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Oh, it kinda bugged me that I didn't respond to the posting of the fuzzy transformers on the other thread last year, I didn't want to necro the thread since I wondered away from Seibertron for a bit before seeing those. So, I will publicly acknowledge that I stand corrected... there are fuzzy transformers.

Question: How well does armor work at level 0 with 2 strength? Is it worth the effort?

Aerialbot Commander wrote:Question: How well does armor work at level 0 with 2 strength? Is it worth the effort?

Not really. Armor doesn't make a noticeable difference until you get close to strength 10 and have a rank of about 2.

Go ahead and get some Iron armor. It will not hurt, but don't invest in rank at L0.

revengeofstarscream wrote:

Aerialbot Commander wrote:Question: How well does armor work at level 0 with 2 strength? Is it worth the effort?

Not really. Armor doesn't make a noticeable difference until you get close to strength 10 and have a rank of about 2.

Go ahead and get some Iron armor. It will not hurt, but don't invest in rank at L0.

i got my guys with strength 6 and 7 with iron armor. seems to be working well, but every strength upgrade their is a noticeable difference.

It's on of those things, everybody else who has STR has at least iron armour, so you're better off having it too.

Simple math.
Do you have any STR? + Do you have energon? = Buy armour.

If you are going to invest in STR (and RNK for that matter) then you might as well get the best armour for your current build. You gain positive defense for your characters with the only negative being a question of your energon reserves. Just go for it.

Every ton of armor reduces weapon damage by a little bit.

For someone of lower levels, it's really not worth clouding the issue with talk of RNK. I've never been 100% convinced that all the higher rank armours work properly (I know they used to not work properly, and I don't know what (if any) of OS's improvements have stuck, but it is my experience that some of my higher RNK characters have performed very badly).

Redimus GTS wrote:For someone of lower levels, it's really not worth clouding the issue with talk of RNK. I've never been 100% convinced that all the higher rank armours work properly (I know they used to not work properly, and I don't know what (if any) of OS's improvements have stuck, but it is my experience that some of my higher RNK characters have performed very badly).

well i remember back before the 08 crash i had level 5s with rank 4/5 armor with 10 str and it worked rather well. even the SPL game i used my character with 5 rank and 10 str and it held pretty well against other level 7s. So i think its more error then trial with the high ranked armors.

Thanks for the help guys. For now I may lay off the armor since my 'Bots seem to be doing ok without - no need to jinx them with armor

Optimus Prime007 wrote:

Redimus GTS wrote:For someone of lower levels, it's really not worth clouding the issue with talk of RNK. I've never been 100% convinced that all the higher rank armours work properly (I know they used to not work properly, and I don't know what (if any) of OS's improvements have stuck, but it is my experience that some of my higher RNK characters have performed very badly).

well i remember back before the 08 crash i had level 5s with rank 4/5 armor with 10 str and it worked rather well. even the SPL game i used my character with 5 rank and 10 str and it held pretty well against other level 7s. So i think its more error then trial with the high ranked armors.

If only OS had bothered to back up all his additions, we'd have a much more reliable game that we knew was working properly. Ahh well, good riddance.

(Seriously, the first thing you learn at uni is to back up *all* of your work. Preferably on multiple machines and every time you make a change. How it didn't occur to a 'professional' programmer who supposedly works for the US government I'll never know...)

Redimus GTS wrote:

Optimus Prime007 wrote:

Redimus GTS wrote:For someone of lower levels, it's really not worth clouding the issue with talk of RNK. I've never been 100% convinced that all the higher rank armours work properly (I know they used to not work properly, and I don't know what (if any) of OS's improvements have stuck, but it is my experience that some of my higher RNK characters have performed very badly).

well i remember back before the 08 crash i had level 5s with rank 4/5 armor with 10 str and it worked rather well. even the SPL game i used my character with 5 rank and 10 str and it held pretty well against other level 7s. So i think its more error then trial with the high ranked armors.

If only OS had bothered to back up all his additions, we'd have a much more reliable game that we knew was working properly. Ahh well, good riddance.

(Seriously, the first thing you learn at uni is to back up *all* of your work. Preferably on multiple machines and every time you make a change. How it didn't occur to a 'professional' programmer who supposedly works for the US government I'll never know...)

Yea well who knows maybe something might happen with the current version....

[i agree 100% with you. I can't confirm or deny you there with the US Government doing that.]

Optimus Prime007 wrote:
Yea well who knows maybe something might happen with the current version....
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Shut it!! don't jinx it!!

He'd only be jinxing it if there was something in the pipeline to jinx, which there isn't, so he isn't, see?

Redimus GTS wrote:He'd only be jinxing it if there was something in the pipeline to jinx, which there isn't, so he isn't, see?

Are you sure? are you really sure??

Naval Strike wrote:

Redimus GTS wrote:He'd only be jinxing it if there was something in the pipeline to jinx, which there isn't, so he isn't, see?

Are you sure? are you really sure??

Currently.....

Yes.

I thought there were no more Maximals:
http://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar/team_view.php?id=79465

Saw him waiting in the arena just now. Are there Maximals and Predacons still?

Well bugger me backwards. I can only assume Mkall either missed him (he's the only maximal commander in the game) or he joined when Mkall was doing the switching.

Aerialbot Commander wrote:I thought there were no more Maximals:
http://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar/team_view.php?id=79465

Saw him waiting in the arena just now. Are there Maximals and Predacons still?

what the solo maximal? thats... weird? funny? i don't even know

There may be as many as 3 maximals currently, no preds however.

Editor wrote:There may be as many as 3 maximals currently, no preds however.

Only one Maximal.

Burn wrote:

Editor wrote:There may be as many as 3 maximals currently, no preds however.

Only one Maximal.

Fair enough, My remark was based on seeing a faction breakdown the other day showing 3 users under that faction.

Find and share, i'm curious now!

Burn wrote:Find and share, i'm curious now!

Ha Ha, I'll see if I can find it again.

Viola http://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar ... totals.php

Is their a prize involved in this said find and share?