Skirantras are indeed not a diplomacy issue and I do not blame diplomacy for that balance issue. When it comes to 2v1 in suicide slot and you cannot keep away bombers from starbases, it becomes an issue to not have feed quickly. The 2 sides shouldn't need feed if they are doubling someone without feed as well. They come automatically with 2 times the resources. [_]-Greyfox
Drinking the kool-aid is not a reference to getting drunk. To help enlighten you..... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_the_Kool-Aid [_]-Greyfox
It isn't emotional in the slightest. Diplomacy is very much a contributor to the fall of player counts. The split in the lobbies cut in half the already small group that played online. Before diplomacy there was generally 60-120 people on ICO divided between entrenchment and vanilla with most being entrenchment. Since diplomacy there are 15-25 people on diplomacy and 20-30 on vanilla/entrenchment. Games are much harder to find even if 2v2 or 3v3 much less 5v
Its useless trying to convince quar. He has been drinking the DT/smurf koolaid for too long. [_]-Greyfox
I am of the same opinion as whip. Diplomacy isn't a terrible thing but it is not really an improvement on entrenchment for me. It hurt the online community pretty badly. To me that makes it not a good thing overall since I never play with an AI except when someone drops or leaves a game so diplomacy definitely is NOT the best. If there were no controversy, it would not even be discussed. I do not feel it was worth the $10 but I bought it in hopes of continuing to
If you have a replay, why don't you post it instead of talking about it? [_]-Greyfox
I don't blame solely DT as its not completely DT. Of the skilled smurfs though, they are mostly DT and responsible for the worst of the smurfing problem with the stacking and jackassery. There are certainly unaffiliated smurfs out there causing havoc and I could even name some in my own clan. The poster of this thread being a major one to smurf. I haven't and won't shed one tear. This game has provided plenty of enjoyment for what I have spent on it. It has
I was under the impression you did not like diplomacy either, whip. I seem to recall at least a couple of posts from you advocating going back to entrenchment. I am very meh about diplomacy in general. It absolutely screws anyone in the suicide slot unless they are surrounded by poorly skilled players. Pacts are ok but advent are screwed in that too. I find myself going for them only infrequently. The faster speeds do not impress me but then I was never a b
Considering that most of them WERE smurfs, it was a pretty good policy. I send thanks to you and most of your DT brethren for bringing him and others to it. Kudos for killing a game online. Quite an accomplishment although the game itself supplied plenty of nails for the coffin. [_]-Greyfox
Agent, seeing as how you lost 2 skirantras to a single sova by playing stupidly(IE letting them beat on you with missle platforms when you could have moved out of the way) you have lost all credibility to me in your "tests". Skirantra was a good cap even before the buffs and I frequently saw them used with success even then. [_]-Greyfox
Vasari can put out more squads of bombers with the same amount of carrier caps than any other race can field any type of squad because of scramble bombers. Carrier cruisers carry 2 squads for vasari and TEC and advent carry 3(at higher supply and cost). Vasari are certainly not hurting for strike craft quantity or quality. If you are hurting for lack of SC then thats a matter of how you play rather than blaming either skirantra or vasari carrier cruisers. Fighters are
[quote who="Itharus" reply="11" id="2583123"]At the rate which fighters can destroy bombers, the Skirantra are not OP. Not to mention flakk burst, telekinetic push, etc... or the fact that TEC/Advent can deplete anti-matter reserves with abilities really fast (Vasari can too, but it's a bit slower and more sporadic). Having a bazillion bomber squads is nothing you can't accomplish with every race. Scramble Bombers is IMO fairly in line with Rapid Manufacturing - the Sova
I would find lbg's statement to be a bit off. The community is less likely to kick you out of games nowadays. There are fewer people around so its more difficult to be picky about who plays. It does take a bit sometimes to get a game even during "peak" hours since diplomacy split the community. I find myself going between the 3 in an attempt to get games more quickly. If buying diplomacy is purely for the benefit of getting multiplayer games though it may or may
Online is always more fun for me personally because its more challenging. The AI is stupid and predictable. Online definitely has its problems but it is better than playing against an AI. Minidumps have improved significantly. There are balance issues and you are going to have some griefers and smurfs but it isn't quite as bad as it was before. The lobby split problem is still there. You may have to wait a little while to get a game because numbers have dro
Get off his back. He made a post calling out a smurf on what was probably a case of a smurf acting like a jackass. It was somewhat of a polite response to it. I have seen worse on here certainly. So in response to his making a statement to/about a smurf you attack him for this supposed attack. That doesn't make you any better than him I would imagine and possibly worse considering you don't even know the context of his post(certainly not the other side since smur
It wasn't the halcyon that made it unbalanced although it certainly didnt help. When the halcyon came out to be overused with LF spam it was after the LF was buffed against LRFs. At that time tier 0 scout and LF spam was over the top. Having a halcyon helped certainly but it wasn't the unbalanced halcyon that was the problem but LF and scouts. Advent did LF and scouts best so thats why it was halcyons instead of skirantras. All the carrier caps are unbalanced but
Halcyon was never changed for the worse, quar. I do not see how you think they get their supposed OPness at level 2 as opposed to level 3. The only thing they changed was a buff to the halcyon in giving it more squads when they changed the other carrier caps. Carrier caps didn't need the buff to begin with. Can you say you are any better when you spam skirantra and kanrak? I am guessing that sunny bent you over and had his way with you one too many time
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Personally I hate the carrier cap spam crap that goes on nowadays. I thought balance was best in vanilla 1.10 when carrier cruisers were king. LRFs couldnt be spammed but you couldnt go completely without them either. Everything had a role then. It has been downhill balance wise since then. Buffing LF to be able to counter LRF(which are the counter to LF themselves in the first place) is stupid. You have no reason to build LRF at all then. That is not
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Scouts can still counter lrf but just not as efficiently now. I still think scouts are not the answer to any supposed lrf "fix". To buff LF as a counter to lrf is just silly. LRF are currently meant to be the counter for LF and not vice versa and they have already been decreased in their abilities in countering LF in the past. I certainly do not want to return to tier 0 spam like you sound as if you want. Slowing lrf down brings up a whole host of other problems
He is referring to skirantra and scramble bomber I believe. And that game did get going, greg. I was on the winning team. Sorry about the late reply but I just now noticed. [_]-Greyfox
In short no it is not better as far as multiplayer presence. With the next expansion, diplomacy, it split the community with a completely seperate lobby from vanilla/entrenchment. There are on average about 30 -40 people online by the count on diplomacy during peak hours. There are still players but sometimes you have to wait a while to fill a game. Trinity is vanilla packaged together with entrenchment and diplomacy so you don't have to buy the whole thing rather than
BIA has not kicked anyone for lack of skill. We have however kicked people when they behave like jackasses. If DT did that, they would lose half their clan. They would have to exist as a clan first though so it's beside the point. [_]-Greyfox
Maybe so whip but it doesn't change the multitude of problems one faces just to play online(the worst for me being smurfing). I must admit that it has worn on me. I still play but infrequently. I wouldn't mind logging on, waiting for 20 minutes to get enough to play, another 20 minutes trying to get someone to cap/pick teams, and possibly dumping 1 or more people once in the game if it weren't for smurfs stacking the team one way or another and being a jackass to boot.
The mass exodus of the online community is kinda sad. Take care and good luck greg. [_]-Greyfox
Good luck deadrat. And yes smurfs are lame [_]-Greyfox