Topic: Gamma

I'm on a cell phone atm, so forgive the spelling and grammar.  First out I'd like to talk about the balance of attacking versus defending a gamma.

I'm in favor for a 60/40 system.  Where the defender has a slight advantage over the attacker.  But currently we have a 90/10 system.  Heavily in favor of the defenders. 

Examples of this:

1.  Boosted/ Nonboosted turrets out range players.
2.  Only 2/3rds of the population can participate in sieges because Mesmers are basically useless.
3.  Home field advantage.
4.  Ewar turrets never got rebalanced with the 20% reduction in ewar strength reduction of players.
5.  DPS turrets still hit like a truck.
6.  You can't fit to counter Ewar turrets because YOU HAVE to have the head slots for range extenders leaving you completely exposed to Ewar turrets.
7.  Masking nodes.
8.  You can terraform around buildings creating small craters preventing them from being shot, repair nodes....
9.  Offensive terraforming is non existent.
10.  Attackers have to setup siege bases.
11.  NPCs and anomalies.
12.  Very high resistances of turrets make the repair to dps ratio to 5/1( 5 ranged Heavys versus 1 repair symbiont).

Advantages of attacking:
1.  You pick the time.

There's no profit in attacking gamma.

Please fix your balance.  Thanks.

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Re: Gamma

Things we need:

1.  ECCM Nexus
2.  Deployable cover
3.  Ewar turrets being separated into 3 separate turrets.  OR Ewar turrets having only 1 set of modules 1 demob, 1 suppressor and 1 ECM.  Neuts of Ewar need a 50% reduction.
4.  Range of turrets need to be brought in line with range of players.
5.  Terraforming modules need a 2 second reduction in cycle time.
6.  Mesmers need a role in gamma seiges.

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Re: Gamma

Any changes done to Gamma should be small and incremental to prevent radical changes and invalidation of existing base designs, like what happened during Gamma 1.0 when a single change that allowed terraforming between turrets practically invalidated 99% of base designs already built.

There's a couple of things that could be done:
- If all reinforced buildings stopped working.
- If turrets required ammo.
- If resistances on the buildings were cut in half across the board.

But the reality of the matter is, all of this discussing is POINTLESS.

What the game needs at this juncture is outpost taxes on field terminals, Beta 2 field terminals and highways, and when it comes to Gamma what we really need is:

LARGE WEAPONS DESIGNED TO SHOOT AT STRUCTURES THAT ARE WORTHLESS AGAINST PLAYER ROBOTS.

Otherwise known as, new content.

Re: Gamma

Yeah that too.

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5 (edited by Annihilator 2015-12-10 18:51:59)

Re: Gamma

wait?
yesterday i have witnessed two hours of what happens if you give bunch of amateurs to many assets and allow them to attack the gamma base, built by an inexperienced, and rather new player, also given a vast amount of materials.

Watching PoE attacking a gamma base, is like watching someone trying to cut a stone with a pair of nursery-scissors.

and today i see at least three whining topics from said amateurs here.

said points above are mostly due to lack of understanding how gamma sieges work...

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Re: Gamma

I've never seen you successfully take down a base.

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Re: Gamma

where were you

exactly, hoser

Annihilator wrote:

wait?
yesterday i have witnessed two hours of what happens if you give bunch of amateurs to many assets and allow them to attack the gamma base, built by an inexperienced, and rather new player, also given a vast amount of materials.

Watching PoE attacking a gamma base, is like watching someone trying to cut a stone with a pair of nursery-scissors.

and today i see at least three whining topics from said amateurs here.

said points above are mostly due to lack of understanding how gamma sieges work...

Re: Gamma

Ville wrote:

I've never seen you successfully take down a base.

by your own words, i took down the REMEDY base. tongue

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Re: Gamma

Sounds like you like watching more then you like playing

Accurately sums up what you've done in the last 5 years in the game

Re: Gamma

Annihilator wrote:

...
Watching PoE attacking a gamma base, is like watching someone trying to cut a stone with a pair of nursery-scissors.

We prefer to hand cut stones but we can do with nursery-scissors too.

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11 (edited by Inda 2015-12-11 23:31:38)

Re: Gamma

Its not really bad right now.

But Whinne, pointed out some good point.

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18.01.2014. [12:57:58] <BeastmodeGuNs> after that i remembered all those warning about 1v1 you lol, and i found out why xD