Ok sure but you pulled out that quote, I was talking to someone else not you!Yes, in this thread, not me.
I'm not up on political theorists, but you're telling me they routinely look at issues in isolation without taking into account the big picture? This seems problematic to me but sure if that's what they do fine, I'm sure they know best.Tell all the political theorists about how they shouldn't point out the flaws in various theories and improve upon them, actually not just political theorists, all theorists.bitstorm said:Sure that's fine but calling for nerfs isn't conceptual critique nor do I think we can fairly conceptionally critique in any realistic manner until weve seen all that's on offer.
I honestly don't think all theorists do this though. It seems like a recipe for disaster or at least totally misinformed theories.
I'm not rejecting the idea in its entirety, I'm suggesting alternative conceptual implementation based on its conceptual existence, which is something I do with theories of all kinds in my daily life, believe it or not, I'm paid to do it.
I'm totally cool with this! I'm only posting here because of all the "nerf it now Frontier or I leave game" talk. With this patch there's a whole suite of changes coming, much of which we've not yet seen.
I would however say talking about alternative implementations is fine in a "conceptual critique" type manner (of course)! But doing so already seems to assume that this change is fundamentally game-breaking, I'd say at this time that's an assumption because we don't yet see the big picture. Frontier have already said they have concerns, they will keep an eye on it but they do want to go ahead. Point being if there is an issue then rebalancing *can* happen, be that by some nerf or even the addition of some mod that mitigates any issue. It seems like something they want to see in action before making a decision.
I don't know the specific timings but SCBs don't need that long to kick off, any counter only has to act for a reasonably short time. It's possible something is already in for this.
As I say lots of changes coming, instead of calling for preemptive nerfs you chaps really should be looking forward to seeing how meta can be defeated because there's gonna be plenty of potential tools in your toolkit, and that in itself is PvP gameplay.
Oh, how brilliant:
"Let's see... oh my opponent has a railgun, and I'm in a large ship/rely on SCB, time to flee!"
Well that was a reply to someone else doing PvE and being jumped by a railer, escape is a perfectly valid solution to unexpected PvP. Like the first quote above I was talking to someone else, you're taking it out of context.
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