Lythrilux you got no idea.
I bet if you take ZA or similar and the same number people that are around for a bit longer and let them PvP against each other even in 3 to 1 odds ZA or similar 1-3 month players would loose every time.
Same story with credits- credits does not give you PvP skill, they does not give you connections to get SRP or exotic stuff as well.
Making a base that requires server crash to take down( read unkillable) does not make you good in PvP or tactics or RP or anythin- it makes you good in grinding- moving stuff from point A to point B- it is bad balanced server feature not anything else.
I suggest to stay a bit longer around this place and then when you feel the rhythm and the way it works to give such options.
As I said before- small easy to do changes, changes that does not need any coding since there are people that already codded it: could fix the server and make it more realistic while totally removing the need of ganking and the problem with the bigger ships:
1: Nerf the trading and mining by flat 50%. Xoria needs to open his Excel and make /2 not that hard. Grinding can be done by volunteer helper.
2:Shield based balance instead of class and gun based balance. Only shield absorption based balance allows you to balance each class vs each class without changing the balance between many classes. Easy to do- just edit some files- no need of coding, annoying time consuming grind to regroup guns again in groups but possible.
3: Buff the caps, remove the bots from cruisers and battleships, add fuel for all ship classes, block caps from docking at smaller stations and stuff- simple time consuming grinding. Caps can be build only on POBs (using the existing Massdriver plugin for that) All existing caps are made in rhinos with 500m on it.(one volunteer grinder and 1 week work)
4: Implement DoD dead penalty plugin.
5: Give better caps for official factions in limited numbers that have stronger dead penalties.
Sadly such changes wont be made because the bigger part of the people around like the place like it is. It was always like that -see the link up and it would always be like that for the future. The second point is the way that Dev team works- hidden and with few numbers- they can clearly open their forums and involve more volunteer helpers to do the grinding tasks, with their structure now if they make this changes they would need 5-6 years for new version. The current team needs 10-20 grinders to help them in order to be able to make any noticeable changes.
(10-09-2013, 10:51 AM)Knjaz Wrote: Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)
