QFTAgain, better than limiting tech.

Well.. can't say that quite changed the way I was hoping it would regarding the slave swarms. It's not going to alter the usage nor balance significantly.

Because you totally can't take the billions in gear off your low tech slave and either sell it or put it on a higher tech slave. Nope, no way you can ever do that.



The 10 tech levels is really a wide range. Again I don't think it is necessarily the best solution but it is the consensus that was reached by the people at the meeting. This solution was picked because it would have the least impact on the average FC, and we didn't want to knee jerk nerf them into the ground.



This is (or is very similar to) one of the suggestions that was considered as a solution to the problem. I am all for encouraging additional ideas to be posted, but we have already considered a lot of options and apparently limiting tech level of gear that can be equipped to a ship is the one that was decided on.

If there's just going to be changes like this made without any chance for the community to come up with a possible fix then you might as well just remove the suggestions forum altogether.

Post the issues and see what the community can come up with instead of just popping it up in here that this is the way its going to be and its the only option that "we" the "Dev team" could come up with.

Not a bash but it's how a lot of the players in this community feel.

whats the description of fleet comander again? something about being able to control a massive fleet or something? 4 or 6 ships isnt a massive fleet..im just sayin...people only complain about stuff like this because they didnt do it first...the tech thing tho is a good idea limiting swarms isnt

Im sorry but i made a FC alt hes lvl 120 ish okay. He is killing paxs, izers, MF basils, parsleys. All before i can get close to the ships may i add and all he has is 13 volcom+ all with tech 4 ish ai base gear from FM. Now i know oooh im buying in FM its so much more expensive and better. Bullshit. Its a pile of wank. However it is pretty good when you consider its tech and then you multiply it by lets say 16 slaves all firing the same wep. In my case this is a medium laser+ primarily. But just to do random figures say i have a wep of 100 dps on each slave and i have 16 slaves thats 1600 dps without any skills or w/e added in. That in my opinion is a pathetic fix.

Wait no its not a fix its a joke. Well done im actually fucking crying at how lame that is. I cant wait to tackle BGs etc when i get to lvl 200. I dont think i would even need higher than lvl 10 in any skills so why make such a retarded limit. DO something that will fix this issue and nerf the amount you can have. My fucking alt kills faster than my SD does with a medium laser and hes in a fucking panther with imp skills bar skills aug tweak everything. Im sorry its just fucking stupid and it embarasses me that you are naive enough to consider this a fix.

I like it, it keeps mid tech slaves still highly viable while making low tech slaves like helgas and volcoms almost useless.

I would like to see this only implemented on combat slaves though, no need to nerf trading slaves.

I'm sorry, but it appear Administrators have exactly zero idea what they are doing. I'm in favor of balancing out FC slave swarms infact, but instead of talking to me, or the only other highend FC (deadbeat), they choose to say they are nerfing low end FCs by limiting them. God you guys can be morons sometimes.

And no, Jey is not a FC, hes a battlesphere, not the same thing.

I think talking to deadbeat and Sodomy would have been a good start for the administrative team because as the ones breaking the class the most, they probably have the highest level of knowledge behind what mechanics are broken in particular and need balancing.

I actually highly doubt that Sodomy or deadbeat could bring up a good suggestion that we havent already considered.

Why this particular change was selected I honestly have no idea cause I wasnt at the meeting and it seems like HAL wasnt either.

We had other ideas which I feel would have been better.

Would not the better idea be that the limit only applies to Combat Slaves and not Player or Trade Slaves?Because is that not the point of the fix? to stop fc's spamming uber combat slaves?

And I highly doubt anybody present at the meeting has any idea whatsoever what is actually going on in this game, due to the change being proposed now.

*sigh*

Whatever, do what you will. I'll stand aside and not be nerfed whatsoever, while you guys just screw up everyones trading slaves ingame, and make this game even less open world, and more restricted.

This solution is not something that all of us agree with, I for one have already posted about it on the admin forum and asked for another solution to be chosen because I dont feel that this will fix much at all.