Tammuz wrote:i take great offense at that AZ. i did the best i daman well could with balancing the weapons given i was denied any changes a part from recharges, damage values and energon, you want to moan that we should change the game engine, i'll agree, but that was never gonna happen, so being pragmatic i took the best course i could and made the weapons something a little more varied than "battle blades=win"
there are 6 or 7 weapons at given levels and they are different, some will be consistent as hell, some will skip between barely any to a fair chunk in the same mission, some are gonna take a few hits turns to recharge, some won't.
the only place weapons aren't balanced and thus broken is the cost, mainly cos energon in this game is is broken to thepoint of being inconsequetial.
And the weapons still come down to what one will give me the most consistent damage through the fight. That's why mostly everyone runs with Null Rifles with 0 FP. You made due with what you had, I understand that. It's less broken then it was, and that's good. But you have to reconize that it is still broken.
Tam wrote:now onto your shock armour solution, that won't work becuase Stun being so powerful will require everyone to get shock armour, which then means stun is now worthless, and as is every armour except the shock armours.
Not everyone uses ram, but still, instead of going "It's broken, it needs to go" it should be "OK, how can we offset this? What can we add to the game that would compliment Ram. What counter effects and what other effects." There's a reason why in games of all kinds, video, and table top, there are abilties, and there are counter abilities. Undead can't be crit-ed on unless you have a feat for knowing how to hit undead, or have a item that allows you to crit undead. Flaming weapons great against someone not immune to fire.
There should be more effects/abilities then stun, to make stun not be the be all end all. And there needs to be ways to counter those abilities. That's why there are really only a handful of effective builds and repair and strafe are pretty much **** until you're a high enough level. Maybe there will be in V2. I'd hope so.
Tam wrote:your "micromaster base" analogy works both ways maybe your micromaster mac truck and so forth, anyway whats wrong with stun is that when rammed it checks if the stunee has less STR than the Stunner, if it does the Stunee may be stunned, if it is stunned it's stunned for a random amount of time, often past the entire length of the mission, which effectively means that that one ram has ended the the targets participation in the battle as anything but a meat shield.
See, this is what annoys me about the forums. Did you even bother reading that part of the post? I understand I'm a poor communicator, but still. The point is that there's no size difference for any thing in the game. I used the micromaster base because if one could transform, it would roughly be about the size of a modern deluxe or maybe, but not likely, a voyager class. Without a size chart or ranking, there is no effective way to tell how large the characters are compared to the other characters. You can say your character is 100 feet tall in your bio, but that doesn't mean he is in game. There's nothing in the game code that says the beast factions are smaller then the G1ers. We just say they are because of the canon, which HMW does not follow.
Tam wrote:what i reckon it should work at is that it should do check rammers STR against target's END and if the STR is greater than END ignore the stunnee's next actions to the diffrence halved rounding up (cuase 5 turns is enough to kill, 10 would be almost certain one ram and it's over territory)
I think you're going about it the wrong way. You're solving the problem by trying to make it less effective, when you should be solving it by figuring out ways to not make it be the only effect in the game. As long as the only thing you can do to a character is stun them with ram, and then you get a chance to make a few more attacks on them, ram and stun are always going to be broken. Your idea, while sound, will only make it less broken, but still broken.
Tam wrote:I agree on the weapon/armour upkeep cost.
the problems remain the same even with multiple commodities, Burn even the countless ones we have on earth we still don't have a working world economy,
There will never ever be a perfect world economy unless people some how stop being greedy bitches and some how communism or socialism suddenly worked. Same thing for a in game. Like it or not, there will always be people with more money. You want to break the game economy, what you do is you make it easier for lower level people to earn money and have their upkeep be lower, then you raise the upkeep for higher, slow their money growth, and give them more crap to spend it on.
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