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I'm a combat pilot. If they attacked me the difference in skill would make me the seal clubber in this scenario. Actually you are right though. The irony would be beautiful. I'll just ram them to death lol
Or leave it as it is. Maybe you can use the name as a shield for forementioned jerks, to not attack you. Masking oneself is a method for winning a conflict.
Engineering Under Threat - Open Letter etc
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Do you actually read the lore surrounding Raxxla? It would have been 'found' in ships that jumped 7 Ly in the original game - any more than 7Ly is a luxury...
That's odd - I'm just on my way from the bubble to Carcosa, in a fully loaded Corvette with a massive 32Ly jump range... I should arrive today, after around 9 hours of flying (as I spent the first 7,000Ly exploring and taking things easy... I don't think I could live another 40 years to finish the trip
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I disagree with this, that would make engineering a grind and on the most part pointless, especially for those who plan to spend extended trips away from the bubble(s). The decay proposal is ham-fisted in nature and too punitive.
Nerfing is the real answer, but not in the usual ham-fisted way FD have historically typically done - add suitable trade offs for the gains rather than explicitly nerf the gains. FD should also target the module stacking concerns while they are at it.
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Wait, did anyone at FDev announce that they'll revisit Engineering Blueprints / Stats?
If so, that'd be good news since it's overdue since inception of Engineers.
However, I don't believe they intend to. "Bugfixing" and "Re-Balancing" are entirely different processes.
And for FDev, Balancing has always been more difficult by an order of magnitude than Bugfixing.
IMHO there's very little chance of them "fixing" the mess Engineering left behind.
If so, that'd be good news since it's overdue since inception of Engineers.
However, I don't believe they intend to. "Bugfixing" and "Re-Balancing" are entirely different processes.
And for FDev, Balancing has always been more difficult by an order of magnitude than Bugfixing.
IMHO there's very little chance of them "fixing" the mess Engineering left behind.
Not, not really. The "Open Letter" included the proposal, aside from "FIX YOUR GAME ALREADY", if FDev is already doing something, they could take a glance to balance engineering. That's all.
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Yeah. I figured that much, lacking related posts by FDev.
So the way I see it, there's little reason to panic for those who prefer to retain the current state of Engineering Balance/Imbalance.
Exactly.
How many times have you lost connection while you were in PvP combat? I have a pretty mediocre internet connection and I spend a LOT of time pewpewing with other players and it never once happened to me during my 3000+ ingame hours, not even in the current Mauve Adder era...
What I was talking about was connection loss for whatever reason (including menu logging) resulting in ending up at the rebuy screen, soooo...
Congrats, you've just built a ship that is guaranteed to lose its modules very quickly because no MRP's...
This is (more or less) how it's working atm. With every HRP you add extra mass, which makes you slower and less agile and it also cripples your jump range. It doesn't make modules like power plants and shields weaker (why would a passive armour reinforcement generate heat or make an utterly unrelated module like a shield generator work less effectively?).
The "module stacking problem" you were talking about has very little to do with HRP's, it's more of a shield booster (a.k.a. skill booster) stacking problem. The Cutter is an utter shieldtank BTW, not a hulltank. The ~5000ish hull HP's you can have on it (if you have sufficient module protection and don't waste your size 5+ module slots on HRP's) is not especially huge on that large (and easy to hit) a ship. It's not like you can magically multiply you raw hull hitpoints at the push of a button like shield MJ's (4 pips on sys).
But you do know some people wish to play this game but they can't since they can't afford internet better than physically going outside and using a coat hangar to barely get 1 bar of internet. I know it's a stupid scenario, but there are really people who play this game in situations similar to that, you know this right? Why should they have to suffer because of one person. Just perma IP ban the offender, not everybody okay?
Soooo... every time you restart ED you are going to be faced with the rebuy screen... (read your own words
)... That'll teach you to sleep, eat, P or whatever!There is a minimal hardware requirement for every single game and such a bad connection is simply not good enough to play online PvP games. There is a solo mode though.
Wait, are you saying to actually log off this game. What a wimp, a true player stays online 24 hours a day, 265.25 day a year - no exceptions, no life permittedSoooo... every time you restart ED you are going to be faced with the rebuy screen... (read your own words
Soooo... every time you restart ED you are going to be faced with the rebuy screen... (read your own words
Connection loss during a PvP battle...
I know what you were saying... I just enjoyed the basic grammatic error that allowed me to misquote you so well
Good job that ED is not designed solely as an online PvP game then, I suppose... Allegedly...
Correct.
ED was never intended to be a PvP-Game. AFAIK it's designed as an iteration as a legacy of the '84 version, just MUUUCH bigger with MMO-elements (like PvP).
Edit: and because of that, I simply LOVE this game, despite of it's bugs and inconvienences. One can't have it all, I guess.
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If you want to play online PVP games, ED is not the game you are looking for
Therein lies the rub... The flight (fight?) model of ED is so good, there is nothing currently close to it! Of course it will attract folk who enjoy 'dogfighting' as it accomodates that style so very well.
The only issue I perceive is that so few (as a measure of the entire playerbase) players wish to enjoy this amazing feature that the developers created in a purely PvP fashion, hence discontent from those who do as there remains insufficient participation by the majority in said playstyle.
I don't dispute the absolute enjoyment in the game of the (as much as possible - engineering!) exclusive PvP players, just because the flight model makes it so.
I'm not looking for games. I've been playing ED since 2016, and it's an online PvP game. If you are looking for offline PvE games, ED is not what you are looking for.