Obviously this has been discussed before many times.. in a nutshell pretty much every agrees there are classes that no one wants to be. When we change race/class to finish a mission or deploy an artifact most of us feel its a money grab and we get nothing out of it and personally I don't like that. In this post and my next I will be suggesting a way to provide a bit of class equality give everyone some new content and provide many new medal opportunities and a reason for people to pay to switch races and feel good about paying the gp to do so
Level 200 - Class based mission opens up. All level 200 missions should be dailies require 15 completions 25 energy 40 clicks per completion
Level 400 - Race based mission opens up. All level 400 missions should be dailies require 15 completions 50 energy 50 clicks per completion
Level 600 - Class based mission. Daily 15 Completions 75 energy 50 clicks per mission dependant on the level 200 class mission being completed
Level 800 - Race based mission opens up. Daily 15 completions 100 energy 50 clicks per mission dependant on the level 400 race mission being completed

Biologist - Planet Population +30% - needs some big boosts to make it even with the big boys
Level 200 - Taming the Vap - While a biologist all your planets are immune to Bio Vaporizers
Level 600 - Bio Warfare - Base Attack +20% - On NPC/PVP Your attacks have a 5% chance to to inflict Chemical Explosion giving target -2% att/def stackable to 20% max. Effects last 2 minutes and are immune to Caging

Physicist - Max Shielding +30% - needs some big boosts to make it even with the big boys
Level 200 - Breakthrough in Krionite Defense - Ship is immune Krionite torpedoes and chaostatic Inhibitors
Level 600 - Look Mom I'm going to college! - 40 hour cool down - Planet Structure University Research Lab - Size 1 Arti 2 Research 2 - Increases owners chance for planetary event (think scientific breakthrough blahblah) by .05%

Spy - Cloaking +20% - needs some big boosts to make it even
Level 200 - Spy Training #1 - 30 minute cool down When activated on player provides same info as spy probe Weap/Def/Resources when activated on a planet provides same info as spy probe governance and tracer
Level 600 - Spy Training #2 - 24 hour cool down allows you to spy on legion allowing you to see which users are online (same view you see in legion of members online)

Raider - Raiding Strength +30% - again less used class needs some good boosts
Level 200 - Who you calling a scoundrel? Passive - Successful Raids return 50% more resources. and Scavenge - 48 hour cool down - Allows a second raid chance on base
Level 600 - Illegal Planet Poaching - 24 hour cool down establish a blockade on enemy planet. While blockade is active you gain 50% of planetary production. Blockades will show up as an analyze ability on a planet but no notification is given to affected enemy. If planet owner does notice and clicks the analyze the blockade will become active in bt and will be able to be disabled at which point Raider will be able to be linked to. Poachers return home after 5 days if undetected.

Fixer - one of the most common classes in the game.. should get something but nothing crazy powerful
Level 200 - Tinker - Able to get a little more raw material off scrappin stuff +50% to all items scrapped
Level 600 - Workshop - 40 hour cooldown able to build a fixer workshop on a planet size 1 all resources 1 research +3%

Explorer - Scan +20% - Good class but need to get them something that would make you want to stay one when you aren't scanning for planets
Level 200 - Explorer at Heart - Upon colonization / invade significantly increased chance of positive planetary event at +100% effectiveness
Level 600 - Belly of the Beast - Adept at ferreting out those elusive big bosses - 24 hour cool down Find one random npc from the Rare/Extremely Rare class

Excavator - Arti +10% - Easily most used class in the game should only get minor abilities
Level 200 - Guarding your investment - passive - while guarding a planet you own that planet gets the following bonuses Att+5% Def +5% Cloak +100%
Level 600 - The Big Dig! - 24 hour cool down - Attempt an excavation on a planet you own. a Planet can only have one attempt every 90 days.. Prizes should be something like 50% Nada, 25% Tourist Attraction (ruin, or something) Research + 30% for 24 hours, then a bunch of 1% like an asteroid holo disguise or other odd things of the sort and then some .5% chances of perm effects like +2% arti alient artifact +5% cloak .. etc)

Miner - Mineral product +10% - Again this one needs a lot of help to ever have anyone be this guy even builders dont want to be miners
Level 200 - What black market? Passive Abiltity - Tariff for sale on minerals is dropped to 10% (aperture key lowering to 0)
Level 600 - Core Vault - 40 hour cool down limit 2 per planet Underground vault Size 1 Mining 2 Arti 1 Cloak 150 - Storage 1k of each resource

Builder - Upkeep -50% Fairly popular unfortunately but since usually the goal is to help someone who is a builder become not a builder needs some good tools to encourage people to stay builder
Level 200 - Build Cheaper - All planetary build costs are halved
Level 600 - Build Smarter - 40 hours cool down Reduces the size of an existing planet structure by 1. This ability can not be used on a planetary structure that has been modified by another source.

