I actually like the idea of an AV RE. The only problem with them is that in order to use any, you have to wait the full activation time to release an additional RE. Tanks have become used to the sound now, plus they show on scans, and it is pretty much a death sentence to even try. I haven't used REs for AV for months, especially now that PLCs and Swarms are much more effective at chasing them away, with much less risk to the user.

But what function will regular REs have? My main use of them was to lay traps at objectives, which by and large isn't affected by activation time. Once they became sticky and throw-able, everyone started using them, combining with fluxes being the most viable grenade, and REs showing on active scans caused their effectiveness there has significantly decreased.

This has led to them, for me, being more effective for impromptu traps. In which case activation time is everything. I don't even care about throwing distance, which is as much a grenade aspect as activation is, if not more so. I bet if you could only lay REs like you could pre 1.7, you would see many less complaints about "RE grenades."

Now I am only even able to use them on 2 objectives at a time given BW and the suits I run, and if activation time is increased, I will personally just stop running them. No sense on spending all the ISK on equipment that is ineffective to me.

This is obviously just a personal opinion. Maybe others will still use them enough. If you feel the need to make the change, by all means. Just keep this in mind as you look at your data should you see REs go from being spammed to not worth other mercs' ISK as well.

I'm willing to admit to that I don't spend as much time with them as I should.

But what I mean about them scaling is that you're pretty much only going to 1 shot a suit if you direct impact it, and since the STD cannon already pretty much 1 shots everything there isn't much incentive to spec higher than that. I specced into PLCs on my alt pre-buff and the splash damage scaling per meta level increase was hilariously low. I will agree that the reload bonus is excellent though.

UI Improvement Idea!

So the current Warbarge UI is a model of ship floating through space. Why not with each Warbarge Level Upgrade, change the look of that ship a little 'bit. Visually showcase the new subsystem. Add an appropriate sound effect. Bells and whistles.

T'is not a sadface, but a disappointed face.


Unrelated: I was playing civ 5, and then the Romans mocked me for having a weak military. "I bet your empire will fall to barbarians," they said.

I'm sitting on about 130k minmatar LP. I have no interest in the apex, so I use it for the few proto suits I have. Cuts costs considerably !!!!

Don't buy weapons in the LP store though.... whoa what a waste.

Tonight didn't start off well, but then it got better as time went on.

I stuck with it because the matches were close. I think there was some rust to shake off too.

After awhile, I had a few legitimately good games.

Until Shotty pointed out I was having fun, and then I got redlined and spawn camped

I did finally see the lag that was in the Gal Research Lab, but I think it was because of who we were against.

I hung out at D for the sake of not wanting 1 F/s, and then a whole squad decided to make their way to D, and the poor framerate followed with them.

Yep! Wife's out of town 'til Monday :-)

Played a 'bit of Red Dead last night; it's a gorgeous game. Switched back to Ghost Recon before calling it a night; really enjoying the campaign so far; haven't tried multiplayer yet. Had a couple great Dust matches this morning. Better "match quality ratio" today than yesterday. Will likely be back on later today.

PS: I only have issues finding matches when queuing for FW or during off-peak hours. If you're unable to find a match on your battleserver, I'd recommend switching to Americas. Match quality is perhaps poorer here but match availability is seldom at issue.