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Balancing/Dev Spectators
Whew, I'm just full of suggestions today.
I think that the devs need to see some of the stuff we're talking about regarding the way current battles are working.
It would be nice, if the devs have a way to spectate from our ships, if they could watch some of these battles first person and see the way the strategies are being played out. Otherwise, balancing is going to be a much harder process of moving weapon statistics around over and over till people end up reasonably happy with the weapon layout.
Watch energy fights between Eldrad and Asp, or watch Amarus use his Prom. let Icarus show just how much rockets have been nerfed, or how easy/hard it can be to fight a good hog.
Great battles take place all the time, it would be nice if we could somehow include them in this suggestions forum. As of yet we merely attempt to describe, and miss out a number of things that the devs might be in a better position to notice.
I think that the devs need to see some of the stuff we're talking about regarding the way current battles are working.
It would be nice, if the devs have a way to spectate from our ships, if they could watch some of these battles first person and see the way the strategies are being played out. Otherwise, balancing is going to be a much harder process of moving weapon statistics around over and over till people end up reasonably happy with the weapon layout.
Watch energy fights between Eldrad and Asp, or watch Amarus use his Prom. let Icarus show just how much rockets have been nerfed, or how easy/hard it can be to fight a good hog.
Great battles take place all the time, it would be nice if we could somehow include them in this suggestions forum. As of yet we merely attempt to describe, and miss out a number of things that the devs might be in a better position to notice.
I almost killed a1k0n as he was typing the other day, in a small battle near the sedina/latos wh (i think).
They're on and they watch... and if you manage to get a hit in on the UFO it shoots back!
They're on and they watch... and if you manage to get a hit in on the UFO it shoots back!
aye, and if you get 9 or 10 hits you may drop it to 80% :D. Its different being in the middle of a duel and watching it, standing outside the motion of it you might miss it.
The devs aren't as out of touch as you might think. They have characters we don't know about.
oh, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the devs are out of touch.
I was only saying that interesting ideas are being tested a lot, that one would have to see to believe.
(Also, just once when I respawned my ship prompt went very funny and when I asked to buy the same ship again, it brought up what looked like mine, but instead of a name it said "Spectator", I couldn't buy it, I just had to cancel. Were you watching me bot Devs?)
I was only saying that interesting ideas are being tested a lot, that one would have to see to believe.
(Also, just once when I respawned my ship prompt went very funny and when I asked to buy the same ship again, it brought up what looked like mine, but instead of a name it said "Spectator", I couldn't buy it, I just had to cancel. Were you watching me bot Devs?)
A while back a1k0n mentioned something about writing a system that could monitor a pilots actions during combat, in hope of producing a good AI for the bots...
Its a good idea though, as between us we probably have stupid amounts of "combat data" ;-)
Its a good idea though, as between us we probably have stupid amounts of "combat data" ;-)
I still miss the lightning balls... :P
http://vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/1/3751
I guess they still haven't found that part of the code ... or it's a super dev secret... like the station in 8!
I guess they still haven't found that part of the code ... or it's a super dev secret... like the station in 8!