So, it was OP because it allowed the sniper rifle to fire at ranges that it was originally meant to engage..? Wow. Who'd have thought that would actually make it so viable. (For the record, scopes meant for longer ranges also mean that they're less effective at -LESSER- ranges, but no-one complains about that).

Countersniping -is- worse off and using the Charge Sniper Rifle's damage as evidence as to why it's not is about as much of a stretch as I can imagine. If the redline sniper is 450m away, using a vanilla sniper rifle, and you're using a Charge sniper Rifle.... That means you have to get within 400m of him to do any damage at all. All the while:

a) His teammates can freely engage you.
b) He can take a few steps backward and get out of your range.
c) He's already been shooting at you for 50m.
d) He's already ready to fire, while you have to get set up and ready to go.

No. The scope is not OP because it allows the sniper to engage at his weapon's intended range. The Thale's -MAY HAVE BEEN OP- for other factors but being able to shoot at it's range is surely not one of them.

I have not been playing dust for about 40 days now. I've rarely played video games at all aside from pixel dungeon (it's a fun free roguelike on the play store for those interested) and dragon age rarely. I mainly use email and skype to keep up these days and have not abandoned or cut ties with anyone. Kane can confirm I spent about an hour just the other day debating the merits of fixed timers in PC among other things.

This is an inopportune time for me to be judged on not playing but when you get caught with your pants down some explanation is required I feel so here's mine.

I have more hours on this game than any other cpm member.

I actually had (haven't checked in some time) more kills in the game than 4 of my fellow CPM members combined.

I may well have dropped out of the top 250 for all time kills by now. I had to stop playing for 2 reasons lately:

1.) finals, holidays, and then now my final semester.

This is all much more time intensive this year as opposed to last year when I was in the thick of it fighting to establish my newly created corp and helping Outer Heaven in the Winter War as it is now remembered.

2.) One of my puppies (Sirius) became life threateningly sick and it ended up costing me an exorbitant amount of money to save his life.

This has been a very trying time in my life, one I was ill prepared for after having enjoyed christmas, after having returned a lot of gifts i'm still attempting to pay down 4k worth of debt incurred to say nothing of the excruciating damper the whole affair had on the break.

Here's a pic after the surgery. Yeah...very upsetting. So I do apologize and hope you might find it in each of you to forgive my heretofore unexplained absence from playing.

I recognize this may be a tad bit personal and this may not excuse me regardless with any of you.

However, there it is. The cat is out of the bag, so to speak.

I have plans to return to dust as soon as I can. And in the meantime I am focused on attempting to fulfill my duties I have been entrusted (I freely admit I have so much to learn and improve on) and pray the community would not have me hand in my resignation despite my inadequacies of late.

I realize that. Shame that none of those strengths involve actually communicating with players outside of personal social cliques or trolling the community on the forums.

Even more of a shame that I feel like I have to wait for the CPM2 to come around to be able to talk to anyone that actually cares about anyone's opinion other than their own.

*sigh* Well this conversation is going places with an attitude like that.

I would assert I have quite an open mind...indeed I think anyone who knows me particularly well is aware of how genuinely and often I am open to changing my opinion.

I posted openly in my campaign thread that for me conviction is a destination. I care deeply about others opinions.

And as I've said elsewhere on these forums many times...even when a person asserts some hairbrained idea (for example to remove all vehicles...or to create different queue's for differing numbers of point on skirmish match maps) I will either try to engage the idea and reason together...or I find that it's not a waste of time at all because I can see a different concern that's prompted such an idea as a solution...or the idea serves as inspiration to a brand new idea.

I love talking with all players. I welcome their feedback and you'd be hard pressed to find anyone serving on the CPM who would claim the contrary.

Indeed, I notice threads in direct contradiction to the assertion that the CPM do not care for opinions outside their 'cliques' unless you would fathom defending the idea the entirety of the forums are a clique.

But as always...at least one of us will openly admit they may well be wrong.

Goodnight Aeon.

