5.3.2

[darkwind]

All the ships I fly are shelved again, thanks to the removal of armors from caps. Bad enough they felt like paper with armor, now it's wet paper in a puddle. You've busted the kneecaps of cap players enough. Please just give us back our armor values and power cores. Do away with the shield toggle trash. Please make the game fun.

feels like, if Haste was a president, people would have probably raised already a Vote Of No Confidence procedure to vote the president out of an office.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_of_no_confidence

Haste described to me his logic how he designs the numbers for his balance. i see his thinking and understand that anything related to fun is not part of the equation. Or even more like, any fun gameplay is treated as abuse in this equation and counter balanced at every possible level. Not very having any confidence for things to going good way unless something drastic gets changed, Haste gets changed or he suddenly made reading of a book about Balancing Without Designing fun out of system. Smth like that. Some serious changes to thinking design regarding balance needed present to fix it at this point.
- https://www.amazon.com/Art-Game-Design-B...0123694965
- https://www.amazon.com/Theory-Game-Desig...449363210/
any Balance dev taken to replace Haste should be preferably hired without input of Haste as well. Otherwise he will Veto any balance dev that is not already adhering to his way of thinking.

I tried already explaining things that Shield Energy mechanic is against User Experience and communicating other issues. At each step i get encountered his "balancing by numbers" that is against any User Experience or does not have it included at least. i do not have confidence for long time at this point in what is done regarding Balance.

Technically i should not be writing things like that as they are overly pesimisstic and all that. and if i write complains i should suggest a fix?
I guess the suggested fix is already proposed in this msg. Vote of no confidence for haste, and getting hired new balance dev without Haste input into it is probably the way to go forward. most people are unlikely to change in their long time established thinking even if all materials will be telling different after all, so it is probably the easiest path.

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