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Onesimus Tarsus
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Posted - 2014.02.10 23:08:00 -
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Racial parity is paper dolls in this game, unless they start handing out bonuses for racial purity. That is, the more faithful you are to your chosen race's tech, the bigger specific racial bonus you get. Otherwise, full-on dumb.
Spock, the Rock, Doc Ock and Hulk Hogan.
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Onesimus Tarsus
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Posted - 2014.02.10 23:23:00 -
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Soraya Xel wrote:Racial parity is kinda a weird obsession. It's nowhere near as important as the MMO elements of the game which are sorely lacking.
If racial decisions somehow affected gameplay, they would matter, but if you use your race's best gear and just get plowed by someone who's using what costs the most AUR (which, by the way, is EXACTLY how this game functions), your race sucks and you need to move on to what works.
Racial parity is downright silly.
Spock, the Rock, Doc Ock and Hulk Hogan.
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Onesimus Tarsus
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Posted - 2014.02.10 23:33:00 -
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Monkey MAC wrote:Soraya Xel wrote:Racial parity is kinda a weird obsession. It's nowhere near as important as the MMO elements of the game which are sorely lacking. Racial Parity is an MMO element.
Nope, it's window dressing.
Spock, the Rock, Doc Ock and Hulk Hogan.
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Onesimus Tarsus
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Posted - 2014.02.10 23:52:00 -
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Monkey MAC wrote:Onesimus Tarsus wrote:Monkey MAC wrote:Soraya Xel wrote:Racial parity is kinda a weird obsession. It's nowhere near as important as the MMO elements of the game which are sorely lacking. Racial Parity is an MMO element. Nope, it's window dressing. Please explain. As I explained in 3 above post, it's not window dressing when it can determine how people can use the same 'group' of weapons.
It's just another way to imaginarily obfuscate the data that determines an equipment's effectiveness. It doesn't matter what race a weapon is if it does X damage. Why was everyone Caldari Logi for so long? Because they liked the color scheme? I remember not so long ago all these people going off on the Nova Knife event about the mystique of knifers. I have been playing this, this, thing since open beta (we're now in WIDE open beta, it seems), and I have been offed by super-duper experts with knives less than 8 times. I've been splattered by green recruits with Logi suits and rail rifles more times than HAL 9000 could count. Bottom line: you either play Logi with a Rail Rifle, or you're just imagining some reason to do so, because the LogiRR is the best way to get kills in this, this, thing. And dead opponents are the least likely to bother you.
TL;DR: If going all Amarr lets me kill Caldari Logis with RRs at an appreciable rate, I'm in.
Spock, the Rock, Doc Ock and Hulk Hogan.
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Onesimus Tarsus
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Posted - 2014.02.11 00:21:00 -
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Monkey MAC wrote:
4 weapons 4 styles, 1 Base weapon.
So, of those four, which one do you use most?
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Onesimus Tarsus
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Posted - 2014.02.11 00:42:00 -
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Monkey MAC wrote:Onesimus Tarsus wrote:Monkey MAC wrote:
4 weapons 4 styles, 1 Base weapon.
So, of those four, which one do you use most? I use the Mass Driver, whats your point? If you are trying to say everyone uses the RR, you should probably talk to the Amarrians who kicked up a storm when they were gonna loose their heat reduction bonus, or the Minmatar rejoicing that they are getting 85 rounds a clip to the ACR. There are people who will 'flock' to the FOTM the month but you will find the majority of the player believes in the "this is my rifle" mantra. The only people who moved to the RR were GAR users who got severly gimped, but that's balance not parity.
Mass driver wasn't on the list. So, of those four listed, which one do you use the most?
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Onesimus Tarsus
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Posted - 2014.02.11 00:58:00 -
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Monkey MAC wrote:Onesimus Tarsus wrote:Monkey MAC wrote:Onesimus Tarsus wrote:Monkey MAC wrote:
4 weapons 4 styles, 1 Base weapon.
So, of those four, which one do you use most? I use the Mass Driver, whats your point? If you are trying to say everyone uses the RR, you should probably talk to the Amarrians who kicked up a storm when they were gonna loose their heat reduction bonus, or the Minmatar rejoicing that they are getting 85 rounds a clip to the ACR. There are people who will 'flock' to the FOTM the month but you will find the majority of the player believes in the "this is my rifle" mantra. The only people who moved to the RR were GAR users who got severly gimped, but that's balance not parity. Mass driver wasn't on the list. So, of those four listed, which one do you use the most? Combat Rifle, I like the burst fire.
So, if they took the other three out, you wouldn't mind that much. There is no need for parity in the face of maximum effectiveness. CCP blathers on (along with a great chunk of the forum-base) that people have to live with their decisions. Yet you choose a race at the beginning of the game and it has jack zip zero to do with anything. Your choice of skills and weapons does, but race doesn't. If your very race has nothing to do with combat effectiveness, then the race of a weapon has nothing to do with it.
The race element is just and only a way for CCP to get some people to spend the same SP four times and to keep the reason for winning as murky and indecipherable as possible. They simply want the player-base doubting their choices constantly, so that they spend money here trying to win at pewpew. Right now, somewhere, there's a spreadsheet measuring how much money is spent getting the FOTM. When that number plateaus, a new FOTM will be introduced, especially if they feel like people have leveraged a ton of SP into it. You'll get your racial parity just and only when Farmville economics says you will, and not one second earlier.
Spock, the Rock, Doc Ock and Hulk Hogan.
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