CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.08.13 14:03:00 -
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GeneralButtNaked wrote:Shinobi MumyoSakanagare ZaShigurui wrote:
OP suits and OP @SS guns as well , totally agree with you GBN .
It wasn't just the suits and guns, to be clear. The tank rebalance pass was a total **** up. There was no need for them to become as OP as they did, and anyone with a lick of sense would have seen that, in fact plenty of us did. When people first saw the flaylock, we all knew it was going to be a big problem. When I first heard "waves of opportunity' I knew tanks were due for a serious nerf afterwards to compensate. The only upside is that a year of playing ping pong with the meta has every long term player with a nice spread of suits, able to adapt to whatever crazy CCP comes up with.
Salutations!
General, while I don't agree with all you've posted here, what you say in this quote, from Flaylock, to "Waves of Opportunity" (uuck,... my nemesis of Dust gameplay philosophy), to the upside benefit that long-term players... has a righteous truth.
I joined Dust LATE in Beta stage (about 50 days before the May release), and took what the Beta-Vets had learned as my guide for getting through this game: "Keep frugal with your ISK, and resourceful/ adaptable with your equipment".
You are right,... a wise, long term player spent his time just adapting to every flip-flop change (rather than joining the camps that were unintentionally instigating those flop-changes), and now he tends to be a wealthy member with a handful of truly adaptable successful suit fittings.
 Dust originally was about reinforcing that Risk-vs-Reward component that seems to work so well in EVE-Online.
 All the back-to-forth demands of players (...and CCP's tendence to relent to some of the bad requests--yes, likethe HAV improvements), eroded that "R-v-R" concept over time... and now only those wisest vets among us can sit back and enjoy this game without being torn apart by each new Uprising or Hotfix to come.
...I am ALMOST one of those players.  Only Almost.
Thanks for your post, General.
Universe of good wishes for the 49, especially CCP Eterne...
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