You may want to give Shotty a little benefit of the doubt.

The guy created this sanctum for the sake of scouts, and for a long time worked to make us a relevant role. He put in a lot of work that was nearly completely ignored by those outside of this community and has a strong emotional investment.

Its hard to be rational with something like that. My guess is that if you had put in the same amount of work and time for such a small number of people, you might not be able to be 100 percent rational either.

How much Shotty cares is what has helped bring together and hold together this community.

I wouldn't change a thing about that.

** Double posting like a mother f***ing Kaiser**

Cause I can

Played with Jace in a two person squad to practice put his KnifingGǪ
Damn
He will be good when he has the SP
He went 5/4 with BASIC KNIVESGǪ Bloody awesome in my opinion
Instincts are good, knows when to go when to stop for the most part.
Needs to check his Six a bit more often, though I was cleaning crew when I could so a few times people got a surprise when they went after him.
He got at least three revenge kills for me
Some bad luck moments (yeah we had those)

I really have to get my PS3 where I can use my mic more often

Cloak management is one thing i think will help out, especially when the timer gets cut.
But dude you know how to approach people I watched you stalk like a pro a few times.
Especially when you got through those heavies at the far ObjectivesGǪ (I however got cut down by an HMG)

Good work
You stick with it and you will be a beast Minja

So 3x SP event. Omega booster for 6x. that'll get my Amarr Assault to level 5

Also, really Appia? REally? we're doing this again. Really!?

yeah, so I'm going to get my proto Amarr Assault again so that I can keep playing competitively

If I have to sacrifice 3 slots to get under scans then I'll just take the 478HP instead and a nice Scrambler Rifle. Or a shotgun, because the Amarr Assault has and always will make a really good shotgun suit.

Amarr suits are all underpowered and stuff
Insert ten wall of text lobbyist threads

IWS
NOOOOOOOOOO DISENGAGE
DISENGAGE

Who the **** IS that dude?

Who the **** IS that dude?

IWS is one of the CPM, or appointed players that meet with CCP and discuss Dust/Legion related things.

Jerrmy is a forum troll, and poor excuse for a scam artist, having been banned at one point, and with an alt that was also banned. He actually isn't as bad as he once was (at least in my opinion) as banning seems to have had an effect on him, however logic isn't strong with him.

I suggest not trying to have any real discussion with him. Something about him pulling you down to his level and beating you with experience and such.

I would love to see a round of diplomatic negotiations between IWS and Appia

How about we don't endorse the implosion of the forums?

If they're is a clear division between the people that have been dedicated scouts for months before 1.8 and people that only came after. CPM isn't doing their job of representing the community. It's a repeat of the Tanks situation and once again over-nerfing and looking for solutions in the wrong place.

It's the same division of players that wanted to insist upon how scouts suits worked and should work in 1.8 yet never having played with them, let alone play with them in PC.

It's the simple fact that being able to scan someone is always more potent than being able to conceal yourself. Former slayer-logi will not give up their crutch that they need to be able to find you. Rattati is the Slayer-Logi Savior for he agrees with them.

Stealth should be the domain of the class, easier with a gal who focuses on dampening, pass the range bonus to Amarr and they've got a nice little scoutly balance going.

Seriously... it took this huge debate to point out 1 thing. Gal and Cal should lose the range bonus and have it placed on Amarr so if you include hacking as a scoutly role each all 4 have something something. Or still go searching for that Amarr specialty, take away the damp bonus from Gal and the range bonus from Cal.

Hotfix Alpha Min
http://www.protofits.com/fittings/shared/161/4590

Hotfix Alpha Cal
http://www.protofits.com/fittings/shared/161/4591

Hotfix Alpha Gal
http://www.protofits.com/fittings/shared/161/4592

Minmatar is so ******* screwed

Good. I was getting tired of almost being viable. Now I'll have something to blame my terrible game play on again.

EDIT: Links all appear to show the same suit/setup, just with a different name?

Well.. Just landed back in California. I'm still not clear on zatara or whatever... Is this some n00b that has CCPs ear on changes?

Well.. Just landed back in California. I'm still not clear on zatara or whatever... Is this some n00b that has CCPs ear on changes?

He's my CEO and a candidate for CPM. He's trying to help fix some problems in the Hotfix.

His success or failure in this field is currently being debated

Well the problem is that most folks are not providing a reasonable enough argument in CCP Rattati's eyes (let alone legacy complains/conversations since 1.8 has shown such) that Gallente Scouts are a bit tad overpowered. In all fairness one must be prepared to love and destroy everything. Always.

As for the absolution comment.

We currently have an issue with X vs Y; So lets throw in the final vector Z.

Z is superior

No matter what letter you have Z cannot be beaten.

X and Y do not matter only Z does.

The game has far more to benefit if it was more of an Xa Xb Xc Xd type game instead.

In an FPS people also hate RNG; So we must stay the eff away from dice rolls.

If a system is made where the results are well understood, the actions influence both sides of the consequences then you wind up with a skill vs skill game, not something empirical.

If a scout with 200 hp can beat the crap out of a scout with 450 hp why can't a scout with 28 db beat the crap out of one with 14 db on the electronic warfare front? Skills > Numbers. Skill derived from the understanding of the numbers and making the most of it work for him/her not lazily slapping things on and taking the effect for granted.

If I had to answer the questions
"Should something be unscannable?"
and
"Should something always be scannable?"

My answer is no to the both of them. It is however unfortunate that likely Dust 514 cannot support the means of making both of those question's answers a reality.

Well the problem is that most folks are not providing a reasonable enough argument in CCP Rattati's eyes (let alone legacy complains/conversations since 1.8 has shown such) that Gallente Scouts are a bit tad overpowered. In all fairness one must be prepared to love and destroy everything. Always.