Xanatos

Originally Posted by Shadow Ravenwolf

Ok, click here to start the example. As you see, I have 34/40 PvP Badges. I am NOT a PvP'er. I am a PvE'er. More than that, I am a Badge Hunter. 610 Badges has already solidified my status as a Badge Hunter, but of course, I'm not stopping there. I still need several PvP badges that include Heavies and Pillboxes.

Oh gee what can I ever do to protect myself from the ebil PvPers in a PvP Zone? Easy. I go when I know the zone will be slow. If I am attacked, I don't cry like a lil kid who got his milk spilled over his mashed potatoes in the kindergarten cafeteria. I simply attempt to fight them off or I make it so boring to attack me that they lose interest. I'm well known enough that most people are bored with trying to PvP me and usually just leave me alone.

Learn to be smart about badging if you want badges. Dodge, avoid, scramble and use defensive tactics. Grab a heavy, let it die, hide till it respawns. Pillboxes? Grab a team of friends like in the original post and instead of all lining up to give away your PvP Zone Milk Money, gang up as the team you are and beat the snot out of the Ebil PvP'er.

The more you bleed your emotional heart into the PvP waters, the more of a chum you'll be for the sharks. However, an easier way to get badges is to take the offensive.

[Broadcast] Shadow Ravenwolf: Heyas and Boogedy Boogedy!! Working on pillboxes and heavy badges. Feel free to team up and help, PST or invite me. If you wanna tag me for quick rep, help me tag badges and I'll raise your rep.

That line above usually results in people leaving me alone. However, it's resulted in badge teams several times and we even had cross faction cooperation to spawn AVs for those badges. It has also resulted in many people getting what everyone wants out of the deal, be it Rep, Recipes, Badges, or a new carton of chocolate milk and some fresh mashed taters.



Take it for what you want. I'm done here.

Originally Posted by Dahjee

Your right X and I apologize. I assumed you were a reader.

Originally Posted by Dahjee

I'm not here to troll. Don't make this about me so much.... make it about the stuff I said if possible. I show up to discuss the topic, if what I say is debatable... then debate it. don't turn the thread topic into Dahjee posts, or hide behind wanna-be funny replys. If Iwanted to read pictures... I'd read baby books.

As far as a quote well the intial results of I13 speak for themselves. Test league go boom!? There is really only one Dev quote needed for my simple point. It is the one in my previous post that stated the purpose of I13... You must be honest and ask yourself if that purpose really fit the purpose of high end serious arena I pwnt datazz PvP boi mentality! Nah. It's was and sadly still basically remains a purpose and practice of seeking the absoulte best sets/sets to win matches. Getting the options to revert back to something at least similar to I12 didn't help the matter... but I was happy to see some of the QQ'ing stop.

Btw did you here about the Incarnate system coming soon? You know I'm sure hope they thought to plan ahead and make needed changes in PvP before dropping this abilty to make players even stronger on us! I'm almost certain ths plan would likely invlove this preparation to almost look like a nerf... kinda like ED before IOs and such.

With all the great advice and suoerior common knowledge here on the boards though, I'm sure the silly devs could never think of doing something like this... cause you know the guys here PvP more than they do and stuff.

Originally Posted by Dahjee

The part no one will tell you is that I13 was actually also aimed at eliminating high-end lolserious PvP...

Originally Posted by Tokyo

Why is eugenics such a bad idea again?

Originally Posted by Tokyo

Mac, is this guy(Dahjee) from your home server? He's a winner. d;D

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

They could ensure there are no end-arounds in the reward system. The notion that balancing reward systems or combat systems is an impossible, and therefore ludicrous task, is itself ludicrous. It may be difficult, and the tools to do so may not be commonly exercised in typical game design methodology, but the notion that its actually an impossible task is so humorous to me from an engineering perspective that I always look upon it in the same way I look upon the notion that the moon landing was obviously faked.

You can't stop "farming" and "powerleveling" but you can theoretically ensure that the only skills that generate enhanced rewards are efficiency-related ones, not corner-case advantage-leveraging ones. You can make sure the players can exercise tactical options, and not engineer skewed circumstances.

You can try to improve both the speed and the precision of game rebalancing, and there's no question there's tons of room for improvement there. But you don't, as someone else put it, "give up." Giving up on game balancing is giving up on game design, period.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

If the patch is counting non-supporting critters, its broken and should be fixed or rolled back. That's my opinion on the patch, period.

However, having said that, these sorts of "see how easy it is" posts are pretty worthless. That would address the issue in the same sense as trying to fix a hole in the geometry by putting a sign in the game pointing at the spot that says "hole in the geometry."

For a suggestion that is free, you're charging too much.

Originally Posted by Neeto

...exploit...