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I'm really interested in hearing your opinion about this beyond the smiley.

You are so in the right, Hachi! You know what's up and you lay it out to the point. I've attacked mods since a week or two after their release, I think many here simply think I sperg against mods out of old habit but what you describe here i why I do it. Apparently it is important to have mods so people have something to PVE for and to avoid the terrible concept of "cookie cutter ships". It's just extremely difficult to maintain competitive game balance with mods constantly throwing the equation off. I'd argue that at the current stage OW has moved away from unadulterated skill based play in favor of "gib content" and pve-grind-to-win ideals known from other sandbox games and MMORPGs. It's going to be hard to get back to NA's skill based roots as we've drifted away from Gods's light for quite some time now, I'm (almost) eternally and hopelessly optimistic and in spite of the current situation I still see the beauty of core NA-OW. OW is like the prettiest girl you've ever seen with far too much and badly applied make-up. I've done the trolling with kirimati and french rig too lately. I guess you could stretch the definition and call it "skill" to be able to abuse an anti-meta like that, but like you, Hachi, I think it reeks. Speed meta has over the course of two years been brought down to a tolerable level(?), so there probably is hope for masts vs hull vs sails vs crew vs speed balance too. As long as there are power gamers with copper, kiri, french, navy, 5 rings, carta and what have you they will be slightly above the balance the plebs have to deal with, from what I gather this is the joy of an equipment based sandbox <shrugs>. Legends will have pvp-on-demand with deliberate competitive balance. OW won't be pvp-on-demand but I see no point in denying OW true and pervasive skill based balance. Don't worry about tommi.

Lemme do a mindjob on ya, Hachi... If you think in terms of "gold" instead of "yellow" how does that change your perception? hello kittys you right up, amirite? #ItsnotYellowSnowitsaGoldenShower

Hachi, doing the important things...

Go on... RNG is fun.

Click "H" for brace...

I guess you could say it would... But we need to go deeper. Animal farm points at the dissonance between the stated intention of "everyone is equal" and the reality of "some animals are more equal than others". Who are "more equal" than others? Who benefits from keeping this disconnect between intention and reality, both in Animal farm and NA-OW? Also: double-speak and new-speak. I grade you "C" on your literature test.

See? We stand together across borders and divided by language. <whisper> The high road...

You don't have to take the low road, the high road is calling for you. You can do things not because it's easy, but because it's hard.

We've been through this already and know what will happen: Power gamers will click hard for the special stuff (money doesn't matter). When we were active and had a resource train operational three crafters clicked, sold, clicked sold ad nauseam until all Rakers had optimal ships. Then we clicked to have spares. We were always in top golden ships. I know the intention, but this will lead to more frustration among the power clickers and "normal" players. The former will tire and the latter will feel left out. Lower the drop rate and frustration will only increase in both camps. You can't curb power gamer monopoly when you keep adding rare things. OW is by design a power gamer's sandbox, sometimes we pretend to care for the little man, but it's a sham. "Randomly available to all" is almost Orwellian.

I punish you because I love you.

Some of these are REALLY good.

Saw a picture of "very fast".

"Very sturdy", "bonus to hp", that would make it a plus.

Sometimes it's wonderful how different people can be, other times...

? https://sites.google.com/view/speedtrials/start

Thanks, this had flown under my radar.

Don't understand the question nor the answer.

*nods'

Fun topic title, though.

Stuff like this wasn't allowed. I don't know where we stand on this now...

Yea, it's good now.

Hehe, the first one they can actually use.

Got it, makes sense.