Joseph Ridgeson
warravens
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1979
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Posted - 2014.06.09 09:57:00 -
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Most people will say that Complex Extenders are fairly decent in the amount of HP they give. However, the LUDICROUS scaling AND fitting cost is what makes them flat out worse than Plates.
22->33->66 makes Extenders "use Complex or do not bother." Basic and Advanced need to be made higher while Complex remains the same. The fitting cost is another issue that really should have been fixed from the beginning. 18/3, 36/6, and 54/11 means that a Plate is pretty much easier to fit across the board. Every Assault suit basically goes 5 CPU for 1 PG so something cost twice as much CPU and only saving 1 PG is, well, bloody terrible.
"This is B.S! This is B.S! I paid money! Cash money, dollars money, cash money!"
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Joseph Ridgeson
warravens
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1990
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Posted - 2014.06.11 19:22:00 -
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PG/CPU costs of Extenders are bonkers still. They really need to change. I would also argue that 33->44->66 is a hell of a lot better than what it was but is still severely lacking. Compare that the the scaling plates get:
Basic: 85
Advanced: 110 (29.4% increase from Basic)
Complex: 135 (22.27% increase from Advanced and 58.8% increase from Basic)
Shields are looking to be 33% from Basic to Advanced, 50% increase from Advanced to Complex, and a 100% increase from Basic to Complex. The numbers still overly favor using Complex only. I understand the Catch 22; Extenders have such a low that if it was an equivilant increase similar to Plates that there would be next to no reason to use Complex. However... that is how it works for Armor. Most of the time, Basic Plates are more than enough. Is it so ridiculous to think that Basic Extenders should have the same mentality?
If we go with Armor and Plates give the same amount of "defense" and we accept that 66 is the correct number for Complex Shield extenders to have, we can divide one by the other to get a baseline. 2.045. So dividing armor values by that gives us:
Basic Extender: 41.56 (41)
Advanced Extender: 53.79 (53)
Complex Extender: 66
"This is B.S! This is B.S! I paid money! Cash money, dollars money, cash money!"
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