niverio wrote:So here is what I would do:

General change: Each global specialist can only be hired once.
That ruins stacking, which is a fun feature anyone can do. It's the specs that need changing, not the hires.
Admirals: no change
Assassins: no change
Diplomat: keeps the old effect + Reduces the combat priority of each specialist in his range by 1. (Can’t drop it below 2) This breaks the combat priority system. It means you could get two specs with combat priority X, which would cause glitches. It's a nice idea on paper, but in practice it wouldn't work.
Double Agent: no change
Engineer: (keeps the old effects) Repairs drills caused by global effect. (for flavor: Can restore the shield at an outpost destroyed by the Infiltrator’s ability) Local: Negates the Saboteur’s ability. Please explain what you're on about here, as I don't understand.
Foreman: No change
General: no change
Helmsman: No change
Hypnotist: no change
Infiltrator: old effect + The Infiltrator can choose to damage the shield charge permanently, destroying its ability to regenerate. (This means that if the infiltrator can drain shields by arriving at the enemy outpost first and the player chooses to use the infiltrators ability, the shield of that outpost will remain at 0 for the rest of the game, even when the outpost is controlled by the owner of the infiltrator himself) So you could decide with another option. Interesting.
Inspector: no change
Intelligence Officer: no change
King: no change How could you, Niv...
Lieutenant: Moves at 1.5 speed. Converts 5 drillers to your side when battling. Combat Priority 7 So it's basically Thief v2. Also, due to 5 drillers it's still underpowered. Maybe 15 drillers would be better.
Martyr: no change
Minister of Energy: no change
Navigator: old effect + can only reroute once per 8 hours. Would anyone want to reroute more?
Pirate: old effect + (due to navigator nerf) can target another sub without having to return to home directly, if the pirate carrying sub wins the battle against a targeted sub. I like this a lot. So when it wins, then what? It just sits there?
Princess: no change
Queen: no change
Revered Elder: old effect + negates global effects within her effect radius. Effect radius is fixed and is equal to standard sonar range. Intresting concept.
Saboteur: (You get only one of it) The Saboteur damages the enemy sub. An enemy sub damaged this way must reroute to its own closest outpost. The damaged sub moves at 0.5 speed. If the sub had a speed specialist on it, it moves at normal 1.0 speed instead. But what if it had a smuggler, or a lit./general/affected by admiral.
Security Chief: old effect(Local included) + Local: Security Chief’s outpost’s shield charge regenerates at double rate.(This is to ensure that if you buff your home outpost with queen and security chief, it would stay at top shields, but if you go King, it would still drop to 0 with a tinkerer. Very slight buff)
Sentry: no change:
Smuggler: Moves with 2.5 speed instead of 3. That just complicates maths. But yeah, Smuggler needs a nerf.
Thief: old effect + If the Thief attacks a Mine and successfully captures it, you gain the amount of Neptunium lost by the defender. (For example if you capture a mine when your enemy had 100 Np, your Neptunium increases by 20, near the loss of your opponent’s 20.) Combat Priority 4
Tinkerer: no change
Tycoon: Factories produce drillers at every 6.0 hours instead of 8. Local stays the same. YOU CAN'T STACK? OUTRAGEOUS! Ok, maybe I shouldn't get so mad. But seriously, stacking is a big part of the game (in my opinion)
War Hero: Destroys (20 * the speed factor of the sub) when battling. If he is staying at an outpost, War Hero destroys 20 drills + 1 driller for every 3 shield charge the outpost has. Combat Priority 7. (so an attack sub with a Helmsman lets War Hero kill 40 drills, 30 with General / Lt., and 50 with Smuggler (if defending)

This list has been made by me to balance all both good and bad specs. I feel like I found a good way to let all specialists feel unique, and I would appreciate all feedback about it!

Smuggler: Moves with 2.5 speed instead of 3.

aclonicy wrote:The theif while interesting, seems awful. That can net you way too much neptunium, I like the theif as is. Smuggler is fine as is too. The main thing I notice about this is it just adding more stuff to some bad ones and limiting the good ones. While it might sound good in theory, in practice it seems a little off. You can't just change things willynilly and add and take away effects. There are some good ideas in there(the thing with the diplo is at least unique) but I don't think most would work in practice.