101 Reply by Blackomen

(27 replies, posted in Balancing)

I believe the point Neoxx is trying to make is that the cost to value ratio is really screwed up.

Example, a light bot compared to an assault.

(Based on older prices, but the ratio is still correct)

Light bot value = 800k NIC
Assault bot value = 1.2 mil NIC

Does this seem a fair cost ratio? I'd say yes.

Now, let's compare the problem bots.

Assault bot value = 1.2 mil
Mech = 7mil

Does that even seem close? God no, the mech would be valued at around 2-3mil if it were to be balanced and that's a generous value at that.

Even when you compare mech to heavy mech the values add up in the difference. The issue is that the cost/value ratio is scewed to hell and back when you compare assaults to mechs. The guys in the assaults are damn effective against the group of mechs, and they are risking nearly 1/7 as much. Will the mechs win in a even engagement? Yes, most likely, but they really lose when you add up the mechs that were lost in terms of NIC.

TLDR

It's stupid the way it is, and either medium weapons need overall lower dispersion (I don't recommend it as it screws with ewar/light balance) Or more intelligently, raise assaults surface size to 5m. Done, problem solved, crisis averted, game better balanced, damsel saved, dragon slain, happily ever after achived. Wait, what was I talking about again?

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102 Reply by Blackomen

(30 replies, posted in Feature discussion and requests)

Arga wrote:
Neoxx wrote:

You obviously didnt hear about the intrusion event from last night.  Numbers is not the deciding factor in a fight.

Contributing factors in Infestation's favor to counter numbers -

T3-T4 equipment
EA enhanced skills

Granted, those alone are not enough, but if the other side had a majority of pilots (80 out of 100 instead of the 10 of 100 they probably had) with those additional factors + numbers the outcome may have been different.

Yes we had some T3-T4 equipment, so did the enemy. (We looted them) So that's invalid.

EA enhanced skills? Seriously? Your suggesting out of their 120 man blob that they didn't have 30 EA players? As that's how many we had in the fight. Your either desperately trying to defend them, or are a complete idiot, or both.

Numbers were estimated at 120 vs 45. It may be as much as +10/-10 from the 120 estimated, but no more or less.

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103 Reply by Blackomen

(190 replies, posted in Recruitment forum)

So when is the epic video of the 120 man super blob being crushed getting uploaded? And for the love of god don't take out styx's line at the end, that alone makes the video worth the watch. lol

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104 Reply by Blackomen

(13 replies, posted in Open discussion)

Provos wrote:

Exotic Dancers & Spirits anyone?

Nah, Prostitutes and Crash

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105 Reply by Blackomen

(68 replies, posted in Recruitment forum)

A good bunch of guys, both avid miners and pvpers as of late.

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106 Reply by Blackomen

(190 replies, posted in Recruitment forum)

Jelan wrote:

Oh and as it came to my attention this evening to dispel some rumours:

We dont only recruit EA accounts, all are welcome to apply

We dont expect people to be online 24/7

We do expect team players

We do expect pvpers

There ya go

And we don't require anyone to rat/mine. It's entirely optional, pvp is the only required element.

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107 Reply by Blackomen

(26 replies, posted in Balancing)

Provos wrote:

This is a troll, right?

If it were posted by Siddy perhaps. But I think this person is actually serious. roll

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108 Topic by Blackomen

(1 replies, posted in Feature discussion and requests)

Something that I noticed some time ago, is when you have a gang of 10+ guys, it can be hard to keep tabs on the squad leader's location without locking him. (And I really don't recommend doing that.) What I propose is a floating icon/image above the squad leader's head, so that he is easily visible to squadmates.

It's a simple (Somewhere Alf is reading this and growls) feature, that would aid a great deal in squads.

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109 Reply by Blackomen

(18 replies, posted in Feature discussion and requests)

BigCountry wrote:
Ekim wrote:

naval warfare omg yes

water + electronics = fail
hehehe
big_smile

Actually

Electronics + Electromagnetically charged water (Read the game's background) = fail

It's the game's background as to why there isn't any naval warfare. However I am "totally" for this idea, I know we would be foaming at the mouth for a chance to catch the entire mining parties (Not just the ones not watching intel chat) on the other beta islands. Biggest we caught was a 8 termis, 3 argano and 2 sequer group. But we missed a lot of them due to the teleport scouts. A way around this would be quite fun.

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110 Reply by Blackomen

(5 replies, posted in Open discussion)

Not bad. I enjoyed it.

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111 Reply by Blackomen

(17 replies, posted in Open discussion)

Siddy still holds the title of "Lord of the Trolls" but I know Jelan is trying hard to take the title. Alexadar's a hopeful troll himself, not in the same league.

