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Skex Relbore Gallente Red Federation	Posted - 2010.10.27 17:53:00 - [1] Edited by: Skex Relbore on 27/10/2010 17:55:35 Originally by: Leksi Bar'zuk Edited by: Leksi Bar''zuk on 27/10/2010 00:53:29 Originally by: Omara Otawan Originally by: Leksi Bar'zuk You obviously don't pvp if you assume things always go as planned for the enemy... Ironically, thats exactly what a good commander assumes... or rather, has to assume. Ironically, this means your commander assumes that things will go as planned... so are you just talking in circles or are you just another moron with nothing to contribute? ps. cup the balls when Liang asks for deepthroat. Berendas, that goes double for you. A competent commander always assumes that the enemies plan will go off perfectly and his own is the one that will jack up. I'm not going to take a position on whether the drake needs a nerf or what form any nerf should be in but. You people need to get your heads out of your backsides here. In a game system when the use of one particular build/class/item becomes overly pronounced that is an indication of a game imbalance. You can argue til your blue in the face but the fact remains that balance is reflected in use. The cause of the imbalance may not be directly related to that particular item but it is still an imbalance. The easiest and generally most appropriate way to address such imbalances is with a liberal application of the Nerf bat. Why you ask? 1, it's easier and generally less likely to lead to unintended consequences. 2, it's easier to reverse or adjust then to address multiple factors. 3, Boosting rather than Nerfing leads to power inflation with a situation where the FOTM just moves on to what ever the latest thing to get boosted. Performance is relative. If everything sucks equally then you have balance and no one notices. Ideally a game should have a relatively flat distribution in builds/classes/items so that multiple play styles are viable. Game mechanics dictate the meta-game, as such it is perfectly valid to use game mechanics to address imbalances in the meta-game. Further if a particular play style is causing performance issues with the overall product the developers certainly are with in their rights and responsibility to tweak the mechanics in such a way as to discourage said play style. In the end a game developer has the right to do what ever the hell they want with their product. If you don't like that well the cancel button is over there. <=====
Skex Relbore Gallente Red Federation	Posted - 2010.10.27 19:08:00 - [2] Originally by: Leksi Bar'zuk Thiny veiled drake rant is thiny veiled. You could honestly have got that rant off with fewer words aswell. Hope you feel better now though. If not, you seem to know where the cancel sub button is located... I don't care one way or the other about the Drake. I'm trained to fly it now (though I don't have T2 launchers yet). My point is that Nerfing is generally a perfectly acceptable and frankly generally less troublesome method of dealing with imbalances. The alternative of "buff the weaker thing" just leads to mudflation.
Skex Relbore Gallente Red Federation	Posted - 2010.10.27 19:22:00 - [3] Originally by: Liang Nuren Originally by: Skex Relbore Originally by: Leksi Bar'zuk Thiny veiled drake rant is thiny veiled. You could honestly have got that rant off with fewer words aswell. Hope you feel better now though. If not, you seem to know where the cancel sub button is located... I don't care one way or the other about the Drake. I'm trained to fly it now (though I don't have T2 launchers yet). My point is that Nerfing is generally a perfectly acceptable and frankly generally less troublesome method of dealing with imbalances. The alternative of "buff the weaker thing" just leads to mudflation. Nerfing has its place, but so does buffing. It helps to have a vision for how you want the game to evolve. -Liang Oh I agree it's just that so many people get on the whole "You should never nerf anything" bandwagon that they need to be knocked off occasionally. In general if one thing is fail and everything else ok then that thing could probably use a buff. But if one things happens to just be head and shoulders above the alternatives. Well time to break out the nerf bat.
Skex Relbore Gallente Red Federation	Posted - 2010.10.27 19:34:00 - [4] Originally by: Liang Nuren Originally by: Kara Jorin http://sleeplessinspace.blogspot.com/2010/10/nerf-drake-rawr-wait-what.html Interesting take... It's an interesting take, I agree. I don't agree with its conclusion though. The Myrm was just a terrible choice of ship for making this comparison. -Liang I pretty much stopped reading it when I saw the fits he was comparing. I'd never fly either of those ships with the setups he was using (least not in PVP).

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