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Re: Lets talk about Nanoseers abilities. Nanoseer General

Ran the numbers:

Fastest TTK seems to be the Traveller-Speedup route, and furthermore, it works with either a Techcraft build or a Psyche build.

Techcraft route is speedup -> multistrike -> freeze -> swarm, re-up freeze when it fades.

Psyche route is speedup -> pointzero -> freeze to death.

Obviously, repair and interrupt (eyestrike) as needed.

edit:

The Conqueror-Frenzy route is actually a bit faster on the TTK, but the 30s cooldown means it's unreliable (and then you'd have to switch back to the Traveller-Speedup route, anyway).

Matlkael

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Re: Hacking - Ideas, Updates, Etc?

I love the idea of quests behind them. There is one in Scatterhome with a quest behind it and when I found it I was really excited to be able to do the hidden quest.

The quest was kind of terrible but I’d love to see more of this.

Chi

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Re: Lets talk about Nanoseers abilities. Nanoseer General

* Suffocate damage formula changed, it now mainly scales with freeze stacks. It also has a short cooldown.

What?

Make it uninterruptible then.

Seriously... What on earth...?

You looked at our one real valid but also pretty situational hunting path and decided to just throw that in there...?

Edits: What on Earth is Frenzy about now... It reduces our TTK if we're using it but also somewhat enforces downtime on us. 8s or so.

PLEASE tell us what the vision is before more people decide to leave because of this absurdity, Nanoseers are dropping like flies.

The only people who seem enthusiastic about the class are people not playing it or people who are happy enough to smile and bear through with it.

Or people who stick with it for flavour.

Wuff

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Re: Spaceflight (Ships) Ideas and Fixes

Would be nice if captaincy progression made sense. We learn how to use minor overloads and skip drives way before we learn how to actually fly a ship that can properly hold a skip drive

Arsentar

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Re: Quotes

-- Press Secretary Spicer Mog (#2124) ----------------------------------------

Race: W'hoorn Gender: Male

Affiliation: Unknown Status: Healthy

Description: Short for his race, and with a stout, barrel-chested build, this W'hoorn man has a distinctly nervous, almost constipated expression on his face. His beady eyes blink rapidly, and he appears to be chewing gum almost all the time. Dressed in a double-breasted suit in the latest fashion, he nonetheless manages to appear somewhat rumpled, as if he had just been found hiding in the bushes. His pale wings are a bit small, tucked tight behind his back, and his hair is a flaxen mop atop his head.

Strength: You estimate that he is about as strong as you.

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You acknowledge Spicer Mog in greeting.

Spicer steps behind his podium and begins to push it back and forth in agitation.

Spicer says, "I'm the press secretary! I'm the press secretary!"

You acknowledge Spicer Mog in greeting.

Spicer says to you, "The Navarch had more crowds at her inauguration than any W'hoorn in history!"

You acknowledge Spicer Mog in greeting.

Spicer snaps at a nearby aide, "I need some more chewing gum! Pronto!".

You acknowledge Spicer Mog in greeting.

Spicer says to you, "The allegation that the Navarch is somehow involved in Ry'nari collusion is ridiculous, and the administration denies it wholeheartedly!"

Pahahahahaha.

Kestrel

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Re: What does your Spaceship look like?

I keep trying different things but all my ships end up looking roughly the same...

Zulah

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Re: Admin Distribution Chart

Just found this. Can we see an updated picture again? Pretty please.

tysandr

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Re: Crafting and Trade

It might help if crafters don't just 'charge the submission fee' on commissions. There are some who do, but there are also a good number who don't. Whenever I ask someone to craft me this or that, I almost always throw in an extra 5k on top of the 5k submission because 1) I can afford it (as a filthy basher!) and 2) it's a service that can and should make a profit for the designer.

Matlkael

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Re: Crafting and Trade

I know that the staff is overworked and I'm not crying for faster approval times or whatever, I know from experience how tedious it is to go over dozens of designs from all types of people, understand their style and approve or reject them, but the system here is very punishing at it is already. It costs 5k to submit a design and some of the people who took up the RP tradeskills (as in, any non-modding skill) aren't really the best bashers, so while 5k is not a lot for high-level, it is a lot for a person who wants to play a different kind of game that doesn't rely on bashing to cover the cost of your 350cr tradeskill. Double this with the counter-intuitive fact that once a design gets rejected it costs another 2500 marks to resubmit and crafting really isn't that cheap a skill ( I don't know why that cost is there in the first place, it wasn't like that in some other IRE I played, though I don't know about Achaea/Lusty).

On the topic of re-submission costs, if the staff is adamant about keep it, it would've been great if it were introduced once all Crafting Guidelines are in place. It's really not fun to use a term in a design, have it approved and then the next time it is submitted have it be rejected and you eat the cost. Or, have a design rejected on grounds of capitalizing/non-capitalizing a certain term, when that term is present in the game-world itself in both capitalized and non-capitalized forms... Or getting a design rejected because you reference 'forearms', considering all playable races have forearms...I don't expect the Vonikin Krel or the Cleax to buy from my shops...

And yeah, having a design cap is really not-fun. I've spent somewhere close to 300k marks to get to 50 designs and would like to spend more as my RP revolves around this business. I'd even buy an artie that permanently makes my design database unlimited, but paying for X more slots every time is kinda silly...

Desmond

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Re: Crafting and Trade

1. lol. A - No, 200c+130c of lessons is not a minor or nonexistent increase over 100c+110c of lessons (or just 110c of lessons for the first one now, in Imperian), especially not with the push for continuous microtransactions on permissions (far more than the design decay that can be refreshed with gold). B - I can 'rehash' it if I want. You don't have to respond. Woo personal freedoms.

2. "It's beta" doesn't mean "Sit down and shut up over obvious issues," and "Think about their schedules!" gets a big womp-womp from me. If anything, I am going to be louder about this now before it gets rooted in stone. The only movement in 2 weeks has been the release of 10c per additional design slot, and they could easily do a 'one line fix' to up the design cap more.

But please, tell me more how $100 to end up paying $3+ per piece of content you produce for a game is reasonable.

kamyr

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