hmm,
btw, you wanted to have diversity between the weapons.

how about Lasertunings give you RoF bonus and no damage bonus? something that equals a damage bonus of a compareable EM tuning.

Firearm tunings could be RoF based too.

*edit*
oh and i totally forgot - the 1 tuning for great impact but high cost balance had a much nicer sound than "you need 4x t4 tunings to even notice a difference"

halt there
THATS basicly whats wrong with the overall balancing attempt do beginn with.
its good that you think, T3 should be the balance point,
but the execution is exactly the wrong way round.

1. T4 needs to have best impact but poor efficiency, or else its T4 or f* off
2. T3 equals
3. T2 needs to have best efficiency, but overally, less impact
3. T1 could be then same impact as

if you do not change to something like this for your overall balance, you will still have fitting ingame that only consist of T4 -> or you change the fitting costs accordingly

removing cycletime bonuses is a good idea, but IMHO you should put a cycletime differences into variants of the weapons.

imho, default resistances should be something like

0% : 0% : -20% : 0% .
and weapons need to be reduced to single damage ammo, and one chemo hybrid against plants.
the single damage ammo can have modifiers to range, damage, falloff and anything else but damage types.

but pvp is far away from rock-paper-scissors, when it comes to weapons+factions
and your right... the rechargers effect is proportional

says someone who blamed the DEVs with a *** for the crappy performance, before talking to his ISP...:fuuu:

AFAIK there are some AU player still there

2 days left,
i hope zoom didn't mean the end of next year

everything alright? i heard hungary is usually hit by noro-virus outbreaks in winter, and i can imagine that this could knock CRM out for a few weeks, depending on the size of his family. (i can tell firsthand that it knocked my little family out @ christmas )

you forgot "daily pvp targets that wont run or shoot back"

yeah, but goffer - in perp is everything down to macros that do not require much effort to begin with.
it comes down to click on a certain icon on the landmarklist, a dedicated set of keybinds (mostly "space" for brainless alphastrikes at zero mana (accumulator) management) - and a loop of that.

beacon farming was implemented in a way that didn't even require any creativity to exploit (drop down lots of cheap beacons you can buy infinite number on the npc market, spawn lots of npcs in an instant that do follow aoe-explosion rules.. )

and then... a really wonky balance that is neither multiplayer, nor singleplayer friendly.
If i would be cynical, i would say, the DEVs are just milking the cow as long as possible, without feeding it. Just like the majority of f2p-p2w games you can find on steam....
But i keep telling myself that there is more to it

with the engine rewrite, it was planned to have a scalable UI,
but AFAIK, that rewrite is as realistic as getting a brand new animated 3D-Object into the game.

i used to have SETI@home running on my PC years ago, until my mother presented me the electricity bill.

how do player farm kernels these days?
is it still macro grind that makes you bot explode either when your attention fails because you fell asleep from repeating the very same click order over more then an hour, or when your advanced screen-capture supported macro fails because of a random event?

i mean, how does it compare to the even more boring and simplified NIC-printing industrial (harvesting) missions on beta? (how many cycles is it these days for a symbiont to finish a lvl6 mission? 1 or 2?)

I would really like to get back into the game,
but at this moment, all the PvE content is on the level of the "Sandbox testing mode" of any game, that lets you spawn targets on demand

what has "multiplay" and "solo" play to do with autofollow? neither one ever requires that feature.
the only gameplay that ever requires auto-follow is multiboxing, which equals "playing multiplayer content solo"

a few exceptions are game mechanics like the follow-mechanic you got in Elite Dangerous that makes sure a cooperative group is able to enter the same instance together, or town-portal scrolls in mmorpgs.