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How do you counter speed modded ships accompanied by tanky line-ships on OW?

Aw, crap! I get it. I would prefer other fixes like: Damage cap set to 5k in solo zone (You can safety-farm eachother but not above 5k each match or each day) We had "recently killed" flag and we could have "recently duelled" flag to cap farming. This could be used in addition to the above to avoid back to back 5k farming. No damage payout to anyone if players disengage and noone sinks. (is it so bad with damage CM farming if they keep sinking their ships?) Like I said; I'm not good at scumbag line-of-thought so there might be issues still. Please let me know if I need to think deeper because the current situation is "throwing the baby out with the washwater".

Sure thing! How do we keep mods as a good thing and stop meta mods? Speed failfit solo is fantastic group tackler (META) Invincible masts (META) Some qualities become meta real fast while others like pen, turning, heel, hp, thickness and aiming have more wiggle room before META sets in.

And it can take away... I suppose that is why we fight on this point. What are the most important things for what and for whom? How do we prioritize? <humming Queens of the Stone Age> "Mods they giveth and they taketh awaaaaahey, aaaoaaa, Mods they..."

Hmmm... I thought this was a feature!? The solo PZ is within the gank zone so the solo requirements are within the general requirements, so to speak. LOL, I've even advertised this on forum as a way of motivating people to go for the solo zone. Remember we have to subject ourselves to the clear and present danger of superganks going to and from the solo zone. I don't have the best eye for exploits and abuse so I can't conjure up what this "abuse" looks like, could I ask you or someone else to explain? I thought this was a great way of giving out consolation price to the loser. The way we've set up this entire OW is heavily tying motivation to rewards. It's so pronounced that we've struggled with people not fighting unless success is guaranteed. I fear people will look at solo zone and opt out because we're facing the same rewards for losing there as we do in general OW. We don't need a shitload of people in the solo zone for it to work, but this "abuse hotfix" has the potential of making it a complete ghost town. I didn't do the solo zone for any kind of reward except to get a fair fight. I'll still do it because a fair fight is indeed the best experience this game has to offer in my mind. Others don't think like me, I've learned, and they seem to need motivation to have fun. @admin You yourself related how @Gringo69rus was sitting inside the little circle just watching the sharks circle outside. Do you think they will be more or less inclined to go in and risk losing their ship now? I'm afraid the solo zone will become a fake feature and that makes me feel that the last straw is slipping from my fingers. TL;DR: What was the abuse, please?

Aces High is an MMO that has been running from 1999 and is still running. It has completely unmoddable vehicles and OP vehicles are behind something like combat medals walls. I object to the inclusive MMO term being used to exclusively mean eco-MMO, sandbox-MMO, grind-MMO or MMO-RPG. I get that some people need those frikkin' PvE carrots to feel that their life has meaning but it is possible to give people something to work towards that does not exclude us from maintaining balance in the combat department. The combat is the most important quality this game has on offer, whatever the weak-minded carrot-munchers may think.

We had good balance before OW mods bonanza:

Not in WoT, WoWs or WT modes that are used the most. WoT devs even say that pros dislike being matched up with equal skill players, so they only do that for special game-modes. "If you have skill, you have the right to pwn" is what SerB said over and over. About historical demasting: I've seen people here say that the French purposely targeted rigging (our equivalent is sniping masts). Like others I want there to be balance, kiri, elite french and stacking mast mods take demasting out and in my view skill based PvP suffers.

Pfft, if these mythical noobs can pass the exam, they're ready.

<Swallows nervously> Please don't take away the xp skip too.

PvP hunt missions and PZ only. I believe it is to avoid the farming of noobs around starter points.

Nah, you can farm those in pve. Combat medals make people PvP instead of chewing on bots in remote corners.

We keep a beautiful dream alive in the face of adversities! It's only natural people want to avoid humping bots to pay for their fun. Ganking and pvp aversion is proof very few people actually like PvE. A lot of people pretend it's great but I can't explain why.

Oh, I did and do, deeply. You don't see me complain, though! (If you listen carefully you can hear stifled sobs coming from the corner...)

I'm sure there's a reason it's there it'd be cool to know why. Maybe it's the gun the viewpoint is tied to when going into gunnery or something along those lines?

You are right, ofcourse. The oak ship can eat a broadside or two more than the t/wo ship, so there's that.

Ye, ok, I will struggle with getting ships to the PZ ports, though. Solo patrol is fantastic and I won't care much if I can't powergrind fast to RA, but I lose ships faster than I can craft, tow, buy and sail ships and guns here. Imagine the content I can provide to solo zoners and ingress/egress gankers if ships and guns aren't a struggle! Two more surps and I'm out of Shroud ships. I bet it'll be fun feeding Mercuries to carro Niagaras, eh? I'll frikkin' do that just to spite you all! <hides>

!? Very fast live/white is an outlier. You can still sail away from that dude in your "shitty" oak ship. Having said that I don't support the large span from fir/fir to live/white + books and mods.

Someone needs to show me how, honestly! Can confirm. You also get almost everything back when you sink, even the guns that can cost as much as the ship. Well, unless you buy crazy expensive woods.

I've never had enough cash to buy ships from crafters anyway, ever. I'll have even less cash going forward as they've snuck in austerity patch MkII. So me running around in real cash ships has zero impact on the price gouging crafters' market.

translate, pls...

Your idea is crazy. But I'm seriously sitting here pondering how I'm going to make it past the second coming of austerity patch and upcoming final wipe. It won't happen as you suggest, but the struggle and possibly desperation is real.

I'll take it in any form or shape.

Well, ok, but not because we asked. Look at my signature... That dates from well before EA release. They wanted a fighting game, don't blame the fighters who came for that.

Show me one example of that.