Zatara we all love you <3 <3 <3

In retrospect I might have come off a bit unfairly toward you, specifically, Zatara. I won't make excuses toward that and I apologize for grouping you in with the rest of the uhh... unsavory characters in the CPM.

As dubious as I am to admit it, CEOPyrex put it best when he said that I get easily frustrated when I don't have justifiable answers to things. Even worse when I feel like I'm not being listened to or when I'm being trolled. IMO, Hans Jagerblizen was the best CPM and since he left I kinda feel like there's no-one to actually have those engaging conversations with as to why something can or cannot work, what should or should not be implemented, etc.

It's a really pain in the kitten to try and hit someone up on Skype and never get a response. It's even worse to come here on the forums and be met with a stonewall barrier that basically says, "Anyone who disagrees with me is wrong" and "blah blah blah bias" and Soraya isn't the only one who does it.

IMO, a perfect CPM representative engages with players even when the idea sounds hair brained. They read between the lines of what a person is trying to say rather than what their saying. They don't waste time trying to argue as to why it's a bad idea but instead try to find reasons why it's a good idea. Admittedly, Zatara, you're more reasonable than most when it comes to that but you sort of just.... disappeared.

But anyway.

EDIT: It also helps to have some semblance of a kittening clue as to what the hell players are talking about instead of pretending like you know what you're talking about.... but this doesn't usually apply to you, Zatara.

I have not been playing dust for about 40 days now. I've rarely played video games at all aside from pixel dungeon (it's a fun free roguelike on the play store for those interested) and dragon age rarely. I mainly use email and skype to keep up these days and have not abandoned or cut ties with anyone. Kane can confirm I spent about an hour just the other day debating the merits of fixed timers in PC among other things.

This is an inopportune time for me to be judged on not playing but when you get caught with your pants down some explanation is required I feel so here's mine.

I have more hours on this game than any other cpm member.

I actually had (haven't checked in some time) more kills in the game than 4 of my fellow CPM members combined.

I may well have dropped out of the top 250 for all time kills by now. I had to stop playing for 2 reasons lately:

1.) finals, holidays, and then now my final semester.

This is all much more time intensive this year as opposed to last year when I was in the thick of it fighting to establish my newly created corp and helping Outer Heaven in the Winter War as it is now remembered.

2.) One of my puppies (Sirius) became life threateningly sick and it ended up costing me an exorbitant amount of money to save his life.

This has been a very trying time in my life, one I was ill prepared for after having enjoyed christmas, after having returned a lot of gifts i'm still attempting to pay down 4k worth of debt incurred to say nothing of the excruciating damper the whole affair had on the break.

Here's a pic after the surgery. Yeah...very upsetting. So I do apologize and hope you might find it in each of you to forgive my heretofore unexplained absence from playing.

I recognize this may be a tad bit personal and this may not excuse me regardless with any of you.

However, there it is. The cat is out of the bag, so to speak.

I have plans to return to dust as soon as I can. And in the meantime I am focused on attempting to fulfill my duties I have been entrusted (I freely admit I have so much to learn and improve on) and pray the community would not have me hand in my resignation despite my inadequacies of late.

However, there it is. The cat is out of the bag, so to speak.

I apologize for calling you out Zatara, had no idea about your puppy.

Best of luck with his recovery.

Didn't you tell me you used to snipe 'a lot'? How could you not see this change..?

Even more of a shame that I feel like I have to wait for the CPM2 to come around to be able to talk to anyone that actually cares about anyone's opinion other than their own.

Actually still think I'm right. Trying to get IWS to tell me what I'm seeing wrong on the spreadsheet. Snipers got a buff, man.



If nobody on CPM2 listens to you either will you start to realize part of the CPM's job is to filter out bad feedback and that your feedback was bad when it was ignored?

Or will it just mean two bad CPMs were elected?

As irritating as your attitude is, you have some good ideas buried in there, and yes, I do read your posts and try to dig them out. But I'm not going to apologize for disregarding blatantly ridiculous suggestions with a clear role bias.