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112 Reply by Blackomen

(2 replies, posted in Buying Items)

bump

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113 Reply by Blackomen

(68 replies, posted in Recruitment forum)

bump for a good corp.

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114 Reply by Blackomen

(190 replies, posted in Recruitment forum)

CrazylikE wrote:

Scratch

I was just kidding, yes you can apply to M2S, we'll accept ex-ENCLV members, but you need to apply on the M2S forums, not on this forum thread, please read the first post.

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115 Reply by Blackomen

(19 replies, posted in Feature discussion and requests)

Henkst wrote:
Evolution wrote:

i was thinking of something like
from ql 1 -> ql 2, u'll need 10x ql 1 decoders
from ql 2 -> ql 3, u'll need 10x ql 2 decoders

and so on.

but this rates will be influenced by rifinery skill.

or better, from dec 1 to dec 2, u'll need 10x dec 1
from 2 to 3, 9x dec 2
from 3 to 4, 8x dec 3
from 4 to 5, 7x dec 4
from 5 to 6, 6x dec 5
from 6 to 7, 5x dec 6
from 7 to 8, 4x dec 7
from 8 to 9, 3x dec 8
from 9 to 10, 2x dec 9


;D You would need 3.628.800 lvl 1 decoders to make 1 lvl 10 tongue

Sounds good to me, now get out to beta islands to farm 10's so I can shoot something. tongue

But seriously, this seems like a good idea as long as it takes a crapload to upgrade them. Since level 1 decoders are currently worthless, and most just destroy them as junk.

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116 Reply by Blackomen

(28 replies, posted in General discussion)

Arga wrote:

Thanks for the quality troll Black smile

Meh, don't thank me, thank the corpmates poking me for not trolling on the forums in some time.

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117 Reply by Blackomen

(190 replies, posted in Recruitment forum)

Nice.

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118 Reply by Blackomen

(28 replies, posted in General discussion)

Mission achieved.

Although this is a somewhat interesting topic.

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119 Reply by Blackomen

(190 replies, posted in Recruitment forum)

Jelan wrote:

I wonder why other recruitment threads were cleaned up but ours left full of troll posts tongue

Plus in other news Elvis is alive and well

Because we are a troll based corp is my guess. Hell we troll out own thread. tongue

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120 Reply by Blackomen

(21 replies, posted in Feature discussion and requests)

I personally like the idea, in the sense that kernels are one hell of a NIC faucet, and you can make many many millions of NIC in a very short time frame farming them. However if you take them out that leaves only 1 source of NIC. Missions, and we "all" HATE missions.

So I would actually suggest radically lowering the value of kernels.

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121 Reply by Blackomen

(72 replies, posted in General discussion)

Annihilator wrote:

what do those M1A2 tank drivers in Iraq fear the most: infantry with RPGs and good aming skills.

HA HA HA HA HA! lol

No sir, that is laughably wrong. RPGs are of very little threat to a M1A2 unless they hit the treads.

The thing they fear most is IEDs. Now THOSE can kill a tank.

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122 Reply by Blackomen

(100 replies, posted in Balancing)

Alexander wrote:

You jump in alone, you jump into the unknown.

Oooh, do another one. wink

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123 Reply by Blackomen

(48 replies, posted in General discussion)

Wraithbane wrote:

Budapest will NOT be amused at losing its 56k connection to the internet... smile

You too eh? I noticed that the other day when doing a traceroute. I have a personal freaking T3 Hardline for my house, and I have to go through a damn 56k line to reach the server. roll

Kaito Kurusaki wrote:
Ekim wrote:

man p and from your 6 man death squad of doom and come to moyar

I'm on Dom right now actually. Where are you?

We're currently camping them inside their outpost. Please check back in a few hours.

--------

I predict,

1. They add some form of anti-blob mechanic within the next month or so. The change causes people to form smaller groups that work together independently to achieve a goal with tactics and military level intelligence. This promptly causes a mass exodus of 90% of all players from the beta islands, once players figure out how badly they suck at pvp without their entire force standing on the same tile and attacking with 2x the numbers of the opposing force.

(I was really tempted to do a old fashioned Conan O' Brian "In the year 2000" style prediction, but I've been up for 18 hours. Perhaps later.)

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124 Reply by Blackomen

(68 replies, posted in Recruitment forum)

Bump for our industral allies. I would say carebear normally, but too many of you have been coming along on pvp roams as of late for me to say that.

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125 Reply by Blackomen

(107 replies, posted in General discussion)

Awsome, I was just about to let the dreadnought account lapse because I found I have zero need for a pure combat character when I always use RR in combat. Now I can make him a command bot or something.

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