kettle black

*sigh* This whole discussion happens for the very reason to avoid that.

I just read through all your 'reasons' and the gist is exactly as I said. This is about Ewar and RSA and that is all.

And I will dial it down Zoom. But I still hold you to account for bad decision making. Edit all you want, but you are making a mistake listening to a tiny population of players who only know one playstyle when it comes to PvP.

Even if you think follow is a bad mechanic, know that the ONLY INTENDED purpose of its proponents is to nerf ewar. And its a terribly ineffective nerf since we typically RSA each other with our main ewar mechs and follow has nothing to do with it.

Look back at Burials posts on the first 5 pages. He spells it out clearly, including illustration with ridiculous Hunter Zenith fit. This is about RSA and ewar, nothing else. Are you really going to 'make it harder' to use two accounts when the only 'making it hard' will effect those rare peeps who use a light RSA alt? Otherwise, using two accounts will remain the same. Especially same for DPS spacebar dual boxers.

"Nerfing" RSA ewar is a poor reason to change FOLLOW mechanic. There are far more effective and direct ways to nerf RSA ewar without touching FOLLOW. And that is why so many people get so pissed off at you Zoom... you make changes that have little to do with 'problem' and that have sweeping unintended ripple effects.

Its just sad to again see changes to tangent mechanics.  Seriously though changing follow will barely be an annoyance to RSA ewar. We will easily adapt. But if you change follow on flag mechanics that will be more sweeping, not just for ewar RSA but for God knows what else in the ripple pond. I may even have to hold my pee while flagged on the field.

I like it.

...so I guess support RSA and stuff will be on demand, who needs a follow, I will offer my services

Let humans play games, not alts.

While so much words can't be a non-persuadable argument, I'd like to note one thing you're completely missing in that wall of text - follow nerf has NOTHING to do with ewars.

As you've stated here lots of time, you use teamwork instead of followbots. That means that says for each two lr-zeniths you use, you simply RSA-ing each other and that's it. No follow used.

Then you might cry - "HEY but but Nexus bot on follow that gives us a half of might..." and you will be wrong aswell - proposed nerf had nothing to do with nexuses, because you don't need to lock anything to give a nexus bonus to it.

With that, you're either use follow bots and lie here trying to avoid non-suitable changes, or completely misunderstand what's going to change, or just don't want this change because "hey that might suit our enemies so let's not make it happens".

Taking that into account, I'd vote "Yes" for no follow to flagged bot instead of locked one - that will solve better.

meh

Yeah? Next time actually go over and do it too. http://forums.perpetuum-online.com/post/89994/#p89994

HTFU and adapt.

I think the reason behind it is because the most important part of those follows is RSA and those don't stack over 2.

Man, you guys are crying a lot about a game mechanics change that you have said won't affect you. Because you guys RSA buddy each other with your ewars and you have dedicated logi pilots... So why all the crying if it isn't going to affect you?