Deathmonger

The problem with the sig system is that the normal items now have relatively small effects on stats, percentage-wise. The overall potential stat range was kept the same, but to make room for sigs the rest of the items were effectively nerfed. This means everybody has similar basic ship performance plus a sig. Furthermore a lot of the new items (e.g. reactors) have such severe penalties that you're better off sticking with simpler lower level items. I would rather see the sig concept implemented like the old 'extra thrust/speed/rot/energy/etc' except making those mutually exclusive. It was more fun when ships could be souped up more.

Four pages of people trying to draw attention to themselves. You'd be better off standing on a corner, pantless, waving your genitals at passers-by.

See this ^ is why PC is the most unintentionally funny HS player ever.

WTF I just gave my $50K to Amerika who said D1 made him the treasurer of this event, and now he denies it. D1 how could you?

I didn't know that the base gun energy stays at a 3 multiple at L4, while damage is 4x as expected. That explains the discrepancy. Another issue is that it makes no sense to mount on spid or lanc, so it's only viable on terr. I suppose you could build a centering terr around Giga but everyone who tried it when it first came out found it lacking. Regardless of the calculation question, you can take the 'sniper gun' role idea for Giga however you wish.

The math I used is (rate of fire) x (energy per shot) Shredder = (100 {unit time} / 9 {delay}) * (1 {level} * 40 {base energy}) = 444 energy per unit time Giga = (100 / 24) * (4 * 27) = 450 Sharppinger = (100 / 16) * (2 * 18) = 225 Another way of looking at it is shredder fires ~ 2.5x faster (9 vs 24), but each giga bullet costs about 2.5x more E (40 vs 108), so the EPS winds up being equivalent. I'd be curious what calculation you use to get Shredder being double the energy consumption of Sharppinger while Giga is only 50% more. At some point decreasing the delay on Giga would actually weaken it because it would suck up all of your energy and limit your spamming ability.

I like the concept of this gun, but because it drains more EPS and does less DPS than shredder, while providing fewer bullets, it doesn't really have a role. I think this ought to be the gun that rewards good aim and biding your time for the right shot, like its name suggests. If the firing rate were bumped to 12-15 from its current 24, you would have a weapon that could only fire in short bursts while leaving the attacker vulnerable if he misses, but really powerful when well-aimed. That would add something new and interesting to the tactical equation.

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Trick

I've heard Arnk say that too, but I don't get it at all. You'd get more experimentation, more decisions, and therefore more configurations. People would equip their ships for whatever they felt like doing at the time (thorring, running, tanking, etc.), which leads to counters. I would argue that the current expensive item sale costs tend to drive everyone to the same generic optimally-balanced configs. E.g. every warbird last round had either a sig gun or a sig sublight, and pretty much the same everything else. It also favors rich players, who are less pained about the financial losses from selling items, over casual ones. I'd like to see more wacky experiments, like lancs with omega, tokamak sharks, etc. that you never see anymore because of this emphasis on making decisions irreversible due to the costs. The latter adds -10 fun and paradoxically drives everyone to the same optimal configs.

When will this gay forum theme be put back to normal so that HS modules can start up again without puking?

I run Continuumm on XP x64 just fine, although I have remapped my keys. Ctrl/Alt/Shift work fine. I've noticed Win 64 is fairly sensitive to being run on certified compatible hardware.

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This thread was about failures, not successful pedophiles. You fail.

I had a weird thing happen yesterday. I left a powerball event and went back to pub, and all my ships had lost all of their equipment. I still had all my money and ships, but they were completely bare, not even with newbie equipment. Fortunately quitting and logging back in fixed it. Req's problem sounds more like somebody got his pw though.

Bring back Aquatiq's ice base!

thighs

Re: ragequitting I actually think ragequitting has had the effect of balancing freqs when they get too stacked, even without any sort of programmatic autobalancing. When one team feels hopeless, they boycott the game until people switch. Before, there was nothing the weaker freq could do; now they can push the nuclear ragequit button until social justice is achieved. I think the abuse could be solved by simply locking in the jp awards at last flag drop or x minutes before last flag drop.

Shemale

It's a field that cancels out other fields. It could be either: 1) An addon that prevents a field from being laid down on top of you. 2) A field that prevents enemy fields from being laid down on top of it (kind of like bricks). 3) A field that cancels an existing field if laid down after it. I think 3) would be the most balanced implementation as it would give the offensive field a chance to do some damage and require a bit of timing from the defenders to counter it. Also Field Dissipators would cause Fat Cat to quit.

bang

No flags. I just noticed about 1 every 10-15 attaches or so, I've got zero energy. I vaguely have the impression that it may occur when I flood the lanc with 2-3 macros in a row, or if the lanc just died and attached to another lanc. It seems to occur with all ships. I'd say this started happening since the summon-in-mini changes. Sorry I can't be more helpful.

I just wanted to confirm that sometimes summon is doing a regular attach with energy drained in bases. Not just in mini or safes. The behavior is not consistent or repeatable.

Could you replace it with an entirely black font? That would be even cooler!

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