4.98 = 797
Scan 60 * 4.98 = 299

all mining +5% (fixed, no rank bonus)
all attack +5% (fixed, no rank bonus)

upkeep 100 mil * 4.98 = 498 mil

I don't know necessarily about increasing the level cap, but I will say I do like the idea of upgrading attack.

If those did get implemented I'd say you'd have to have one be required BEFORE the other. Such as the Mining Drones, being made and added first in order to add the Auot-Target System.

If it increased the rank cap then obviously that 5% mining bonus would have to come at rank 150. And the bonus from the Auto-Target System would become available at rank 200.

Why you ask? Incentive to rank it to get the new shinies instead of it being "Here's a new passive bonus for your huge artifact surplus, rank the thing if you want for piddly stat increases."

it's about 3 things mostly

the In Your Infinite Wisdom medal, (Spend 300,000,000 Research Points in any combination of research topics or discovery attempts.)

Ship-Bot (Uses Left: 2190)

and

Anubix, AI Assault Drone (Rank: 100), Bainar, Systems Cracker (Rank: 100), Sehrin, Bioship Ally (Rank: 100), Solynia, Technician Elite (Rank: 83), Vortov, Hired Mercenary (Rank: 86), Trovar Zane, Elite Tracer (Rank: 52)


....


New TC lab items = more players can get that medal without having to make a legion just to throw the last 150 mil RP or so into a TC lab

having the Anubix, AI Assault Drone as part of the Price for the upgrade = you can sudently use 400 more Ship-Bot
instead of just having a few 1000 of them gather dust in your cargo

as for rasing the rank cap,
Personaly I'm running out of Allies to max, and a lot of players have already maxed them all
so rasing the Cap instead of just giving it an attack boost, give high rank players something to do, before they actualy get any bonus


Used the Anubix, AI Assault Drone as an exampel becourse it is made in the TC lab, so the upgrades for it should also come from the TC lab
what I would realy like to see is an new rank cap off 200 for ALL Allies, but getting those Cap upgrades should not be easy,....
I'm thinking new missions, new medals, new artifacts etc etc, that are quite hard to do instead of an artifact you can simply buy from the GP marked

actually only 121,654,200 RP ... not that i'm counting down every one lol ... still 45,898,200 left for me with one CT(not TC).lab recipe left, so i would be glad to have additional recipes.

185.003.800 / 300.000.000 for me with all recearch done and a full TC lab

it's not a huge problem as we have Allies that still need to find some of the new TC lab artifacts who will be happy if I visit them and dump RP's into theire labs




as for the Vortov, I was thinking 2 medals for the upgrades

Bounty hunter... (30 points)
Kill 100 NPC's from the The Bralkir Clans.....

unlockes +50 ranks for the Vortov, and upgrades Mercenary Call to Elite Mercenary Call once you get it to rank 150
= you unlock a New 3 Player, Bralkir elite (rank 800+) that can be shared with players who own a Vortov


Bane of the Bralkir .... (50 points)
Kill 300 NPC's from the The Bralkir Clans.....

unlockes +50 ranks for the Vortov, and gives you a new pasiv ability at rank 200
acces to Bralkir zone
= Bralkir Ritualist, Bralkir Vicar and the New Elite is added to your NPC pool as extreamly Rare NPC (you can still use the ability to summon them as well)

but so far it's only an rougth idear - havent worked on stats for the New NPC or any other details


but lets start with the Anubix, AI Assault Drone, if we can get Dan to give us 100 more ranks for that one, we can always make sugestions about how something can be done with the rest of them