Originally posted by spoon:
PPBs certainly aren't on the top of the "needs tuning" list, and I know you love your PPB, but ask yourself this: would you still use them if they did 10 pts less damage? What about 5 points less? If you answered "yes", it could probably use some tuning.
Actually I am not particularly in love with the PPB. I rarely if ever use them. So few people use standard shields because of the threat of PPB's that they have lost their real edge IMHO. Typically I will research DUCs to the limit and then switch over to APB's. Although that's simply habit. There are others that work just fine.
I'm still waiting to hear that legitimate case. And what kind of person gets ticked off if PPBs start doing slightly less damage? Does he really have to cater to that type of person? He's the developer. He allowed to step on a few toes.True enough. But why should he make a change and step on their toes when he can do nothing and step on yours.
If you haven't been convinced by the myriad of discussions we have had on this forum, I won't waste your time or mine. But that's ok. You don't have to agree with me that PPB's are balanced. My point is only that a lot of people do agree with me. And since maybe as many people agree they are that think they are not, and because they can be "fixed" anytime by anyone in a mod, why should Malfador bother?
The maint thing is different, cause it really would require a hard code change. Unless you do the fancy thing SJ added to his mod.
It's all about priorities and available time. Everybody has their own pet projects that would "Only take a few minutes", but if you add all those up He'd be working on the game till the end of time.
I don't set Aarons schedule, so I don't pretend to know how much time he has available. I assume his time is finite, so I prefer if he is going to make changes it be in areas that we cannot mod. Adding more of that depth you talked about by adding abilities to the game that modders can take advantage of, and tweaking the remaining annoying bugs like the mine thing that was squished in the Last patch.
But I don't suggest my priorities are the best ones. If you have a suggestion, especially a data fiel change that can be easily done, my suggestion is to make the change and send it to Malfador in an email. He does respond to those from time to time. Just ask Fyron.
Geoschmo
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