The Energon Pub

News Credits: 1 · Fri May 14, 2010 11:51 pm

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.

Sat May 15, 2010 7:37 am

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

Sat May 15, 2010 8:10 am

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.

Sat May 15, 2010 12:08 pm

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.

News Credits: 1 · Sat May 15, 2010 2:20 pm

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

News Credits: 9 · Sat May 15, 2010 2:27 pm

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.

News Credits: 1 · Sat May 15, 2010 2:44 pm

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

News Credits: 1 · Sat May 15, 2010 2:45 pm

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).

Sun May 16, 2010 5:38 am

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.

Sun May 16, 2010 6:04 am

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

News Credits: 1 · Sun May 16, 2010 10:56 am

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...)

Sun May 16, 2010 11:14 am

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.]

Sun May 16, 2010 11:32 am

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!!

News Credits: 1 · Sun May 16, 2010 2:55 pm

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

Sun May 16, 2010 3:33 pm

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?? :roll:

News Credits: 9 · Sun May 16, 2010 3:41 pm

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.....

at this point in time....

Yes.

Sun May 16, 2010 5:19 pm

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?

News Credits: 1 · Sun May 16, 2010 5:32 pm

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.

News Credits: 3 · Sun May 16, 2010 6:03 pm

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