Governor - 3% increases chance of planetary events - meh it sounded cool .. and it might work but definitely doesn't put it in the "useful" class category
Level 200 - Official Visit everybody back to work - 24 hour cool down 90% chance that planetary production is increased by 50% for 24 hours 10% chance employees revolt and production is decreased by 100% for 12 hours
Level 600 - PLanetary Overthrow - Attempt to dislodge current government 72 hour cool down - 50% chance reduce Planetary Defense/Planetary Attack by 50% / 50% chance to fail and increase planetary Defense/Attack by 50%

Merchant - Increases Max Cargo space by 30% - Might be the worst class needs a ton of help
Level 200 - Expand your Empire - Planetary structure Trading Hub Cooldown 40 hours - Size 1 Arti/Min/Res +1 All Production +2%
Level 600 - Now I need Protection - Ally Bodyguard - Starts at Att 80 Def 80 Hull 120 Shield 50 Ends at Att 400 Def 400 Hull 600 Shield 250 While Merchant these stats triple - Levels up everytime you create a trading hub on one of your planets

Saboteur - Have their uses - think they should continue along the same path
Level 200 - I destroy bases too - Passive - +10% Hacking Ability +10% Raiding Ability - Sabotage Base 24 Hour Cooldown Reduces Base Defense by 1% for 30 minutes This can be increased to 10% by other sabs
Level 600 - Oh wait .. I destroy everything - Sab Ship 5 minute cooldown, Can only be used on a target you have not attacked in last 24 hours (meaning this comes before your first strike) Randomly reduces Att/Def/Shield/Hull by 50%

Hacker - Hacking Strength 30% If your a freeze rank hacker .. you MIGHT do this .. but still needs a bit of help
Level 200 - Identity Theft - 24 hour cool down. In addition to a raid, hackers have the ability of hacking a disabled base Success based on damage done (similar to raid) RP returned based on level of base level 3 20K level 4 50k level 5 100k level 6 250k level 7 500k level 8 750k In addition , a crit hack (10% chance) will return a planet of a random member of the disabled legion
Level 600 - any thoughts for a good level 600 class ability????

I like this idea, it's thought out, sound fun, and is really interesting.

As always, it'll need some tweaking, and there's a few things there I know a lot of people will have a problem with.

+1 like it

Really like this idea. I much prefer playing a "character type," but with the way the numbers and rewards are set up, there's a reason the majority of the leaderboarders are Excavators. If you want an easier road to being a powerful player, there are only a few professions worth sticking with...

Anyway, big +1 from me. Here are some comments to your ideas:



Awesome ideas all around, Clangeddin.

I like where this is going, seen one similar i liked better where you have to put work in rather then it having a rank requirement.

I was prepared to hate this based on the thread title, but yeah, unlocking perks for your class is the sort of RPG element I like.

looks nice.

The classes that "aren't good" need to just be removed.

Omg. I love this idea. +1

Whats not good for you is perfect for others, I'm guessing this is a troll post. Personally anything that improves on current professions will just give me more incentive to become one of my favorite professions spy, nice name love cloak who knows even better improvements based on this profession.

everything looks good to me. i would tweak the governor one tho:



i would swap the lvl 200 around:

90% chance that production is increased by 100% for 12 hours
10% chance that production is decreased by 50% for 24 hours

i would also not mind if more of the lvl 200 abilities had some sort of this trade-off factor ...

Big +1

Well thought out +1

Great Idea +1

Really like this idea + 1

Yes, this would made the Proffesions much more balanced!

Yus! +1

love it, very imaginative and fitting with the going flow of the game, however the only thing i can say to shoot it down is what if you switch race loads and loads to build all the planet structures and get perm effects... you would end up with some VERY OP planets.. maybe if theres tough missions to earn each ability, not sure if you meant that by the missions at the top or whether you unlock both the missions and the ability upon ranking, but yeah make a long mission a requirement for the ability, so its like youre earning an enhanced version of the profession.. works better than adding new silly races with stale ideas.

Well each class mission is fixed at at least 2 weeks per ability as they are dailies and require 15 completions. so 1 month per class (one years worth of game time if you unlock all abilities for all classes) then each of the abilities each has a cool down and each of the abilities is only available WHILE you're that class. So I am sure with the combination of races and classes you could eventually make a couple of uber planets.. but it would require a serious time effort.. per planet..

Like, it +1

Maybe add a medal for upgrading each class to the max, and having all classes upgraded.
Will give those medal wannabees something to do..